Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-05-24
Proposal to Erect a Complete
Brewery at the Column
bian Fair.
Reports Presented on LegisIa-
tion, Prohibition. and Polit-
iCaI Matters.

The United States Brewers Associa-
tion began its thirteeuth annual CON
vention at Washington ON Wednesday.
There We're present about 2l2 dele
gates from all parts of the United
States, representing approximately
Sl95, 200, 600 invested capital Mr.. T.
}. Leiens, of Chicago, Chairman of the
association, presided, and in his open
ing address, said
81 am glad to be able to state that our
trade and our interests as brewers are
in more hopeful state than they were
a year ago At the time of oar last
meeting our minds were burdoned, not
alone with the reports OF the great
calamity which had Just then befallen
the State of Pennsylvania in the Johns
town disaster, but we were also af-
fected by the uncertainty of the out
come of the election. then shortly to be
held in that State, which offered one
of the most important opportunities to
confirm or reject legislation affecting
the personal rights of the people. !
am glad to state, what is known to you
already, that The people of Pennsyl-
yania have refused to make fifty out of n
hundred the dictators for the remaining
fifty, as to what they should eat and
drink You will learn, however, from
the reports to be read to you, that by
no means has the time come when we
can relax our vigilance. Before clos
ing / would enlist your attention TO
the subject of representation of our
trade at the Worlds Fair, to be held
in 1898. 1t has seemed to be desirable
that our trade should be fully repre-
sentcd by a collective exhibit embrac-
ing a complete brewery and showing
the whole process Of making beer.
This would necessitate the erection of
special building, etc. | hoped you
would be agreeable to the suggestion
and appoint a committee with liberal
powers to take action at the earliest
opportunity"
ONE or THE IMPORTANT REPORTS
read was that of the Board of Trus-
tees In its report the board says:
"Therc never was time in the whole
history of the association when so
many attempts have been made to in
iure the brewing industry by means
which do not require the sanction Of
the people and would not obtain it if
they could be submitted to vote.
The bill for the appointment of n com
mission for the investigation of the
liquor traffic, which had been adverse
~ reported upon so often, was again
introduced in Congress and urged with
extraordinary persistency on the part
Of our opponents The present board
would have opposed the pending mea s-
ure outright, had they not been as
sured by competent judges that the
chances Of passing said bill were very
great. and that it would be unwise not
to do all that was possible in order 10
render the bill less obnoxious, by hav
ing it amended in manner promising
a fair, impartial, and competent iuyes-
tigation. With this object in view
your trustee. caused 10 bc submitted
20 the Committee ou Alcoholic Liquor
Traffic protest against that part o
the bin which provides that ther,
+ shall bc appointed a commission Of h,,
persons. not an Of hom shalt be- AL
,ocatos of prubIbitoy liquor laws
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