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(2) of the annual lump-sum payment should be increased in some roughly approximate relation to the increase of the District budget. If justice re- quires the Nation to contribute <o I'much when the District's annual budget is so much, the same justice requres it to contribute more when the District budget is doubled. The practical suggestion is that the amount of the fixed payment should be read- Jjusted if there is any notable incre in the National Capital's annual ex- penditure. An immediate increase of the basic lump-sum appropriat'on of nine millions would, for example, be in just relation to the steadily increas- ing current taxes and annual expendi- tures. Increase Specifically Lump Sum. (3) The amount of annual payment should be increased specifically in pro- portion to National projects included in_the District appropriation bill - Whether or not there is a general re- adjustment of the lump-sum contribu- tion there should be specific increases in that sum representing in each year the placing in the District budget of primarily National projects which it is conceded should be paid for wholly or in part from the National Treasury, but which by inclusion in the District bill and under the lump-sum payment plan as practically applied are paid solely by the District taxpayers ‘rom current taxes, A separate and distinct increase of the basic nine millions should made to prevent Congress from vio- lating its own statutory provisions that the Nation shall contribute in large and definite proportion to the appro- priations for certain great National or semi-National projects, as for example the appropriation for expenditures under the jurisdiction of the National | priations for this confessedly National | project that the Nation shall pay its | definite proportion of total expenditure. | | 1 Congress makes appropriations for | this National project without providing for National participation in the cost | on the sixty-forty basis, which is the | existing statutory ratio of substantive | 1aw, or by making a specific lump-sum | increase of the basic lump-sum ap- propriation in lieu of the definite pro- portion which the law directs, both the | be violated and the inequity will result of exacting entirely from the local tax- payers funds for a National project, which may, in the discretion of the commission, be expended outside of the District in Maryland and Virginia, The annual appropriations of more than a million dollars a year, author- ized as supplemental and extraordi- nary expenditures by the District of Columbia Park Commission law, are directed by the law itself to be paid | “from the revenues of the District of | Columbia and the general funds of the | Treasury in the same proportion as | other expenses of the District of Co- lumbia.” 3 | _The current ratio is 60-40, fixed in | the substantive law by the new or- ganic act of 1922, and still unrepealed. | The wholesale exceptions to the 60-40 | ratio involved in the temporary lump- payment plan in effect since 1924 merely suspend the substantive law of 1922 for the year during which the exceptions apply and do not repeal or permanently amend the substantive law. Add $400,000 to Basic Lump Sum. ‘The Park Commission law clearly contemplates (and provides) that the authorized annual appropriation of a million dollars shall be made, $600,000 from the District revenue and $400,000 from the National Treasury. If the District appropriations for 1931 were to be made at the 60-40 ratio in ac- cordance with existing substantive law, this apportionment of the parks ex- penditure would result automatically. But since, tentatively and for only the year, & lump-sum_ pgyment is to b substituted for the ional 40 per cent contribution, the Nation's contribution of $400,000, or thereabouts, ought lawfully and equitably to be added specifically to the nine millions of basic lump-sum payment. The Park Commission appropriation is made unmistakably as a supplement to the cwrrent maintenance and de- velopment appropriation, with its nine millions of lump-sum payment in ac- cordance with the or.ginal tentative precedent. If the 60-40 ratio is not applied to the whole appropriation and if the lump-sum payment is not in- creased as suggested, it is generally recognized that every cent of the Park Commission’s million dollars per year (or whatever part of this amount is appropriated) will come from the Dis- trict taxpayers. Congress will not permit any tenta- rfive juggling with the ratio of National and local community toward Capital development to throw the whole burden of Park Commission expenditure upon the local taxpayers. 1. The law specifically forbids this procedure by directing a division of the cost. 2. The project is broadly National. The terms of the law suggest the patriotic interest in it to the extent of a cent a year contribution of every Congress will detect the gross per- vesion of law and equity which results in a denial to 109,500,000 Americans of Y 18| all participation in the patriotic priv- om i 's NEW YORK CITY. 