Evening star., 1932-05-18
ITS Per Cent Measure Lost
After Bingham Fails to
Raise Limit.
CURTIS RAPS FOR ORDER
AS SPECTATORS LEAVE
Fight Expected Next on Excluding
Tariffs From Bill-House Beer
Vote Due Monday.

The Senate today refused to legalize
beer. The vote rejecting ATS per cent
beer was 81 to "a.
The first Senate roll calls for beer
since prohibition brought overwhelming
defeat.
The main vote was on an amendment
by Senator Tydings Democrat, Mary
land) to the revenue bill to legalize
2.75 beer and tax it "a cents a gallon
to help finance a $1,500,000, 900 public
construction program.
Bingham Plan Rejected.
Just previously the Senate had turned
down, 60 to 20. proposal by Bingham
Republican, Connecticut) to alter the
Tydings amendment to make 1t allow
4 per cent alcoholic content.
Eleven Democrats voted with II Re
publicans for the Bingham per cent
amendment.
The Republicans were: Barbour, Bing-
ham, Blaine, Davis, Glenn, Kean, La
Toilette, Metcalf, Moses, Oddie, Reed
and Walcott.
Democrats were: Broussard, Bulow,
Coolidge, Copeland, Hawes, Lewis, Long,
Tydings, Wagner, Walsh of MasSachu-
sets and Wheeler.
House Vote Due Monday.
Over in the House a vote will be had
Monday on whether the OConnor-Hull
bill to levy a tax of cents a pint on
beer of 2.75 per cent alcoholic content
by volume will be taken up for con-
kideration.
Indications are the vote will be
heavier than that there on the Cullen
beer amendment to the revenue bill,
which was defeated, ZIG to 1872. Exact
" las members signed petition to dis
charge the House Ways and Means
Committee from consideration Of the
OConnor- Hull bill About 80 more have
indicated they will vote for 1t.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, of MasSa-
chusetts, had opened today's debate for
the Tydings amendment, saying it was
means of helping finance a 81 ,50O,0 ,00O,-
600 public construction bond issue.
The Massachusetts, Senator said the
recent elections had showed sentiment
changing rapidly on prohibition, and
this amendment offers an opportunity
for those who believe the time has come
for modification of the Volstead act to
register their position"
Stresses Revenue Needs.
He emphasized also the Treasury
would receive a large sum Of money
from source that has been recognized
as less burdensome" than other taxes
proposed.
The prohibitionists. confident of their
strength, left practically all the talking
to the beer advocates. Only a handful
of the -prohibitionists listened to
the debate which dragged slowly.
Senator Broussard, Democrat, OF
Louisiana, challenged statement last
night by Senator Sheppard, Democrat,
of Texas. co-author of the eighteenth
amendment, that Senators who voted
for the Tydings amendment would be
violating their oath to support the Con-
stitution
The amendment is not in violation
of the eighteenth amendment, but in
direct accord with It," Broussard said.
He told the Senate he proposed a S
per cent beer law in 1921 which many
Senators supported who were In the
Senate when the prohibition amend
ment was adopted. including some of
those who voted for the amendment.
The first reply from the drys today
was made by Senator Sheppard, who
said Congress had adopted the one-half
of per cent definition Of intoxicating
liquor before the Volstead act was
passed.
Immediately after the decision on
beer, the controversy over including
tariffs in the bill was expected to break
loose. 1t Is considered probably the
most troublesome issue involved in the
whole bill, with only the sales tax
threatening to rival it.
Todays roll call brought the first
vote In Congress on beer since nation
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