Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-03-29
WHAT WILL YoUHAyE?
Tipping at the Capitol Webster and
cIay's Triple.

cIay's Triple.
Washington Correspondence Cleveland
Leader.
Many of these committee rooms at
the Capitol contain during session q
choice article of spirits, and the pres
ant Minister to Berlin, Mr.. Pendieton,
was not averse to treating his friends
OF the Senate now and then. 1t used
to be that there was a regular bar in
the Capitol. This bar was known
vulgarly as "The Hole in the Wall. !"
1t was situated between the House and
the Senate, and at it Clay and Webster
often drank. In difference to the tenn
perance sentiment this bar has been
long since abolished, but liquor is sold
at the Capitol as much as ever and
you can get whisky straight in either
the House or Senate restaurant by
merely asking for ''cold tea. -
1t is said that drinking is decreasing
at Washington. do not believe this
to be so. Fewer people drink at the
saloons, perhaps, but it has come to
be that every public man has his cell
lars stocked with wines and brandies,
and liquors are sold by the quantity
instead of by the glass. All ofthegro-
Gerry stores at Washington keep large
stocks of liquors, from Mumm's extra
dry champagne down to a very cheap
article of whisky, and you will find wine
stores In nearly every block. In no
city of the United States, except, per-
haps, New Orleans, is there SO much
wine drank in proportion to the popu-
lation. Many families never sit down
to meal without having wine on the
table, and at a Washington hotel, where
public men stop, it is the rule to take
bottle of wine with your dinner.
Within the last few years punch has
become very popular at Washing.
ton, and you will now find
big punch bowl at almost
every fashionable gathering. 1t is
quite an art to make fine Washing
ton punch, and it takes very little OF
the regular article to cause the knees
to CULVER and the head to swim. One
recipe contains the ingredients, whisky,
rum, claret, champagne, sugar and
lemons. Alittle water added to this,
and you have drink that win put an
old topper under the table after half
his usual allowance. Still this stuff is
given to young men and maidens. Is
it any wonder that some OF them get
too much, and we have such scenes
as that of Stewart Castle last winter,
what Congressman Holman's son in
suited young lady, and the half OF
the party were affected by their tip
ping? 1t was such punch as this that
started young Malone on a spree in
which he attempted to shoot one OF
the walters at Welcker's, and it Is
this punch that will undoubtedly
create scandal or two the coming
season
A great deal OF beer is drunk in
Washington, and many of those who
drink wine regularly at their meals
prefer light article, such as claret.
The man who drinks such as beer and
claretseldom becomes drunkard, and
in those countries where cheap light
wines are staple, as Italy and France
for instance, you viii find much less
drunkenness than in America or Eng
land. There is good deal OF differ
ence in the United States as to drink
ing. Men'.from the North and East
and from California drink wine while
those from the West and South take
whisky or beer. Kentuckians usually
take whisky straight, and Wisconsins
are fond oftheir own milwaukee, lager.
Senators Frye and Blair are said to be
the only Senators who are teetotal-
lers. Attorney General Garland likes
a good article OF Bourbon. President
Cleveland drinks beer some
times, and of the members Of
the Lower House. few of them are
averse to dram on the sly. The
Speaker himself is a good judge OF Ii.
quors, and he often takes q bottle OF
wine with his lunch. Both Cox and
Dorsheimer ike good wine, and ex-di-
plomates, such as HIT, OF Illinois,
seldom eat without bottle Divine at
their meals. Ben LeFevre drinks beer,
and there are q number of members
who are addicted to drinking hot wa
ter. There was a Congressman named
Jadwin in the FortS -seventh Congress
who never sat down to a mealwithout
having teacup of hot water placed
before him. He seasoned it with
cream and sugar and drank it as
other people do coffee. Congressman
Hatch, of Missouri, is also a hot wa
ter drinker, and Breckenridge, OF Ar.
kansas, takes it with every meal
These hot water drinkers advocate
the practice as q cure for dyspepsia
and Indigestion, and they say they be.
come as fond of the drink as OF tea,
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