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* RETIREMENT FUND . - GETS ONLY BO0ST Al Other Appropriations to Be Smaller Than Asked for 1933. (Continued From PFirst Page) Bureau or sud.vision. Annual appropriations: General expenses ... Contingent and miscella; expenses Municipal center Street and road improvement and Tepair . Sewers Refuse neous This cut is more apparent than real, however, since it includes $350,000 for | unemployment relief appropriated 1}[1\‘ quite | certain that there will be additional | the current year, and it fis sppropriations on this score, although they are not carried in the regular budget. ‘There are many creases in the various institutions, and many decreases, the latter principally resuiting from the completion of rather extensive building operations during the 1933 year, not matched by any corre- ding projects in 1934. The largest I le increase is $107,717 in the cost small in- | Public piaygrounds Electrical departmen Public schools— Maintenance and operation. Buildings and grounds. Total, public schools. Police Department Fire Department .. Health Department . Courts and prisons Public welfare Militia Reclamation of Anacostia flats. taking care of the indigent insane, residents of the District, at St. Eliza- | beth's Hospital. The District pays the | hospital at per capita per diem rates established by the Secretary of the In terior, and this appropriation depend wholly upon the number of insane p sons committed to care at the institu- tion. The appropriaticn in 1933 was $1,805583 and the 1924 estimate $1,913,300. ‘The completion of the Tuberculosis | Banitarium being built by the District | on the Defense Highway in Prince ges County, Md., during the pres- , will necessitate additional ex- for personnel for the insti- For this reason $35,000 is in- in the 1934 estimates, with an increases are $25,000 for care and anship of children under jurisdic- of the board; $9,800 for home care dependent children; tenance at the workhouse and re- itory; $5,000 for the care of in- nt, patients at Emergency Hospital; lly no new construction work is be -ttemplt&d. hthe only item 'oxfz‘sno% under tl eading being $12, & colored woman's ward at the Home gor the Aged at Blue Plains, Sewer Department. This department feels the ax to the t of $274,240 below the 1933 level, addition to reductions of $45,480 of vings under the economy act. The is relatively greater than the school w=ince the sewer appropriation in 933 was $1,572,620, as & school tion of $12,530,915. The de- 1 done under the permit assessment system of $140,000 make up the bulk of this cut. Highway Department. ‘The Highway Department estimates suffer a reduction of $104,370 (plus economy act reduction of $84,360). would have been greater ex- for the fact that the street repair mhwt Public Buildings and Public Parks. National Capital Park and Plenning Commission ... National Zoological Park. Total, excluding water service and rmanent appropristions . ‘Total, annual . Permanent appropriations: Refunding taxes Extension of streets and avenues Industrial Home School fund. Escheated estates relief fund. Miscellaneous trust fund deposits. . Washington redemption fund. Permit fund Policemen and firemen’s relief ‘Total, permanent ........ Grand total, District of Columbia ‘Total reductions .. *Includes Federal contri PARKS AND PLAY! Nothing in Budget of An item of $100,000 for continuing development of the Mall, an increase of $8,856 for the Mount Vernon High- way Police and ag increase of $158,489 over the current Year's figure are sa- lient points in the Bureau of the Budget estimates for the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. No money is made available for land pur- chases by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Officials explained that the general increase is accounted for by the point that in the next fiscal year the or- ganization will have to care for the the | Mew Public Health Service bullding, as t items approved in the 1934 Importan way budget are: Widening and pav- ing of Cox from street, | $82,100. job will cost in all $138,- €00, but of this cost only $82,100 is allo- cated to the Ditrict and the Federal 2 ved. inc!umo in a $122,500, which includes ,000 for replacement of the fender system of Highway Bridge. ! Important Paving Jobs. | Important paving jobs, to be paid for of the gasoline tax, are: Benning northeast, from the culvert to worth avenue, $69,000; Michigan wvenue, North Capitol street to Colum- | road, Park place from Hobert place | 200 feet north of Columbia road, | plece, Fifth street to Michigan wvenue and Fifth street, Hobart place Harvard street, all $57,000; Reservoir , Foxhall to Conduit road, $42,600; uit road, Reservoir road to the ct line, $194,000; Fourteenth Juniper street to Kalmia road, | 15,000; Good Hope road southeast, to Alabama avenue, $10,000; street southeast, N to O street, ; First street southeast, N to O t, $8,000. and O street southeast, to Second street, $8,000. ‘There is an estimate for the widen- of Thirteenth street between Massa- usetts avenue and Logan Circle to| 0 feet at a cost of $75,000. 40 par cent | the cost to be levied against abutting Tty owners. ‘Water Department appropria- ons undergo a reduction of $279,680, addition to economy act reductions of ,600, the reduction principally be- | of decreased construction of large . 