Evening star., 1934-05-10
13 DISTRICT BILLS
GIVEN APPROVAL
0Id.Age Pension and Liquor
License Measures Are
on List.

In An effort to clear its calendar of
rs much pending legislation Is pos
sible. the Senate District Committee
late yesterday vote favorable reports
on Is bills, including an old-age pen
sion measure and . change in the
liquor law to allow stores in resi-
Dental zoning areas to apply for beer
and light wine licenses.
Two other liquor law amendments
were postponed. One of these would
have allowed chain stores to have
licenses in any number of their estab-
lishments, whereas now only one store
in a chain can be licensed. The other
would have modified the detailed
liquor label requirements of the Dis
trict law, which Corporation Counsel
Prettyman told the committee are un.
enforceable.
Proposal Warmly Debated.
The bill allowing stores in resi-
dental zones to apply for beer and
wine licenses was approved only after
sharp conflict between COMMITTEES
members and witnesses as to the ad.
visibility Of allowing licenses in resi-
Dental areas. As passed by the House
1t would have allowed these stores tc
apply for any kind of liquor license
Its approval by the Senate COMMITTEES
came only after Senator Gore had
offered an amendment limiting it to
beer and wine. 1t applies only to
stores which were In existence before
the residential areas were established
by the zoning Commission. but Sen
ator Capper Of Kansas, who opposed
this liberalization, brought out that
there are at least 400 such stores that
would be eligible to apply for licenses
under the bill.
Other bills ordered favorably re-
ported were.
Authorizing the Federal and Dis
trict Governments to adopt the So
called excess condemnation" system
in acquiring land for public purposes
This means that when the opening
OF streets or acquisition of building
sites leaves small triangles or other
remnants not needed for government
al purposes, the Government could
acquire such parcels, resubdivide and
sell them again. The bill was sug-
sested by DR.. Llewellyn Jordan Of the
Board Of Trade, and put into shape
by Senator Austin of Vermont.
To provide Congressional charter
for Columbus University, similar to
the charters provided for other uni
versities here
Making 1t an ofiense to remain
without permission on unoccup d
public property, a similar law being
already in existence against squatting
on occupied property.
Estates Bill Approved.
A bill to provide for the conser-
vation and settlement Of the estates
Of absentees ano absconders.
A bill substituting the corporation
council for the District attorney as
the legal member of the Healing Arts
Commission
To authorize the Ellen Wilson Me-
mortal Homes, . housing organization,
to dissolve and distribute its assets.
To allow the step-children of Fed
outside the District to attend District
schools without tuition. which is al
ready permitted In the case of chill
dren of such employees or officers.
To exempt from. taxation property
used by the American Legion and by
the Daughters Of the Union Veterans
Of the Civil War.
A bill for the relief Of Jennie Bruce
Callahan, widow of an officer in the
District Fire Department, who was
killed a number of years ago in a
collision which knocked him from his
fire engine.
Hotel Probers Named.
A subcommittee consisting of Sena-
tors Reynolds of North Carolina and
Kean of New Jersey was appointed
to go into the Gibson resolution, CALL
ing for an investigation of the f1nan-