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NORTH 0847. for®8crine 83 ilege of parks contribution and exacts the entire 110,000,000 pennies, repre- senting the whole Nation, from the half-million Americans Columba. 3. The title to all the land purchased by the Park Commission is vested in | the United States. The Park Commis- | sion can purchase land in adjacent Maryland and Virginia as well as in| the District. If the whole cost falls| upon local taxpayers, their tax money will buy for Uncle Sam exclusive title to land outside of the District in Mary- Iand and Virginia. (Note.—The Cramton Park bill, passed | by the House and pending in the Sen- ate, which would be a substitute for existing park legislation, wisely elim- inates the provision that funds apppro priated for parks from District of Co. lumbia revenues may be spent in Mary. land or Virginia. The language of the Cramton bill specifically restrains tho expenditure of the authorized $16,000,000 to acquiring lands “in the District of Columbia.” ~ But the Cramton bill pro- vides that the repayment of the Treasury loan shall be made at the rate of $1,000,000 & year out of “funds in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia.” Under the nine millions' lump-sum _arrangement the Cramton bill merely continues the | inequitable system at present existing, | wherein the semi-national project of | National Capital Park development is in reality financed from District funds Mr. Cramton himself has pointed out that increases in the lump sum would, of course, be reflected by an increased Federal participation in financing this distinctly semi-National project. The Cramton bill emphasizes and does not weaken argument, above as it re- lates to the existing park legislation.) There are several other National or semi-National projects which, as a result of appropriations on the District bill to finance them, with an inflexible lump-sum _National 'contribution, have lbeen in effect paid for solely by Dis- trict taxpayers An outstanding example among these the Municipal Center. The proposed “Municipal airport” is pending as an additional project that ¢ would be That the amount | be |, cured by permitting the District to Capital Park and Planning Commission. | 7 | The law provides in respect to appro- letter and the spirit of the law will | contribution | man, woman and child in the Republic. | (at’ more than | $2 annually per head) of the District of |t Lump Sum! g Petition to Congress the District Bill. | financed through the annual District bills, while the appropriation of ac- cumulated local taxes represented in the surplus of 1922, without any cor- responding contribution of any kind or in any amount from the National | Treasury, is an historic case of escape, under the lump-sum practice, of rec- ognized obligations. | Exclude National Projects. 4. If the lump-sum payment ecan- not be equitably increased to provide |for suitable National participation in financing these National or semi-Na- tlonal projects, then the Congress is asked to exclude these appropriations |from the District bill, where their in- ielulinn results in obvious inequity, and to finance them in some other supply bill, where the sharing of the expense, | which the law or equity demands, can | be spacifically provided. 5. Arnd, finally, some action is asked which will limit appropriations of | District money by Congress (the Dis- trict’s legislature, in which it is not | represented) in the same way that Cap-~ ital expenditures of National tax money are limited under the lump-sum pay- ment plan, When the appropriations of local and National tax money for the Capital were by law and in practice in definite percentage relation, this limita- tion automatically resulted, and this check upon the appropriation of District tax money. unless accompanied by a related expenditure of National tax money, was the main benefit derived by the District from the definite propor- tionate contribution plan. When for the latter plan, at the in- stance of the House appropriations com- mittee, the lump-sum payment plan was | tentatively substituted. it was suggested that loss of this limitation upon Dis- trict expenditures and taxation would participate so effectively in the raising and expenditure of its tax money that it could be extravagant or economical, as it pleased. But, in fact, the District has no more to say about its taxation and the expenditure of its taxes un- der the lump-sum payment plan than under that of definite proportionate | contribution. And under the inflexi- | ble lump-sum payment plan Congress |limits itself concerning _expenditures on the Nation's city of tax money con- tributed by the Nation, which it Tepre- sents, but removes the limit upon the raising_and expenditure of the tax money by the District, which 1t does not represent and to which it is not at all { responsible. And as a result we have | appropriations