Evening star., 1924-02-27
HOUSE COMMITTEE
FOR MEDICAL BILL
BIanton Fails to Delay Vote
on Measure to Amend
D. c. Charter.
REVIEWS RENT POLL PLEA
Opposition to Police Survey Heard
From Commissioners.

! The House District committee to-
| day ordered a favorable report on tie
! Dill fathered by Representative Kin
| dred Of New York to amend the char
| ter Of the Medical Society Of the Dis
| trict.
Representative BIanton. democrat
OF Iexas, asked an opportunity at
inc next meeting to tnterrogate the
| insurance commissioner about the new
insurance code bill, claiming that he
would bring out important matters in
| which the whole committee would be
greatly Interested. Failing to get tha
? desired action, Representative rsian-
! tor, when he saw a long verbal
| wrangle impending. said he would
! cover his objections in q minority
| report. He then renewed his reques:
for favorable report from the com
| mittee on his resolution calling fol
survey of the housing situation b.
the police department. J.
| Representative Hammer. who Is
also a member Of the special sub
| committee which has been conduct
| ing hearings on the I4ampert bill II
extend indefinitely the life OF the Rem
commission, said that questions a.
the hearing had resulted in yer.
| eAnaustive, complete and fairly ac-
| curate survey being compiled
Commissioners Opposed.
Representative Zihlman OF Nary-
land, acting chairman OF the commit
tee during the illness Of Representative
Stuart F. Reed of West Virginia read
into the record a letter from the Dis
Inv I,t f.-..f
posing the Blanton resolution for .
| police survey.
! ITO secure information Of the char
acter provided for in this resolution
would require the services Of 100 po-
! lice officers working eight hours =
| day for approximately two months
! Chairman Commissioner RudoIpl.
wrote. 1T would be eminently i'm
proper and unfair with the limited
! personnel of the police force 10 as
! sign this number of men to make this
! investigation for such a period of
! time and during that time to deprive
| the citizens of the community of po-
I lice protection to the extent of re-
| ducing the patrol force by one
seventh.
Further the members of the police
| force could not obtain accurate In
formation of the character asked for
! in the resolution, owing to the lack
! OF authority to demand such infor-
! nation. If the resolution were amend
ed so as to require simply a report
| as TO the number of vacant apart
] ments and dwellings and the num-
! ber of apartments and dwellings un-
| der construction, with the location OF
! the same, 1t might be possible TO sub
nit such d report within a reasonable
| time without interfering to any ap-
preciable extent with the normal du-
ties of the police force" For those
reasons the Commissioners recon-
| mended unfavorable action on the
resolution in its present form.
For BootIrgaing Probe.
Representative Rathbone of Illi-
nois offered d resolution to investi-
gate bootlegging i'll the District as
result of the shooting of Senator
Greene Of Vermont, his resolution be-
! ing designed TO broaden the scope of
an inquiry previously proposed by
/ Representative Gibson OF Vermont
! The Rathbone resolution set forth:
| Nv hereaS the nation has been
shocked by Il senator Of the United
States being shot while walking on
i Whereas. it appears that the said
| shooting occurred during an attempt
| ed arrest of bootieggers by officers OF
the United States; and
! "WhereaS there is reason TO believe
| that the law has been and is being
violated in the District of Columbia
| in the matter of obtaining. carrying
! and ushing firearms and also in tho
prevalence OF bootlegging in the Ma
tional Capital, now, therefore. be Il
! hereby
Resolved, That a subcommittee of
! the committee of the District of CO.
/ lumbia of the House of Representa-
! tives composed of five members be
appointed to investigate and report
! TO the committee both as to the viola
| tion of the law in the carrying and
4, s,..., ~ -.
| bootlegsng in the District of Co.
lumbis."
There was a vigorous debate re-
garding the propriety of such d pro-
posal engaged in by Representatives
! Hammer OF North Carolina, Gilbert
OF kentucky. Kuntz of Illinois and
Rathbone of Illinois. As ;t result OF
| the differences of opinion Represen-
| tative Rathbone moved that his reso-
luton should lay before the COM
mittee until the next meeting.
Alley DweIIers' Hearing.
On motion of Representative Zihl-
! man, delegation representing the
alley dwellers in the District of Co
lumbia who are prepared TO present a
; plan for remedying the situation VIII
/ be granted q hearing at the next
A subcommittee was appointed to
consider the District Commissioners
bill to regulate the practice OF
4
committee consists of Representatives
Keller of Minnesota, Fitzgerald, Ohio:
Stalker, New York Kuntz. Illinois,
! and Gasgue. South Carolina.
Representative Kindred appeared
personally to explain his bill to amend
! the charter of the Medical Society OF
, the District. The principal feature of
| the bill is to allow this association
! to hold title to property it now owns
| on NJ street between 18th street and
Connecticut avenue, which cost up
ward of $4,000 while the old char
ter allows ii to hold title to only
2J.600.
DIR. J. u. Thomas. president of the
society. and Dr. J. Wythe Cook were
also present TO testify. Chairman
Winslow of the House committee on
interstate and foreign commerce.
speaking from thirty years expert
/ ence in hospital supervision and in
association with the medical profes
sion, urged the passage of the Kind
red bill SO that the association might
carry out it's purpose of development
of the science of medicine. The report
on this bill will be written by Repre-
! sentative Clarence J. Mcleod OF