Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-01-11

VOoSOu Do0oO0 AE00o - OhoUh1se
cries.
rfsn private letter from esotleman
now in Washington, We learn that IN at
tempt 10 TO be msde to psepetuate fraud
on Western disGllsriss, and, which will, il
carried into operation, 40 il Is likely 70 he,
break down aad destroy every distillery in
The Weoe. The case 10 % follows: The
Secretary Of the Treasury has appointed
certain commissioners to az up the Law reg
u!ating the manufacture Of whiskey. These
commissioners have accepted bin drawn
up by the distillers Of New York, which
bill contains the following features:
lM One thousand dollars license for
every dislillsry.
I'd. One thousand Ave hundred dollars
per annum. to be paid for aGovernment de-
tective for each distillery. The distllery
paying for its own detective. ~
Sd. Requiring each distillery to build
four cisterns, each capable Of holding twen-
" -four hours run. with lock worth $500
on the door.
4sh.. Each distillsry to build . bonded
warehouse.
9th. No whiskey 70 be sold except
through bonded warehouses.
CIV. Whiskey to be gnagci first in els
terms then in barrels, then in bonded ware
houses, then out Of bond when transferred,
then into bond At point shipped. and then
out of bond when sold. Each guaging one
half cent . gallon. The barrels to be gusg-
ed full
Now, barrel cannot be filled full Of high
proof whisky within gallon. owing to the
expansion OF the fluid by change Of tenn
perature. II lot Of barrels were blled
full here during the present cold weather
and shipped East, and thaw should take
place, the expansion Of the whisky would
burst every barrel. While At New York
the barrels could be filled and sold imme-
diately without damage ensuing. Distillers
here inform US that Eastern manufacturers
can get rich out Of this one item alone over
Western men. Then IS the barrels are
guaged at every point shipped, it follows
hat Western whisky stands three or four
more guagings than the Eastern article, and
consequently, so much more advantage is
offered the East These fixtures will cost
at least ten thousand dollars A sum %
large that it will shut up every small whis-
ky mandatory. Giving the larger estab
l'shnnents an un air advantage. The ut
most efforts, our informant tells Us, are
being made at Washington by the New
York dealers to have this bill put through,
as they see in it scheme 10 kill off the
small manufacturers, cripple those in the
West, and thus give the market into the
hands Of few. The clause requiring the
barrel to be guaged FULL is peculiarly un-
just as from the nature of the article that
cannot be done with safety. In order to
avert this evil to the interests Of Peoria.
our eistillers ought to set vigorously to
work and instruct Western members Of
Congress- to work against the hill and en-
deavor to defeat it, as it is neither more nor
less than glaring outrage.-Fsoria Tran
script.
HIS WEALTH A CuRsE.-Mr. Benjamin
w. Greene, who recently killed his wife
and attempted to kill himself, at Hartford,
Conn, is about CT years Of age, and quite
wealthy, his resources probably amounting
to $l75, 600 and his yearly income to about
$4,000. Notwithstanding this. he has for
some months past seemed to tie in a state of
mental arrangement, and had . constant
fear Of poverty. His mind has been in
troubled, worried state, so that his physic-
ians have told him that he must travel or 90
to the retreat. He has refused to travel be
cause he could not afford it. He has been
harsh an tyranical in his family for scmc
years. ard has upbraided his wife and
daughters for what he called their cxtrava-
gance-though they simply lived in style
betting his means and their social position.
lie wanted to sell his fine house, saying lie
could not afford to live IN it. His wife has
told him that If it was true that they were
poor, she would consent to the sale Of the
house, but it was not true, and she and
other friends have tried to dis el the pow
erty monomania with which he has been af
!iicted. In fact, though worried with the
fear Of poverty, he has every year added
to his large fortune. To all
efforts Of his friends to induce him
to travel, he replied that he was too
poor.
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