'There is no job in the 1934 es- with the $345.000 from Fifth and Upshur streets to T T 3 by the Budget Bureau & 5,000,000-gallon combination and electric pump for the Anacos- Pumping Station, to cost $15,000; 30-inch water main at Eleventh street | theast, from K street to Nichols Bvenue and Good Hope rced, $250.000, Bnd a 16-inch main in Foxtall road #$rom Garfield to W street, $27,000. The estimate for the revenue and in- ction and distribution branches is 6,360; - extension of service $275,000 to $240,000; installation repair of water meters Distriet government) ,000, as against a 1933 appropria- of $462,450. ‘The 1934 estimates for the Police De- fpartmen® reflect an increasc of £64,176 fpver the 1933 appropriation, but this in- is more than offset by the $339,- economy act, so that the net result e mumber of policemen_remains num} remal tationary, estimates provide for lnuknm annum. There of 38 instead of 15 pri- detectives with extra well as the new warehouse, in the Southwest, and other structures. Four policemen now patrol the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, and Capt. Doyle O. Hickey, United States Army, superintendent of the United States Park Police, explained today that if Congress aliows the suggested new funds, jumping the appropriation from $12,000 to $20,856, this will per- mit a personnel increase of four new officers to police this much-traveled thoroughfare. Nothing For New Ground. Although it is known that the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Com- mission requested $3,000,000 for its land-purchase program, for park and playground development here, in the next fiscal year, the Bureau of the Budget estimates contain not a single dime for buying new ground. The es- timates show an item of $1,000,000, which represents the reimbursement to the United States by the District, under | the Capper - Cramton park-purchase | a ct. Because of the slash in salaries and Teachers' retirement fund deductions for Next Fiscal Year—$100.000 for Mall Development. THE ITVENING Decrease (- or increase (+) compared with 1933 appropriations. ons Other reductions al year. =) 1934, certain provisions of or increases the economy ). ct. —$89,080 +1,150 —222,000 3,723,660 1,252,900 1,642,160 183,620 1,173,280 ~—$169.030 —429,500 55598.530 -+$64.176 16,100 $884,580 3 $884,580 $3.188.850 2,177,370 410,300 778,505 4,915,360 54,400 173,000 1,015,090 1,036,800 210,200 $339,650 217,850 32,150 95,775 247,725 2,600 6.520 69,350 3,200 12,800 $35,064,720 1,721,050 —$1,744,077 $2,345,495 8 —279.680 $36,795,770 $2,426,095 —$2,023.757 $40,000 250,000 500 2,000 440,000 775,000 500,000 40,000 900,000 125,000 —250,000 $2,426,095 —$2,328,257 —$4,754,352 GROUNDS LAND *$39,743.270 PURCHASE IS GIVEN SETBACK |- $3.000.000 Requested BUDGET.INCLUDES ONLY 4 SCHOOLS $500,000 to Begin Fort Reno High Project in List Sent Congress. Cutting $3,220,264 off the Board of Education’s own figures, the Bureau of the Budget today trahsmitted to Con- gress an estimatzd budget of $10,679,- 620 for the District public schools in 1934, The total allowed by the Budget Bu- reau is $1,483,110 less than the current appropriation. More than one-half of the cut in the School Board estimates is borne by the buildings and grounds items. Con- tinuation of the furlough and the with- holding of automatic steps-up make salary items responsible for another major portion of tne reductions. Only 4 of the 19 building projects re- quested by the scnoot authorities are in the budget as ii goes to Congress. These feur include, however, $500,000 to begin construction cn a new senior high | schodl in the Fort Reno section of Chevy Chase to cqst, when complekd,; net more than $1,300,000. The other building projects still in | the budget are: A new eight-room elementary school in the vicinity of the Logan School, $105,000, and 10-room and gymnasium additions to the Alice Deal and the Hugh M. Brown Junior High Schools at $166,000 each. ' Three Site Items. ‘The three site items carried are: Ad- ditional land at the Phelps Vocational 8chool for elementary school purposes, $67,000; additional land at the Syphax School, $25,000, and additional land for the site of the new Jefferson Jun- for High School. $110,000, to become immediately available, together with an unexpended balance of $75,000, -which was carried in the 1933 appropriation The eliminated construction items, which the Board of Education sought, include the Roosevelt High School stad- jum, which has been petitioned for by civic groups for two years, and the pro- posed four-room colored elementary expenses of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission from $47,185 to $36,800 in the estimates, Capt. E. N. Chisholm, jr., the commission’s engi- neer, said today that if this becomes law, reductions in personnel are in order, to save the difference to the Pederal Treasury. Against a 1933 fiscal year figure of $2,500,000, for personal services for the Office’ of 'Public Buildings and Public Parks, the 1934 estimates show a total of $2,568,235. For General Expenses. Under general expenses for the of- fice, the estimate for 1934 is $1,491,331, compared with the current appropri- ation of $1,510,933. The 1934 total is $4,184,422, compared with $4,025933 now being spent. A new colored golf course is to be | constructed in Anacostia Park, in the so-called Section G,! under