LEGAL U.S.A. LIQUOR
Proposed Quality ■LIKE WEAK TEA! (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) WASHINGTON, December 6. Legislation to legalise and tax the sale of 2.75 beer and wines was drafted to-day by the Chairman (Air Janies Collier) of the House Ways and Means t'ommittcc, as a basis for the hearings, beginning to-morrow. Mr Collier explained that the alcoh)li( percent age sei was chosen simp'y as ;i basis on which Io work. Il will br for tho committee to determine the content desirable. The same is true of the tax rate. He added that his Bill would levy live dollar.'- per barrel on beer, ami twenty cents per gallon on natural grape wines without the addition 'of distilled spirits. Only a majority is required in the House, and the Senate, to enact su-.h a measure, as compared with the twothirds vote needed for the- approval of a. constitutional amendment, such as that rejected on Alonday.
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Grey River Argus, 8 December 1932, Page 5
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