The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-04

was always ordered. Under the influence
OF the wine and the liquor which he drank.
MT hlodle0erEer arose On the last night
OF the session and insisted on being reCoo-
nlzed- Mr.. Ingalls,, the president pro
tempore, ordered him to sit down. AS he
1 refused 10 be quiet, Mr.. Ingalls, declared
( MN under arrest, and the sergeant at
arms tthe late MIR. Canadayl. with one of
+ MS assistants, caught him by the arms
and dragged him from the chamber. In
! ttne executive session that night Mr.. Dan.
/ leIs, Mr.. Rlddleberger's colleague. made
/ an imprisoned appeal to the Senate TO
! nave the record of Mr. Riddleberger's ar
rest erased from the minutes of the Sen
/ ate and this was done by a unanimous
/ vote, Mr.. ingalls, acquiescing
/ Speaking of ingalls,, none of those who
We're present during his controversy with
Mr.. VOORHEES, few years ago will foget
the scene which ensued when he charged
/ the Indiana senator with having been q
| copperhead during the war Mr.. Voor-
hees was under the influence of great ex-
element He lost control of himself en-
4 tirely at one time and cried out: The
senator from Kansas is a great liar and q
DIRTY dog. And out of the noise from
the galleries, from the floor and from the
pounding of the presiding officers gavel.
came the calm, even tones OF MIR ingalls,
voice Mr. President, if the senator
from Indiana were in a police court he
! would be sent to the rock pile for beng
drunk and disorderly"
IN A MELLOW CONDITION.
1t was not so many years ago that Sena-
! tor Eaton used to get in pretty mellow
condition whenever there was a night SEES
sion. And it was said of him that he was
the one man whom ingalls, feared be-
cause when he had enough liquor under
| his waist band he did not hesitate to eX-
press himself very freely, and his COM
mand of language was great Ingalls,
colleague, Plumb, by the way, came very
| near Draining a fellow senator with
| chair during hilarious game of poker
I ten or fifteen years ago, and all because
| he thought he saw six cards in the other
! senator's hand
| The days of Eaton were the DAYS when
| liquor was kept in the cloak rooms of the
| Senate by the sergeant-at-arms for ary
| senator to drink as he pleased and the
| bills were paid out of the contingent
| fund of the Senate. Before that time a
! senatorial bar had been kept by the
| assistant sergeant-at-arms, Jim Christy,
under the staircase a. the west side of
| the Senate wing, and before that there
| had always been a supply of LIQUOR for
| any one TO buy on the House side of the
capitol, and there was plenty of it to be
| had In the executive offices or cloak
rooms at any time. Brit in those days
newspapers were few and newspaper cor
| respondents not so censorious as they are
to-day.
IN THE COMMITTEE ROOMS.
When the 'intemperance" of the Sen
| ate became matter of public comment,
| the advocates of temperance throughout
the country made great scandal of it,
and one by one the privileges of the sen
! ators were taken away from them. The
last one to go was the whisky in the
| cloak rooms. Apollinaris has taken the
| place of this, and great bowl of apolli-
! nariS lemonade is constantly on tap there
The whisky is kept in the rooms of the
| committees, but plenty of it can be had
| in the restaurants of the House and Sen
| ate.
There is a solemn rule, adopted in 1866
! prohibiting the sale of liquor in the CAPT
| tol, but that rule has always been a dead
| letter. 1t was evaded at first by the sale
| of whisky in teacups under the name of
cold tea, " and this beverage was sold to
| senator's and mem bers only IL is said
that when Frank Hiscock of New York
was making a speech in the House one
| day he sent for some iced tea to clear his
! throat, and was much disguised when the
page brought him some liquor in tea
cup
When Mr. German made his famous at
| TACK on PRESIDENT Cleveland last Monday
page brought him something in a cup.
Take 1t away" SAID Mr.. German impa-
! tiently Il don't want any of that"
! There was murmur of laughter in the
! galleries and on the floor.
no MORE FREE WHISKY.
A senator can order whisky or mixed
! drinks in the Senate restaurant, and get
! them served as in any other restaurant or
! barroom. And so can any employe of
| the Senate; or, for that matter, any
! stranger This was the condition of af-
| fairs when Mr. Frye of the prohibition
| state of Maine was at the head of the
! rules committee; and it is so now that
| Mr.. Black burn of the whisky state of
! Kentucky is the committee chairman
| But there is no free whisky at the CAPT
! tol any more. Every senator pays for his
own drink. And there are no more free
| luncheons when the Senate holds night
session, to be paid for out of the contin-
| gent fund. Senators now buy their own
| food But the sergeant-at-arms supplies
! apOllinaris, and the Senate uses up forty
! cases of that beverage during long sum
! mer session, TO say nothing of the thirty
! two dozen lemons which helped to make
| it palatable. Moreover, apollinaris lem
onade is supplied to the newspaper CORE
| spondents as it was in the good old days
! when MIR. Bright was sergeant-at-arms;
and it is extremely agreeable in these hot
days, too.