The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-27
Time Honored Positions OF Re-
pubIicans and Democrats
Reversed In Relation to the
Liquor Traffic.
REYENUETAX ON BEER
Bitterly Opposed By Most Re
publican Senators.
Sherman Calls 1t ssUsefuI and
Comfortable Drink .

Washington. May 27.-Tarin and I'm
ance each came in for a share Of con
sideration in the senate today. Early
in the day Mr.. Sherman succeeded in
having the filled cheese bill taken up,
whereupon Mr. Dubois CRep., Idaho)
offered an amendment adding Is cents
per barrel to the tax on beer. The
senator said his amendment was in
tended to test the sincerity of senators
who expressed the patriotic desire to
aid the treasury by raising more reve-
nue.. Mr.. Sherman opposed the amend
ment as a skillfu1 means to defeat the
cheese bill. His motion to table the
Dubois amendment was defeated, yeas
25, nays 80. On the question of adopt
ing the amendment the debate became
general Senators Mills and Gray sup
porting and Nelson, AIdrich and Villas
opposing it.
The bill and pending beer amendment
We're displaced at 2 o'clock by the bond
bill, which was advocated by Mr..
Pritchard CISep., N. CD and opposed by
Mr. Lindsay CDem-, Ky.)-
A bill was passed TO pension at SIS
month the widow OF General George
Spencer at one time, United States
Senator from Alabama.
Mr.. Thurston, in view of his depart
ures owing to the sickness in his fam
ilys defined his position on a number
OF important pending measures. viz.
Favorable to the election of Senators
by the people to the bill amending the
law for punishment for contempt of
court, to the filed cheese BILL and op-
posed to the Dill prohibiting the issue
Of bonds. As to the last measure, Mr.
ThurstOn explained that his opposition
was not due to the principle Of the bill
which he might approve at another
time, but he thought it was too late in
the session to withhold from the ad-
ministratfon the means OF avoiding a
mono tary crisis.
a FHa p
taken UP Mr.. Dubois (Rep. Idaho) Of
fered an amendment to the cheese bill
placing an additional tax of rs cents
per barrel on beer, porter and ale.
In supporting the amendment Mr.
Dubois said it offered an opportunity
to Mr.. Sherman to execute the patriotic
purposes he had recently expressed
without resOrting to the Dingley tariff
bill, an unjust, unsatisfactory sec
tional bill, which cannot pass the SEN
ate" That bill was a trap, transpar-
ent and unfair"
This beer amendment would yield
5000 600 additional revenue, Mr.. Du-
bois said Senators could accept this
or else quit posing before the country
as the only patriots"
Mr. Sherman replied briefly, urging
that this was a move to cripple the
cheese bill which was in no sense a
general revenue bill. Thirty million of
revenue already was raised from that
very useful and comfortable drink and
he ksoLGI1lla4J LAAOQEAl the CONSUMERS OF
beer paid about enough. He moved to
table the beer amendment which mo-
ton was defeated, yeas %; nays go as
follows:
Yeas: Republicans-Aldrich. Allison,
Baker. Burrows, Cullom, Davis. Calm
ger, Hawley. Mitchell COre..) Morrill,
Nelson, Perkins, Plat. Quay Sewen,
Sherman, shOup and Wilson'S
mocrats-CockriI, Hill, Mitchell,
"a
tai rs.
Nays-Republicans- Cannon.
Carter, Dubois, Hansbrough, Pettigrew,
Teller
Democrats-Bacon, Bate. Berry, CAT
ferry Chiffon, Daniel, Faulkner Gray
Harris. Jones (Ark), Lindsay. Mills
Morgan, Pugh, Roach, Vest, Walthan
Whites POpulists-Allen, Butler
Kyle, PETER. Stewart Total 80.
The refusal to table created some
thing of a stir through the senate.
Mr.. Villas opposed the amendment.
Paying the tax on beer fell on the poor
Mr.. Mills Dem, Tex, supported the
amendment and pointed out that the
opposition came from senators who sup
ticles Of food used by the poor
Mr. Aldrlch CRep., r. -, expressed
qualification that the Demoeratic party,
had, by the vote just given. placed it.
self on record in favor of a high beer
tax. 1t had been generally supposed
that the brewers Of the country sup
ported the Democratic party, not only
by their vote but in a more substantial
way. and in return for this help, the
party offered a heavy beer tax.
Mr. Nelson (Rep., Mimi, deprecated
the movement to inject the tariff or
silver questions into this meritorious
bin, against fraudulent cheese.