Show Senators Praise and Attack Tax on Measure Would Create Waste and Crime Sheppard Sheppard Shep Shep- pard Declares Dr my United Press WASHINGTON April 5 Senator 5 Senator Morris Sheppard Dem Tex author author author au au- au- au thor of the eighteenth amendment and its staunchest suppo supporter ier in the upper chamber believes a tax on beer would create waste and crime He is confident that efforts of senate senate sen zen ate to legalize beer through the tax bill will be more decisively defeated than they were in the house The wets vets could not get more than 24 votes voles for their petition and I doubt very seriously whether they can muster muster muster mus mus- ter that many for a beer tax Sheppard Sheppard Sheppard Shep Shep- pard said He was referring to the senate petition for a vote on the 4 per er cent beer bill which Senator Bingham Rep Conn introduced before the tax measure came up Not all of those are in favor of legalizing beer by means of a tax measure TAX UNTHINKABLE LE LEThe The tax itself is unthinkable the short wiry Texan continued shaking his ils tinged gray pompadour There can cnn only be so much employment employment em- em for every thousand of dollars dollars dol- dol lars ars of capital engaged in industry The money which would finance the production reduction o 01 beer would be taken from rom properly productive capital In effect the tax would be a tax on waste and crime and would create create create cre cre- ate the very waste and crime which it t sought to tax It would be a recognition recognition recognition rec rec- of crime When you ou think of the mone money it would take from the public to pay this his tax the proposition is even more unthinkable To raise a tax of I you would have to sell 1 worth of beer a a wasteful and injurious product RETURN TOO SMALL The people would have to spend in order to give the government in revenue All this money would have to come from rom sources from which it might otherwise flow low into channels of ot constructive constructive con- con production It would deprive deprive derive de- de rive workmen o of jobs in other fields to o create comparatively few jobs in ina a wasteful field There is not enough public sentiment sentiment senti senti- ment or political sentiment back of the he proposal to give it any standing before con congress ress No there will be no beer eer tax i Levy Means U U. U S 5 Gain at Bootleggers' Bootleggers Expense Bingham Thinks en B Br United Press WASHINGTON April 5 Senator 5 Bingham Rep Conn told the United United United Unit Unit- ed Press toda today that tha t the federal gov nt could take t revenue out of the pockets of the thel bootleggers by legalizing 4 per cent beer beerI I am amazed Bin Bingham said althe at al atthe atthe the reluctance of congress to resort to beer for revenue purposes Here are two bodies of a great congress faced with a tremendous financial I problem At one stroke they could raise half a billion dollars on beer I which would be perfectly legal under the constitution and at the same time eliminate a large part of the taxation I burden which otherwise must be im ira- im-I im pose posed I Beer offers the most reasonable and equitable means of o raising large revenue It would not take the mone money from the pockets of the poor or even the rich That would come from the pockets of the bootlegger bootlegger bootlegger boot boot- legger by diminishing his business It is true Bingham continued that there is but small chance that congress will follow a wise course with respect to beer But I shall not refuse to work for a cause merely for the reason that the fight is just beginning fix It would not be necessary to any new beer taxes The They are a holdover holdover holdover hold hold- over at 5 or 6 a barrel from rom pre- pre days That rate amounts to about 2 cents a pint bottle and it would raise for the federal federal fed fed- eral treasur treasury The amendment I propose to lo offer oer merely would change the act by making it effective only on beverages beverages beverages bev bev- containing more than 4 per percent percent percent cent of o alcohol |