the esti- mates, which boost the present year's park improvement figure of $25,000 to | $75,000, to make this possible. This| will replace the present course near the Lincoln Memorial. For the improve- ment of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, funds in the ‘estimates are cut from the present $182,100 to $30,000. Allowances for outdoor sports and con- ducting band concerts in the parks would be cut, if the estimates are fol- lowed, from the present $38,000 to $35,000. Altogether, under general ex- penses in the city’s parks, the estimates place next year's figure at $481,820, paring it down from the present half a million. The $5,000 for maintenance of the Tourist Camp in East Potomac Park has escaped the pruning knife. Under the Public Buildings Commis- sion the present $100,000 is sliced in the estimates to $91,975. longevity pay increases; $4,450 for addi- tional clerical force and $1,500 for maintenance of-the telephone service, decreases of $500 for fuel, $2,500 for repairs and improvements, $6,000 for uniforms and equipment and $2,810 for the House of Detention. Fire Department. In the Fire Department egain there is an increase of $16,100 in the estimates, but this is more than offset by continu- ing economies under the economy act, amounting to $217,850, leaving a net de- crease in the estimates of $201,750. The estimates provide for the pur- chase of cne aerial hook and ladder truck, three combination hose wagons and two pumping engines, to cost in all $55,000. No new sites will be bought or buildings put up under the estimates. There is an increase of $8,900 for auto- matic longevity pay increases to mem- bers of the department, of $2,000 for contingent expenses, and decreases of $4,000 for uniforms, $3,000 for fuel and $300 for the clerical force. Health Department. The estimates for this department of $32,150 by continuing features of the | economy act. The savin2s are $3,000 in | the item for preventing the spread of | contagious diseases; $1,560 to be saved | by dismissing & clerk, $1,000 in automo- | bile maintenance costs, $300 in enforce- ment of food and drug laws and $9,000 in non-recurring items. Refuse Department, The swinging into operation of the District's two trash incinerators during 1934 will increase the appropriation for collection and disposal of wastes by $85,000. This will be partly offset by decreases of $25,000 in the street clean- ing appropriation and $4,500 for per- sonal services, leaving a nct increase of $55,480. Public Library. The estimates for perscnal services | for the library are $290,070, as compared system is cut from $366,000 to with $319,440 in 1933; for purchase of books and miscellaneous matter the estimate is $40,000, as against $54,400; for binding, $19,140, an increase of $4,140. No new library sites or are provided for in the esti- mates. The estimate for maintenance is $29,640, an increase of $1,140. Public Buildings and Parks. ‘The estimates for this office show a net decrease of $8,945, the result of small increases and decreases through- out the appropriation. The estimates include $75,000 for the improvement of | Anacostia Park, $30,000 for improve- | ment of the Rock Creek-Potomac Park- |way and $10,000 for construction of minor zuxiliary structures. The annual reimbursement of $1,000,- the Federal Government for of park the terms ton act. ‘There are numerous appropriations other heads, a summary of which pensation at $240 per an increase of $70,! for automatic be in the accompsnying /3 Economy Applied To Light Excess in House Caucus Room The economy drive yesterday struck the 60-foot long caucus room in the House Office Build- ing. ‘The small Committee on “Gov- ernment in Business” was meet- ing. The huge rocm was illumi- nated by 460 lights, in chan- deliers and wall fixtures. Suddenly, Representative Pet- tengill of Indiana got up, hunted a switch box and turned out a bunch. After two tries, he left only 16 burning. The committee then began discussing economy, by Pettengill, was: “There isn't a single member of the House who would have let all those darned lights burn if he were paying for them.” show & reduction of 514,800, plus savings | SLUMP LAID TO FAILURE OF ECONOMIC SYSTEM British Labor Party Official De- clares War Debt Problem Is Secondary Issue. ‘The present depression represents the failure of the present economic system and cannot be cured by any conven- tional political remedy, A. Fenner Brockway, chairman of the Independ- | ent Labor party of Great Britain, nml at a dinner meeting held at the Na-| tional Press Club Tuesday night by a | | group of -national organizations with | | neadquaricrs in Washington. | | The supreme task confronting the | | present generation of Americans, Mr. | | Brockway declared, is to “build & new | economic system before the present sys- | tem goes down to chaos.” The present crisis, he said, is no mere temporary de- pression which will be followed in the course of events by recovery present confronted by the results revolution in in- present hunger march as merely a por- tent of what will happen if present economic problems are not faced with courage and intelligence. —— Mayor Elected 26th Time. school to be erected on the Bates road site, which was the center of a pro- tracted battle among civic organiza- tions, some of whom.opposed the erec- tion ‘of a colored school in