Evening star., 1934-04-10
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.FORL0CAL BOXING
INTO CONFERENCE
Hopes to Have House Diff.
ferences Settled by
Senate.
LITTLE CHANCE SEEN
FOR D. c. RACE TRACKS
Amendment of Local Liquor Law
to Be Referred to Senate
Committee.


ference for settlement of the differ
ences between the two branches of
Congress on the measure. AS orig
inally passed by the Senate, the bill
was restricted to amateur boxing con-
tests to be staged by schools, colleges
and clubs, but the House broadened
1t yesterday to cover professional bouts
When the bill came back to the Sen
ate today, Senator King moved that it
be sent to conference, and the follow
ing conferees were appointed: Sem
ators King of Utah, Copeland of New
York and Capper of Kansas.
McCarren Opposed.
The House bill to legalize race
tracks here appeared today to have
little chance of being enacted into law.
The House bill will be referred to the
Senate District Committee, where a
similar bill has been referred to a SUBJ
committee. Senator McCarran. DEM
ocrat, of Navada, subcommittee chair
man, has announced he is strongly
opposed to the bill, believing the Cap
ital should continue without race
tracks. McCarran said there are
tracks within convenient distance for
those who desire to see. races.
The several House bills amending
the District liquor law will be referred
to the Senate District Committee for
study. Senator King has not gone
into the details of the House bill yet,
but said today his general view would
be not to approve any changes that
would hberalize the law. He indicated
he would consider any of the changes
in the nature of restrictions.
Would Issue Permits.
The boxing BILL in amended form, as
it passed the House provides that box
ing shall be supervised by a commls-
sion of three members appointed by
the District Commissioners, to serve
without salaries for Two years, one OF
whom must be member of the Police
Department. This commission would
issue boxing permits.
'- Because OF objection by Representa-
tive Blanton to the establishment OF
''any more costly commissions. the
provision placed in the bill by the
House of three members at $4,000 a
year salary to license horse racing,
when f1libuster was threatened, Rep
resen4ative Black, Democrat, Of New
York, accepted the change bac.: to
his original bill. Dog racing was elm
mated. Representative Black esti-
mates that this racing bill will net
the District $685., 900 year from the
2 per cent tax on receipts by racing
associations and the 10 per cent tax
on admission fees. He figures that
the District will collect 1.250 year
from realty taxes on the race track,
with an indeterminate amount on per-
sonal taxes and water rents.
The liquor control act would be
amended by three of the four pro-
posed changes recommended by the
House District Committee: To collect
the revenue through stamp tax with
out any change in the tax carried in
the original control act to allow off,
sale licenses to be issued to stores
which operated in nonconforhaing
areas before the coming act was
passed, and to remove the limitation
Of only one license to chain stores so
that each unit in the chain might
take out license, operative 80 days
after the passage of the act. There
was a close fight over this amend
ment which resulted in the committee
accepting two amendments proposed
by Representative O'Connor. Demo-
crat, of New York, one of which re-
stored the provision requiring that
liquor must be labeled for quality,
which the Black bill sought to elimi-
nate, and the other restricted drug
stores to sale only on prescriptions,
and that they be refused retail licenses
If they are granted druggist licenses.
Representative Palmisano also fought
the chain store amendment, saying
that the chain store interests had put
one over on him by having the bill
rushed through the committee in his
absence.
The adoption of the O'Connor
amendments which were in conflict
with the Dirksen bill to permit drug
gists to fill prescriptions with blended
liquors instead of with those OF
pharmacoepia standard as provided in
the original act, automatically cast
aside that fourth bill to amend the
liquor control act.
WHISKY IruSt En0 SOuSut.
Representative O'Connor took the
floor in demanding adoption OF his
amendments and in reply to Repre-
sentive Blanton said: Il favor the
chain store system as the best way
to break up the whisky trust, and l
hope the time will come when they
will establish their own distilleries. !"
He also declared that his fight for
restriction on the drug stores was to
keep them in their own professional
line and not allow them to become
bar rooms.
Six other bills, which have already
passed the Senate, were approved by
the House:
Authorizing the District Commis-
sioners to sell the old Potomac School
property on Twelfth street between
D and E southwest. in the heart Of
the wholesale market area, which has
IN assessed value of s24.316 and is no
longer needed for school or other
municipal use.
Authorizing the change in name OF
B street south to Independence ave-
hue to conform with Constitution
avenue on the north side Of the Mall.
Authorizing the Capital Park and
Planning Commission to make an ex-
change of small parcels of land with
private owners to straighten out the
i boundaries of Whitehave parkway at
Huidekope place.
II Exempting the American University
{ at Cairo, Egypt. from the prohibition
against the use of American" OF
other similar words in the name OF
, q degree-conferring institution as car
ried in the diploma mill bill' passed
several years ago.
Granting q chiropractic license te
Dr. Della M. Ledendecker.
= Giving the superintendent OF in,