Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-02
DISTRICT COMMITTEE
REPORTS ELEVEN BILLS
They Will Be Called Up in the
House for Action at the
Earliest Opportunity.

At a meeting of the House Distric
committee yesterday eleven measure:
of local interest previously approved
by subcommittee were favorably re
ported and will be called up in The
House at the earliest opportunity.
The "Loan Shark" Bill.
One of the measures placed on the
calendar was the loan shark bill' in
troduced by Representative Dyer OF
Missouri. which imposes an annual tau
! or 5000 upon all persons, firms or as
soclations who engage in the business
of loaning money at rate of interest
greater than s per cent per annum
| The bill makes it illegal for money
lenders thus licensed to charge above
z per cent per month on the actual
amount of their loans
Close restrictions are applied to the
| granting of license and the receivers
thereof are required to follow an elab-
crate system of publicity laid down ir1
the bill, whereby full data as to the
loans are to be kept in a register.
| which shall always be open to the in
spection of the District Commissioners
| or their agents. Full annual state
| ments setting forth state of business,
with Liabilities and assets are also re-
quired for the information of the Com
missioners
Regulating Insurance Companies.
The committee ordered a favorable re-
port on the Johnson bill requiring every
insurance company operating in the Dis
tr1ct TO furnish the superintendent of in
surance with the necessary documents
Tor permission to transact business in
the District, and also statements show
enCy
A bill to provide for punishment for
larceny of public property from the work
mousse and the reformatory of the Dis
trict or Columbia was ordered reported
faVOrabiy; also mea sure recurring that
all assignments of wages, salaries or
earnings In the District Of Columbia shall
De In writing and signed by the person
10 whom such moneys have been due.
TIE committee acted favorablv on a bill
10 give the District of Columbia the
right to appeal to the Supreme Court of
the United Safes in patent cases.
An amendment to the act to regulate
the sale of poisons in the District where
by its provisions shall not apply to sales
at wholesale by manufacturers, dental
supply houses and retail druggists to hos
pitals.. colleges and dentists, was ap-
proved.
Inc committee acted faVorably on the
counterpart of the Pomerene bill in the
Senate which gives the Juvenile Court
the power to cause the arrest Of fathers
of fllegitimate children and impose re-
quirements for the support of the latter.
Wages of Crossing Policemen.
Favorable action also was accorded the
bill of Representative Patten of New
York, which places the wages of special
policemen posted at street railway cross
ings and intersections on the same scale
as the pay received by the members of
the metropolitan police force, and grant
ing them certain sick and annual leaves.
Bills to prohibit the flying Of kites and
fire balloons in the District of Columbia,
and to authorize the Commissioners to
place the name of Annie E. Matthews,
mother of Hugh G. Matthews, late a
private on the metropolitan police force,
on the pension roll of the police and
firemens pension fund, were ordered re-
ported favorably.