The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-27

fered an amendment adding rs 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 rev.
enue.
Mr. Sherman opposed the amendment
as a Skillful means to defeat the cheese
bill. His motion to table the Dubois
amendment was defeated-yeas %, nays
80. On the question of adopting the
amendment, the debate became general,
Senators Mills and Gray supporting
! and Nelson, Aldrich and Villas opposing
it. The bill and the pending beer
amendment were displaced at 2 O'clock
by the bond BILL which was advocated
by Mr.. Pritchard (Rep., N. c. and OPP
posed by Mr. Lindsay Dem, Ky)
A bin was passed to pension at $75
per month the widow of General
George Spencer, at one time United
States senator from Alabama.
WHERE HE IS AT.
| Mr.. Thurston, in view of his depart
ture, owing to the sickness in his fam
| lily, defined his position on 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 filled cheese bill, and op-
posed to the bill prohibiting the issue
of bonds. AS to the last measure, Mr..
| Thurston explained that his opposition
was not due to the principle of the
Din, which he might approve at another
! time, but he felt it was too late in the
| session to withhold from the admins
| tration the means of avoiding a none
f, tary crisis.
AS soon as the filled cheese bill was
taken up, Mr.. Dubois offered an amend
ment to the cheese bill, placing an ad-
| diitional tax of Is 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 patri-
otto purposes he had recently expressed
without resorting to the Dingley tariff
bill, an unjust, unsa tisfactory section
al bill which cannot pass the senate"
THIS BILL WAS A TRAP.
transparent and unfair. This beer
amendment would yield $25, 600, 900 ad-
| dftional revenue, Mr.. Dubois said; SEN
! ators could accept this. or else quit
| posing before the country as the only
| PATRIOTS
Mr.. SHERMAN Rep., Ohio 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 com
Portable drink and he (Sherman)
| thought the consumers of beer paid
about enough. He moved to table the
! beer amendment, which motion was
! defeated-yeas %, nays 80, as follows:
Yeas-Republicans Aldrich, Allison,
Baker, Burrows, Cuflom, Davis, Gal
| Hnger, Hawley, Mitchell (Ore.) Morrill,,
| Nelson, Perkins. Platt Quay, Sewell.
! Sherman, Shoup and Wilson'S. Dem
ocrats: Cockerell, Hin, Mitchell, Pal
mer, Pascoe, Turpie, Vifas-7. Total
rs.
neutrality-suspicious. Brown, Cannon,
Carter, Dubois, Hansbrough, Petit
! grew Teller. Democrats: Bacon,
Bate, Berry, Caffery, Chiffon, Daniel,
| Faulkner, Gray, Harris, Jones ark,
Lindsay, Mills Morgan, Pugh, Roach,
Best, Walthall, Whites. Populists
Allen, Butler, Kyle, PETER, Stewart
Total-30.
CREATED A STIR. =
The refusal to table created some
thing of a stir through the senate.
Mr.. Villas opposed the amendment
saying that the tax on beer fell on the
consumer, wage earning. hard work
ing class.
Mr. Dubois said senators acclaimed
for more revenue. He denied that this
| would place a great burden on the con-
sumner of beer. Beer was cheap, two
glasses for cents, and the price would
not raise.
Mr.. Mills Gem., Tex.) supported the
beer amendment, and pointed out that
the opposition came from senators who
supported a greater tax on cheese, an
article of food used by the poor
Mr.. Aldrich Rep., R. - expressed
qualification that the Democratic par
'ty had, by the vote just given, placed
itself on record in favor of a high beer
tax. 1t had been generally supposed
that the brewers of the country
SUPPORTED THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY,
not only by their votes, but in a more
substantial way, and in return for this
help the party offered a heavy beer
tax.
Mr. Nelson (Rep., Minn.) deprecated
the movement to inject the tariff or sill
yer question into this meritorious bill
against fraudulent cheese.
Mr. Gray Dem, Del.) said the cheese
bill was confessedly not to raise rev.
enue; that the beer amendment was
most opportune to make the bin what
it purported to be-a revenue matter.
At o'clock the cheese bill, with the
beer amendment pending, was laid
aside. Mr.. Sherman announced that
he would call it up as soon as the bond
bill was disposed of
ISSUE OF BONDS.
Mr. Pritchard Rep., N. c. spoke in
opposition to the issue of bonds in the
time of peace.
Mr.. Lindsay Dem, KY opposed the
bond bill While he did not regard it
as an act of Reputation, yet he be-
lieved it would lead to the suspension
of specie payment within sixty days
from the time of its adoption.
The bond bill was then laid aside
Mr.. Stewart pop, Nev.) asked that
the financial report of Secretary Carl
isle in 1878 be printed as document,
but Messrs. Lindsay, Aldrich and Plat
objected to it as antiquated.
The final conference report on the
legislative, executive and judicial bill
was agreed to.
A partial conference report on the
sundry bill was agreed to, the remain
ing items, including public buildings,
being sent back to conference.
At 6:10 the senate held a brief exc
cutive session and then adjourned.