a white neighborhood. Other eliminated bullding projects originally put in the estimates by the School Board include: Lafayette School addition, Truesdell School addi- tion, Monroe School assembly hall-gym- nasium, Young Platoon School addition, new trade school at ith street and Potomac avenue southeast, new cledning and dyeing room at the Mar- garet Muitay Wi ‘Vocational School, um at the Powell Jun- jor High School, Eliot Junior High School addition, extension at the Arm- strong qun,‘::tm. schmln :uwmc:‘bfle repair 3 corridor and necessary remodeling between old and new por- tions of the Armstrong High School, conservatory at High School and completion of the junior high school at Anacostia and the new Jeffer- son Junior High School. The tla junior high school item was elim- inated when the District of Columbia Construction Department’s schedule | showed that the initial appropriation would not be spent until 193¢ and that appropriation of funds to complete the structure at this time would be use- less. Similarly, funds for “completion” Jf the new Jefferson Junior School g hgxrehmd mfl ‘consequently Junior High Site, $80, The site items stricken from the school board estimates include $80,000 for & junior high school site in the vic- inity of Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenues. Others taken out were land for play space at the old Business High School and additional land at the Burr- ville School. The budget carries an item of $28,000 for the maintenance of the schools for crippled and tuberculous children and transportation of both groups of pupils. Formerly these activities were carried in the budgets under two items, one for maintenance of the schools and the | other for transportation of their pupils. It Jumping these items, the Bureau of the Budget effected a reduction from the $31,000 total sought by the school au- thorities in its items of $20,000 for transportation and $11,000 for mainte- nance. Under personal services, the budget- ary estimates include an item of $609,- 600 for administrative and supervisor officers. This sum is the total of these salaries after deducting for legislative furloughs, elmimination of automatic steps-up and administrative savings. Salaries of clerical employes are pro- vided in an item of $153,230 for 103 po- sitions, and salaries in the school at- tendance and work permits department are provided $38,600 for 22 tions. Teachers’ pay is estimated at $6,025,- 700 for 2,939 positions. This total is net after deductions of $550,000 for legislative furlough, $139,900 for with- holding of automatic increase and $26,- 281 for administrative savings. In the current ‘year, $6,539,764 was appropri- ated for 2,894 positions. The actual gross salary for the 1934 teachers’ roll, before deductions were computed, to- taled $6,670,150. Other 1934 Items. Other items in the 1934 estimates as they went before Congress, with the de- crease or increase of each with respect to the 1933 appropriation, follow: For instructioh of children. in vaca- | { tion schools and playgrounds, $32,730, reduction of $3,270; for'teachers and custodians in night schools, $88,180, re- duction of $8,820; Aoyt tingent expenses, 34,500, same as 1933; for maintenance and instruction of deaf and dumb persons at Columbia Institu- tion for the Deaf, $31,500, same as 1933; maintenance and instruction of D. colored deaf persons in Maryland, | $6,000, increase of $500; for Amerioan ization work and instruction of foreign- | ers in both day and night classes, $10,910, decrease of $2,090; for Ameri- canization School contingent expenses, $800, same as 1933;" for Community Center Department, $38.390, decrease of $3,510; for care of bulldings and grounds (custodial salaries), $829,600, decrease of $59,660. For fuel, gas and electricity, $272,000, decrease of $23,000; for completely fur- and equipj teachers’ colleges, ,000; nance of kindergartens, $7,000, same as 1933; for apparatus, fixtures, supplics, etc., in high school science laboratories, $17,000, an increase of $500; for, main- tenance of school gardens, $3,000, & de- crease of $140. B of $10,000; for mainte- th 1932. "$4,497,622 TO Le_gi’slation Proposed by President | FJ\HE text’ of -legislation recom- | mended in the President’s mes- sage transmitting the Budget to Congress today follows: Compensation Reduction .of Federal Employes. During the fiscal year ending.June 30, 1934— a) The compensation for each civil- ian office, position, or employment in any branch or service of ‘the United States Government or the Government of the District of Columbia is hereby re- duced as follows: Compensation at an annual rate of $1,000 or less shall be exempt from reduction; and compen- | sation at an annual rate in excess of $1,000 shall be reduced by eleven per centum of the amount thereof in excess | of $1,C00. (b) The term “compensation” shall be defined and computed as provided | in subsections (b) and (c) of section | 104 of- Part II of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the Legislative branch of the Government | for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, | and for other purposes,” approved June 30, 1932, in so far as such subsections are applicable to any civilian office, po- | sition, or employment. (c) In the case of a corporation the majority of the stock of which is owned by the United States, the