The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-20
ALDR|CH PREPARES TO
!. HARM ALCOHOL BILL
Rhode Island Senator = Plans
Amendment That Friends
>,.s Will Bitterly Oppose. D.'
BY w. w. Jermane.

Washington, May Ex-senator AL
drich Will be back in the senate on Ions
day, and indications are that the sub.
committee in charge of the free alcohol
bill will get down to work, and report
it to the. senate within the next ten
days. It is probable that Aldrich, aided
by Hale and other republicans on the
committee, who are at heart I'M
friendly to the bill, will be able to tack
on some amendments obnoxious to
friends Of the proposed legislation. :, : a.,
Those. who have kept in touch with
the sentiment expressed by members Of
the committee expect that at least three
defer the time, when the new law shall
go into operation for one year, instead
of three months, as proposed in the
house bill. A second change will be the
imposition Of a tax Of from l to 5 cents
a gallon on the denatured product, and
a third will provide that distilleries
shall have minimum capacity of 500
gallons. Some other changes may be
made, but their nature has not been in
dicated up to this time.
Pin Faith on House. .'t
Friends of the bill are anxious to
have it put thru the senate and go to
conference, where it can be perfected.
AS soon as the bill is reported. they will
begin an agitation for the rejection Of
the second and third amendments
overwhelming sentiment in the house to
defeat them. This does not mean that
they will not put up fight against the
amendments in the senate, for they will
not abandon their efforts to have the
original house bill passed, with the pos
sible acceptance of the first amendment
putting off the time when the law shall
go into effect.
Representative Marshall said today
| that he was confident that the bill
| would become law at this session. AT
ter it's passage and approval by the
! president, the hard work on it will not
stop, however. but the exertions will
then be transferred to the treasury de
PARTNER in" an endeavor to secure
| the adoption Of, workable regulations
under which the law may be admins
| tered. .f,'v. - :..,.
+, III Revenue Folk Timid. .. $780,.
Much depends upon the character Of
these regulations, and there. are indi
cations that the commissioner. of in
ternal revenue ts and secretary of tn
ton, because it deals with an entirel,
new product, and one which will be
come an important factor in the admin
istration Of internal revenue affairs.
Great reliance: will be: placed upo1
the president at this stage of the pro
ceedings. All the facts will be place,
before him SO that he may be we'll in
formed, and it is expected that~he will
lend his aid in securing the adoption O
regulations that will not be burdensom
upon the producers of sdenatured ta1co
hol. @E** - >% - -
In anticipation Of early action by tn
senate finance committee Mr.. Marshal
land others have been gathering NOR
information on the cost of productio,
Of pure alcohol. Today Mr.. Marshal
exhibited two invoices sof shipments o
alcoholism barrel lots, showing that pur
alcohol,. 18s proof, was. sold. at fro1
: II to- 81 cents a gallon, Testimony o
J the export price of gasolene also ha
been gathered, showing it to be fro1
8 to 8 cents gallon now, which show
, the immense profit of the Standard. O.
company from this one item. .s,.e.