Evening star., 1934-01-19
LOCAL LIQUOR BILL
REPORT APPROVED
Measure to Go to President
With Most of Senate
Changes Retained.

The last step in the passage Of the
District liquor bill was taken by
Congress this afternoon when the Sen
ate adopted the conference report,
which had been approved by the House
earlier in the day. Both Houses acted
on the report within an hour and a
half after meeting.
The engrossed copy of the bill prob
ably will be signed by Speaker Rainey
and Vice President Garner during the
ready to 60 to the White House to
await the Presidents signature.
Chairman King of the Senate Dis
trict Committee obtained unanimous
consent for the consideration of the
report shortly after it came over from
the House, and it was adopted without
any debate.
Liquor Board Fund Asked.
At the direction of the District Com
missioners, Auditor Daniel j. Donovan
today submitted to the Budget Bureau
a request for an appropriation Of s99, SIT
to cover administration of the Liquor
Control Board during the rest of the
current fiscal year and the 1885 fiscal
year.
The answer was taken in advance of
enactment of the law so as to make il
possible for the board to start operation
at the earliest possible moment.
OF the total. $86.824 is for the three
members of the board and its staff,
and $12,793 is for employment of three
assistants to the corporation counsel.
ID Ia hac ir
of the present Is per cent Government
pay cut for the rest of the current year
and ON the basis Of 10 per cent cut
during 1895.
The Commissioners decided today to
increase the pay of the 10 inspectors of
the board from $2,400 year to $4,000
a year, less the Government pay cut.
Originally it had been planned to set
the salary of the inspectors at $4,000,
less pay cuts and retirement fees.
House approval of the report was
preceded by an attack on certain
changes made in the bill in the Senate
by Representative O'Connor, Democrat,
of New York He declared the Senate,
without any debate whatever, had made
a number of radical changes in the
original House bill.
O'Conner called attention particular
ly to an amendment which he said
would give the surety companies a
monopoly, and said he had learned that
some of these companies already are
planning to charge q fee of $40 per
$1,000 on all surety bonds issued under
the liquor law.
Drug Store Provision.
O'Conner also criticized a change in
the House bill which he said will give
Washington drug stores 60 days after
enactment of the liquor law IN which
to dispose of their stocks of blended
whiSkies.
Immediately after the House had
passed the liquor bill with an amend
ment prohibiting druggists from selling
blended liquors, OConner said he was
contacted by the paid lobbyist" of the
druggists in Washington, who said that
the drug stores wanted go days to dis
pose Of the blended stocks. THE Sen
ate," he declared, had granted that
request, giving the druggists go days to
inflict on Washington this rotten
blended stuff"
Counsel Bride Assailed.
O'Conner then assailed Corporation
Counsel William w. Bride. who drafted
the original liquor control bill, for his
extreme interest in the druggists"
Chairman Norton Of the House Dis
trict Committee came to the defense of
didn't think much "of a corporation
counsel who contributed to the Hoover
campaign fund"
THE gentleman from New York is
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