The Washington times., 1895-02-28
Amendments Proposed to Bill
Regulating Liquor Traffic.
CLUBS MUST OBTAIN LICENSE
More Definite Provisions Made in Excise
Law as to Druggists, Brewers, and Dis
tillers-Important Measure Suggested
Relating to Reassessments-s Suburban
Railway Bill Amended-Other Measures.

favorable action on amendment to House
BIN No. S613, Ito regulate the sale of in
toxicating liquors in the District" with
certain amendments proposed by the attor-
ney for the District.
The important amendments are to sec
tions /, 6, and II, the first relating to
brewers and distillers, the next to sales
Of stock by persons authorized to dispose
ofliquors under order OF court, and the latter
TO sales by druggists; and provision is made
also for amendment of other defective sec,
tions.
BREWERS, DISTILLERS, AND CLUBS
In the letter explanatory of his sugges-
tons the attorney says, in substance, that
under the existing law brewers and dis
tillers are not required TO take out license,
nor is there anything to prevent them from
keeping their places of business open on
Sunday, if they choose to do So He thinks
this should be remedied.
The law applying TO druggists cannot be
readily enforced, as by the peculiar reading
Of the statute the penalty applies to persons
liable to the excise law who sell without q
ANthSt- anu uiuEElsAS are not required 10
procure license, but are simply prohib-
tied from selling except upon the prescrip.
ton of ply sician. His amendment to
section II covers these defects
Incorporated clubs, he says, are held to
be exempt from the provisions of the excise
law, and in order 10 bring them within its
scope he moves TO amend section 9.
Provisions are made by him to also desig-
nate as barrooms places that sell in guam
nj iUf xEha ha
is TO be drunk on the premises or elsewhere,
and provide generally for the better execu-
ton OF the law.
Several hundred thousand dollars are
involved in legislation that is proposed
by the Commissioners IN bill drafted
yesterday for submission 10 Congress
The bin authorizes the District authori-
ties to reassess all general taxes and as
sessments (which have been or may be
declared invalid by the courts in conse-
quence of technical Irregularities, clerical
errors. and Tor errors i'll description.
ERRORS SHOULD DNOTEXEMPT
Such assessments have given the Com
misSioners trouble heretofore, property
that should bear just proportion of tax
alton having been declared exempt through
citations of errors for which the board is
IN no wise responsible, and which the Com
missioners hold should bar collections.
The Commissioners have suggested an
amendment 10 the bin amending the charter
OF the District OF Columbia suburban rail
way bill The amendment is on page Of
the bill, which strikes out all after the word
avenue. - in line / 3, to the end Of lire 20,
as printed, and substitutes change in the
route
The act authorizes the construction of a
railway into and through the District from
-
by way Of certain streets and avenues
designated in the amendment.
The incorporators are: Richard K.
Cralle, Charles E. Creecy, John T. Mitchell
NJ. F. Morris, ]. w. Denver, L. c. Hine,
Gilbert Meyer, s. Z. Mudd, Robert A.
Howard, W. I. Hill, John W Childress,
j. F. KeDney, d. W. Classic, Harry Barton,
Philemon w Chew, T. G. Daniel, e. P
Davis, Jere johnson, and L. c. Loomis
The road is intended to serve Brookland,
Langdon, and other suburban territory.
The motive power shall be electrical,
cable, or other mechanical device"
Morgan Bradford, jT, was yesterday
appointed an additional private on the
Metropolitan police force, for duty with
the Enrich Beef Company.
FAVOR MEDICAL COLLEGE BILL.
Favorable action was recommended yes
terday by the Commissioners on Senate bill
No. 1862, TO regulate medical colleges in
the District OF Columbia, and for other pur-
poses"
President A. H. Ames, II. D., of the Sibley
Memorial Hospital, has been notified that
1t VIII be necessary to have a fire escape
erected at The rear of the building lately
constructed, before the samecanb beoCcupied.
The Commissioners yesterday proposed
an amendment to the bill ito amend the
rl4a ~
pany by adding the following, IN lieu of part
Of line l and lines IL and 13, as printed:
Which cash shall not exceed during the cur
rent fiscal year Of the company the sum of
$3.50 ,OC0, and shall not thereafter exceed
8 per centum of the aggregate amount of
the insurance upon which the company is
fable: provided, the increase shall be deter
mined from time to time only by a majority
vote OF the policy-holders present at an an
nual meeting, or at special meeting only
called for the purpose; provided that said
company shall pay to the District of Colum-
bla, IN lieu of personal taxes, for each next
ensuing year, l 1-2 per centum of its gross
earnings for the preceding year, as sshownb by
verified statements. which amount shall be
payable to the collector Of taxes at the times
and manner that other taxes are payable -.
An order was issued yesterday for the re-
placing Of the stairway on Thirty seventh
street, between Prospect avenue and 81
street, and also for the laying of Tagging
at the crossing on Thirty seventh street and
Prospect avenue
Building permits issued yesterday: J T.
Nanell, store and dwelling, Nos. 2201 and
22O3 New Hampshire avenue northwest.
SS 800; n. Auth Manufacturing Company,
cold storage warehouse and sausage manu-
factory, No $50 Virginia avenue south
west, $4,000: Walter A Gordon, dwell
ing, fronting Douglas avenue, $3.50 For
improvements: Washington Ice Manufac-
turing Company, repairs TO mill in George
town. $500
Congressional chairmcn in both houses
have been advised of the solicitude of the
Commissioners for the adoption of the meas
ures respectively providing for removal of
snow and ice. and to authorize the board to
enforce sanitary and quarantine regula-
tiOns.