Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-13


MEASURES OF LOCAL INTEREST Considered
Representative Campbell OF New York in
PRODUCED bill in the House today proposins
new method Of regulating the liquor trafRS
in the District of Columbia.
The bill provides for an excise board 70 b.
composed Of the chief Of police of the District
1.-THE assessor and the collector thereof" OF
which board the chief of police shall be chair.
man.
The board shall consider all applications 70,
liquor licenses. lite action upon them shall be
hnal and only upon its action shall the assessor
issue license. The board shall appoint q
clerk who shall be ex oficio the INSPECTOR of
licenses and whose duty it shall be to make full
report of such inspections
Every application for a license must state the
applicants name. residence, place OF BUSINESS,
name OF owner OF premises and a statement
that the applicant is a citizen of the United
States; all OF which must be sworn to-
Every such petition shall be considered suf-
nclent application for a license, but before
II Is granted, where IL is an applica-
ton Tor bar room. the application
must contain the consent in writing,
properly authenticated, OF a majority Of the
owners OF real estate and of hou.ekeepers on
the side OF the square where it is desired to To-
cate such bar room, and also on the
oppo-ite side Of the street. and
II the bar room is on the corner
consent must b. obtained from such owners
and residents on bolh streets Not more than
800 bar room licenses shall be issued in
any one year; but after an applicant
bas once gained consent of property holders
for his bar room il will not be necessary to OBJ
tain 1t for renewal Of the license at its expira-
non, unless majority Of the residents and
housekeepers object 70 the renewal
ITnn lira,
ORDERLY or disreputable house the license shall
be revoked. The bill is similar to the Meredith
Dill In Its regulations as to hours and selling
liquor 10 minors and drunkards.
The license fees follows: For hotel
tavern, bar room or retail dealer, $3.50 per
dealer to be one who sells in quantities of not
less than five gallons; iobbers or bottlers, $3.50
per year.
Druggists and epothecaries are not REQUIRED
to obtain license bu: they hall not sell liquors
except upon a PHYSICIANS description. ''nor
more than once on any one prescription Of the
physician"
The penalty for selling liquor without a
license is fixed at fine of from $3.50 to $500
and imprisonment until paid. and for a second
offense the same fine and imprisonment for
three months in the workhouse
Prosecutions email be on information filed in
the Police Court by the United States attorney.
hOUhE
Representative Fellows was today relieved
from duty on the District committee at his own
request and Mr.. Abbott Of Texas appointed in
his stead.
Mr.. Fellows has recently been appointed on
the Judiciary committee.
THE LAEGDoS PUBLIC SCHOOL.
The citizens OF Langdon, suburb Of this
city, are anxious to have public school estab-
lished in their neighborhood. They have con-
suited the Commissioners and secured their in
dorsement of the request for a school
Upon laying the matter before the subcon-
mittee on appropriations, however, this morn
ing they were told that it ia now too late for
action by the House committee, as the hearings
have closed. They were told TO carry their re-
quest to the Senate appropria lions committee
for consideration when the District bill reaches
the other side.
DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS.
The House committee on judiciary. at q
meeting this morning, discussed the prospects
Of legislation upon bills reported from that COM
mittee and especially upon the bill to establish
a court Of appeals in the District Of Columbia,
which WAS reported at the last session.
1t was decided Ibis morning to ask the House
to set apart two days for the consideration of
judicial bills, at which time the court of sp-
peais bill viii be taken up in the House.