PURE BEER, WINE OR CIDER.
Mr. LINE'S bill 8see page 25 of these reports-being read the third time-
Mr. L. said: The only amendment to the law of 1859 is that this bill simply permits persons to sell unadulterated beer, native wine and cider without license.
Mr. RAY. I am opposed to the bill because our present law is bad enough and it would be unjust to the whisky sellers that have paid for their license to plant hundreds of little lager beer and adulterated wine saloons around them, to debauch the community still worse than it now is. Whisky shops are bad enough when held under strict responsibility, but when you give a loose rein to whisky shops under such a bill as this, you might as well abolish all law, and give them a free right to the track.
Mr. NEWCOMB. I coincide with the remarks made by the gentleman from Shelby, [Mr. Ray.] We have a law which is satisfactory to the people. I move, as a test now of the sense of the Senate, to re-commit, with instructions to amend by providing that a license may be granted for the sale of pure beer, wine and cider, for half the price now charged.
Mr. LINE. I hope the Senate will not consent to refer the bill, but will take the question fairly upon it as it is.
On motion by Mr. LANDERS, the bill and pending instructions were laid on the table by yeas 26, nays 10.
[Leave of absence was obtained for Mr. Mellett during the week.]
[Mr. Wilson's bill 17-see page 3O of these Reports-being read the third time, Mr. MARCH called attention to the fact that this bill was laid upon the table in accordance with a recommendation of the Judiciary Committee[see page 193 of these Reports.] The Secretary's record being against him, on his motion the bill was laid on the table.]
