Evening star., 1933-04-10
SPEAKER RES|STS
HOUSE CLOAK ROOM
BEER RESTRICTION
Replies to Committee Ruling
Limiting Sale to
Restaurant.
REPRESENTATIVES NAMED
TO CONFER WITH RAINEY
Kramer and Wolfenden Are Chosen
to Handle Application for
License to vend Brew.

License to Vend Brew.
Although the Accounts Committee In
ruling today that beer should be sold In
the House restaurant at the Capitol sent
q request to Speaker Rainey that there
be no sales in the cloak room lunch
counters, the Speaker insisted that "if
beer Is sold in the restaurant we are 60
ing to have it in the cloak rooms"
The Speaker Is directly in charge of
the cloak rooms. Chairman Warren of
the Accounts Committee appointed Rep
resentat1ves Cochran, Democrat, of Mis-
souri,, and Carter. Republican, Of Wyom-
ing, to confer with Rainey on whether
beer Is to be sold in the cloak rooms.
They were directed to ask you not to
permit it sold in the cloak rooms"
Rainey was told.
A distinctly explanatory remark evi-
oenclng impatience was his rejoinder.
Named to Handle Application.
Warren also appointed Kramer,
Democrat, Of Alabama, and Wolfenden.
Republican, Of Pennsylvania, to handle
the application for the license in the
District Of Columbia for sale Of beer
in bottle.
Frank Verdi, manager of the restau-
rant. will make the application.
Il think 1t will be Wednesday before
we can serve beer" Verdi said. "I am
going to get every kind available and
let the members and public choose the
kind they want to drink"
Chairman Warren of the committee
told newspaper men he had "left it to
the entire committee to decide" tndi-
eating he did not vote.
Representative Strong, Democrat. Of
Texas, said, 81 am bitterly opposed to
the sale Of beer in the House restau-
rant and so voted in the committee.
am strong prohibitionist."
d. C. Tax Right Questioned.
The question of whether the District
government has q right to collect
tax from the Federal Government for
the license to sell beer In the restau-
rants was raised at the committee meet
ing.
! A decision is expected to be reached
made Immediately for the necessary au-
thority to begin selling the beer.
Health Officer William G. Fowler
pointed out today that establishments
selling beer by the glass are all subject
to the same regulations that apply to
restaurants. He said he had ordered
his inspectors to make sure that the
glassware in which the beer is served
Is properly sterilized.
Asked II the beer itself would not
have q sterilizing effect on the glass
ware, he said that it takes a solution
OF 90 per cent alcohol to kill bacteria.
At the District Building the crush Of
dealers wanting licenses to sell contin-
ued with no noticeable let-up. The Bev-
erage Permits Board Is only about half
way through the food of applications,
and new requests come in every day.
Up to IL o'clock today 1,180 applica-
tions had been fled, 407 granted, I04
definitely denied and the rest are pend
ing, most of them in the process OF
having errors corrected.
One Of the application blanks to be
sent back for correction Of errors was
that from the Army Medical Center at
Walter Reed Hospital. 1t was the Sec
ply for permit, the other being the
Army War College.
Two drug stores were among the sue
cessful applicants for licenses today.
The test used to decide whether they
qualified as restaurants" or not was
whether the major portion of the floor
area was used for the purpose Of sell
ing or serving food.
Rover Will Decide.
The drug store applications presented
one OF the early legal questions facing
the board, Of which Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel Vernon z. West Is chair
man. Mr.. West said, however, that
all Of the legal questions having to do
with enforcement Of the beer act win
be left for decision by United States
Attorney Leo A. Rover, who Is charged
with prosecuting all violations either
OF the act or the regulations adopted
Hereunder.
For the present the police have been
instructed to warn those found in ap-
parent violation of the act or regula-
tions. This order Is expected to stand
until the sale of beer settles down to
normal proportions.
At the present pace, especially with
Washington's large influx of cherry
blossom visitors, the demand seems to.
be outrunning the supply, particularly
as to bottled beer. Draft beer estab-
meet the demands yesterday, but many
Of the bottled beer places ran dry.
Carload shipments are on the way
from the Middle West and will arrive
today or tomorrow. One of the orders
is for 10 carloads from st. Louis
brewery.
The applicants for licenses had
turned in $85, 100 in cash for their
permits up to the close Of business
Saturday. Some of this, however, will
be returned to those whose applications
have been denied.
Reasons for DeniaIs.
Most of the applications denied were
found faulty because they showed the
establishment proposed was in a resi-
Dental zone, or near schools or
churches, or had not been operating
rs q restaurant, hotel or bona fide
club. In some cases the denial was
because the applicant was not citizen
of the United States.
The only member Of the Beverage
Board so far who has tasted the per-
nitted 80 per cent beer is Mr.. West.
he said that he found it very palatable
md n-intoxicating in fact. He point
ID out, however, that legal definitions
If intoxication are very confusing. In
, case in the Court of Appeals Of Ken
lucky, he said, the facts showed that
he defendant had been arrested for
He had been found lying
n a public park, his hands tightly
.lutched around the stems of the YER
liant grass there. Asked the reason for
lis tight hold, he explained that he had
,een taught that the world was round.
md that he was afraid OF rolling OF.
The court, in an elaborate opinion, held
hat anyone showing such memory and
uch reasoning powers could not legally