Evening star., 1930-05-24
TWO-CtNT CAR FARE
BILL REPORTED OUT
BY HOUSE GROUP
Way Is Cleared for Action
on Mcleod Measure
Monday.
REAL ESTATE LICENSING
PROPOSAL GOES OVER |
Patman Declares Plan Considered
Would Freeze Business
Into Hands of Few.

At a special meeting The House Dis
trict committee today reported the Nc
Leod bill providing for 2-cent carfare
for school children in the District in
order that the bill may come up for
action in the House on Monday, and
directed the actins chairman of the
committee to defer action in the House
on the real estate licensing bill until
after the Senate bill now before the
committee had been carefully con-
sidered
The committee also reported out the
bill carrying blanket relief to all widows
of the Police and Fire Departments
whose husbands were killed in line of
duty ard reported the bill which passed
the Senate on April 80 to allow Della
D. Ledenbecker to practice chiropathy.
The committee expressed itself as
unanimously in sympathy with the ef-
fort to secure free transportation for
school children, and supported the Nc
Leod two-cent bill as step In that
direction, with the ultimate intention
Of insisting upon free transportation.
Patman Eulogizes Noonan.
John M. Noonan, a former heavy
stockholder in the Washington Railway
& Electric Co.. was eulogized by Repre-
sentative Patman of Texas and other
members of the committee for his per-
sistent drive in behalf of relief through
providing either free or two-cent rate
of fare for school children.
Representative Patman cited what
has been done in Erie, Pa, as a prece-
dent for carrying school children free
and declared that the Nations Capital
should be the city to set such an ex-
ample.
Acting Chairman Mcleod, Repre-
sentatives Palmer of Missouri, McClin-
took and Hull of Wisconsin expressed
themselves as intending to continue
their efforts to secure free tranSporta-
ton for school children eventually.
The proposal to substitute the real
estate license bill as it passed the Sem
ate, carrying several important amend
ments to the bill as favorably reported
to the House, provoked decided opposi-
ton, led by Representatives Patman
and Palmer.
Hearing on Bill Asked.
Mr.. Patman declared the fictitious
value represented in first trusts in
Washington was an evil which existed
nowhere else in the country. He de-
clared he would insist upon careful
franchise, which would freeze business
into the hands of a few, and he de-
clared the bill under consideration does
it. He protested also that it would farm
out the youth of the city to a few
brokers under a law stricter than
guardianship, and said that no Mexican
laborer in his State was placed in a
condition bordering on peonage as bad
as that proposed in the real estate
licensing BILL.
Mr.. Patman asked for a hearing on
the Senate bill and that further action
on the House bill be delayed. Repre-
sentative Palmer insisted that further
action on the House bill should be post
poned until report has been received
on it from the District Commissioners
Emphasizing that he never knew a
bill more artfully framed" to place
business in the hands of few under
the pretense of protecting the public,
Mr.. Patman warned that this measure
will cause an increase of taxes and cost
a million dollars in 10 years. He in
sisted that there is nothing in it to
protect the people against fraud in Sc
curities."