Evening star., 1935-04-15
LIQUOR HEARINGS
DELAYED ONE DAY
D. c. Subcommittee of House
to Resume Control Act
Debate Thursday.
Chairman Palmisano Of the Judi

Chairman Palmisano Of the Judi
ciary Subcommittee Of the House Dis
trict Committee announced today that
hearings on a bill to tighten the Dis
trict liquor control act would be re-
sumed Thursday at 1890 am.
Originally Palmisano had arranged
to continue the hearings tomorrow,
but his necessary absence from Wash
ington for the next several days caused
the postponement.
Hearings were held on the measure
last week, but due to an unexpected
discussion Of the Dirksen bill to abol-
ish the so-called hidden bar" the
subcommittee was unable to take the
testimony of a score of prospective
witnesses Chief objection to the
Dirksen bill came from Representa-
tive Cochran. Democrat, of Missouri,
who expressed the belief the open
bar" would lead to return of the old
time saloons and eventually to an
other era of prohibition.
Now on House Calendar.
The Dirksen bill is now on the House
calendar and is scheduled to be heard
on the next District day, next Monday
PoStponement of hearings on the bill
to tighten the control act until Thurs
Gay will make it impossible to get that
measure off the calendar by next Mon
Gay. because after its regular meeting
Wednesday the House District Com
mittee will not have another session
until week later.
The bill to tighten the control act
was sponsored by the Alcohol Bev-
erage Control Board. One of its
principal provisions is aimed to cor
rect the practice of some night clubs
and restaurants having on sale IL
censes of selling a number of drinks
to a customer few minutes before
the dead-line on the legal sale, for
consumption later. The bill would
prohibit consumption on the premises
after am. week days and II O'Clock
midnight Saturday.
Another provision is designed tc
give the control board authority to
suspend as we'll as revoke the permit
of a licensee for violation of its regu-
lations. The board feels there are
certain minor violations which should
be punished by a suspension of the
license, but under existing law 1t only
has the power of revocation.
The Public Health Subcommittee
of the District Committee, however
will carry out its original plan to
resume hearings tomorrow at 1890
am. on two bills designed to rid
Washington of its smoke nuisance.
The first hearings last week indi-
Gated strong public sentiment in favor
of drastic smoke control legislation,
but there were only few expressions
in respect to the merits of the two
bills, one of which was proposed by
the District Commissioners and the
other by William A. Roberts, people S
counsel.
In the meantime five unions have
filed with Representative Virginia
Jenckes, Democrat, of Indiana, chair
man Of the subcommittee, IL objec-
tions to the anti-smoke bill of the
Commissioners.
The present law, the unions ex-
planned, requires a licensed engineer
for any plant having forced feed to
the boiler. The proposed legislation,
it was said, would require such an
engineer only for boilers carrying more
than Is pounds pressure. This pro-
vision, the unions declared. "consti-
tutes q serious menace to every occu-
pant of apartment houses, hotels and
Office buildings and over 90 per cent
Of the pupils and teachers of the public
schools"
The unions which joined in the pro-
test were the Hosting, Portable and
Shovel local, the Stationary local
Schools Engineers, locals 102 and 104
and the Universal Craftsman Council
of Engineers Council, No. "a.