LEGALISED BEER
U.S. SENATE TO VOTE FUNDS FOR PUBLIC WORKS San Francisco Press Broadcast. WASHINGTON, May 17. For the first time since national prohibition the Senate will express itself to-morrow on a proposal to legalise beer. An agreement was reached- tonight to vote before 2 p.m. on a plan by Senator Tydings (Democrat), of Maryland, for a 1,500,000,000-dollar public works programme, to be financed by legalising 2.75 per cent, beer and tsxing it 24 cents a gallon.
The Marylander proposed it as an amendment to the 1,000,000,000-dollar Revenue Bill, and in a two-hour speech urged its adoption ns a means of forestalling suffering and want among the unemployed next winter.
A powerful bi-partisan coalition drove the Revenue Bill far along its course to-day in the Senate, and kept, intact the complex provisions, approved by tho Senate Finance Committee.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 117, 20 May 1932, Page 7
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