Evening star., 1926-02-17
COUNCIL |NDORSES
z|HLMAN MEASURE
Citizens Favor Plan to Re-
move Juvenile Court From
Criminal Category.

The Citizens Advisory Council join.
! ed with a number of other District or
ganiZations last night in indorslng the
Zihlman Juvenile Court bill, the prln-
cipal effect of which will be to make
a Chancery Court sof the Children
| Court, removing juvenile offenders
from criminal category. Two other
| similar measures, the Gerry bill and
| the Underhill bill, had been consider
ed by the council. and its Endorsement
| of the Zihlman bill followed favor
able report by William s. Torbert,
which pointed out that this measure
| has the approval of the Public Wei
| fare Code Commission and large ma
| jority of the civic and public welfare
organizations of the District.
The council also approved the bill
! designed to regulate the practice of
chiropractors through an examining
| board and with its report to Congress
| on this measure will urge that similar
| legislati ton be enacted to regulate oste-
| opaths.
The bill for the regulation of chiro-
practorS proposes rigid examination
of practitioners and a high standard
| of education which would require
| them to hold degrees in chiropractic
and be qualified in chemistry, physi-
| ology and anatomy. A favorable re-
port on the bill was presented by DR..
| George H. Richardson. while similar
| Legislation for oSteopathS will be re-
| quested at the suggestion of Charles
| A. Baker.
Loses Vigorous Fight.
Councilman Torbert lost his vigor-
Gus fight to prevent Endorsement of
the proposed amendment to the Dis
| trict code to remove alleged diScrimi-
nation againsl females in the descent
| of real estate when the council voted
o to In favor of the change, Chair
man Jesse c. Suter casting the de-
Gliding vote. Action on the amend
men has been delayed for more than
a week by Mr.. Torbert's opposition.
He told the council he could see no
useful purpose in the contemplated
| change other than to crafty the sex
consciousness Of the proponents of
the bill"
| The chief object of the amendment,
which is sought by the Woman's Bar
| Association of the District, proposes
| to remove the restriction of descent
to the male line and place women
| forebears on a par with men as to in
heritance. Those voting with Mr.
Torbert against the bill were Charles
A. Baker, George C. Havenner and
George T. Beason. The supporters, in
addition to Mr.. Suter. were Harry n.
Stull, DIR. George II. Richardson.
| George r. Wales and w. I. Swanton
Favor Gas Merger.
Other measures approved by the
| council included a bill authorizing a
merger of the Washington Gas Light
| Co. and it's subsidiary, the Georgetown
Gas Light Co.; a bill authorizing an
| exchange of land between the District
and a private corporation on Upshur
street between Thirteenth and Four
| teenth streets, an amendment to the
tax laws and bill to regulate plum
bers. The two latter bills were ap-
proved by the council In its first legis-
lative report.
| A resolution from the Congress
| Heights Citizens Association opposing
a reduction in the appropriation for
park purchases and urging an immedi-
ate appropriation Of 100000 for the
purchase of land for parks SO as to
increase this item to s1.000,000. was
referred to Councilman Wales for a
report at the next meeting. Tuesday,
| February %.