People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — FOR A HIGHER TAX ON BEER. [ARTICLE]

FOR A HIGHER TAX ON BEER.

Proposed Amendment Favored by a Majority in the Senate. Washington, May 27.—Tariff and finance each came in for a share of consideration in the senate Tuesday. Early in the day Mr. Sherman succeeded in having the filled-cheese bill taken up, whereupon Mr. Dubois (rep., Idaho) offered an amendment adding 75 cents per barrel to the tax on beer. Mr. Sherman opposed the amendment as a skillful means to defeat the cheese bill, which was in no sense a general revenue bill. He moved to table the amendment, which was defeated. At 2 o’clock the cheese bill with beer amendment pending was laid aside, Mr. Sherman announcing that he would call it up as soon as the bond bill was disposed of. The house by a vote of 165 to 69 passed the bill for the repeal of section 61 of the present tariff lAw, providing for a rebate on alchohol used in arts or medicinal compounds.