Washington sentinel., 1900-12-22

the amendment offered by the gentle
man from Missouri [AIr. BartholdtI.
The question being taken, the
Chairman announced that the noes
| appeared TO have it,
Mr. BARTHOLDT and Mr.. SHAT
! IUC demanded a division.
| The committee divided and there
were-ayes "A, noes 119.
Mr.. BARIHOLDT and Mr.. FITZ-
| GERALD of Massach usetts demanded
| tellers.
Telers were ordered. and +ba
! Chairman appointed Mr.. PAYNE and
| Mr.. BarthOldt.
The committee again divided; and
130
So the amendment to the amend
ment offered by Mr., Bartholdt was re-
! jeCted.
Mr.. PAYNE. I call for a vote on
| my amendment.
The CHAIRMAN. The question
now is on the amendment offered bv
| Paynel.
Mr.. SULzER. Mr.. Chairman, just a
| Few words on this question. / am in
favor Of entirely repeating the addi-
IlohdI war taxes on beer. But 1 sup
port the amendment offered by the
gentleman from Nevada Mr.. New
lands |, and l practically concur in ALI
that he said regarding it. No one
who is fair and just, and who does
not want to inequitably discriminate
against one industry in favor Of an
other, can possibly object to the
adoption of the amendment offered
by the gentleman from Nevada.
If this amendment were adopted.
the brp iuur fuJrref1-y- v,-,,,v1I
the Treasury of the Government from
torty-eight TO fifty million dollars a
year, or more than oue-third Of an
the revenue intended and expected to p
he raised under the bill proposed by
the gentleman from New York TWr.
Payne. The Republican party, it
seems, does not intend to keep faith
with the brewers. 1t is the old story.
We have just Witnessed in this Hall
q spectacle that will be long remem-
hered 10y those oppressed, and which
should be discussed from one end of
this land TO the other by people en-
gagged i'm the beer business, and that
is that the Republican members Of
this House almost unanimously either
voted against the amendment Of the
gentleman from Nevada Mr.. New
lands to reduce the tax on beer to
Sl2O q barrel and against the amend
ment offered by the gentleman from
Missouri Mr.. Bartholdtl to reduce
the tax to $50 barrel or refrained
from voting at all. A little help from
the Republicans anL tE- amendment
would have been adopted. What a
spectacle of deception and hypocrisy
these votes display!
DO you imagine you can again sue
cessfully deceive the brewers OF this
country The brewers of the coun-
try now know how the Republican
party has betrayed them. They have
not forgotten your promises in the
last campaign, and / believe you will
not get as much help from them in
the coming campaigns as you did in
the last. If the brewers respond
again 20 your cries for campaign
funds, they are more foolish than I
imagine, and deserve to be robbed.
Let me say here that during the re-
cent campaign the Republican speak
ers i'm my district-and I doubt not in
others-told the people that If the
Republicans were returned to power
they would repeal this additional tax
Of 81 q barrel on beer. What a differ
ence between now and thenl What
difference between promise and per-
formancel The way you have voted
here to-day on this question will not
be forgotten, You have broken your
I-'N'tr 80 -'-ANA 'DN-N HAeoeA--A@'v ia IcAA
promises.
Mr.. Chairman, 1 want to reiterate
that the brewing industry is being
un Justly and unnecessarily taxed. The
Republicans are driving to the wall
the people engaged in this industry,
and the business is being harassed,
oppressed, and destroyed by taxation
that practically means cOntiscation.
And yet, sir, the Republican party
win have the temerity-the brazen
eHrontery- the next campaign
to go to the brewers and their friends
and ask for contributions to elect its
members to Congress. I trust the
brewers will not forget the vote here
to-day
L hope that when the Republicans
go to the brewers for campaign con-
tributious they viii be met with the
record you have made here to-day.
Applause. And I am inclined to be-
lieye that hereafter if Republican
speakers tell the people that the Re-
publican party is in favor of repeal
ing this additional war tax on beer
they win be hooted into silence and
laughed from the platform. Laugh
ter. You can fool some of the brew
ers all the time, and all the brewers
some of the time, but you can not
fool all the brewers all the time.
LApplause.l
Here the hammer fell
Mr.. PAYNE. / move that all de-
bate on this section and the amend
ments be concluded in five minutes.
Mr.. RICHARDSON of Tennessee.
Make it ten minutes. l want two or
three minutes.
Mr.. PAYNE. Very well; make it
ten minutes.
The CHAIRMAN The gentleman
from New York Mr. Payne moves
that all debate on this section and
amendments thereto be closed in ten
minutes
Mr.. CORLISS. Before that motion
is put, L ask that the amendment
which L desire 20 offer be read
Mr.. PAYNE. The amendment will
be i'm order anyway.
The CHAIRMAN. This will not cut
oil the right to offer amendments.
Mr.. DAVIDSON. Mr.. Chairman, a
parliamentary inquiry.
The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman
will state it.
Mr.. DAVIDSON. VIII there be any
other opportunity to discuss any 9TH
cr amendments proposed to this Sec
ton?
The CHAIRMAN. Not if this mo-
tiou is adopted.
The motion Of Mr.. Payne was
agreed TO.
Mr.. CORLISS. lGr. Chairman, l de-
sire TO offer an amendment, and ask
unanimous consent that 10 be made a
part of the amendment offered by the
chairman of the committee
The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will
report the amendment.
The Clerk read as follows: