Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1937, Page 5

. CONFEREESTOFIX CITY'STAX BURDEN House Bill's $6,146,000 of Needed Revenue Raised to $7,500,000 in Senate. BY J. A. O'LEARY. The 1938 District appropriation bill, passed by the Senate yesterday, with | its total raised to $46,600,000, is on its Way to conference where final decis- ions on the amount to be spent next | year will determine the size of the €ity’s new tax burden. | When it left the House two months g0, the bill made necessary $6,146,000 of new revenue to meet the District's share of a $45,116,584 total. The Sen- ate's net increase calls roughly for $7,500,000 in new taxation, with | Chairman Thomas of the Senate Ap- propriations Subcommittee suggesting that receipts from existing tax sources will have a bearing on the ultimate | revenue requirement. The Senate late yesterday ramed the following members to represent it | at the conference table: Senators Thomas of Oklahoma, Glass of Vir- ginia, Copeland of New York, King of Utah and Nye of North Dzkota. Lump Sum Not an Issue. | The next move will be for Repre- kentative Ross Collins of Mississippi, in charge of the bill in the other branch, to ask for appointment of House conferees, but it is not certain whether that will be done today. Since both branches have voted to retain the Federal payment toward District expenses next year at the present lump sum figure of $5.000,000, | that question will not bé at issue in | conference. The total of the local com- munity’'s financial obligation, there- fore, will depend on what agreements are reached on the various Senate amendments that added about $1,- 500.000 to the bill. Ordinarily conferees compromise on the differences between the two houses, that finally will have to be raised | through new taxation will be some- where between the $6,146.000 deficit under the House bill and the $7,- 600,000 deficit under the Senate bill. In passing the measure the Senate sustained its Appropriations Com- | mittee on all except two of the many changes recommended in the House text The two committee amendments the | Benate rejdcted on points of order were: To' give the Commissioners discretionary power to try out auto- mobile parking meters, and to give the Commissioners custody and su- pervision over the new Police Court Building on Fifth street. | Health Shift Approved. Senator Burke, Democrat, of braska made the point of order the parking meter amendment legislation on an appropriation and was sustained. Senator Schwel- lenbach, Democrat, of Washington made a similar objection to the Po- lice Court item, and was successful, which had the effect of leaving control of the building with the Police Court Judges. The issue was whether the Jjudges or the Commissioners would control the use of space not required immediately for court purposes. The amendment transferring con- trol over public hospitals from the Board of Public Welfare to the health | department—one of the major Senate changes—met with no objection and was approved without debate. In the House it went out on a point of order, and becomes one of the main | questions for settlement in confer- | ence. It gives the health department supervision over Gallinger Hospital, | the Tuberculosis Sanatoria and the making of contracts for indigent patients in several other hospitals. The Senate inserted a provision for | the payment of traveling expenses of | District inspectors, who have been | staging a “walking strike” against disallowance of payment of cost for | use of their own automobiles in their work. N The bill carries $10,296 to cover cost of use of private cars by inspectors assigned to full time field inspection, | allowing $264 per year per person in | guch service. On March 15, about | 40 of the inspectors in engineering divisions refused longer to pay the costs of use of their cars in govern- ment service, and have been walking | to job assignments | Ne- that WaS bill, Other amendments were approved | on the floor of the Senate as follows: | Conferring power on the Commission- ers to purchase an asphalt plant, at not to exceed $30,000, if they see fit; relieving the Commissioners from the necessity of advertising for bids in newspapers outside of Washington: al- lowing the Court of Appeals $3.600 for marshals, and liberalizing the power of the Park and Planning Commission in making small purchases, and regu- lating the advertising of the delinquent tax list. Other Changes Made. One effort was made by Senator Frazier, Republican, of North Dakota | to restore a $100,000 reduction the | committee made in the fund to start | construction of a new senior high | school at Fifth and Sheridan streets | northwest, but the Senate sustained the committee. The item remains at $350,000, leaving $1,000.000 to be ap- propriated later to complete the bujld- | ing. The numerous other changes the committee had made in House pro- visions were approved by the Senate, | including: Transferring back to the | Playgrounds Department 15 play- | grounds the House put under the Com- | munity Center office; leaving the Dis- | trict license office under the assessor instead of the office of weights and measures; striking out riders limiting clerical work by school teachers, and holding the salaries of school librarians | to the average of salaries for similar | work in the Public Library: restoring the annual and sick leave of 3,000 per diem workers; eliminating the ban on | salary adjustments resulting from re- allocation of jobs under the classifica- tion act; restoring the salary for n‘ | "It stimulates sluggish kidneys and tends to .correct acidity’’ writes a physician. He refers to Mountain Valley Water, the natural aid to weak, faltering kidneys doctors have prescribed for 75 years. Let us | send you a case. Just.telephone MEt, 1062. MOUNTAIN VALLEY MINERAL WATER From HOT SPRINGS, ARK. 1405 K St. N.W. MEt. 1062 LY | ested in the tax subject to appear | taxes are imposed on the District to Remove Bod Massachusetts State escaped mental hospital patient, with Patrolman Elliott Hairyes, who was Robbins had been hunted three days. troopers as they removed from an abandoned cellar in Millbury the body of Homer Robbins, 31, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C y of Maniac slain early today in a gun battle wounded in the affray. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | people’s counsel, but eliminating the | clear it would be necessary to plot | proposed new bonding commission and the requirements of the District for which would indicate that the amount | the new office of fire insurance rating future years and declared the urgent | need for a restudy of the tax structure | expert. | The final fate of all of these ad- ministrative changes, as well as the increases the Senate made in amounts of appropriations, remain, to be de- termined by the conferees. (Continued From First Page.) | opposition to placing weight tax rev- enue in the gasoline tax fund to sup- port both the Highway Department and the Department of Vehicles and Traffic, as well as pay salaries of traffic policemen. . Wants It in General Fund. Sacks argued that the Highway Department should be given adequate funds, but the balance should be placed in the general fund. where the anticipated deficit will exist As the sniping continued, Repre- sentative Nichols declared: | “If we wanted to take individual views about this program we would be here until doomsday. We cannot please everybody. We feel the pro- | | gram is fair and equitable to the Dis- trict government, the Federal Gove ernment an¥l the taxpayers.” Chairman Kennedy of the Tax Subcommittee, warned against a pro- longed discussion. July 1 Deadline Set. “We are working under pressure on | this bill,” he declared. “‘We must get | it passed by the House and Senate and signed by the President before | July 1.7 Delay in enactment of the bill is threatened by plans of several mem- | bers of the full committee to force | public hearings. These members say they are anxious to avoid repetition of charges that | District legislation is “railroaded” to | the House calendar. The charge was | first made when the bill to legalize | horse racing was reported, only to be recalled and subsequently killed in the committee. * | Kennedy, however, appeared to be | indignant over reports that attempts are to be made to force public hear- ings and further delay action on the program. He pointed out an oppor- tunity was given every person inter- before the subcommittee while the | program was in the process of con- struction. | Opponents of immediate action argue that haste in rushing the pro- gram through Congress is not neces- sary since the District will not collect any tax revenue until September. If funds are needed before that time, it was pointed . out, the Kennedy bill contains a provision authorizing the | Commissioners to borrow from the | Federal Treasury to meet current expenses. Meanwhile, regardless of what new | meet the current emergency, the Com~ missioners will urge Congress to au- thorize a broad survey of the whole municipal tax structure so a perma- nent program may cover needs of the District for at least five years. Such a plan, revived today at the District Building, would contemplate possible revision of the tax system at the next session. Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor and budget officer, emphasized that the bill now before the House is based only on the problems for the fiscal year beginning July 1. He made Hs Col AT THE MAYFLOWER % Lobbies % Coffee Shop % Dining Room % Barber Shop % Lounge % Ballroom % Public Rooms 250 Bedrooms and Suites always comfortable, with weather a la carte. )AYFLOWER | trict is based, R L POLLIO, Manager, during the next six months. Income Tax Not to Be Fought. Other statements at the District Building indicated the Commissioners will make no future effort to prevent adoption of the proposed District in- come tax and the proposed tax on gross receipts of business and profes- sions as a temporary affair. Likewise, it was said, the Commis- sioners are not objecting to the trans- fer of the District-owned hospitals from the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Welfare to the Health Depart- ment. Such a transfer was incor- porated in the District supply bill as it passed the Senate. The change is opposed by the Welfare Board. Necessity for adoption of a long-\ range financial program for the Dis- | in part, on demands for a five-year $30,000,000 school ex- pansion program and the approaching need for construction of the new Municipal Center. | “It must be remembered.” said Maj. Donovan, “that whatever new taxes are now adopted are proposed | to meet only the financial crisis for | one year, the year beginning July 1 We must consider prospects for 1939 and subsequent years. Revenue Estimates Not Accurate, “Furthermore, District officials nre‘ unable accurately to estimate what | will be the revenues from the pro- posed gross receipts tax or even the income tax. The purpose of the pro- | posed tax structure survey would be to study the early experience of the new taxes adopted by Congress and | to calculate the needs of the District in the future.” ; The Commissioners will seek ap- proval of an item of $15,000 for the survey. Such a plan was proposed | when they drafted their original “stop gap” tax program. It was left out when the Kennedy Subcommittee ordered the Commissioners to revise | their program and to substitute an in- | come tax and a gross receipts tax for | the suggested retail sales levy. The proposed survey would include | study not only of the new levies to be | imposed by Congress, but also the ex- | isting taxes, such as the real estate, personal property, tangible and in- tangible levies, as well as others. District officials confessed again today they had no sure way of figuring | how much the gross receipts levy would | produce. One of their experts has “‘estimated” it would bring in about $3,000,000, but members of the Com- | missioners’ Tax Revenue Committee say they do not know. MANIAG 1S KILLED INPISTOL BATTLE Found Dead After Exchange of Shots With Policeman, Who Was Wounded. By the Assoctated Press. MILLBURY, Mass, June 9.—An aged mother’s appeals were in vain, her fears realized today: Her* son, an escaped maniac, lay dead, loser in a strange, wordless gun fight in the dark. A small-town policeman, Elliott | Hairyes, ended a two-day reign of terror by killing the maniac, Homer Robbins, 31, who had been sought since he escaped Sunday afterncon from State Hospital attendants and headed for the woods near his Sutton farm house home. Patrolman Hairyes trapped Robbins early today near the town's railroad yards, emptied his gun in the duel, | and himself was wounded in the hip. | At Worcester Hospital, Hairyes, not | seriously hurt, said simply: “I'm glad I got him.” Robbins’ mother, Mrs. P. Orrin Put- nam, had trudged through water- soaked woods during the search, call- | ing for her son to give himself up. State police withdrew during her ap- peal. “He'd kill them, or they'd kill him,” she had predicted. Told by a citizen that Robbins was near the railroad yards, Hairyes, with two citizens, George Caplette and Charles Stockdale, drove to the yards and parked his car. As he got out, Robbins, hiding behind another parked | car 10 feet away, fired six shots at | the officer. Hairyes pulled his own | Neither had spoken a word. Robbins fled. Hairyes collapsed. State troopers found Robbins’ body | in an abandoned cellar hole. Robbins had fled after firing at a State trooper, who, accompanied by hospital attendants, sought to return him to the hospital from which he had escaped in February. Obscene letters to Sutton girls led to his com- mitment, | Yesterday all the forces of the State In Washington and Vicinity. WEDNESDAY Sleuth Weds DETECTIVE TAKES FLORIDA GIRL AS BRIDE. Joseph W. Shimon, head- quarters detective, and his bride, the former Miss Eliza- beth Keyes of Palm Beach, Fla., who were married here yesterday at the Congrega- tional Church, Tenth and G Streets. —Harris-Ewing Photo. were pressed into the hunt, for farm doors had been barred children frightened. The maniac | nightly since Sunday had approached Champion Letter Writer. 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