The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-19
SENATORS TO
GET ANOTHER
VOTE ON BEER
Bingham $6-a-BarreI Tax
Proposal to Come Up
After Tariff Debate.
TYDINGS PLAN DEFEATED
TWenty-Four Vote for
Amendment, Gain of Nine
Vets in Roll Call.
BY LEO r. SACK
Times StaG Writer

WASHINGTON, May ls.-The
senate will have another chance
and possibly two or three, to legal
lie beer for revenue raising pur-
poses.
When the oil, coal and copper
tariffs, now before the senate are
disposed Of, Senator Hiram Binq-
ham (Rep., Comm will bring nm
his amendment, which eliminates
several OF the So-called nuisance
taxes and substitutes a IS a barrel
tax on 4 per cent beer.
Bingham estimates his amend
ment will raise a minimum of s375.-
100000 annually. aside from
providing diversified employment
throughout the country for more
than $4,000 men, and increasing
markets for grain, coal and other
commodities.
Should Binghams amendment
fail, the senate then may be called
upon to vote for a straight out 2.75
per cent or per cent beer amend
ment, without any legislative en-
tangling alliances such as char
acterized Senator Willard Tydines
amendment, which was defeated.
81 to "a, Wednesday.
Tydings VIII Try Again
Senator Tydings Dem, Md said
today he would offer his beer tax
bond issue plan again, as an amend
ment to the hunger relief bill.
At least three senators who voted
against Tydings Wednesday have in
dicated they will vote for a straight
away bill to legalize beer. They
are James z. Watson. Indiana: Da-
vid A. Reed, Pennsylvania, and
George H. Moses. New Hampshire,
all Republican leaders.
Reed voted for Bingham's 4 per
cent amendment to the original
Tydings plan. ....
He announced that had the
amended TydingS proposal carried.
he would then have moved TO strike
out the $l,500.000,000 public works
program, in order to let per cent
beer stand alone.
Il am for beer and against the
public works proposal" Reed ex-
planned. This, also, was why Moses
voted first for the Bingham amend
ment, and later against the Ty-
dings plan.
Watson informed newspaper men
he will vote for a straight-out beer
amendment.
Twenty-fOur Vote for Amendment
Twenty-four senators voted for
the Tydings amendment as follows:
Republicans 0e) - Barbour. Bingham.
Blaine, Cutting. Davis. Glenn. Kean,
La Toilette. MeteaIf. eddie, shortridKe and
WaIcott.
Democrats u2)-Bcoussard. Bulow, Cool
idEe. Copeland. HAYES. Lewis, Long, Pitt
man, TydinEs. Wagner, Walsh (sfass.) and
Wheeler.
Had Buckley Oem., Ohio been
present he would have voted for
beer.
Other absent senators Wednesday
included Schall and Shipstead of
Minnesota, who had general" pairs
with Democratic senators. Had
they been present it is believed they
would have voted for beer, because
they are now regarded as opponents
of the present prohibition laws.
Senator Arthur Robinson of In
diana voted against the amend
ment.
The roll call showed a gain of
nine wet votes over the last pre-
vious senate prohibition roll call
on Jan. 81, when only fifteen sena-
tors voted for the Bingham resoIu-
ton inviting referenda in the sew
eral states.
Await Chicago Action
Then only Barbour, Bingham,
Blaine, Buckley, Coolidge, Copeland,
Glenn, Kean, La Toilette, Lewis.
Oddie, Tydings, Wagner, Walsh
CMass) and Walcott upheld Bing-
ham.
The impression prevails in the
senate that many senators are
awaiting prohibition action at the
Chicago conventions
before switching from their present
bone-dry mornings.
This group includes some of
the sixteen who are candidates for
reelection this year as follows:
Barley, Kentucky; Brookhart,
Iowa; Caraway, Arkansas; Fletcher,
Florida; George, Georgia; Hayden,
Arizona; Jones Washington; Nc
Gill, Kansas; Morrison, North
Carolina; Norbeck, South Dakota:
Nye, North Dakota; Smith, South
Carolina; Smoot, Utah: Stejwer,