Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1937, Page 5

INCREASED FUND URGEDBY BALLOU Asks Allotment of Larger Part of D. C. Budget to Schools. Allotment of a larger part of the Pistrict budget to the school system vas advocated by Supt. Frank W. llou in the Senate hearings on the | P38 supply bill, but he and District Cites Comparisons. Using Census Bureau figures for omparison with other cities, Dr. Bal- ou said Washington is devoting 24.2 per cent of its municipal budget to schools. Declaring “that is small” compared with other cities of com- parable size, the superintendent gave the average for cities of over 100,000 population as 34.4 per cent and for cities of over 500,000 persons 27.5 per cent. Donovan contended that when gas tax and water rents are eliminated— since they can only be spent for highway and water improvements— the schools ‘“are receiving approx- imately one-third of current general taxes and other revenues.” Dr. Bal- lou said he believed the Census Bu- reau has endeavored to make the facts comparable. Declared Immaterial. Chairman Thomas concluded the discussion by saying he regarded the percentage as immaterial. Be- cause this is the National Capital, ‘Thomas said, it might be necessary to spend more for some other activity. He said he thought the decision should rest on whether the schools are getting a fair sum. Dr. Ballou agreed to that as an| abstract proposition, but called atten- | tion to the rapid annual increase in | school enrollment, which is approach- ing the 100,000 mark. | Senate Committee changes result in | 8 net increase of $174,435 above the House bill for school purposes. D. C. Bill (Continued From First Page.) bill, the Commissioners would have | to raise the realty tax rate unless| the authority for the temporary loans | also goes through. After acting to transfer control over | the public hospitals, the Senate group | also reversed the action of the House in | shifting other city activities from one department to another. The House had | voted to transfer 15 playgrounds that | are near schools from the playground | department to the community center | office, and to transfer the issuance of business licenses from the assessor's office to the weights and measures office. The Senate bill leaves them s they are at present. | The formal committee report shows the total of the bill at $46,301,181, or | an increase of only $1,184,597 above | the House. | Chairman Thomas was authorized, however, to offer several more amend- ments on the floor of the Senate, in- cluding $325,000 to start construc- | tion of a new Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, southeast, which, if adopted, will make the total of the bill $46,- 600,000, as previously stated, and the increase over the House more than! $1,500,000. { $2,000,000 Limit on Bridge. In anticipation of adoption of plans for the new bridge, the Senate com- | mittee struck out $40.000 the House had proposed be spent repairing the | old structure. The limit of cost on the new bridge will be $2,000,000 Another important change is in- clusion of $14,320 for salaries and other expenses of re-establishing the Minimum Wage Board, which went out of existence about 14 years ago when the Supreme Court declared the Dis- | trict’s minimum wage law for women | and minors invalid. In passing on a | similar law in the State of Washing- ton recently, the Supreme Court re- versed its earlier decision, opening the way for revival of the District statute. | Senator Thomas also announced that an amendment will be offered on the floor today giving the Com- | missioners discretionary authority to install automobile parking meters on the streets here. A similar provision | was placed in last year's bill in the Benate, but went out in conference. Teacher Restrictions Lifted. Two House riders affecting school | teachers that have provoked much | discussion were stricken out by the | Benate. One restricted the amount of clerical work teachers could be called on to perform, which would have affected assignment of teachers to research work. The other sought to place the average of salaries of school librarians on a level with the average for similar work in the Pub- lic Library System. ‘There will be no controversy be- tween the two branches of Congress | in conference this year over the | amount of the Federal payment, the | BSenate committee having ratified the action of the House in voting to continue for the coming year the $5,000,000 lump sum fixed for the current year. The Senate committee, however, took a new step in this bill to rec- | » ORnize the Federal Government’s ob- | ligation to make a direct payment | toward the upkeep of the higher | ocourts of the District because. of the | large volume of national litigation thrown inte those courts. Ratio Prescribed. The Senate committee wrote into the court section of the bill a provi- sion under which the District would be required to meet 60 per cent of | the expenses of the United States District Court, and 30 per cent of the cost of maintaining the United States Court of Appeals, the remain- der to come from the Federal Treas- — R All the Drudgery of Heating Your Home —is eliminated . . . and you can | | have as much, or as little, heat as you want, when you want it, when | we install— The United States OIL BURNER l* It's quiet and clean . .., Per- | fect combustion, no waste . . . Every part is rugged, which in- sures long wear and satisfaction. ASK US FOR DETAILS MAURICE J. OLBERT . Heating Homes for Over 30 Years | opposed the increase. