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the price of whisky is to increase its
consumption enormously.

Iue price Vi WHISKY Is W luCrtdSo lto
enormously.
ISSUE WITH BLAINE.
Kelly, of Pennsylvania, took issue with
Blaine on this statement, and said that
when Blaine comes home and finds that
the supreme bodies of moralsts and the
thousands and thousands of women,
united in the VIC. T. u, are demand
ing the repeal of the spirit tax. he will
say: "I am ready to admit that formed
an erroneous opinion, but now | will la
Dor with you heart and SOUL"
Brewer said Blaine would find that
ninety per cent. of the Republicans of
the country were in hearty accord with
the views expressed in his letter.
Wilson, of Minnesota, supposed that
the body of moralists referred to was that
body which sat at Chicago and declared
in favor of removing the tax from whisky
and brandy, rather than from the
blankets of the people.
Milliken believed the views enunciated
by Blaine would be his views when he
returned to this country.
Perkins, Of Kansas, addressed himself
to denial of the charge that the Repub-
licans were in favor of free whisky, and
to show what he termed the audacity Of
the charge, he stated that when the Re.
publican party came into power it found
calico selling at Is cents a yard and
whisky at 20 cents a gallon, and that
when it went out of power twenty-five
years afterward, it left calico selling at
cents yarG and whisky taxed nearly
81 gallon.
Gallinger, of New Hampshire, said il
| the Republican party was for free whisky
so was the Prohibition party and so was
the w. G. T. U. He was in favor of the
repeal of internal taxation rather than
| destroy the tariff law. On that issue the
| Republican party proposed to go to the
people of the country in November ext
and on that issue it proposed SO elecI
Harrison and Morton.
| DUTCH COURAGE.
Wilson, of West Virginia, suggested
that the Republican party in Chicago
had become drunk over the Oregon elec
ton and that the platform was the result
Of Dutch courage. When that courage
evaporated the Republicans came bach
and attempted to say that the platform
did not mean what in black and white i
put on record.
SnoWden's amendment was then re
| jected by A to 70. Warner, of Missouri
offered an amendment providing that the
special tax on wholesale and retail IDEAL
ers in oleomargarine shall be $40 and 81
respectively. Rejected.
Adams, of Illinois, and Butterworth, o
Ohio, criticised as opening the way fol
the evasion of the payment of the whisky
tax, the provision authorizing the Secre
tary of the Treasury in his discretion t.
| lo1lnn dIofillorioo oochinn 1occ fhov
twenty-five bushels of grain day, to b,
opefated without storekeepers ant
!, gaugers.
Butterworth moved to strike out tn
clause. The motion was lost by 73 to 96
: amendment providing for drawback Of
sweet wines for export. Lost.
ment reducing the bonded period 70
!; whisky to one year. Lost.
| Lawler, Of Illinois, offered an amend
ment to abolish the tax on oleomarga
rine. Rejected, to 10l.
LAST SECTION OF THE BILL.
The last section of the bill was thel
read, and on motion of Bynum, of In
diana, the date upon which the bill shal
! go into effect was fixed at October /
1888.
) The Committee then rose. There hav
) been a few paragraphs OF the bill passe,
over Informally and their consideration
will be proceeded with tomorrow.
The vote on the final passage of tn
bill will not be taken until Saturday
} when it is expected there will be full
} attendance Of members. Mr.. Mills state,
!: that he will call the previous question OF
the passage of the bill at IL 80 Saturda
morning.
/ The House then took recess until
O'Clock, the evening session to be for tn
consideration of bills reported from tn
Committee on Commerce.