Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-10
Only Two Days a Month for
Consideration Scant Time,
Says Byrns.
SAYS CHAIRMAN NORTON
SHOULD LIMIT SUBJECTS
Monday Most Important District
Day of Session-Most of Bills
on Calendar Big.
BY JAMES E. CHM.

III SFhNAAS lie OAAAA'A's
Speaker Byrns promised today to
aid the House District Committee
in getting action Monday on the
IL District bills on the calendar.
Pointing out that the House has
set aside only two days month for
consideration Of District legislation
Byrns said he believed the members
should give their undivided atten-
ton to the District calendar on these
days and not attempt to bring up
extraneous matters.
The Speaker explained. however.
that Chairman Norton Of the District
Committee could prevent the mem
bers from delaying consideration Of
District legislation by refusing to yield
time for the discussion of other sub
jects. He said he hoped Chairman
Norton would adopt such a program.
Restriction Needed.
'The District gets so little time
in the House." Byrns said. that no
other business should be brought up
on District day. The membership
should not lose sight of the fact that
they are here to legislate for Wash
ington as well as the rest Of the
Nation"
The forthcoming District day Nom
day is the most important since the
converting Of the Seventy-fourth Con-
greSs. All but a few of the IL bills
on the calendar are of major tmpor-
lance,
The Ellenbogen unemployment COM
pensation and the Norton old-age
pension bills head the list. Since the
House has passed the national Sc
curity bill. these two measures are not
expected to meet any serious opposi-
ton.
Two bills providing changes in the
liquor control act also are among those
on the calendar. One sponsored by
the Alcohol Beverage Control Board
to tighten existing laws probably will
be passed, but there are serious doubts
as to the other-the Dirksen bill de-
signed to abolish the so-called hidden
bars"
Sales at Closing Time.
The Control Boards bill is intended
primarily to outlaw the practice Of
certain night clubs. hotels and res
taurants having on-sale liquor licenses
of selling a number of drinks to Q
customer just prior to the legal dead
line OH the sale. 1t would make illegal
the consumption of liquor in any Of
these places after am. during the
week and II o'clock midnight Satur-
dav.
The A. B. c. Boards bill also would
give the Control Board authority to
suspend as well as revoke licenses and
reduce the local tax on light wines
from IS to 10 cents gallon.
Despite the vigorous opposition to
the open bar" bill Representative
Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois. its
author, is confident it will be passed.
He declared the objections to his
measure were not aimed principally
| at the open bar" provision but to
other unrelated sections
Although the Ellenbogen, creating
special commission to fix and con-
troll rentals, is one of the IL on the
NdlCIlOdls ~ " III NC CdI1cu up
! day. Ellenbogen has arranged to de.
| fer House consideration of this meas
ure until he reports to the full Dis
trict Committee the results Of public
! hearings which started today-two
days after the bill was favorably re-
| ported.
Two New Bridges.
Among the remaining IL bills are
two authorizing construction OF two
new bridges and an underpass across
New York avenue northeast in the
area between Florida and West Vir-
ginia avenues. One of these bridges
would carry the tracks of the Penn
sylvania Railroad to sidings in COM
mercial area where new warehouses
are to be erected. The other bridge
and the underpass would be designed
for pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
One of the so-called minor bills to
be considered Monday would provide
a salary of 81 1900 year for Col. WAL
lace NJ Craigie. director of military
science and tactics In the Washington
high schools. This measure already
has passed the Senate and House ap-
prevail is anticipated.