holders of the | stock on behalf of the United States, or such persons as represent the inter- | €st of the United States in such corpo- | ration, shall take such action as may be necessry to apply the provisions of | subsection (2) hercin to cffices, po- sitions, and employments under such corporation and to officers and em- ployes thereof. Exceptions Are Noted. (d) The reduction provided herein shall not apply to any office, position or employment the amount of compen- sation of which is expressly fixed by international agreement; any office, po- sition, or employment the compensa- tion of which is paid under the terms of any. contract in effect on the date of the ehactment of this act if such compensation may not lawfully be re- duced; any office the compensation of which ‘may not, under the Constitu- tion, be diminished during the term of office; any office, position, or employ- ment tlie compensation for which is ad- justable to conform to the prevailing local rate for similar work, but the ‘Wage Board or other body charged with the duty of making such adjustment shall take such action as may be neces- sary to make such adjustment effective July, 1933; nor to any office, position or employment the compensation for which is derived from assessments on banks and/or is not paid from the Federal Treasury.” (NOTE—The reductions to be accom- plished by the foregoing legislation amount in all to approximately $55,- 382,000 This pertains to all of the appropriation items which make pro- vision “for personal services. A state- ment ‘will be made avallable to the proper committees of Congress showing the amount of the reduction which per- tains to each appropriation item.) Provisions Affecting Veterans’ Administration. Income limitations: Notwith- (a) except as to those persons who have at tained the age of 65 years, or those persons who served in the active mili- tary or naval forces and who actually suffered an injury. or contracted a dis- ease in line of duty as a result of and directly attributable to such service, or those® persons who, in accordance with the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, or the laws granting military or naval pensions, are temporarily total- ly disabled or permanently and totally. disabled as & result of disease or injury acquired in, or aggravated by, active military or naval service, or those per- sons who while in the active military or naval service engaged in actual com- 1| bat with, were under actual fire of, or served in the zone of active hostilities against, the armed forces of the enemy in any war in which the United States was el no allowance, compensa- tion, retired pay, pension, hospitaliza- tion or domicillary care under the War Risk Insurance Act, as amended, the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, the laws governing the grant- ing of Army and Navy pensions, the laws governing the granting of domicil- lary care by the Veterans' Administra- tion, or the Emergency Officers’ Retire- ment Act of May 24, 1928, shall be pay- able or granted to any person whose net income as defined by the Adminis- trator of Veterans' Affairs, was $1,500 or over, if single, and $3,500 or over, if married, for the year preceding the en- actment of this act or the year preced- the filing of application for benefits, whichever is the later. The minimum amounts above specified shall be in- | creased by $400 for each person de- pendent upon the applicant during the period prescribed. Such benefits shall not be paid or granted during any year following that in which the net in- come plus allowance for dépendents ex- ceeds the prescribed amounts;. Provided, Iy | That irrespective of the income for a preceding year, upon submission of proof satisfactory to the administrator of reduction in income during the cur- Tent year below the amounts specified herein, when prorated monthly, such benefits as may otherwisé be authorized | shall be allowable from the date of ad- ministrative determination. Payments of Government insurance, allowance, compensation, shall not be considered as income with- in the provisions of this section. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby di- rected upon request, to transmit to the administrator a certificate containing the information required by the ad- ministrator to carry out the purposes of this section affecting each person who is applying for or receiving such allowance, compensation, retired pay, care, and such certificate shall be con- clusive evidence of the facts stated therein. As to allowance, compensation, retired pay or pension being paid, or iliary care being of enactment of this act, the provisions C. | of this section shall take effect on such date; Provided, That this section shall not apply to such persons as are en- titled to benefits described in this sec- tion on account of the death of any person’ who served in the active mill- tary cr naval service. Allowance for Disability. (b) Disability allowance: standing the pr L at the date of enactment of this act, no disability Luomcle under the World , retired pay, or pension | Period pension, hospitalization, or domiciliary | third calendar month follo the nionth during which this amendatory act is enacted, where any pefson shal' have been maintained as an inmate of the United States Soldiers’ Home, or of any National or State Soldiers’ Home, or