from the District tax money abnormally swelling to meet | whole-cost expenditures on National | and semi-National projects. | To prevent obvious injustice Congress | should either (1) increase equitably the | basic lump-sum payment, or (2) ex- clude great National or semi-National projects from the District bill and finance them on some other supply bill, so wording the items thus excluded as to set forth the exact method of financ- ing in relation to the amounts of con- tribution by Nation and Capital that is thought to be just, or (3) provide for a local as well as a National maximum of contribution, or (4) by referendum or otherwise permit the local taxpayers to have some effective say in regard to the amount of local taxes and the pur- poses for which the tax money is to be expended. In_ appropriating and in legislating our legislators are urged to recognize by the wording of the law, and in con- struing and applying it, that since the Nation is in exclusive control of the raising and spending of all Capital rev- enue, including the District tax money, the United States is the primary and the District only the incidental con- tributor, and not vice versa, as the present lump-sum payment plan seems to assume. District Only Incidental Contributor. Protection was afforded the local tax- payer under the 1878 law not only by the provision that the Nation would con- tribute 50 per cent of the total appro- priation, but also by the assurance that the local taxpayers would not be com- pelled to contribute more than 50 per cent of the total. So in the law of 1922 the effect of the statute was to pledge the local taxpayers that not more than 60 per cent of the total tax would be exacted from them. When the lump- sum payment plan was substituted ten- tatively for the 60-40 ratio this pledge was suspended, but it was suggested that an effective substitute for this pledge was found in the declared determination of Congress under the lump-sum pay- ment plan to give the local taxpayers & certain control over their own tax ris- ing and tax spending, involving the power to be extravagant or economical, and to spend @ much or little of their own tax money as they pleased. But Congress in fact limited its power to expend National tax money, and left undetermined the amount of local tax money that it could expend. And it has exercised this power without regard to the wishes of the taxpayers to raise and spend local taxes not only for strictly | municipal purposes, but for semi- National and primarily National projects. | It is to corerct this condition that Washington now urges Congress, either to abandon the lump-sum unjustly one- | sided experiment, or to make the Nation’s lump-sum contribution flexible and to increase it, or to it the local taxpayers to have an effective voice in deciding How much they will raise in taxes and how they will spend the taxes | when raised, or to restrict the kind and amount of appropriations on the Dis- trict appropriations bill with the result | of limiting arbitrarily the amount of the |local contribution toward Capital up- | building on the same lines as under the | lump-sum payment plan the National | conribution is limited. | Editor's Note—The Cramton Park bill, “pending in the Senate,” was |passed by the Senate late yesterday afternoon. Gems Found Under Tree Roots. MOURA ALEMTEJO, Portugal, May 14 (/).—Under the roots of an old oak tree workmen have found a solid gold tiara weighing 4 pounds and other gold n]rgnmmts supposed to be 1,000 years old. NEwW CABINET SIZE THE IDEAL FAMILY LAXATIVE Effective in Milder Doses Insist on the Genuine IFeen-amintj FOR CONSTIPATION PETITION DEMANDS MEDICINE | STAR, WASHINGTON, LUMP SUM RAISE Argument and Plea Laid Be- fore Vice President and Speaker by Citizens. (Continued From First Page.) Board; William L. Beale, J. Miller Ken- yon, president of the District Bar As-| sociation; Evan H. Tucker, president of the Northeast Citizens’ Association; Rudolph Jose, president of the City Club; Alfred H. Lawson, president of the Washington Real Estate Board: Arthur J. May, president of the Rotary Club; James B. Edmunds, president of the Kiwanis Club; Joshua Evans, jr., chairman of the municipal finance com- mittee of the Board of Trade; Mr. Cot- trell, as executive secretary of the Board of Trade; Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr., secretary of the Washington Chamber of Com- merce; Monroe Warren, president of the Operative Builders’ Association; Rufus S. Lusk, executive secretary of the Operative Builders’ Assoclation; E. C. Brandenburg and D. J. Callahan. Conferees Will Get Measure. ‘The District appropriation bill for the 1931 fiscal year as passed by the House continues the $9,000,000 lump sum as the Federal share of the District's ex- penses. The Senate, however, increased the contribution to $12,000,000. The bill will soon go to a House and Senate con- ference, where the fate of the lump sum contribution in the 1931 bill will be defi- nitely determined. The