Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-10-17
fective liquor law:

The error found I'm the new high license law
yesterday was nothing to the blunders that
have been discovered to-day. All the newly
found errors in Section i, the most vital
section of the bill, because it prescribes this
amount the saloon-keepers and wholesalers
shall pay in liquor taxes The high license bill
was banded back and forth between the House
and Senate several times and was referred to
two conference committees. The report OF the
last committees was adopted and the remodeled
bill became u statute. Yet Section OF the act
in the form in which it was signed by the Cover
nor and is now a law differs radically from the
bill passed by the Legislature. The act as
signed and printed fixes the wholesale tax OH
spirituous liquors at $780, instead OF 5000, as
recommended by the conference committee
and agreed to. The license for selling both
spirituous and malt liquors at wholesale and
retail appears at 81 900, instead OF 81, 100 as
passed The Senate adopted a provi sion allow
ing wholesalers of spir tuous liquors also to
wholesale malt liquors without additional
license. The Conference Committee struck this
out vet IL Is retained in the law. Owing to this
blunder dealers can wholesale spirituous and
malt liquors on payment OF only $500 license,
while the act as passed by the Legislature re.
quired 5000 for spirituous and $500 for malt
liquors, or 81, 100 in all. The clause increasing
the retail tax from $500 to $500 was In the mutt
lated section and il Is believed that the saloons
can force the State to go back to the old $500
tax law or else knock out the tax feature en-
tirely.
The Rev. William Dave, pastor of
Tabernacle Methodist Church, says De-
troit dispatch, and one of the most prom
inent temperance workers in the State,
has Just returned from n six months So
journ in Germany, and brings back with
him some advanced views on the temper
ance question-views that may make him
trouble in his church. To local news
paper Mr.. Dave said:
When went abroad 1 had preconceived no.
| tions that the Germans were bloated, drunken
people whose strength was rapidly being wasted
In riotous living. L thought that beer drinking
was the greatest sin of the ages leading TO
| stronger liquors and bringing ruin to all.
have changed my mind. While in Germany L
| saw no drunkenness except among English
| speaking people. The beer gardens, as far as
| saw them we're respectable and entertaining,
and well behaved as a large church supper
| or a prohibition picnic. Families sit down
| together and spend their evening amid foun-
| tains, lovely flowers and enhancing music, and
| return TO their homes as orderly as any people
| from social gathering In this country the
use of liquors is a curse, but In Germany 1t Is
| different
Mrs. Henry Rice, living near Lansing,
hanged herself from a rafter in the wood
shed. The rafter was four feet from the
fioor-she used q clothesline, and drew
her knees up from the ground. She
leaves six children. The cause is sup
posed to have been jealousy.
The Grand Jury at Detroit has re-
turned an indictment against Alderman
James Tierney, who Is accused of accept
ing bribe of SO for the award of con.
tract for sewer-building in 1888. Tierney
has long posed as the honest Alderman.