of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, or maintained by the Veterans’ Admin- istration in an institution or institu- tions, for a period of 30 days or more, the compensation, pension, allowance, or retired pay under the Emergency Of- ficers’ Retirement Act of May 24, 1928, shall thereafter not exceed $20 per month so long as he shall thereatter be maintained: Provided; That if such person has a wife, a child or children, or dependent parent or parents, the difference between the $20 and the amount to which the veteran would otherwise be entitled except for the provisions of this subdivision may be paid to the wife, child or children, and dependent parent or parents in accord- ence with regulations prescribed by the administrator. Discretion Is Authorized. “All or any part of such compensa- tion, pension, allowance, or retired pay under the Emergency Officers’ Retire- ment Act of May 24, 1928, of any men- tally incompetent inmate of such in- stitution may, in the discretion of the administrator, be paid to the chief of- ficer of said institution to be properly accounted for and to be used for the benefit of such inmate: Provided, how- ever, That in any case where the es- eran without dependents, derived from funds paid under the War Risk Insur- ance Act, as amended, the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended, the laws governing the granting of Army apd Navy pensions, or the Emergency Officers’ Retirement Act of May 24, 1928, equals or exceeds $3,000, pay- ment of compensation, pension, - ance, or retired pay shall be discon- tinued until the estate is reduced to $3,000, and this proviso shall apply to payments due or accruing prior or sub- sequent ‘to the date of enactment of this amendatory act: Provided further, That if such person shall recover his reason and shall be discharged from such institution as competent, such sum shall be pald him as is held in trust for him by the United States or any chief officer of an institution as & result of the laws in effect prior and or subsequent to the enactment of this amendatory act: Provided further, That if in the judgment of the administra- tor a mentally incompetent person without dependents, receiving compen- sation, pension, allowance, or retired pay under the Emergency Officers’ Re- tirement Act of May 24, 1928, requires institutional care for his mental con- ition and his guardian or other per- son charged with his custody refuses to accept or permit the continuance of the institutional care offered or approved by the administrator, compensation, Ppension, allowance, or retired pay under the Emergency Officers’ Retirement Act of May 24, 1928, payable, shall not ex- ceed $20 per month 50 long as the need for such institutional care_shall con- tinue. The administrator in his dis- cretion, upon showing of proper treat- ment in g recognized reputable private instituilon, may waive the reduction provided by this mbggmom “All prisoners Wwho are or may, from the date of enactment of this ;‘menlcnwry lctt pheoome inmatés of the aval Home at Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, a naval hospital, the United States Soldiers’ Home, Wi District of Columbia, or of erans’ _ Administration homes, or Saint Elizabeths Hospital shall have the pension to which they are entitled paid to them directly or to their in case they be insane or otherwise in- competent and under guardianship, ex- cept as to payments made to the chief officer of an institution as provided in the preceding paragraph of this sec- tion, provided that from and after the payment of pensions in all cases where pensioners are under guardianship may be made to the legal guardians of such peuom sons without ‘submission of vouch- Provision on Tuberculosis. the following proviso: “Provided further, That the compen- sation of not less than $50 per month £hall be terminated effective six months after the approval of this amendatory act or five years after the effective date of the award of $50 per month, which- ever is the Mater.” (e) Emergency officers’ retired pay: May 24, 1928, entitled “An act eligible for retirement, conditions, officers and former officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United States, other than offi- cers of the Regular Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, who incurred physical disability in line of duty while in the | service of the United States during the | World War” (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 38, Secs. 581 and 582), no officer or former officer shall receive retired pay there- under, unless he gerved as a member of the Military or Naval Establishment between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, inclusive, and within such pe- riod actually contracted s disease or suffered an injury-in line of duty as the result of and directly attributable 10 such service, or unless he served a of 90 days or more between | April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, inclusive, and actually contracted a disease or suffered an injury in line of duty as the result of and directly attributable to service between Novem- ber-12, 1918, and July 2, 1921, inclu- sive, and unless he has been by the former Veterans' Bureau or the Veterans’ Administration to be not less |than 30 per centum permanently dis- abled as a result thereof prior to May 24, 1928, or within one