text of the petition follows: Petition to Congress by the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations Between the United States and the District of Columbia urging a return in appropriation practice to the sixty- forty definite proportionate contribu- tion plan provided by the substantive law of 1922, and urging further that while the lump-sum payment plan of National contribution toward Capital upbuilding continues as the annual exceptional appropriation practice the amount of this lump payment shall be largely increased. To the Congress of the United States: Your petitioners, the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations Between the United States and the District of Columbia and the presidents and other representatives of its constituent and co-operating organizations, whose names are subscribed below, respectfully rep- resent: ‘The platform of principles laid down by the joint committee and adhered to in the committee’s brief in the hearings before the joint select committee in 1915, the House District committee in December, 1919, and the Senate appro- priations committee in April, 1830, is as follow: We contend, first, that the United States should contribute largely to the expenses of the District; second, that this contribution should be a fixed and definite proportion; third, that this proportion should be at least one-half. ‘This platform was modified by the District’s new organic act of 1922, which reaffirmed the principle of definite pro- portionate contribution by local com- munity and Nation toward upbuilding, but changed the ffty-fifty ratio to sixty-forty, imposing the sixty per cent burden upon the local tax- payer. The committes —Originators— 35¢ Service Private-Appearing Cars PROG OT exactly “up say so? In the Caplital | ; D L., Scene at the office of Vice President Curtis this morning when representatives of the Citizens’ Joint Committee on al Relations called at the Capitol with a petition and an argument that the Federal Govern- District of Columbia Fige: ment increase its share of the expenses of the District or take other measures to return to fiscal equity. left to right: Edward D. Shaw, secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association: Charles W. Darr, president | of the Washington Chamber of Commerce; Charles I. Stengle of the Federation of Citizens Edward F. Colladay, chairman of the Citizens' Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations, and Robert J. Cottrell, sec- Curtis; retary of the committee. WEDNESDAY, ASK MORE EQUITABLE FISCAL ARRANGEMENT MAY 14, 1930. A-3 Certified ICE The plumpest, juiciest oranges come to you carefully wrapped in bear- ing the guarantee of the grower. 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In the group are, Associations; Vice President NOTICE —Star Staff Photo. ciples, thus modified, was announced by the executive committee of the citizens' joint committee October 31, 1923, as follows: We contend, first, that the United States should contribute largely to the maintenance and upbuilding of the Na- tional Capital; second, that this con- tribution should be a fixed and definite proportion; third, that this proportion should be sixty-forty—sixty by the Dis- trict taxpavers and forty by the United States. While Congress has refused all prop- ositions to amend the definite propor- tionate contribution provision of the law of 1922, and while the sixty-forty provision is the existing substantive law, Congress in 1924 provided as a temporary provision on the annual ap- propriation act for the fiscal year 1925 a Jump-sum payment contribution, in leu of the forty per cent contribution provided by substantive law, and has renewed this exception to the provisions of substantive law in each annual ap- propriation act since that date. The citizens’ joint committee urges a return in appropriation practice to the sixty-forty definite proportion ap- propriation plan, as provided by exist- ing substantive law, for the reasons set forth in the argument appended to and made a part of this petition. Your petitioners further respectfully represent that as long as a lump-sum payment is the appropriation practice temporarily on annual appropriation acts immediate correction should be made of some of its grosser and more obvious injustices. To prevent glaring inequity, your petitioners therefore urge, for reasons stated in the argument hereto attached as part of this petition, that Congress should (1) increase substantially, both on general and specific grounds, the basic_lump-sum payment; (2) exclude T - Don’t Delay! ” y We mean don't put off any longer an inspection of the new English group homes in Woodley Park. § You will marvel at the values. Exhibit House 2910 Cortland Place OPEN DAILY AND SUNDAY To Reach: North from 29th and Cathedral Ave. 1 square. NoLSansbur 18 RESS to gait,” would you modern tempo, faster financial progress is just as essential as faster travel. 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