Evening star., 1935-05-07
Delay in Printing Copies of
Hearing Records Can
GELS Plan.
FULL GROUP TO TALK
RENT CONTROL SET-UPS
Liquor Control Legislation Also
to Come Up for Study
Tomorrow.

The House District Committee, 1t
was learned today, will delay for at
least another week any action on the
report of its Special Crime Investi-
eating Committee which recommends
immediate removal of United States
Attorney Leslie c. Garnett and retire
ment Of the Police Department "high
command"
1t had been tentatively planned to
consider the report at the regular
meeting of the full committee tomor-
row, but the absence of Chairman
Norton and delay in the printing Of
the record of the Crime Committees
hearings will necessitate a postpone
ment.
The crime report was not passed on
last week when it was formally sub
mitted to the full committee because
OF desire on the part Of some mem
bers to read the testimony Of more
than go witnesses who testified dur
ing the two-month investigation. As
soon as the printed record Of the
hearing becomes available, copies will
be distributed to all members Of the
committee.
Reports Available Soon.
Latest reports to the District Com
mittee indicate the record of the hear
ings will be available within several
days, which will allow nearly a week
for its study by those members who
delayed action on the report last week.
With the temporary side-tracking
of the crime report the full committee
tomorrow will devote its attention
principally to proposed rent control
legislation and bill sponsored by the
Alcohol Beverage Control Board to
tighten the Districts liquor act. The
committee, it was explained, Is espe-
cially anxious to get the liquor bill
on the House calendar this week 80 it
can be called up for consideration
Monday, the next District day.
The rent regulation bills to be con.
Sidered are those introduced by Repre-
sentatives Dirksen, Republican Of I'LL
noiS. and Ellenbogen. Democrat of
Pennsylvania, both members of the
District Committee. Dirksen's mea-
sure, designed to prevent "prof1teer-
ing" would freeze rents at the level
OF January /, 1884. The Ellenbogen
bill is more drastic in scope. It
would set up an emergency commission
to decide rent appeals as was done
during the war period.
Control Provisions Listed.
The A. B. c. Boards bill, which
would amend the District liquor con-
troll act, carries a number of pro-
visions. 1t is intended primarily,
however, to empower the board to
suspend as well as revoke permits of
liquor dealers and prevent consump-
tion of liquor in establishments having
on-sale licenses after the legal dead
line on sales. The latter provision
is aimed at the practice of those places
which sell number of drinks to O
customer just prior to the curfew on
the sale.
Dirksen has abandoned his plan to
amend the A. B. G. Board bill in
committee so as to provide for the
abolition Of the so-called hidden bar"
and will seek action on his own bill
designed to accomplish the same pur-
pose. This is now on the House
calendar.
Although there has been consider
able opposition to Dirksen's bill, he
believes it will pass the House. The
main objections, he said, are not
directed at the 'open bar" provision,
but to other unrelated proposals. He
declared he would offer no objection
to the elimination Of those provisions
when the bill is under consideration,
but would insist on retention Of the
"open bar" proposal.