Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-25

quality, fast pressing upon frances best
productions, and commencing to re-
ceive that recognition abroad;
AND WHEREAS, Wise and fostering
laws, and their equal and Just admins
tration, will reenit in building up
California's wine productions to
q great National Importance,
possibly equaling, before the close of the
century, frances maximum production
of 1874, viz: $500, ,000, 900 gallons.
AND WHEREAS, The letter of General
Vandever, member of Congress from the
Sixth Congressional District of Califor-
mia, to Hon. ]. DeBarth Shorb. and
printed in the Los Angeles HERALD of
September IS, 1889, land appended to
this report, shows that trust, COM
posed of whiskey and spirit manufacturers
of the East, and known generally as the
"Whiskey Ring" have by their own Pc
culiar methods apparently dominated the
administration of the Bureau of Inter-
nal Revenue and named nearly all the
appointees of said bureau, in order that
their monopoly might be maintained,
petition Herewith might be crushed.
AMI w hEhhA5S 4uO buCC056 Va bnC
California wine interest means the ex-
clusion of the adulterated foreign con-
coctions and the cutting off of the for
eign buyers and adulterators from the
purchase of spirits, the product of the
Whiskey Ring.
AND WHEREAS, The said Ring has of
late grown more potential in power in
ordering and directing the Bureau of In.
ternal Revenue and its officers, causing
said officers to inaugurate a war of exter-
mination against the wine men Of this
State,
AND WHEREAS, The instinct of free
dom, still pervading the American peo.
pie, revolts against unnecessary and per-
sistent interference with their avocstions
by the Federal Government, and more
particularly against domiciliary visits
| by day and night of hired spies Of said
| Bureau to detect some technical viola
ton Of an incomprehensible and unjust
law, or Of the regulations of said Bureau,
which are constantly being changed at
the dictation of the Whiskey Ring agents
and which are made unc0nstituai0nally
the law of the land;
AND WHEREAS. The recent letter of our
Representative, Hon. VIM. Vandever, on
this subject, has set forth the iniquities
of said Bureau and it's autocratic misuse
Of power, giving to this subject a National
significance;
AND WHEREAS, The sub agents of the
Bureau are not supposed TO act except
under instructions from their chiefs, who
are therefore directly responsible for the
state of affairs now crushing to death oul
vineyard interests; therefore,
Be 1t Resolved by this Chamber, That
our Representatives in the United States
Senate and Congress, as guardians of the
interests of their State in and out OF Con.
grese, be requested forthwith to demand
from the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue and the present
Administration that the internal
revenue officers of this State be
ordered to discontinue forthwith theil
acts of hostility and repression against
the wine interest of California, or to
cause their instant removal.
And, Further Resolved, That other
Chambers and Boards of Trade through.
out the State be requested to adopt simi
lar resolutions;
And, Further Resolved, That copy oi
these resolutions be spread on the min.
utes of this Chamber and copy of the
same be sent to the President and his
Cabinet officers, the Commissioner oi
Internal Revenue, and all our Represent
stives and those of other States and Ter.
ritories, and to all trade and industrial
bodies throughout the country.
| The board adopted the resolutions and
instructed the Secretary to carry out the
provisions therein at once.
Chas. A. Baskerville. Notary Public
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