Evening star., 1934-06-13
McCarran Blocks Consider
alton of Auto Drivers
Liability Measure.
DELAY JEoPARD!zEs
PASSAGE AT SESSION
Two Liquor Changes Sent to Pres
ident-Property of S. A. R. Ex-
empted From Taxation.

The Senate today passed six Dis
trict bills, including new plan OF
mortgage foreclosure and relief for
needy blind persons, but failed to act
on the important automobile safety
bill
The safety bill. which seeks to
protect the public from careless
drivers by requiring motorists con-
victed of serious traffic offenses to
obtain insurance before their driving
permits are restored, was blocked
when Senator McCarran, Democrat,
of Nevada, objected to its conSidera-
ton by unanimous consent.
This bill has been under discussion
in Congress for a number of years
and has already passed the House at
this session. Unless the Senate can
act on it before adjournment, how
ever, it will die and have to go
through the House again in the next
Congress.
Liquor Law Changed.
The other bills approved were:
A change in the liquor law, reduc-
ing the license fees for river steamers
to correspond with the fees charged
for railroad dining cars. This has
passed the House and now goes to the
President.
Another change in the liquor law to
exempt wholesale dealers from pay
ment of the local tax on liquors to be
shipped out of the District. This also
has passed the House.
To exempt from taxation property
occupied by the National Society of
the Sons of the American Revolution,
which likewise has passed the House.
To authorize the District govern
ment to provide for the higher edu-
cation of children whose fathers died
in military service during the World
War Provision for this education
during the next fiscal year was made
m the local appropriation act. This
measure authorizes the establishment
Of the general policy.
Foreclosure Explained.
Majority Leader Robinson asked for
an explanation of the mortgage fore
closure bill, and Chairman King of
the District Committee replied it does
not go far enough. in his opinion,
but is a step in the right direction.
He said he originally favored a one
year period of redemption for home
owners following a foreclosure sale.
This bill requires the trustees under
a deed of trust to start court proceed
ingS when there is default in pay
ments due. The auditor of the court
must then give 90 days notice to the
person in default before there could
be a sale. The foreclosure bill still
requires House action.
The blind pension measure was
agreed to only after adoption OF two
amendments offered by the blind
Senator. Gore, of Oklahoma, who de-
clared he has objected as a matter of
principle to pension legislation gen.
orally. He said the only pensions he
has favored in the past were for dis
able ex-service men. He added, how
ever, he would not stand in the way
of vote on the bill, provided cer-
tain amendments were considered.
Goes Back to House.
One amendment provides that the
bill shall not apply both to a hus-
band and wife and, in the case of
dependent child living with his or
her parents, payments shall not ex-
ceed $50 a month. The other amend
ment would cause the pension plan
to expire on June 80, 1887. He said
if Congress desires, it can continue
the law at that time. Because of
these amendments, the bill will have
to go back to the House.
1t allows the Welfare Board to fix
the amount of benefit in each case,
with the average allowance estimated
at $400 annually. The committee re-
ported the maximum cost probably
would be about 100000 a year.