Evening star., 1932-05-23
0'Connor-HuII Measure to
Levy Tax of 3 Cents a
Pint Defeated.
VETS HAD CLAIMED
CONSIDERABLE STRENGTH
One Member Votes present.
Ballot Is on Motion to Dis.
charge Committee.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Beer raised its head again In the
House today only to be knocked down.
By vote Of 228 to 1863 the House
defeated a motion to discharge the
Ways and Means Committee from
further consideration ot the O'Connor-
Hull bill leganzing 275 per cent beer
ana leVying a tax Of cents a pint
on the beverage. One member voted
present"
The vote as announced by the
Speaker did not reveal the to.al strength
within the House of either the vets or
The drys. Approximately a dozen mem
oers OF the House who would have
voted wet and an equal number who
would have voted dry. were reported
pared or absent on account of illness.
change Of 30 votes from the dry
SIDE to the wet side in the House to-
Gay would have given the beer bill a
victory.
The roll call of those who voted to
discharge the Ways and Means Com
mittee from consideration of the bill
follows:
Democrats-Arnold, Auf der Heide,
Beam, Black, Bloom, Boland, Drummer,
Suchanan; Canfield, Carley, Celler.
Chavez, Cochran of Missouri. Cole of
Maryland. Condor, Connery, Crosser,
Grove, Crump, Cullen, Delaney, De
Rouen, Dickstein, Dieterich, Douglas of
Arizona, Douglass of Massachusetts,
Drewry, Evans Of Montana, Fernandez,
fitzpatrick, Gambrill, Gavagan, Gran
fleld, Griffin, Griswold, Haines, Ham
cock Of North Carolina, Harlan, Hart,
Howard, 1goe, Jacobson. Karch, Kelly
Of Illinois, Kemp. Kennedy. Kiaebere.
kunz. Larrabee, Lewis, Lightenwalner.
Lindsay, Linthicum, Lonergan, McCor-
mack. Mcmillan, Major, Maloney.
Mansfield, Martin of Oregon, May.
Mead. Montet, Norton of New Jersey.
O'Connor. Oliver of New York, over.
ton. Palmisano, Pettengill, Prall, Reilly,
Rogers Of New Hampshire, Rudd, Sab
| ath, Schuetz, Shannon, Sirovich,
Somers, Spence Stewart, Sullivan of
New York, Sutphin, Sweeney, Terney,
Williams Of Missouri.
Republicans-Aldrich, Amlie Ander-
sen, Andrews Of Massachusetts,, Andrews
OF New York, Arentz. Bacharach. Bach
mann, Bacon, Baldridge Beck, Boileau.
Bolton. Britten, Brlmm, Burdick, Camp
bell OF Pennsylvania, Carter Of Cali
fornia, Carter of Wyoming, Cavicchia,
Chlndblom. Clancy, Connolly, Cooke,
Curry, Darrow, De Priest, Doutrich.
J Dyer, Eaton Of New Jersey Englebright'
Elk, EStep, Fish, FoSS, Freeman, Gif-
ford, Colder. Goss, Hancock of New
York, Hartley, Hess. Hollister, Holmes,
Horr, William E. Hull, James, John
son OF South Dakota, Kading, Kahn,
knutson, LaGuardia, Lehlbach, Loot
oourow. Mcleod, Mas, Martin of Mas
sachusetts. Millard, Niedrinhaus. Per-
son, Pittenger, Ruth Pratt, RAMSEY,
Schafer, Schneider, Seger, STAFFORD.
Stokes, Sullivan of Pennsylvania, Tilscn.
Imkhar. Treadway, Turpin. Watson,
| WEIGH, White, Whitley, Wigglesworth.
| Withrow, Wolcott. Wolfenden, Wolver.
ton, Wood Of Indiana.
Farmer-Labor-Kval
The bill came before the House as a
result of petition signed by las mem
bers to discharge the Ways and Means
Committee from further consideration
OF the measure.
O'Connor Makes Plea.
Representative O'Connor. speaking in
support OF the bill, appealed to all men,
bers OF the House. wet and dry, to vote
to discharge the committee, so the beer
bill might be actually laid before the
House fer consideration.
Under rules Of the House, a majority
vote is necessary to discharge a COM
r1ittee and lay bill before the House.
Surely" said Mr.. OConnor, there
is sufficient demand throughout the
country from the people in every part
to entitle them to real consideration
of the bill on its merit. I, therefore,
submit to your fairness in approaching
this vote not to be frightened by the
W. c. T. U. or other similar organiza-
tionS who have swarmed like locusts
In the House Office Building during the
last few weeks to intimidate members
by saying they would interpret vote
to discharge as wet vote"
Mr.. O'Connor told the House his
beer bill would raise about $500 0o0,-
600 revenue year.
THE United States Of America" he
said stands today as the only nation
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