Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-04
The Silver Debate in the
Senate.
Pugh and Farwell Voice Their
Sentiments.
Passage of an Amendment to the In
ternal Revenue Law.
Contested Election Gases on Deck in the
House-McDufie VS.. Turpin-Mil-
ler VS.. Elliott.
Associated Press Dispatches.


and referred were resolutions from the
Louisiana legislature extending thanks
to congress and the president for relief
afforded sufferers during the late floods.
The senate bill for preventing the
adulteration OF food and drugs was re-
ported and placed on the calendar.
The resolution offered yesterday by
Edmunds for an investigation by the
committee on fisheries into the charges
of mismanagement of the fish commits
sioner's office, was taken up, and after
discussion laid over.
The committee on education and
labor reported the senate bill to provide
for the obligatory attendance at school
of children in Alaska, and the senate
bill without recommendation to
organize bureaus of information relating
to employment, occupation and means
of livelihood. Placed on the calendar.
The silver bill was taken up, and
Pugh addressed the senate. His speech
was largely devoted to criticism OF the
tariff bill.
Internal Revenue Law Amended.
At the conclusion of Pugh's speech
the silver bill was temporarily laid aside
and the following senate bill was taken
from the calendar and passed:
To amend a section OF the revised
statutes SO as to make it read: "Any
person who withdraws any fermented
liquor from any hogshead, barrel or keg,
or other vessel, upon which the proper
stamp has not been affixed, for the pur-
pose of bottling the same, or who carries
on the business of bottling fermented
liquor in any brewery or other place in
which fermented liquors. made, or upon
any premises having communication
with brewery or warehouse, shall be
liable to fine of $500, and the property
used in such bottling or business shall
be liable to forfeiture. Provided, how
ever, that this section shall not be con-
strued to prevent the withdrawal and
transfer of fermented liquors from any
of the vats in brewery, by way of a
building or place for the sole purpose of
bottling the same; such pipe line or
conduit to be constructed and operated
under such rules and regulations as shall
be prescribed by the commissioner of
internal revenue, subject to the approval
of the secretary of the treasury;
and all locks and seals prescribed shall
be provided by the commissioner OF in
ternal revenue at the expense OF the
United States. Provided, further, that
the tax imposed in section $3.50, revised
statutes, shall be paid on all fermented
LIQUOR removed from brewery to bot
ting house by means OF pipe or con-
duit at the time of such removal by can
collation. and DETACHMENT, by the collec--
tor of the district, OF the number OF
stamps denoting the tax on the fer-
mented liquors thus removed. Stamps
thus Cancelled and defaced shall be dis
posed of and accounted for in the man.
ner directed bv the commissioner of in
ternal revenue, with the approval OF the
secretary of the treasury, and violation
of the rules and regulations hereafter
prescribed by the commissioner OF in
ternal revenue, with the approval OF the
secretary of the treasury, in pursuance
of these provisions, shall be subject to
the penalties above provided by this
section. Every agent, owner or superln-
tendent of any brewery or bottllng-
house who removes or connlves at the
removal of any fermented liquor through
a pipe line or conduit without the pay
ment of the tax thereon, or who at
tempts to defraud the revenue as above,
shall forfeit all liquors made by and Tor
him and all utensils and apparatus used
in making the same"
To provide for the expectation OF fer
mented liquor in bond without the pay
ment of internal revenue tax, the bill
provides that from and after January,
1891, fermented liquor may be removed
from the place of manufacture or storage
for export to a foreign country, without
the payment of tax, in such packages,
,,nIor cr1oh rQnI1latInnS and nnOn
giving such notice of entries, bonds and
other security as the commissioner OF
internal revenue, with the approval OF
the secretary of the treasury, may from
time to time prescribe and no draw back
of tax shall be allowed on fermented
liquor exported on and after January. 1,
1891, unless entered for expectation prior
to such date.
Farwen Speaks on Silver.
The silver bill was again taken up, and
Farwell addressed the senate. He de-
clared himself in full accord with the
purposes of the bill, but said he was in
favor of going still further. He would
use for money all the silver offered, and
not stipulated sum as provided for In
the bill, and he would coin it at its mar.
ket value. If the price of silver should
duNdHCS W pdl w lbh SOiNi Neso WI
of the bill claimed it would, then free
coinage would come as matter o1
course. What objection could there
be, he asked, to putting into the
silver dollar one hundred cents worth
of silver. Two other things were neces-
sary; the national bank system should
be preserved, and the sub-treasury sys-
tenn abolished. When these measures
were adopted the people could get all
the money they needed. The issuing by
the government, under the pending bill,
of treasury notes with silver bullion be-
hind them as security, furnished cir,
culation that was absolutely sale and
could not be redundant, and would still
supply the monthly retirement OF the
national bank currency. The national
bank system should be perpetuated by
substituting other bonds than United
States bonds, to secure their circulation.
The people would then utilize all the
best bonds of the country and would
procure such circulation as the busi-
ness of the country demanded. The
treasury notes to be issued under the
bill would add largely to the cir
culatinp medium He did not think