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...built, and in its basement a genuine Altdeutscher Rathskeller. In the old days, Wisconsin beer-drinkers frequented the Hausmann brewery in Madison. Its bar is now in the new Rathskeller, a strictly masculine sanctuary on whose walls are painted Heidelberg students brandishing steins, a fat monk on a wine cask, a bartender with Speise-und-Getränke Karten, a motto: Des Lebens Sonnenschein ist trinken, lieben, fröhlich sein ("Life's sunshine is to drink, to love, to be merry"). At first the Rathskeller had another bit of Munich realism - a six-inch layer of sawdust...
...Because it was first on the list, argol, a tartar sediment in wine casks, gave its name to that provision of the Dingley Tariff (1897) which authorized a President to negotiate reciprocity agreements on a few articles with other nations. "Argols" were back in last week's news as a result of White House conferences on ways & means of carrying out the Democratic tariff platform. The Constitution requires the Senate's "advice and consent" on most international agreements made by the President. The Roosevelt method apparently is going to be: get the "advice" first in the form...
...refrigerator cars for beer and expected to need 2,000 for the beer trade (in pre-Prohibition days Milwaukee shipped 43,000 carloads of beer a year). General Tank likewise laid plans for special tank cars similar to 300 once used to ship California wine...
Before the Senate passed (43-to-30) the beer bill, it made three changes: 1) a cut in the alcoholic content to 3.05%, the British tax standard for non-intoxicating beer; 2) inclusion of 3.05% wine, slipped in by California's McAdoo despite the universal opinion of vintners that such "wine" would be slop; 3) a prohibition on beer sales to minors, which would in effect give Federal agents supervision over state distribution...
...conference the House accepted the Senate's wine amendment, the Senate accepted the House's alcoholic content for beer and dropped its no-sales-to-minors proposal. Thus a 3.2% beer bill was sent to the President for his signature. States in which beer sales can start: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming...