The evening times., 1896-05-26
SHERMAN IS n the NlI
Opposes an Additional Tax on
Barrels Of Beer.
SENATE TOOK NO ACTION
Mr. Dubois Amendment to the Filled
Cheese Bill Was Considered-Aao-
tiOn to Lay 1t on the Table Defeated.
Mr.. Buffers Bond Biil Wns Next
Taken Up. ---

The Pension Committee reported back to
the Senate today the vetoed pension Dill
Of F. E Hoover. with arecommendatientha
1t be passed, Notwithstanding the objections
Of the President.
A bill to give Mrs. Spencer, widow OF
Gen. and ex-senator Spencer, of Ala
bama, a pensionof $75 month was passed.
Unanimous consent was asked by Mr.
Sherman to take up the filled cheese bill,
but objection was made by Mr.. Harris, who
said that no agreement could be made
about that bill.
The request for unanimous consent was
tbereupon changed by Mr.. Sherman into
motion to take up the bill, and that mo-
ton was agreed to-yeas, SO; nays, IA.
Mr.. Thurston, promising that he was com-
pelled, on account OF illness in his family
to leave the city, was permitted to state
his position on the various pending meas
ures He would, he said, support the filled
cheese bill; the proposition for popular
election OF United States Senators and the
bill as to contempt cases.
He should have supported the prohibit
ory bond bill IL it had come in at time
when there was reasonable opportunity
given for further legislation on the sub
iect. But at this late hour OF the session.
and with the appa rent impossibility OF such
further legislation. IL would, he believed.
create too great danger to withdraw frum
the administration any power to provide
for q monetary crisis between now and
the next session of Congress. He did not
believe it wise to ieopa rdize, at this time.
the credit of the United States BY the pass
age OF the bond bill.
FILLED CHEESE BILL.
The filled cheese bill was then taken up
and an amendment was Offered to it by
Mr. Dubois, TO impose an additional tax
of 10 cents a barrel on beer. He advocated
the amendment in remarks criticising the
attitude OF Mr.. Sherman and other Senators
in posing before the country as the only
patriots aud the only men who were anxious
to raise revenue for the government.
The Senator from Ohio had said that it
would be a disgrace and infamy to the SEN
ate If il adjourned without providing addi-
tional revenue; but, when sifted down;
that Senator would have additional revenue
provided only through the Dingley biil-an
unjust, unfair, sectional measure. which
could not pass the Senate. This amend
ment. however, would bring in about S25.-
0o0, 900 q year-about enough to make up
the difference between the government re-
ceipts and expenditures.
Mr.. Sherman said that he would not
answer the remarks OF tie Senator from
Idaho. He thought, however, that beer.
that useful and comfortable drink" paid
a pretty heavy tax now, In contributing
S1n n fn ~ IJ,
appealed to Senators to pass the filled
cheese bill, in the interest OF the farmers
of all sections. For himself, he would
not even vote for the Dingiey bill as an
amendment TO 1t. He moved to lay the
amendment on the table.
DEFEATED THE MOTION.
The Senate refused to lay the amendment
on the table by vote Of yeas 90; nays so.
The amendment being before the Senate,
Ar. Villas opposed it, declaring that il Sen
ators desired To kill the meritorious bili-a
bill to prevent the constant and continued
perpetration of Injurious and shameful
fraud upon farmers the adoption OF the
Amendment was very skillful means to
defeat it utterly and entirely.
The present tar on beer was much greater
now than the tax on it in war times: and,
no matter what might be thought OF the
use of beer, the truth was that the classes
which used it were the large, laboring,
hard-working, wage-carning classes of the
community.
Mr. Dubois referred to the situation as q
ludicrous one. Senators were ceDsured be-
cause they would not agree to raise reve-
nue.: but those who expressed their disgust
-h.,
in their own way.
In other words" said Mr.. Gray, ''ihey
are in favor OF revenue, but are opposed
TO levying taxes"
Yes" Mr.. Dubois assented, "they are
IN favor OF revenue, but they want to get
1t only in their own ma nner."
Mr.. Mills advocated the amendment.
aud criticised the position of Mr.. Villas
The bill, he said, was intended to destroy
competition; ii was intended as a burden
| on the people. He referred to the remark
Of cheap goods making cheap men,"
once made by Mr. Mckinley; the man who,
he said. was now leading bis great party
| into the woods"
Mr.. Aldrich professed to be glad to learn
| that Mr.. Mills was In favor OF increasing
the tax on beer. and recalled the fact that
| n the Mills tariff bill reported some years
ago, and the Wiison-Gorman-B Brice tariff
bill there was no such proposi ton.