Evening star., 1934-01-12
PUBLIC DRINKING 1,
BAN BACK IN BILL
Senate Committee Yet to
Decide Liquor License or
Dispensary Issue.
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bonds to be filed with the licensing
board by applicants must be obtained
from surety companies, whereas the
House bill allowed private individuals
to go surety for an applicant. The
Senate amendment Is preferred by Dis
trict officials because, they point out,
bonding companies would inquire into
plicants.
The license fees for railroad dining
and club cars were reduced from IS q
month or S50~a year TO 81 month or
$40 year.
The House bill required drug stores
to sell only bottled in bond whisky on
prescriptions. The Senate Committee
modified this to allow sale Of blended
whisky on prescription during the in
terval between the passage Of this bill
and the issuance of new licenses, but
thereafter prescriptions could be filled
only with bottled in bond.
Printing on Bottles.
District officials discovered today
that the label section Of the House bill
would have required distillers to print
on the bottles Of blended brands the
age OF all the ingredients used, includ
ing the water. Recognizing the dim
Guilty OF ascertaining the age Of water,
the committee decided that distillers
need not give the age Of the water on
the label.
Several other minor changes were
made today. The committee adopted
amendments yesterday giving the Com
missionerS power to limit the number
of licenses and raising from 80 to so
the number Of rooms hotel must have
TO obtain an ION sale" license.
One Of these amendments corre-
sponcs substantially to one filed in the
Senate by Senator Walsh OF Massachu-
sets, which would allow the Commis-
sioners to limit the number of licenses
when In their discretion the issuance Of
more licenses would be detrimental to
the public welfare. Senator Walsh has
another amendment pending providing
that no person could hold more than
one retailers license.
Women Urge Dispensary Plan.
A final appeal to the committee to
substitute the Government dispensary
system for the private license plan was
made today by q group Of woman men,
bers of various organizations.
Just before the committee went into
executive session this morning. 1t
listened for q few moments TO the dele
CATION pleading for the dispensary plan.
Mrs. Frank A. Iinzel Of the Chevy
Chase Presbyterian Church, acting as
spokesman for the group, said they
were members of organizations in vari-
GUS parts OF the city, that they were
interested primarily in protecting the
youth of the community and that they
regarded the dispensary method OF dis
tribution as the lesser Of two evils.
Chairman King. who faVors the Que
bee system OF government dispensaries
for hard liquor with hotels and restau-
rants permitted to serve beer and light
wines, 4 pointed out to the delegation
that the dispenSary system also would
mean some private licenses.
Mrs. Linzel said the delegation real
lied that, but understood government
dispensaries would be limited in num-
ber, whereas under the House bill al
most any Storekeeper who could pay the
license fee could obtain license to sell
liquor and that licenses even could be
granted stores close to schools, under
the House provision exempting from
the restrictive features of the bill busi-
ness places that were established prior
to April S, 1888.
: Mrs. Linzel also called attention to
the fact that there was nothing III the
House bill to prevent drinking on the
streets or other public places.
Senator Kean, Republican of New
Jersey, inquired if that is not done now
by people who carry hip-pocket TASKS.
The spokesman replied that while
there may be some Of that at present
her group felt the license system would
increase public drinking greatly.
Others in the delegation were Mrs.
w. Bradford Bayliss, Mrs. c. s. Duncan,
Mrs. r. D. Bradbury, Mrs. H. D. Kilmer,
Mrs. Ernest Faesch and Mrs. M. o.
LorenZ.