year thereafter, in accordance with the rating schedule and amendments promulgated pursu- ant to subdivision (4) of Section 202 of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as this dis- ability required for retirement without pay shall be less than 30 per centum and more than 10 per centum perma- nent disability, BETRESS _§§g enactment of this amendatory act the | In the administration of the act .of | or is found | tion | penses. month following the month during which certification or transfer is made, as the case may be. The Ad- ministrator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby authorized and directed to transfer the name of each officer re- moved from the rolls of those entitled to emergency officers’ retired pay, to the compensation rolls of the Veterans' Administration and to pay, commenc- ing with the first day of the third cal- endar month following the month cur- ing which certification is made by the administrator of the name of the offi- cer removed from the rolls, as herein provided, compensation in accordance with the provisions of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended, not- withstanding that no previous applica- tion for ccmpensation has been made. ‘Fhe review of all claims authorized and directed under the second para- graph of this section shall be final, ex- cept for cne reconsideration. No re- rating or review shall thereafter be au- thorized in such claims. After the expiration of one year fol- | lowing the enactment of this act no review, appeal, or other consideration shall be authorized in connection with any claim for emergency officers’ re- tirement upon which a decision has at any time been rendered by the Vet- erans’ Administration or Bureau. Application For Benefits. No person shall be entitled to benefits under the provisions of this section, tate of such mentally incompetent vet. | ©XC¢Pt he shall have made valid ap- plication under the provisions of the Emergency Officers’ Retirement Act of May 24, 1928. All provisions of the Emergency Offi- cers’ Reiirement Act of May 24, 1928, in"conflict with or inconsistent with the provisions of this section are hereby modified and amended to the extent | herein specifically provided and stated ;;2:‘ the date of enactment, May 24, (f) Repeal of per diem allowances: Section 203 of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended (U. 8. C., Supp. V, title 38, sec. 492), is hereby amended to mm as follows: “Sec. 203. That every person spply- ing for or in receipt of compensation for disability under the provisions of this title and every person applying for treatment under the provisions of sub- divisions (9) or (10) of section 202 hereof, shall, as frequently and at such times and places as may be reasonably required, submit himself to examination by & medical officer of the United States or by a duly qualified physician desig- nated or approved by the administrator. He may have a duly qualified physician designated and paid by him present to participate in such examination. For all examinations he shall, in the dis- | cretion of the administrator, be paid his reasonable traveling and other ex- If he shall neglect or refuse to submit to such examination, or shall in any way obstruct the same, his right to claim compensation under this title shall be suspended until such neglect, refusal, or obstruction ceases. No com- pensation shall be payable while such m refusal, or ol:tnu:um x:mm- no compensation shall e able for the intervening period.” Y Limitation on Benefits. (8) Limitation of retroactive bene- fits: Section 205 of the World War Vet- il 38, sec. 430, 1 herehy amnended h 3 am to read as follows: o At u-:s: 205, tm Veterans' Adminis- may at any time review a claim for benefits under this act, or &;ech.n of governing the grani avy pensions, Snd. i $39,743,270 $127.000,000 SAVED ON VETERANS' BILL Various Pay Restrictions Provided in 12 Proposed Imendments. ‘The new veterans’ economy bill pre- | sented to Congress today by Presi- dent Hoover is estimated to save more than $127,000,000 by restricting the | payment of compensation disability al- | lowance, pension, hospital per diem pay and emergency officers’ retired pay in various ways. | 1t passed by Congress the effect of | the bill, which was included by the | President in his budget message, would | amend the World War veterans' act in 12 particulars, which, in brief, are as follows: With certain exceptions, the amend- ment- would prohibit allowance, com- | pensation, retired pay under the emer- | gency officers’ retirement act, pension, | hospitalization or domiciliary care ad- | ministered by the Veterans’ Adminis- tration to gy person making a Federal income taxreturn of $1,500 or more if ngle and $5,500 or more if married, with $400 additional for each d-yend- ent, and to any person receiving Fed- | eral, State or municipal salary above | the same limitations. | A far-reaching section of the pro- posed new bill, expected to save more | money and affect more men than any other proposal, provides that no “dis- ability allowance” (which is payment for disability not connected with war service) shall be payable to any for- mer soldler, sailor or Marine who 18 not, totally and permanently disabled. Present Disability Pay. Under present law, disability allow- ance is payable to any honorably dis- charged ex-service man who