, 1880-05-02
| WASHINGTON.
The Whisky Tax Question
Again Dwelt Upon in
the House,
And Several Fervid Temper
ance Lectures Are In
dulged In.
Gen. Garfield Forced to Admit His
Opposition to Eree Print
Paper.
Tariff Reforms to Be Attempted
BY the Ways and Means
Committee.
Important Decision on the SUBJ
ject Of National Bank
Reserves.
The Substitution Of legal-Ten-
ders for Bonds Fully
Authorized.
More Slippery Transactions Traced
to the Door Of the Man
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TEMPERANCE.
IT'S APOSTLES IN TIE HOUSE.
Special Dispatch to Ihs Chicago Tribune.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 1.-The temperance
question was discussed incidentally In the
House to-day In the debate on Carlisie's In
tcrnal ReCenuo bill. The Leading advocates OF
Temperance we're as usual confined to the Re-
publican side, but the discussion has shown that
there are two districts in the South that can
boast Of temperance apostle Price, Of Iowa,
true to his Quaker appearance, insisted that the
Government should not recognize, as it now
does, the sale Of Intoxicating liquors, and to q
protest from Mcs1ahon that it would not do to
kill the goose that lays the golden cgg,
Price said that in lien Of the whisky
tax he would be willing to have q.
tax law upon bank deposits and even upon fn-
comes Finding Price US temperance apostle
willing to 60 50 far, McMahon had no remedy
but to declare that the objection to whisky
drinking was based upon false sentimentali-
tt, and that temperance men were paudertng to
FALSE PREJUDICE,
a statement which may hereafter be Of some
service to McMahon in the grog-shops OF
Dayton.
Updegrafr, Of Iowa,-for Iowa IS the banner
temperance State In nCongress,-denounced In
temperance, and intimated to a Southern.
member that the ravages OF yellow-ferer}
in Memphis might be attributed to the manu-
facture Of whisky. 70 this Casey Young,
who represents Memphis, sardonlcally replied
that, though many had been taken by that fell
destroyer. the whisky dtstillers were still alive
Conger. not to be left behind BY the temperance
army, took Barber, Of Chicago, to task for hnv-
Ing urged the passage of the Carlisle bill be-
cause certain distillers in Peoria and Boston
wanted to have it passed. and he asked what
had become Of tho thousands Of petitions against
intempcrance. Singleton, OF Illinois, made q
very p1thetic attempt in behalf or the class
which he characterized as
POOR FARMERS.
He wanted an amendment adopted which would
permit them to d1stilI their OWL brandy from
fruits that would otherwise be wasted, and he
drew vivid picture Of the comfort which poor
farmers would derive beneath the shadows OF
their own STILLS singlcton's appeal was not suo-
cessful-
Haskell, Of Kansas, said. that the poetic
dream Of the Illinois farmer Congressman,
with its vision Of the poor man beneath bis own
vine and flg-tree, would not be realized, and that
the amendment instead would turn every farm
er into moonshiner aud would allow every old
woman to
FILL her WAsuTUBs WITH WHISKY,
her milk with applejack, turn her husband
into drunkard, and make colporteur OF him
to get his ncighbors drunk.
The debate upon the bill was not concluded,
although Conger's first amendment, which pro-
posed to charge 8 per cent interest on unpaid
taxes dating from the expiration Of one year,
was defeated
The House seems disposed to make no amend
ments to the bill which has been SO carefully
considered, aud to pass It as 1t came from tho
Committee.
Gen. Garfield rose in the House this afternoon
to personal explanation which he claimed Was
demanded In the interests Of truth He sent to
the Clerks desk to be read a. circular which IS
said to hare been sent by the advertising firm
Of Ro.ell 8; Co., OF New York, to various news
papers, in which it Was stated that Gen. Garfield
was in great measure responsible for
tho failure Of the Ways md Means Com
mittee to report a bill placing rood pulp
on the free list, and consequently Garfield was
Instrumental In maintaining the high duty On
printing paper. nthe forcibie manner charac-
teristic OF Garleld's debates he stated that he
was but one Of a minority Of five, and that a MI
nority could not prevent the LEGISLATION which
the Committee wished to enact But to direct
question Of Mr. Frost, of Missouri, whether he
was in favor OF reducing the duty on pulp and
Paper Garfield said. 1.-THE duty on paper
anu a1 Pu.p s',4 ott.r ar+ic,o. !.
Ine average outy ou otu1. =. 49,. 20
Is per cent I am willing TO feduce t1uot a8
low as posstb1e) without Gripping our American
tndustrv- hut further than that I am not will
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1t will be for the PUBLIC TO oete8M1ne a1teF
this statement whether the Roweu circular, to
tbe effect TINT Garfield Is opposed to plac1ur
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