The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-04-01

ment, which had been
:. ~. DUN defeated In the COM
mittee BY vote Of Il to 6. The test
vote was forced Under the liberalized
rules by 145 petitioners. ,-
On call of the roll, 227 members
voted against the motion, 1S7. for 1t,
and there were IS not voting. Follow
ing the custom, Speaker Garner did
not vote The strength shown by the
vets was greater even than many Of
them had expected and they were cor
respondingiy jubilant. Their cause
had gained 50 votes since the house
voted December II, 1917, to submit
the Eighteenth amendment.
Beck and Linthicum, co-authors Of
the resolution. declared the dght was
all but won and that all that was
needed was one more election. Mr..
Beck said: "This vote makes 1t plain
that If the Republican party adopts
a dry platform in June 1t will court
disaster He predicted 1t would not
be necessary to walt for the meeting
Of the next congress for action to
modify the dry law, believing that
this congress at the session next win
ter, as direct result Of the Novem-
Der election. will submit the anti-pro-
hibition amendment.
Leaders of the drys, for their part,
though admitting wet gains, declared
they were undismayed. calling atten-
tion to the fact that the vets were
still far from having the necessary
two-thirds majority.
Both sides, in the Republican party,
have been hoping that President Hoo
yer would declare himself, but there
was nothing to indicate that he would
depart from his neutrality In the pre-
convention contest. close associate
of the President was quoted as saying
Mr.. Hoover has not changed his be-
lief that the country is still preponder-
antly dry.
Representative Fred Britten Of ILL.,
nois introduced in the house bill
for repeal of the Jones five and ten"
law which stiffened the penalties for
violation of the Volstead act.
nEBATE on the billion dollar rev.
II enue bill continued in the house
throughout the week, and the OPP
p0nents Of the sales tax sought to
form themselves into a bloc. Their
determined fight against this big fea-
ture Of the measure at least resulted
In changes, for the ways and means
committee agreed to accept an amend
ment emitting certain canned goods and
press kilograms from the list Of articles
upon which a 2.25 per cent sales tax
Is proposed. The committee also was
considering amendments exempting
cheap clothing, electricity used for ir-
rigation projects and radio company
leased wires.
Prospects for adoption of the sales
tax were lessened in mid-week when
leaders Of organized labor and Of the
farmers came out in opposition to 1t.
William Green, president Of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor. declared
.'labor viii call on its friends In con-
gress to defeat that section Of the
taxation measure; and Fred Brenck-
man Of the National Grange said I'M
position of the sales tax would meet
1.-THE unqualified disapproyal Of the
p, goo people upon the farms of
this country"
Should the bill substantially as II
stands get through the house, its sales
tax feature will face strong opposition
in the senate. A group Of senator's Is
ready to junk it, these including the
men who are classed as progressive
Republicans. Some Of the more lib
eral Democrats want a substitute bill
providing for selective sales taxation
and possibly for increased surtaxes
on incomes above 100000. The
house surtax is 40 per cent from $780,
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