The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-05-28

Speaker Cannons SEVENTEEN birthday
or t. the dinner Of tho New York dele
CATION IN Congress. on those occasions
| drank precisely as in the White
House. on tho occasion of Mr.. can
mons evening reception I went in com
panv with Mr.. Loeb and James Sloan,
a secret service man.
Loeb Away. with Him.
"On all public occasions Mr.. Loeb
went with mo and also two secret ser
vice men on the Cannon occasion 7
rcmcmber that one Of these men was
Mr.. Sloan.
Never. on any occasion during the
time that was in the White House,
did touch drop of anything during
the day prior to being shaved
ION the 17th and 18th Of February
last | was staying in New York with
Mrs Roosevelt and my daughter at
tho Marquis Hotel. 10 East Thirty-fir
street To tho best of my knowledge
and belief there Is no bar in the hotel
Mrs. Roosevelt and my daughter and I
had breakfast served in our apartment
at about ?. Immediately aftcrward on
both days walked down Madison ave-
nue. ~ IW'ntN-lNiTu SlTet' HCToSS 10
Fourth avenue ana INTO the outlook
Office On both days I stayed in the
Outlook office doing work and seeing
various people until about 3 30 the first
day and until the next day. going out
for few minutes for luncheon. When
I left the Office on tho Monday I walked
up Fourth avenue to Thirty first street
and across to the Marquis Hotel.
7 \, t.,. A'N
on tho Tuesday left at o'clock and
took the 40 o'clock train from the
PENNSYLVANIA Station for oyster Bay
on neither day did | touch a drop Of
anything at any time.
M Vsc for Rc-r.
For tho last fifteen years can give
you in detail just about what drank.
and have given it suhstantially. and
neither during those fifteen years nor
since have been Of age have I ever.
under any circumstances. been even in
tho smallest degree under the influence
of liquor
Il do not remember within the last
dozen years drinking even part Of a
glass Of beer except once. That was at
the Deutscher club. Whenever go 10
Milwaukee try to go to the DeutsCher
| club for a cali. At their request, think
in 1905. ! drank mouthfui of beer
They offered me beer and I asked II
they could not get some white wine
saying | never drank beer. They asked
mo if I would not take a mouthful any
way. bocaus" they said II was the beer
that made Milwaukee famous. So took
a mouthful and then took white wine
! They then AL sang songs but there was
| only ono song in which | could join
| The GrOss-ENam ma lion.
| The REORGANIZATION of the Colone
began al II 4. NJ. Attorney Horace An.
/ drews of Cleveland. counsel for several
| big iron ore mining concerns Of the
! Upper Peninsula. represented Editor
! Newctt in the dissection Of the Colonel's
testimony
: Mr.. Andrcwss first questions touched
what Ncwett's lawyers regarded as a
| vital spot-the extent to which Col
| Roosevelt could he damaged by state
ments printed in n country newspaper
| The Colonel could remember only George
Shiras. his host. and w s. Ifill, his
attorney. as possible acquaintanccs In
! Marquette county.
since your return from Africa.
said Andrews you have been con.
trihutinG editor of tho outlook and alsc
somewhat in politics?'
Also" chopped out the Colonel "ir
politics"
He told Mr.. Andrews in reply 10 spe.
J Citic questions that he met politicians
Senators, Congressman. naturalists anC
/ historians on nearly all Of his trips anC
/, usually was entertained at dinner.
II was much more apt to he cnteN