entered the service prior to November 11, 1918, and served 90 days or more during the ‘World War, and who is suffering from a disability of at least 25 per cent de- gree, not the result of his own willful misconduct. Under present law such disability allowances are being paid at the following rates: 25 per cent dis- ability, $12 a month; 50 per cent dis- ability, $18 a month; 75 per cent dis- ability, $24 a month, and total disa- bility, $40 a month. There are about 400,000 men receiving these allowances, :osting the Government a total of about | $100,000,000 a year. An amendment designed to effect uni- formity among veterans of various wars receiving free treatment or subsistence in a Government hospital or home, provides that no such person shall re- celve more $20 a month if with- out dependents. If the veteran has de- pendents, provision is made for pay- ment to such persons of the difference between the $20 and the amount to which the veteran would otherwise be entitled except for the provisions of the amendment. Under present laws Civil -American War Per month, X Emergency Officers’ Pay. important proposed change in the law mmmmlmhywm. It would ide that no person shall re- celve such retired pay unless he served or | for a period of 90 days or more between Do reduction or discontinuance of allow- Aance, tion, or pension shall effective until the first 3:, of the mirb; calendar month next suce that in which such reduction or discontinu- ance is determined. The proviso in the baragraph under the hy ‘Pension Office’ in the act entitled ‘An act maik. ing appropriations to supply further urgent deficiencies in the ap; ::x:it.?:rmmym:ndm;mw. 1894, or prior years, and for o - ," approved Decem! Fr e Poses, ber 21, 1893 (U. 8. C, ti " & >, title 38, sec, 56), is hereby () Transter from compensat Pension rolls: The nm "‘éfi :? section 200 of the World War 3 ctorare: Act, 1924, as amended (U. 8, C, Supp. A e gx;‘,m-:c, A7), ia hereby amend- oul thereof and mlemn: ?;‘M e rovidea Tertime iae; oV her, That wi - tive military or naval unl?: r:‘:oni: \d':;;l‘:e rb;tlw‘e'n"l\prfl 6, 1917, and No- ) 10 com] De payable for ‘disability of aoste e suliing from injury contracted during enlistment entered 11, 181 rene ered or disease active service in an into after November or for aggravation or recur- ice & disability existing prior to examination, acceptance, and enrdll- ment for service, when such was suffered or contracted in, or such recurrence was caused by, the ac- tive miliary or naval service in an en- listment entered into after November 11, 1918: Provided further, That the A rator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to the general pension rolis for the Regular Establishment the names nlmo.ewmmmmlptolmmpen- ::fig:h Who, by reason of the enactment Em‘ pension in x Tates mp.mvlded for their dis- But this transter kel Hof Tare chen: until six months following the date of the enactment of this amendal act: Provided further, That 'fllhm leu thereof a | April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918; and actually contracted s or injury in service between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918. Under this proposal those cases would be excluded where the disease or in- jury did not result from a causative factor arising out of and in the course of active military or naval duty within the periods specified. Also, there would be excluded under the amendment the zases of those officers who had relief for service connection” under the World War veterans’ act of 1924, as amended, on the “presumption of soundness” or “presumption of service connection™ of the act, or th o e regulations issued by the ’ Bureau or the Veterans' Ad- ministration in accordance with such act, which deem that certain chronie mn:'t‘lml or analagous diseases ex- thin a year of discharge |are Service connecied, " Another section of the bill would | stop the payment of $2.65 per diem for | period of travel and observation in con- |nection with physical examinations. Six-Month Restriction. Cutting our certain retroactive - ments, another section would prohibit payments of increased or retroactive al- | lowance, compensation, or pension by reviews for a period of more than six months prior to the date of administra- tive determination or date of applica~ tion for review. Under present practice claimants are able to get thousands of dollars back compensation, over a pe- . Under the amendment proposed, claims disallowed for long periods of time, if allowed, would be bayable six months from the date of determination. Retroactive adjustments would be restricted to a period of six xm;x;tha. en who enlisted after the armistice, November 11, 1918, would be deprived of benefits of the World War veterans’ act, under another section of the new bill, but these men would not be denied the right to have their claims consid- e the pension laws. Under Government Insurance. Revival of Government insura Would be restricted under an amend. ment to sections 305 and 309 of the act, ;| This Is designed so that no additional | Homes, or of St. payments would be those persons actuall ments on the date of made except - to ly receiving pay- the passage of those ¢ ters who of the Naval Home at Iphia, > the United States Soldiers' m Administration of the Veterans' T are or may become inma ;hflldee Elizabeth's their pension their