The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-29
THE WHISKY PEOPLE.
Plan Whereby They Hope to Accomplish
Their Object.

Their Object.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, March 28.-The whisky men
have not given up all hope because of their de-
feat yesterday They still think there is a
chance to secure the relief they desire through
the passage of House bill No. 21S2, which bears
the apparently innocent little title, ga bill to
consolidate the internal and customs collection
districts in each State and Territory and for
other purposes" This measure, which will be
pushed at once by the friends of the bonded
period extension scheme, provides that after the
Both day of June next, all internal revenue and
customs districts as they now exist in
each State and Territory, shall be consolidated
into one district After prescribing the num-
Der and duties of the officials to be employed
together with the compensation that shall be
paid, the meaning of the words ''other pur-
poses," in the title of the bill, is discovered
Section Breads
THAT the tax all distilled spirits hereafter en-
tered for deposit in dstiery warehouse in special
bonded warehouse remaining in such warehouse
at the time of the passage of this act shall be pay
able before and at the time the same withdrawn
theretrom, except in of Withdrawals therefrom
without payment OF tax, as now authorized by law.
The bill was introduced by Representative
scheme of consolidation of the customs and in
ternal revenue districts, which is made to APP
pear as the main purpose of the BILL will win to
its support number of votes that would not
otherwise favor the measure The whisky men
are quietly at work organizing their forces, and
they will endeavor to rush the bill through with
out allowing their opponents sufficient opportu-
nifty to thoroughly master it's contents.
THE MAN WHO KILLED THE BILL
"Well, said a, Kentucky member, this morn
ing, you may expect cheap drinks from this
time The whisky bill was so badly killed
that we have not yet had an opportunity to
catch our breaths Great heaven! What have
our friends done for usl Do you know who
killed the billl 1t is Hewitt and
Blackburn who ostensibly favored it.
Governor Long, of Massachusetts,, hit us
severe blow, but when Hewitt spoke of alcohol
as raw material and his hope that the tax
would be abolished entirely he played Brutus on
us to perfection. That speech drove away at
least twenty five votes, and yet he spoke in favor
of the bill"
''What will be the result from your point of
viewl"
'The result will be that the whisky market
will for short time be dull, with very low
prices ruling. But it will recover, and some men
who have plenty of capital to buy will
make fortune, provided the tax is not abol-
| ished"
"Then you do not anticipate any great disas-
ter. The ruin and wretchedness which you pre-
dicted will not come" ,e.,5f,s IT, s...
oh that was merely fguratiye, allegorical
| speaking. OF course some of the distllers will
be squeezed little, and the banks in the whisky
districts may lose few dollars; but, on the
whole no one will suffer great deal You may
put money on the statement, however, that for
the next two years the production of whisky will
| decrease to an alarming extent"