I on Intoxicating Liquor JOINT HEARINGS BEFORE THE MMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS AND THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE SEVENTY-THIRD CONGRESS INTERIM, FIRST AND SECOND SESSIONS DECEMBER 11 to 14, 1933 UNITED STATES on Intoxicating Liquor JOINT HEARINGS BEFORE THE MITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS AND THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE SEVENTY-THIRD CONGRESS INTERIM, FIRST AND SECOND SESSIONS DECEMBER 11 to 14, 1933 UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1934 462565 COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ROBERT L. DOUGHTON, North Carolina, Chairman B. HILL, Washington - MCCORMACK, Massachusetts C. SHALLENBERGER, Nebraska S WEST, Ohio . BOEHNE, JR., Indiana V. MCCLINTIC, Oklahoma ALLEN T. TREADWAY, Massachusetts E. W. G. HUFFMAN, Clerk ST HEAR AND CU The comm In pursu Leans So uted by mittee, a g to leg Cement al was unde acres of sentative erhaps th anntes w and oth to make tave been earing a 15th of ator Har The measur the subject TAX ON INTOXICATING LIQUOR MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1933 HOUSE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS Washington, D.C. NGS ON REVISION OF THE EXISTING INTERNAL REVENUE TOMS LAWS DEALING WITH INTOXICATING LIQUORS ittees met in joint session at 10:30 a.m., Hon. Robert presiding. MAN. The committees will be in order. bint hearing by the Senate Finance Committee and the n Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, ance of a resolution passed by the Committee on Ways me days ago, and in accordance with an understanding Senator Harrison, Chairman of the Senate Finance nd the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, gislation made necessary by the repeal of the eighteenth nd the imposing of taxes on liquor. erstood, and our calendar was so prepared, that reprethe executive departments would appear first; that a of the Treasury Department would appear this mornthe Acting Secretary of the Treasury. Within the last ve have received information that the Treasury Departher executive departments request additional time in e further preparations for the hearing. There seems some misunderstanding or some conflict with respect to and the hearing on revenue measures to be conducted of December. So that is the situation at the present rrison, have you any statement you would like to make? RRISON. Mr. Chairman, in behalf of the Finance Come to express to the committee our appreciation of the it in with the Ways and Means Committee in the conthis very important question. Of course, we desire to d show that the Ways and Means Committee is not in ating from the time-honored precedent of initiating ires. We understand we are here at sufferance, and erely sitting in, and so forth, without any right to conct jointly with the Ways and Means Committee. an stated that the Treasury was not ready. The inet is that the Treasury will be ready about tomorrow. e a very exhaustive investigation up there upon the |