Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-23
LIQUEuRs.
Absinthe, Kummel, Gilka, Curacao
Marachino, Annisette, Chartreuse,
Benedictine, Yarmouth
Waters are furnished with Wine Card


Benedictine, Yarmouth.
Walters are furnished with Wine Cards.
Then followed rare scene of confusion
Senator after Senator, while maintaining as
an abstract principle the right of statesmen
to carry bottles or TASKS, or even Jugs, into
the committee rooms, and to do with them
there whatever they pleased, proceeded to
dlsclalm any personal interest in the defeat
of the proposed new rule. Here are some
of the solemn denials aud disclaimers. ms
reported in the Congressional Record:
Senator Brown of Georgia-''I have never
kept spirituous liquors of any kind in the
Capitol, and never drink spirituous liquors
in the Capitol"
Senator Vest of Missouri-'I have no com
mittee room, and have no personal interest
in this matter"
Senator Cochrell of Missouri have
never had any liquor in this building.
have never drank it in the rooms of any of
the distinguished Senators who have it so
constantly"
Senator Teller of Colorado-"I had OBJ
served that bill of fare myself have not
ordered anything from it."@
Senator Salisbury of Maryland-"I do not
myself indulge in Intoxicating liquors."
Senator Cockrell Of Missouri-"I have as
little patience with drinking as the distin-
guished Senator from Maryland has, and /
dislike to see it in the Capitol"
Senator Henderson of Nebraska-"I am
not an expert as to what should come under
the name of spirituous liquors.
Senator Frye of Maine-"So far as | am
concerned, should like TO have all kinds of
liquor excluded from the Capitol"
Senator Logan of lllinois-"Sauterne is
wine of course"
Then it apparently began to dawn upon
the Senators that the honorable body itself,
as whole, needed some vindication from
the misconstruction which the country
m INIT tlnn ha bad
the libellous bill of fare advertised by Mr..
Frye's man from Maine. Could any testi-
monials to the Senate's virtue, sobriety, and
diligent attention to business be stronger
than the following statements, volunteered
by some of its most eminent and observant
members?
Senator Teller of Colorado-"I do not
think that this body justly merits all that
has been said about its inebrietyn
Senator Call of Florida-"l declare that
have never been among body of men with
whom sobriety and constant attention to
their duty was more plainly characteristic
than here"
Senator Maxey of Texas-'I have served
IN many conventions and other deliberative
bodies, and, in my judgment, there is not
to-day in the wide world deliberatiye body
of men more sober than the Senate of the
United States. In the ten years have been
mere nave. on very few occasions perhaps
not more than two or three during the entire
ten years, seen gentlemen who 1 thought
had better be somewhere else"
Senator Frye of Maine-'J have been in
Congress some fifteen or sixteen years
When / first came into the national House
of Representatives, take a night session,
there would be dozen members of the other
House breaking up the proceedings of the
body and making it disgrace. That thing
does not exist to-day"
Senator Cockrell-"I think have been as
attentive listener and observer of the pro-
ceedings of the Senate for the last ten years
as any man. l have never seen anything
like majority of Senators in such condi-