THE MERIT IN THE BILL SECRET HISTORY JASSAGE OF THE LICENSE LA Ww, OF THE HIGH Boodle Toler a Billiard Table The passage of the Brooks high license bill, the operation of which is Just now causing disway to thousands of liquor dealers, wus n suprise even { the temperance men who advoented the measure, and just how the bill was passed in face of vhe tremendous influences. social, financial and polite cul, which were brought against it iss mystery yet to whe great body of the people, The inside history of that impor- tant legislation was yesterday untold- ed to a reporter for the Zimes hy a8 mem ber fthe General Assembly, who has legislative ceedings for many years. He said : You mast understand in the place that the whiskey men and the beer men of the liquor never agreed. The vast and ever io- creasing consumption of lager beer to the detriment of the whisky dealers «created a jealousy on the part of ihe latter which ulimately resulted in the passage of the high bill, 1 may say that it has not turned out as was expected and from present ap- pearances the distiller and wholesale liquor dealer will be hit much hsrder by the operations of the bill than wil! the brewers. Of course they will all be hurt, bat it looks to me as if the whiskey crowd have had legislation passed which must of necessity drive lots of them out of bring them down to a materially re. duced trade and immense loss of busi- ness, a little Ister on. THE ‘ MERIT’ OF THE BILL. It is necessary tor you to know, if you do not know it already, that the last Legislature gave greater chances for the turning of an by the members than any that preceeded it for years. There were a number of legislators—uvo name, if you please—who were ready at all times to be coavioced that was io any bill it it was properly placed before them. In fa:t, there was hardly any piece of legislation of any importance brought up which did been in the swim of pro- first trade have license business or else But we will speak of the results hovest penny b as “merit” not bring out an eager search for the “merit” that might be in it. The boys were fur the ‘werit’ every time | and they generally found ir. It was the ‘merit’ which the whiskey men produced at the proper time | that passed the Brooks’ high license bill and it was the bungling manver io which the ‘merit’ of was handled that prevented its defeat. The whiskey men wanted the bill and the brewers did not, and the wou, Why? Simply the liquor end thought that if the license fee was fixed at $500 the smaller beer saloous could pot live, and with their closing there would he a large increase in whiskey drinking. THE BIG WHISKEY POOL. Of course there were mauy legisia- the brewers because tors who were conscientiously in favor of high license, and it did vot take a very great number to either pass or defeat the bill. It was the few that found the ‘merit’ and they were con- fined to the Senate. Smith & Friday of Pit hare, who are the biggest wholesals whiskey Oe of ths mountains, «ore credited with being the r presentatives of the whiskey pooi n thal scetion, and Carstairs & Me. Call, of Philadelphia, worked op the interest in the east. That is to say, those two firms collested such funds a8 were deemed necessary to convince anembers of the Legislstate of the “merit’ in the tll. All the liquor dealers wholemle I mean, or nearly all, are supposed to have contributed to the pool, but it is believed the inspiration came from Pittsburg. You see, there had been a special bill previously passed for Allegheny county which placed the retail license at $300, of which $200 went to the county. It was found ‘not to be large.enough to wipe out the beer saloons, and the whiskey salers of that city wasted it raised higher. To accomplish that end they had to pass a geoeral bill for the whole state, and it became necessary to combine the liquor toterests of all sections, which really meant, Pitre burg and Philadelphia, THE RREWER! BLUNDER, You will remember that Brooks had introduced his bill it hung for a long time is ramnittos, whoea jt kad hwy woat wholes formers | sont hy the House, The boys were waiting to see what “wmerit’ there was in it, and it was not antl the bill bad that the brewers their bends ‘merit’ been 1ocom mitted got it through necessary it was 10 discuss the of the bill with the boys, They sy through friends at Harrisburg, that the measure was going through how learn. the House, und 11 was then, and only hen, that they began to beside them fyes, Right at the beginning the brewers the bill with Crowell they accepted the situation, although it was not to their liking, they wvamed their azent to do business with Crowell: I'nis agent was instructed that 875,- 000 would enlighten enough members of the House as to the lack of ‘merit in the bill and insure its defeat. Cro- well was told of the status of affairs, and aud who, by the way, did not get a licease, The pair were very judicious in langasge and manner. Toey talked to much and scied likes couple chumpe. They had $60,000 with thew, and Miler has since boasted that he threw it under a billiard table while he was playiog a game. Even before the agent of the boys could get to them it had leaked out that they were io Harrisburg to do business for the this, the agent of the bys met Crowell and was ready t) do business on what- ever * merit there might be in the high license bill. MRETING OF THE ENTS When they came Sapte Crowell 120 that he had been unable to get | the promised $75,000 and that $60,000 | was all he could collect, That was » damper at the outset and the did pot like the idea of haviag 815,000 cut off at one clip, and some of them weol 80 far as to that believed that the 875,000 had | gotten together and that they were to declare to go ahead and make the dicker, and | be started into talk business with Crowell who was very uppish aod contrary the whole way through The Legislative agent first wanted the bag. He matters before and supposed it would be all right. Crowel almost knocked him silly when he refuged to turn over the money unless he was given a written receipt. He told Crowell that it was not customary to give receipts in transactions of that character, and that the best receipt be could possiby have would bé the defeat of measure. Bat Crowell was obdutrate sad stub- born and would listen to nothing une less he had it all his on n way. The agent Sot angry and