Evening star., 1933-03-25
Full Committee Expected to
Report Local Bill Wed
nesday or Thursday.
TYDINGs PREDICTS SALE
ON. APRIL 7; HOWEVER
Frequent Verbal Clashes Between
Senator and Drys Mark Hearing
Yesterday Afternoon.

Legaliz2sicn of the manufacture and
sale Of beer in the District will be de-
layed until the later part of next week,
it was indicated today, as q result Of
the plan Of the Tydings Subcommittee
Of the Senate District Committee not
to seek full committee approval of the
District beer bill before Wednesday.
Senator Tydings announced that his
committee would meet Monday to con-
slider the. Palmisano bill which passed
the House, but the full committee Is
not likely to report out District beer
bull before Wednesday or Thursday.
Even with immediate Senate action,
it was said. there is little likelihood the
bill will be on its way to the White
House for the signature of President
Roosevelt before next Saturday, since
a number Of changes are expected to
be made which will require House ap-
proval.
The delay, however, according to
Senator Tydings, will not prevent the
District from getting real beer April
Z, the date on which the national beer
bill becomes effective II the District
beer bill is enacted into law es late
as next Saturday, it was pointed out,
the District Commissioners will have
nearly q week in which to promulgate
regulations governing the manufacture
anc Gale Of beer and issue number Of
licenses.
Conflicting Provisions.
A majority Of the changes to be made
to remove inconsistencies and correct
conflicting provisions. Several other
amendments may be added, 1t was in
dicated. to nberalize the sale of beer,
so that it can be sold at barbecue
stands and similar places where food
and beverages are served on trays to
motorists parked on the premises. The
HOUSE refused TO grant this concession
to the barbecue stands.
A motel beer htH." drafted by Cor
poraticn Counsel William w. Bride and
his assistants, has been submitted to
the Tydings subcommittee, and viii
serve as guide In the prospective revi-
sion of the Palmisano measure. The
public, but 1t Is understood the meas
ure does not differ materially in its
provisions from the House bill.
As a prelude to Senate action on the
beer bill; the Tydings subcommittee
held a hearing on the measure yester-
day afternoon, at which the vets and
drys expressed their diverse opinions on
beer legislation. The dry witnesses in
cluded men and women whose names
have long been identified with the pro-
hibition cause: Mrs. Henry w. Peabody,
chairman of the Woman's National
Committee for Law Enforcement: An
Grew w. Wilson of the Anti-Saloon
League; Dr. Everett M. Ellison, former
president of the Citizens Service
League, and Mrs. w. H. Wadleigh Of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union.
Testifying for the vets were Charles
E Sands of the Hotel and Restaurant
Employees Union, DR.. Fred w. Buck Of
the Federal Dispensary Tax Reduction
League and former Gov Robert A.
Cooper Of South Carolina, who repre-
sented brewery interests.
Frequent Verbal Clashes.
The hearing was marked by frequent
verbal clashes between Senator Tydings
and the dry witnesses. Debate was lin.
tied and the time evenly balanced, al
though one of the witnesses charged
Senator Tydings with using the time al
located to the drys with cross-examina-
ton
The large District Committee room
was jammed to capacity and micro
phones suspended from dazzling, old
fashioned chandelier picked up the dis
cussion for distribution over Nation
wide network of 60 Columbia Broad
casting System stations.
The network stations carried the en-
tire proceedings, which lasted for an
hour and IS minutes although only
the first half hour had been originally
scheduled.
Mrs. Peabody. who opened the case Of
the drys, declared the legalization Of 80
beer was unconstitutional. She said,
however, she was pleased that the Dis
trict beer bill would forbid the sale Of
the beverage to minors, although she
was unable to understand why, II 81
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