Show ti u. u So s SENATE IS SCENE OF DRY DEBATE Bingham Beer Bill Amendment Amendment Amend Amend- ment Excites Ire of Brookhart of Iowa By Associated Press Pren V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Jan 7 7 Prohibition p tion debate between Republican Senators Senators Sen Sen- Brookhart of Iowa and Bingham of Connecticut today engaged senate attention I Bingham started the row by Introducing introducing intro Intro- I dueing an on amendment to his 4 per percent perI I cen cent t beer bill biU restricting the use of I the beverage to sales in hotels and andI I restaurants He mentioned that The Crusaders an art organization organization organization organ organ- favored it Brookhart a militant prohibitionist prohibition prohibition- complained that the Crusaders arc assuming a Christian title for an unchristian purpose TAX TRANSFER EXPECTED In addition shouted the Iowan lowan the purpose of these beer bills Is to transfer the income taxes from the big taxpayers to the laborers and common common cornmon com corn mon people If we could legalize 4 per cent beer returned Bingham we would produce a market for the farmers of the state of the senator from Iowa for bushels of grain Moreover Moreover Moreover More More- over the people who like to drink beer would have no objection to paying paying paying pay pay- ing a small tax to help meet our tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre deficit I r doubt replied Brookhart if the senator from Connecticut ever saw a farm If Il he had he would know that bushels of grain rain is an infinitesimal amount of the farmers' farmers output Pierre S. S Du Pont told a senate committee if we could get beer back it would save in m taxes from his company and transfer them to the common people Yet Pierre S. S Du Pont runs a n dry factory and wont won't hire a wet to work for him Previously Brookhart claimed before before before be be- fore the senate that the prohibition poll taken by Chairman Raskob of the Democratic national committee was a dry victory Brookhart said Mr Raskob sent letters letters letters let let- to contributors to the Democratic Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- campaign fund of 1928 in promoting some kind of a wet program program pro pro- gram but he received replies from only |