Evening star., 1933-04-01
.CONFEREES LIKELY
TO Be NAMED FOR
BEER BILL MONDAY
Revised District Measure
Passed by Senate With
out Roll Call Vote.
ISSUANCE OF LICENSES
MAY BE DELAYED HERE
Enactment Expected to Be Too
Late to Grant Permits in Ad-
vance of April z.

Conferees are expected to be named
Monday to iron out the differences be-
tween the two branches of Congress on
the District beer and wine bill, which
went through the Senate yesterday
afternoon in rewritten form and with
ban against sale of the beverages In
the Capitol or any other Government
building.
The only other change the Senate
made in the plan of regulation as draft
ed by the Tydings subcommittee was to
prohibit the serving of beer to CUSTOM
ers in automobiles at barbecue stands.
The committee had decided to allow
this, provided the machines were parked
on the premises of the eating establish
mnts and not on the public street.
However, lust before the bill passed,
Senator Capper, Republican, of Kansas,
had the provision stricken out.
The amendment forbidding the Is
suance Of licenses to serve beer In the
restaurants of Government buildings
was proposed by Senator Gore, Demo-
crat, OF Oklahoma, just before q final
vote on the measure. 1t was opposed
by Senator Tydings, Democrat. Of
Maryland, In charge of the bill, but
on a roll call A Senators voted for
1t, to 20 against. The House turned
down a similar amendment before it
passed the bill last week.
d. C. Heads Study Policy.
The measure would permit the sale
of these beverages April z, assuming it
becomes law by that date, but even
II Congress should put the final touches
on the measure and get it to the
President for signature early next week
1t does not seem likely the District
commissioners could 60 through the
process Of issuing licenses ny4 next
Friday, the day the national beef law
becomes operative. ~
The Commissioners were asked today
by the license board to decide on nu-
merous questions of policy. The license
group spent most of yesterday Studying
provisions of the bill as passed by the
House and the revised measure adopted
by the Senate.
The committee made tentative drafts
OF forms OF official license applications
ana outlined numerous other points OF
winch the House and Senate were in
agreement, but found numerous olIes-
tions OF policy which must be decided
by the city heads. -
The Commissioners yesterday re-,
celved request from the Potomac
Pansaoes w. c. 7. U. asking that Ii
censes 1or beer sale be refused for any
place within 5000 feet Of the Francis
Scott Key and the Reservoir Schools
and within 400 feet of any private resi-
dence.
Beer license applications already re-
ceived now total 766.
Drug Sales Barred.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massa-
cnusetts, made fight for the inclusion
OF drug stores that have restaurant ia
clltleS among the places that could
serve peer ON the premises, but his
roll call. The Gore amendment was
the only question ON which a record
vote was demanded. ...
senator Sheppard, Democrat of Texas.
author Of the eighteenth amendment
ana sponsor of the law, which made
washington dry in 1917, denounced
the beer measure as unconstitutional.
Recalling his opposition to the national
Deer law recently, Senator Sheppard
said:
THE pending bill is equally uncon-
stltutlonal, equally Objectionable and
equally vicious Everything that NAV
be said against alcoholic liquor as
beverage, may be said against a bill
legltimizing beer. want to deliver a
Few parting shots against beverage al
cohol, which is returning to this Capt. /,
tai and to the Nation through this bill
and the general bill-and that with a
solemn prohibition against alcoholic
liquors in the Constitution of the
United States"
Senator Sheppard began by reading
to the Senate excerpts from a protest
against the District beer bill, prepared
posed of DR.. Everett M. Ellison, Rev.
William S. Abernethy and Mrs. Nash
NJ. Pollock.
Provided for Adults.
In the course of his speech, Senator
Sheppard said Senator Tydings 'vir-
tually admitted the unconstitutionality
of this bill when he said few mo-
ments ago that this 80 per cent beer
would mtoxicate a child to 10 years
old. The eighteenth amendment pro-
hibits intoxicating liquors regardless of
whether the consumers are adults or
children"
Both the House and Senate bills pro-
hibit sale of the beverages to persons
under 18 and during the earlier debate
on the measure Senator Tydings said:
i take the position, and am going
to be perfectly frank about it, that II
80 per cent beer by weight is drunk by
a child 8 or or 10 years of age it
would probably make such a child
drunk-that is assuming he drinks
enough of it."
The Maryland Senator added that he
was assuming the bill was being passed
for adults and thought that "except in
the most extreme cases, where there are
weak physical characters, this type of
beer will not make any one drunk"
Three Kinds Of Licenses.
While the Senate bill follows the
same general lines as the House meas
ure, 1t was completely rewritten to
remove inconsistencies and to set forth
the restrictions in greater detail.
The House bill provides for three
kinds Of licenses, con SALE" "off sale
and manufacturers license" The
Senate retained these and added two,
a wholesalers license" and a "solici-
tors permit" The wholesaler could
buy the beverages for resale only
and the license fee would be $3.50
O year. The other new kind of per-
nit would cost 81 a year and would
have to be obtained by persons en-
ployed to solicit orders. Such permits
would be issued only upon recon-
of the vender.