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1937. High Lights of D. C. Bill As Reuwritten by Senators Senate Appropriations Committea: Movement to transfer public hospitals from Wel- HIGH lights of the 1938 District supply bill as rewritten by fare Board to Health Department revived by authority given Chairman Thomas to offer such an amendment on floor. It was beaten on point of order in House. Net result of various increases raises from $6,000,000 to nearly $7,500,000 amount of revenue city must raise in new taxes. Provides funds to re-establish Minimum Wage Board to fix pay of women and minors. Leaves unchanged lump-sum Federal payment of $5,000,000 as fixed by House, which is same amount as for current year. Restores annual and sick leave of more than 3,000 per diem workers. Contains new provision requiring Federal Government to meet a definite percentage part of the cost of operating higher courts in District, based on the volume of national litigation handled. Authorizes Chairman Thomas to offer amendment today for $325,000 for gas tax fund to start new Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, in lieu of repairing old structure. Strikes out House provisions that would have closed Chil- dren’s Receiving Home, transferred 15 playgrounds from play- grounds department to community center office, shifted license office from assessor to weight and measures office and pre- vented pay increases resulting from reallocations under classi- fication act. Restores salary for office of people’s counsel, now vacant, but eliminates new ositions suggested by House for fire in- surance rating expert, and a bonding commission. Authorizes Commissioners to try out automobile parking meters. Leaves unemployment relief fund at budget estimate of $1,465,000: ury. These percentages are based on the estimated ratio of Federal and local business transacted in these courts. It Wwould lighten the burden on the District's general revenue fund by about $200,000, and, while this is & comparatively small amount in the | picture of the city's total outlay for the coming year, it recognizes the claim heretofore made that because this is the Nation's Capital, these higher courts devote a substantial | part of their time to the legal affairs of the Federal Government. The Senate committee supported the Thomas subcommittee in declining to add $1,000,000 to the unemployment relief fund. The bill, however, does re- store the $53,500 the House cut from the relief estimate for administrative expenses. This leaves the relief fund | in the bill at the budget figure of $1.465,000. During the hearings, one group of civic organizations urged an additional $1.000.000 to care for employables who are out of work. Another group, in- cluding the Board of Trade and Federation of Citizens' Associations, Receiving Home Retained. The House provision to abandon the Children's Receiving Home on July 1, and substitute a system of boarding | homes, was knocked out. In proposing the changes, the House reduced the appropriation for care of such children from $38,000 to $12,000. The Senate restored to the Welfare Board author- | ity to maintain a suitable place sepa- rate from the House of Detention for the housing of children under 17 who come into the custody either of the Weifare Board or the police. The Senate also eliminated the | House rider that sought to deprive more than 3,000 per diem employes of the District of all annual and sick leave, by stiplating that they could be paid only for days they work. This does not add to the total cost of the bill, however, since the budget for various municipal departments was prepared with a view to giving these men the leave they are entitled to. Parkings Care Returned. The Senate committee also trans- ferred back to the city's general fund the expenditures for maintaining | the trees and parkings division, for paving under the assessment and per= mit system and paving around Gov- ernment property, and for the main- tenance of the motor vehicle depart- ment. The House had sought to make | these functions charges against the | gasoline tax fund, which is used only for general highway and bridge con- | struction. | The House specified a score of i street intersections throughout the city at which the vehicle and traffic department was directed to erect sig- nal lights, but the Senate struck out this list, leaving the money for new signal lights in the bill as a lump sum. The Senafe Committee struck out a House proviso authorizing the Pub- lic Utilities Commission to investigate telephone rates, on the theory that the commission already has that au- thority under the utilities act. In the Senate hearings, Commissioner Richmond B. Keech said the com- mission expects to make such inves- tigation without regard to any lan- guage in the bill, and described the | proviso as “surplusage.” ‘The Senate Committee restored $7,500 for the salary of the office of people’s counsel, now vacant. It also gave the Utilities Commission $500 for incidental expenses. As previously announced the Sen- ate bill readjusts the public school construction program to bring the funds for colored schpols up nearer | to the percentage of eolored children | in the school population. In accom- | plishing this the Senate Committee | made the following changes: Added $200,000 for starting con-| struction of a junior high school at the Banneker playground site, added $90,000 for purchase of land adjoin- | ing site of the old Dennison School and added $35,000 for purchase of land in vicnity of First and Pierce | streets northwest. Reduce Other School Funds. Reduced the appropriation for start- ing a new senior high school at Fifth and Sheridan streets from $450,000 to $350,000, reduced the fund for the Thomas Jefferson Junior High School and Library from $400,000 to $300,000, and eliminated $8.000 for a Bradbury Heights port- | | able school. | Under the heading of schools the Senate Committee also granted the following increases over House fig- ures: Sixty-five thousand, four hun- dred dollars for 39 new teachers, —_— PONTIAC MMEDIATE DELIVERY m WE NEED USED CARS Flood Motor Co. Direct Factory Dealer 4221 Connecticut Ave. Clev. 8400 | 100 for pay of officers and members. | ARTHRITIS Memorial | 1908 M St. N.W. ... Dlst. 3626 | OVER 40 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Rugs Cleaned ecialized in giving the tistactory service fi We employ enly experts in eleaning, shampooing and repairing rugs. Only pure soaps and non-a rats e used. All “extra-quality” rugs hand-cleaned. Our prices are LOW In eomparison with the HIGH quality service we render. 