Evening star., 1947-06-15
Action Due Soon
|0n Pistol Bill,
City RenfConfrol
| Day Care Measure
| Also to Come Up in !
| Congress This Week
BY Harold B. Rogers

Qdy care CeIlteFS lOI CIluQTen O1
working mothers are scheduled for
action in Congress this week.
The Senate plans to call its
calendar tomorrow and will take
up several district measures.
On the House side, three headings
on Washington legislation already
are scheduled and more may be
slated before the week is out.
Cooper Proposes Amendment.
The House-passed pistol-toting
bill faces proposed amendment by
Senator Cooper, Republican, of
Kentucky, when called up for Sem
ate action. The measure would
permit police without warrants to
search persons suspected of carry
ing concealed weapons. But Sena-
tor Cooper, who recently opposed
the measure vigorously on the floor,
delaying action on it, plans to sub
NIT his amendment. 1t would make
carrying of concealed weapons q
felony.
A bill for day care of children
may reach the Senate for action.
It also will be the subject of a
House hearing before the Miller
of the House District
Committee at 10 am. Thursday.
Representative Miller, Republican
of Nebraska, chairman of the Well
fare Subcommittee announced re-
Gently his committee would con-
slider the Senate version OF the
~
Senator Cooper said he planned
to make the, formal favorable re-
port of the Senate District Com
mittee tomorrow, and ask the Sem
ate to give 1t consideration. The
measure extends for another year
beyond June 80, the day-care pro-
gram, but under restrictions to for
bid care of children whose parents
could afford to send them to pri-
vate schools. Authorized appropria-
tions also are reduced below the
original measure.
Hearing Set on Rent Bill
The Abernethy bill to extend Dis
trict rent control for year beyond
December 81 this year, will come
up for a hearing at 10 am. tomor-
row before the Judiciary Subcom-
mittee of the House District Com.
mittee. Representative O'Hara, Re-
publican of Minnesota, announced
that If hearings on this measure
could be concluded the subcommit-
tee might also consider a pending
measure to put ceiling on COM
mercial rents here.
The Public Service Subcommittee
of the House District Committee will
hold hearing at 10 am. Tuesday
on a bill to establish a shorter work.
week for firemen still keeping the
present two.platoon system. The
week would be not more than 10
hours for night-platoon duty, and
not more than so hortfs for day.
platoon duty.
Mr.. O'Hara hopes to get together
with members of his special subcom-
mittee on the so-called Western
High School incident sometime to-
morrow or Tuesday, to chart pro-
gram of hearings. This group is to
investigate a speech at the school
by Russian-born Mrs. Shura Lewis
which provoked a walk-out of sew
eral students, and censure but not
dismissal of the school principal. The
hearings, when held, will be execu-
tive, not open to the press or public.
Insurance Bills to Be Discussed.
Several competing bills for revi-
sion of District casualty insurance
acts will be discussed at an informal
executive conference called for
sometime tomorrow by Representa-
tive Simpson, Republican, of Illi-
nois, chairman of House District
Subcommittee on Insurance. He Is
inviting all House members who are
authors of the pending measures,
his own subcommittee and Albert F.
Jordan, District superintendent Of
insurance.
Mr.. Simpson is making last
effort this session to obtain an
agreement on control bill which
would bring the District into COM
piiance with a ruling of the United
States Supreme Court in the South
eastern Underwriters Association
case, which held that insurance was
commerce, and subject to antitrust
regulation.
Among the bills on the Senate
calendar Is the McCarren Federal
city charger commission measure,
which was favorably reported April
II by the Senate District Com
mittee. 1t has been passed over
several times. 1t directs a COM
mission of District residents to pre-
pare proposed charter for the
city government and submit 1t to
Congress. If approved by Congress
the charter would be submitted to
residents here in a referendum.
Water Bill May Be Voted
A Ho'lse-passed bill and similar
bill by Senator Byrd, Democrat, OF
Virginia, to authorize sales of water
from the District of Columbia to
Falls Church, Va, and other sec
tiors of nearby Virginia may come
to a vote.
= Other District measures which
may get Senate action would:
Credit active service III the armed
forces in determining eligibility for
and the amount Of benefits from the
policemen and fremen's relief fund
of the District.
Authorize payment of $3.50 a year
to each of three inspectors of the
police department for use of their
private automobiles.
Authorize blishment of the
District Educational Agency for the
Surplus Property in the Municipal
Government.
Memorial Is Proposed.
Change the Incorporation of the
Methodist Home of the District,
Permit erection in the District Of
a memorial to the dead of the lst
Infantry Division in World War II.
Permit erection here of memo
rial to the Marine Corps dead of all
wars.