was just about to leave Ciro Well when it occurred to him tack. AND THE had been trused iosuch to try anothe.” THE AGENTS He told Orowsl that a do would be to depos, a certain financial invtite. he named, with instructions uw over to him (the boys’ agent) dpm. defeat of the bill. Crowell wae > KEYS tion, onli, Crowell would not even agree to that sod began again to blaster about getiing a receipt and having the bill defeated b:fore he pat the money out of his hands, Just about the time that the deal was about to be declared off, Crowell said that he would hire a small safe io a vault of & trust company aod de- posit the $60,000 in it, but be wanted to keep a kay to the safe himsed’, al< though he was willing that the ae and burried back to Philadelphia. Up- | on his returu he was in company with | William A. Miller of 929 Arch street | of | brewers, There was so much blow sod so much talk that the boys were | afraid 10 be seen in company with | Crowel sud Miller, for fear that they | would be suspected. Io spite of all | boys | they | been | be squeezed out of 815,000 of it | Nevertheless they instructed the agent | fair way to the $60,000 in which turn it the our. The latter Lo enter into soy «should also have positively rel used such arenngement, and told Crowell flatly that h would wot trust him, and af er quite an wrangle everything was declared off, and was told that high go through the house without any troubs Nobody ufter that would have his Crowell license would e. anything to do with Crowell or yartner, alth gh thoy hu 114 around for several days. NARROW ESCAPE FOR THE BOODLE made their first and fatal blander, tf You can bet the boys were mad hey bind honed the State over they There were plenty of men who did wuld not have found a worse agent | favor high license, but thought that tn Whe one they did select. They [there should be some merit in its de- gent Harry PP. Crowoll up to the eapi- | feat, Crowell was stopping at the tal to see what could be done. Now | Russ House where he had the money | Crowell had been a member of Com: | with him. lt was 1n all kinds of bills men Clameil from the Twentieth | big und little, and made a large pie card aod everybody had bis measure. | Some of the boys were so mad that | Full of talk and blow and conceit they put up a job to ehloroform Crowell had impressed the brewers, | Crowell and rob him the last might, | tor whom be was secretary, with hi® [he was in Harrisburg, but he never. importance and shrewdoess and they | went to bed and sat up with the bag | bad every confidence in him in fact, {by his side. If they had got away | they would trust nobody else. with it Crowell could not have squeal ARRIVAL OF THE TWO AGENTS. ed, but what a row there would bave Well, when the boys found that | been, they could only discuss the ‘merit’ of The bill did go through the House and, after some little delay, it reached the Senate, age in the upper chamber, but by tla, thor- | came | It seemed sure of a pass. time the brewers had become oughly alarmed and Crowell back to Harrisburg in the fa.test train He had the same old | bag with him and how he did want to | got rid of it. He offered to trust any- | body and everybody, or do anything, [80 long as the bill should be defeated he could get. He pleaded and he begged and he | raved and he swore, but it was no use Crowell had let his opportunity slip by and nobody would have The bad got in their work in good shape anything to do with him. whiskey men Senate and and the bill passed the high license is now the law of the {land. How much did it cost to get the bill through the Senate 7 I dou't know that, but it is safe to sv that it was more than Crowell’s $60,000 THE TEN-GALLON DEALERS Well, as I was going tosay, the whiskey men got high license, but the | way the Judges are going on they will be uurt quite as much, if not more, than the brewers. If I am pot vers | much mistaken it will drive same of | them out of business, and will par tienlarly hurt men like Bovie & Mo- |Glinn, Chris Gallagher wnd who sell by the fivaand twenty gallons It is pot afford to pay $500 others just the small places which can license that buy whissey in small quantities, and | there are aboot 2 000 of them thar Ad not even apply for # licens. Just look | at the enormous amount of trade that | will be lost in that war. Why ite | . enough to paralyze the hoases that | | break packages and sell hy th | gallon ! Then anybody can see that the | udges are not going to give licenses | lin any great number, at least to the | barrel.shope, and that is just where the five-cent rats are sold. There are the taverns that do sell whiskey very little beer or other malt liquors By the time you count out the little | taverns that did not apply fora Ii conse and the barrel-ghops that will ba kooomed out there will not be many customers for the ten-galion waolesale dealers who bave been back. ing them are going on their United Ntates bonds. Ism told that the Judges have a full list of every whole. sale whiskey man that has been doing that, sod it is jost as likely as not they will have trouble in getting their own licenses when their turn comes, It looks to me as if the whiskey men, in trying to down the brewers, have killed their own trade. Ci —— Alligators Eat and How It is a Southern writer . who com- pares an alligator throat to an anima- ted sewer. Everything, says this corrospondent, which lodges in the on mouth goes down. He is a lazy and instead of hunting tor some. ~at he Jet his victuals hont nlsatis, he lies with his “ ope apparently dead, %. Soon, & beetle crawle then sey eral goats quitoes. The alli* mouth yel, He ave of things, front mount. Ie the posse. io in, then a fly, sod weolony of mo gator dosen’t close his is waiting for a whole d, He does his eating by whol wy 8 little later a lizare will cool aw uider the shade of the upper [his debts ail paid, aim the promotion of Revenue | mated to reach §140,000.000 on the 30th | insceis and reptiles settle down for an afternoon picnic. Then i i there is an earthquake The jaw falls; the alligator blinks one eye, gulps | down the entire menagerie, and opens | hi= great front again for more visitors ——— The Anglers Delight. | _, | The angler's heart leaps with joy and he handles his rod and reel with loving fingers for the trout fishing season has opened. 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