The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-03-24
XII CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, March II

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which was made the special order for
to morrow. Thelbiil appropriates 81
424, 900. /
SHARP TALK ABOUT WHISKY.
Mr.. Dawes Rad. Mass, from the
same committee, reported ajoint res
olutiOn to supply omissions in thee en-
rollment of sone.of the general APP
preparation bills Of last session. One
of them requires the owners of bon
ded warehouses to reimburse to the
Government the salaries of storekeep
ers, &c. s --r .I-..F
The question being on the passage
of the joint resolution.
" Nj. Beck, Dem. KY, argued against
the bonded warehouse proposition.
Mi. Butler, Rad. Mass, explained
andadvOcated the proposition, which,
he said, had been unanimously agreed
upon by the Committee of COnference
al 3o'cIeck on the morning of the 4th
of March, and which vas at that hour
the law of the land; but it being q
matter which took 8 million and a
half of dollars ont of the pockets of
the WHISKY dealers, of course the pro-
vision dropped out in the enrolment
Ofthe bill. He did not know whom to
blame. Zee
Mr.. Washburne, Rad. Wis, asked
Mr.. Butler whether he meant to
charge that it was omitted Intention
ally. ara l=rs. l-
Mr. Butler, in reply, cited the anec-
dOte of the fool who told the miller
that he knew that millers' hogs were
always fat, but he did not know on
whose corn they were fattened. Here
wa a whole section fairly written out,
and yet omitted in the enrolment OF
the bill. raE -.-.. s
Mr. Washburne remarked that 1t
was a very serious matter. If an en-
rollment clerk were guilty of that Of
fence, il should be known, and he no.
ped the gentleman from Massachu-
sets would take means to have it
made known. r-E--a-F PIP
Mr.. Butler said he did not know
who was responsible for it. He was
informed that 1t was an accident
which had happened over and over
again in former Congresses, He did
not think it proper to discuss the mer-
IFS of the question now, 1t had been
the law, but either through accident
or blunder, or something worse, the
law had been altered. . I'd a-rE
Mr. Schenek, Rad. Ohio, defended
the enrolling clerk from any imputa-
ton on his Integrity. The principal
enrolling clerk, whom he knew to be
a most worthy officer, had Informed
him that he and the other clerks had
been working for forty consecutive
hours and were completely exhausted
when the conference report of this
particular appropriation bill was sent
to them from which to make up the
several items in enrolling It. The
report, as presented to them, was
confused, and difficult to be under
stood, and, hence the clause in ques-
ton had been overlooked. He Mr..
Sehenck) had no knowledge of any
such item being in the bill, but he
undertook to say, from his knowledge
of the principal enrolling clerk, that
he was incapable of having design
eddy omitted anything proper to be
inserted IN a bill by any member of
the House, no matter who. He pro-
tested against ali such legislation in
Appropriation bills, and argued par
tcularly against returning to the sys-
tenn which had been tried and aban-
doned, of making inspectors the crea-
lures and tools of distillerS.
MI. Butler held up the manuscript
of the Conference Committee, and
called attention to the omitted para
graph, which he said was anderson
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commented upon the fact that oppo-
sitiOn TO the resolution came from the
Chairman Of the Committee on Ways
and Means; from the gentleman from
Kentucky Mr.. Beck), who represen-
ted one of the largest disabling dist
riots in the United States, and from
the Hartman of the Committee on
Enrolled Bills +IMr. Holmanl, who
had madea point of order on it, and
whose d3ty it was to see the bill was
properly enrolled. Hia
Nj. Schenck explained how easily
such a mistake might have been made
without impUting any improper de-
sign, and remarked that, 81 far IS he
knew of the officers of the House and
the members of the Committee on
Enrolled Bills, they We're at least as
little likely TO attempt to commit a
fraud on anybody as the gentleman
from Massachusetts. The gentleman
might talk about the necessity of i'm
| posing more and more taxation on
distilled spirits and tobacco, bur all
he had to say was that Congress had
fixed what that taxation was to be-
The people would know by the gen.
| eraI system oftaxation how much tax
is charged on whisky, and how, much
on tobacco, and not have to go to APP
preparation bills to find out what ad,
ditionaf burdens are imposed on those
articles. $500 9 81
Mr.. Holman, Dem. Ind, replied to
the remark of Mr.. Butler affecting
him, and said that the suggestion was
entirely unworty- of any gentleman
occ1pylng aseat 1.-THE floor. 1t was
the first time in his experience that
any gentleman had thought proper to
couple such q mistake with the pre-
sumption or the ns1nuation that by
any possibility it-might have been
the result or design thus to defeat the
will of Congress by corrupt dealings
In the enrolment or an act. He did
not know bywhat authority, by what
command OF position, the gentleman
from Massachusetts INDUCED in such
tnSinuation. The estimation was not
Ouiv false, but it could only have been
suggested by d Willingness to perpe-
trate just such g. fraud on the iegisia:
ton of the country. -sF
mfr. Dawes remarked that the Com.
mittee on Appro priatIons had looked
Into the matter, and had found no &C.
Pcasion to intimate any lack Of integri-
ty on the part Of any officer of the
House connected with the enrolment
| of bills. .5r4
Mr.. Knott, Dem, Ky, argued that
the proposition to impose additional
burdens en- the Manufacture OF whis-
ky and tobacco was bad taste on the
Mr.. Lynch, Rad. me, moved to
amend the paragraph by making it
apply only to Internal Revenue bon-
ded warehouses. Mr., Lynch explain.
ed that the omitted paragraph was in
tended to apply onlyTto Internal Rev
enue bonded warehouses;, but that ats
language was broad enough TO make
IL applicable to custom warehouses. 9
Mr.. Schenck proposed, when the
House WIS called upon to correct q
thunder Of q clerk, to correct also q
blunder in legislation. Such a pro,
vision should not have been put in an
appropriation BILL The reduction of
the tax on whisky had worked well,
and should not be affected in such q
way. Last year the tax had produced
STA, COO, 900, but now 1t was producing
at the rate of Sc, 1000. 600 a year. The
government, therefore, could wei af-
ford to pay its officers to do its own
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