Evening star., 1933-12-11
BRIDE REDRAFTS
LIQUOR MEASURE
Bill VIII Include Private L.
Cense System and Local
Option Vote.
Continued From First Pase.)

details as to the method CT ascertaining
neighborhood sentiment.
1t Is known that Commissioner Allen
is seriously considering trying to work
out way of arranging for neighbor-
hood vote in each section. The c1rcula-
tion Of petitions Is likely to be con-
sidered as another method
Commissioner HaZen, discussing the
question today, pointed out that there
are many questions to be considered in
trying to arrive at the detailed method
of laying out neighborhood areas and
in accomplishing the general aim of
barring liquor establishments from those
areas where the sentiment is found to
be against the granting of licenses.
Mr.. Hazen announced that he has
had prepared a map of the Entire Dis
trict, showing the geographical boun-
daries of the citizens associations, to
serve as starting point for discussion
when the Commissioners come to decide
how they might work out some plan of
following neighborhood sentiment in
the location of liquor establishments.
He said this did rot mean that citizens
association boundaries would be used,
but that it would provide something to
work from in approaching the problem.
Other Principles Definite.
While the neighborhood local option
feature was still in an unsettled and
formative state today, other principles
to be followed in the redrafted bill
appear fairly definite.
For example, it will be based on the
private license system, rather than n1u-
nicipal stores, according to all present
indications and is expected to retain
provision for sale by the drink in res
taurants, clubs and hotels. 1t also will
be prepared with a view to giving the
Commissioners broad power to promul-
gate detailed regulations and restric-
tions, instead of having these restric-
tons written into the act of Congress.
This will mean that the redraft will
be much shorter than the tentative
text on which the hearings were held.
In this connection, however, Cor
poration Counsel Bride called attention
today to the fact that the tentative
text was, in reality two separate bills
joined together, and not one bill. He
pointed to few sections near the
beginning of the tentative draft, which,
| in brief phraesology, would confer
broad powers on the Commissioners to
promulgate rules and regulations gov
erning the sale of liquor in the District.
These comparatively few sections, he
said, constituted one bill, and, attached
to them were many other sections, COW
ering in detail the different phases Of
| the regulation, to be used in the event
/ it was decided to incorporate these reg
ulatory features in the law.
| Local Option Creates Problem.
The corporation counsers Office does
not expect, therefore, that it will take
! long to redraft the measure. The fea-
! ture that is likely to require most study
and deliberation is the working out Of
/ a provision In the bill to meet the gen
/ eral desire expressed by the Commi"
! sioners of giving neighborhoods SCI
I form of local option This was dc,
with in the tentative draft by reqtIi
! ing publication in the newspapers 8
notice of all applications for licens
: ard the posting of notice on all built
| ings for which licenses were askcC
| These notices were to be followed b
public hearings before the liquor board
/ the theory being that at these hearings
the liquor board could determine
| whether the surrounding community IA
vored or opposed the licenses asked for
What the Commissioners apparently
have in mind now is some more direct
method of ascertaining sentiment In
| general areas
Zoning Law to Be Factor.
The zoning law. which had not come
into existence prior to prohibition. will
prove a factor in regulating location Of
liquor establishments, just as it deter
mines where all other kinds of business
places may be established. Under zorl-
ing there are small business islands in
various outlying parts of the city, to
meet the store requirements of the large
residential communities that surround
| them.
| E. J. Roche, representing the Wash
| ington Central Labor Union, filed with
Commissioner Allen today a copy of
statement by William Green. president
of the American Federation of Labor,
issued following repeal OF the eight
eenth amendment, setting forth the
position of labor on the type Of legis-
lation regarded as desirable to be set
up in States. cities and subdivisions.
Urges ISaIe by Drinks.
| In the statement Mr.. Green urged
| sale of liquor for consumption on the
premises as a means of eliminating the
| bootlegger. who, the statement con-
! tended. seeks the continuance of speak,
easies through legislation or laws which
would require sale of liquor in packages
only
Urging the promotion of temperance
| by education, Green's statement read,
in part:
THE vote of the people in repeating
the eighteenth amendment can only be
| interpreted as an order to provide open
| opportunities for people to buy and
consume intoxicating liquors. Our fu-
| ture policy, therefore, shall be, first, to
promote temperance through education
| and, second, to control the places dis
pensing liquor so effectively that the
earlier evils of the old saloon will never
return to menace our social, civic and
political life"
The statement expressed the view
that the old saloon could be discarded
| by dispensing liquor under proper gov
ernmental regulations and supervision
"in service rooms where those who buv
may consume it." The statement
stresses the character and reputation of
| licenses as an important phase of reg
ulation and discusses in detail other
restrictions that should surround T.
| censes.
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