Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-04
BUSINESS HOURS CHANGED
Closing Time Set at IL O'Clock,
While Opening Is Put at 8-Meas-
ure Result of Hearings.

The proposed bill would wipe out sa-
looms in the residence portion of the Dis
trict and prohibit any in the future
would wipe out saloons within Geo feet
of schools and within 800 feet of churches;
would close all saloons within 1,OOO feet
of the marine barracks. War College
and engineer barracks and the navy
yard; would close up the bar in the
Union station; would prohibit saloons
within 300 feet of any alleyway in which
there are dwellings,; and would cut out
any saloons within $50 feet of another
saloon.
The bill would put a stop to the
who are broke by prohibiting free
lunches and cuts the word knowingly
out Of the provision against the sale of
liquor to minors.
Bars to Close at IL O'Clock.
And still more. 1t will close all bars in
the District at IL o'clock at night instead
of at midnight, and not allow their re-
opening until = o'clock in the morning.
instead of al o'clock, as at present. All
screens on front doors Or windows are to
be removed
In the preparation of the new bill the
subcommittee has practically combined
the features of the Works and Jones
bills, but the new bill is not as radical
as either of them
Senator Jones will present to the full
District committee tomorrow the new
bill, with the recommendation of the
subcommittee on excise legislation that
it be approved by the full committee.
There is expected to be considerable dis
cuSsion of the measure, but it is pre-
dicted that a majority of the full COM
mittee will give their approval to the
subcommittee work. The subcommit-
tee is headed by Senator Jones of Wash
Of California, Dillingham; of Vermont.
Johnston of Alabama and Lea Of Ten
nessee.
In making public the proposed bill to-
day Senator Jones gave out statement
giving In brief the features of the new
bill and changes proposed i'm the existing
law. The features, as he outlines them,
are as follows
Provides New Excise Board.
A new excise board. consisting of three
members to be appointed by the Presi-
dent, to serve three years at salary of
-, 100 per annum, Is created, this board
to exercise its discretion in acting upon
all applications for license, except as
otherwise specifically provided in the bill.
No license can be granted for a hotel
with less than fifty rooms, and the board
Is authorized to reject any application on
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its proprietor. AT present hotel need
have only twenty-five rooms.
No saloon can be located within 40
feet OF another saloon. This provision
does not apply TO clubs and hotels. There
is no such prohibition at present.
No saloon shall be established within
800 feet of any alleyway occupied for
residences or places commonly called
slums.
The distance between schools and sa-
looms & cod tn feet
and between churches and saloons from
400 to 800 feet. This applies to saloons
heretofore as we'll as hereafter located
The granting of licenses for sale of
liquor in the waiting room of any station
or depot is prohibited
No saloon shall be established in the
residence portion of the District, and the
board Is given the authority to determine
whether the proposed location is in the
business portion of the District or not.
provided that no license shall be granted
for any saloon In any square or block
where less than 80 per cent of the houses
and buildings not including saloons or
hotels and clubs on said blOcl0 are used
for business purposes.
Excluded in Certain Territory.
All saloons are excluded west of the
westerly line of the fire limits as now
located. from its southerly limits to its
intersection with the mile limit of the
Soldiers Home, and thence along the
mile limit and Kansas avenue to the
northern boundary of the District
The excise board is to adopt such policy
as will reduce the number Of saloons by
November ], 1914, to three hundred
No application for license shall be
granted without the approval of the chief
Of police.
A clerk and inspector are to be ap-
pointed at 81 200 each per annum.
Notice of the filing of a petition for
a license shall be given under rules to
be prescribed by the excise board. and
protests are to be heard by the board
under such rules and regulations as 1t
may prescribe.
$500 to $500 until November 1. 1914, and
and hereafter they shall be $500.
Retail license are increased from $500
IN 200 until November l. 1914, and
there fter TO S1,.NO
wholesale trade is restricted to sealed
nackages and then in quantities of a
quart and over. The present Limitation
is pint.
BEFORE granting a license to a club il
must be shown that the club is duly in
corporated; that its membership is bona
f,de: that its purposes are legitimate and
that the sale of liquor intended is no
more than an incident and not prime
source OF revenue
Minors Further Protected.
No sale Of liquor is permitted to minors
and the word knowingly is omitted SO
thar the saloonkeeper must take all re-
sponsibility.
All barrooms, whether in hotels or clubs
or not, must be closed between the hours
of II pm. and am
No minor under the age Of eighteen
wears is permitted to enter or be in a
barroom.
All screens or distractions to view must
be removed.
Sale to any person in the habit of becoming
| intoxicatedis is prohibited If the wife. dough
| ter father or guardian of such person re-