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Phose District 3300, or National 7370 making a total of 93 new teaching Positions; restored $14,300 for clerks and other employes and $3,200 to the item for administrative officers; night schools, $8,000; care of build~ ings and grounds, $6,725; transporta- tion of tubercular pupils, $5,000; transportation of pupils in Bradbury Helghts, $2,000; purchase and repair of furniture, $4,000; contingent ex- penses, $17,100; apparatus and fix- tures, $1,400; school gardens, $2,400; repairs to school buildings, $35,475; equipment of school yards for play, $7,000. In addition to deciding to place public hospitals under the Health De- partment instead of Welfare, the com- mittee made the following increases: ‘Tuberculosis” Sanatoria, $20,477 for personnel and $26,000 for mainten~ ance; Gallinger Hospital, $32,180 for personnel and $20,000 for mainten- ance. The amendment which Senator Thomas will offer on the floor today to take administrative control of these hospitals from the Welfare Board was originally proposed by the House Ap- propriations Committee, but was knocked out on the floor of the House when the House District Committee challenged this method of changing legislation by rider on appropriation bills. ‘The bill as it stands also would give the Health Department the funds for treatment of indigent patients un- der contract at Emergency, Casualty and Children's Hospitals and the Washington Home for Incurables. Designates Health Center Site. In place of the House provision giv- ing the Health Department $200,000 to purchase a site and erect a health center, the Senate bill directs the de- partment to build the proposed center on the site of the Jones Elementary School, First and L streets, at a cost of $165,000. Some of the institutions under the Board of Public Welfare Wwere given Increases, as follows: Workhouse and reformatory, $40,680 for personnel, $23,200 for maintenance and $37,000 for replacing defective wiring; Na- tional Training School for Girls, $4,- 500 for personnel and general ex- penses and $65,000 toward the school construction program; District Train- ing School, $5,000 for personnel; In- dustrial Home School for Colored, $3,- 830 for personnel and $4,500 for main- tenance; Columbia Polytechnic Insti- tute, $3,000; physicians for the poor, $5,760, ) The Police Department was given an increase of $5520 for miscellaneous expenses, including pay and allow- ances, and the Fire Department $13,- Highway Fund Increased. The highway fund under the gas tax was increased by $280,920, includ- ing the following: $100,000 for Tepair of streets, $43,000 toward completion of Chain Bridge; surfacing and re- | surfacing, $75,000; curbs and gutters, $25,000. and several smaller items. | Fop the water service, the commit- tee granted an increase of $70,000 for operation of the Washington Aqueduct, and $6,300 for maintenance of the dis- tribution system, For National Capital Park increases totaling $15,380 were allowed for per- sonnel and general expenses. . The Senate Committee struck out Pprovision for creating the position of fire insurance rate expert in the in- surance department, although Supt. of Insurance J. Balch Moor reiterated in the Senate hearings his House testi- mony to the effect that fire insurance rates here are too high in relation to fire losses. The committee also struck out $13,040 the House had inserted for establishment of a bonding commis- sion, under the Corporation Counsel, to enable the District to furnish the bonds required in local courts. The fees for such bonds would have be- come a source of municipal revenue, Corporation Counsel Seal told the Senate Committee that since the House acted, he has made inquiry and found that no other city is using the plan, and that he doubted its feasi- bility. ‘The Senate Committee struck out two other House riders, one of which would have prevented pay increases called for by the reallocation of po- sitfons under the classification act. The other provided that no appropri- ation would be available for the ex- pense of issuing congressional tags except to those persons designated by law to receive them. Several Small Increases. ‘The Senate bill makes varjous small increases for many other municipal activities, including the following: For sewer work, $47,970; for collec- tion of refuse, $38350, and recorder of deeds’ office, $12,460. The final decision on all these changes will rest with the conferees for the two branches, after the Sen- ate passes the bill. The conclusions reached by the conferees also will determine the exact amount of the impending deficit the local com- munity will have to make up in new taxes. In the Senate hearings the Com- missioners said they hoped it will be possible to raise the additional rev- enue needed without increasing real estate. Commissioner Sultan told the Senate group that if the supply bill as finally passed requires $7,500,000 of additional local revenue and the new tax bills now pending do not pass, it would be obligatory on the Commis- sioners to raise the rate on real and personal property. 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