Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-11-24
Corporation CounseI's Office
to Give Plan at Capitol
Next Month.
MEASURE OF CRUSADERS
ALSO TO BE SUBMITTED
Sentiment in Favor of Increasing
Distances From Schools
and Churches.

plan drafted by the cor oration coun'
sells Office indicates there will be thor.
ough discussion Of all angles of the
detailed restrictions proposed wher
hearings are held al The Capitol mex
month. There also will be other plan,
submitted for consideration of the con-
gressional committees.
The Crusaders, for instance through
Rufus S. Lusk. are preparing to submit
a measure based on the Swedish system
of having a Government-con linn.
tied dividend corporation to distribute
liquors. While this plan would allow
granting of ION sale" licenses to pri
vate eating establishments. just as Cor.
poration Counsel Brides bill does, TIT
wholesale distribution of liquor to thest
establishments and the sale to indi.
viduaIs in package form would bt
handled through the controlled monopoly
Would Regulate Profits.
This, according to Mr.. Lusk, woulo
provide way of regulating the profit
factor, since the agency decided on te
distribute liquor would be controlled a.
public utility is regulated.
/ Both these bills are expected to bt
/ in final shape for submission to House
/ and Senate Committees next week. but
Chairman King does not expect to star
/ Senate hearings until the middle OF
December, when larger attendance Of
| the committee can be obtained. He has
promised that all groups in the District
will be given reasonable opportunity to
record their views before Congress acts
Mr.. Lusk said today that if the license
system is decided upon by Congress. he
regards the bill drawn by the corpora
ton counsel's Office as a good one. AT
the same time, however, he feels the
opportunity to control profits which
would exist under the measure his group
is drafting would be an advantage. II
! is expected good many of the detailed
provisions of the crusaders proposed bill
will be the same as in the corporation
counSelS measure.
There are signs of a growing senti
ment to keep the proposed liquor es-
Establishments 4 greater distance from
schools and churches than the 200-foot
limit in the bill being drafted at the
District Building
Mrs. Harvey w Wiley. a supporter OF
prohibition, said today she thought zoo
feet is too close and expressed prefer
ence for the 400-foot rule which existed
in the Districts prohibition license
law
Henry Gilligan. a member of the
Board of Education. declared 1.-The fur
ther away from school buildings the
sale of liquors can be kept the better
satisfied I will be as member Of the
School Board"
Zoning Law Restrictions.
In addition to the rule regarding dis
lance from schools and churches, the
corporation counsels bill provides def
nitely that no licenses could be issued
for property zoned residential under
the coming laws. OF course. under the
coming law itself new business places
cannot be established for any purpose
on residential street, but the liquor
control bill goes further and provides
that liquor licenses could not be issued
to business places which already exist
on residential streets by reason Of hav-
ing been there before the residential
coming designation was applied to the
street. When a street is zoned residen-
tial the law allows business places
already established to continue, with
the restriction that such buildings can
not be altered structurally for business
purposes Such stores are known in
coming law as "non-conforming uses"
and under the liquor bill as drawn
such places could not obtain licenses.
The bill contains several provisions
designed to give residents in the neigh
borhood of a proposed license notice
that application has been filed, SO they
oSL For
First, notice Of the application must
be published In a newspaper once a
week for two weeks and during that
time sign also must be posted on
the building for which the license is
requested, giving similar notice. The
Liquor Control Board would be required
70 hold hearing in cases where it
was requested.
In eating places obtaining ION sale"
licenses, liquors would have to be served
at tables, and could not be kept or dis
The procedure would be that a person
ordering a drink would have it brought
by the waiter from another room.
Lunch counters would be permitted
for the serving of beer. This would
apply in places designated in the bill
as taverns.
License Bill Shaped.
Corporation Counsel Bride and As
sistant Corporation Counsel West are
getting the license bill in final shape
for action by the Commissioners early
next week. One of these last-minute
steps was a conference yesterday with
Federal officials in charge of the con-
troll Of industrial alcohol, to 60 over de-
tailed definitions used in TIE local bill.
Since the local control bill also would
repeal the Volstead act in so far as it
affects the District, it also was deemed
advisable to consult Federal officials
regarding the language Of the measure.
If Congress should pass this license
plan, it would be somewhere between 90
and rs days from date of passage before
bill allows the Commissioners Is days
and provides for an interval Of go days
for the board to consider applications.
This Is intended to avoid the rush
which accompanied the filing Of license
applications under the beer law last
Spring
At the District Association Of Retail
Beverage Dealers meeting this after
noon, Bert l.. Olmsted, president, was to
recommend that the organization post
pone taking any definite action on the
details Of liquor control legislation to be
considered here until the license plan
being prepared by Corporation Counsel
Bride is available in completed form
next week.
Mr.. Olmsted today voiced desire to
see legislation enacted that would be
reasonable and at the same time sum-
GENTLY stringent to keep the sale Of
liquor on q high plane in the Nations
Capital.