The evening world., 1920-04-26

MARTIN q
NC cur

building may have been filled with
sniff-hounds, but II 80, they worked
their noses % cautiously that no
one felt draught,
Marty McCue probably did most to
discourage them, and this Is his own
account of what caused him TO do II:
I'VE were in the discussion OF the
Beer Bill, see, and ! saw that ROBERT
]. Davey, the fellow that's counsel TO
the Anti Saloon League standing
near Assemblyman Ross OF Brooklyn.
l think Davey had his hand on Ross's
chair or shoulder, or something. SO
/ gets up and says TO the Speaker
that Davey wns probably annoying
Mr. Ross.
"I did il as kind. OF joke, TO sort
of let Davey's people know he was
earning the money they're paying
him, Then the Speaker says there
mustn't be any lobbying on the tloor.
You see, l hadn't said word about
Iobbving. But up jumps Ross and
saws rye insulted him, or something,
and asks TO have the things | said
expunRed out of the record. He said
he didn't even know Davey.
.'Well. 1 didn't think anything more
about n till l was out here In the
corridor, and up comes an assistant
OF Dayey's and puts his hand on my
arm and says to me that was
wrong, that I was unjust to Mr.
Davey. .
to come up to me and tel me I'm
wrong, so I speaks right up and
SAYS: Say you. don't you call me
a liar ,or I'll give you good punch
in the nose!', just like that. And
then that fellow Davey butts in, and
he puts his hand on me and starts
to tell me that I've misjudged him, or
something like that. So points down
TO a cuspidor and l says: If you put
your hand on me I'll bounce that OFT
your bean!' And then walks away
just reached down to the cuspidor
to see how far he'd run. That's all
there was TO IT,"
Al one point in the progress of the
session the sniffers thought they had
II their own way. They came upon
q great wet splash on the stone floor
and steps leading into the Assembly
lobby. II looked awfully good TO
them sniff sniff - sniff - and
awfully bad for somebody.
MAN IN FAINT RAISED HOPES
OF "sNIFFERs."
II was during the time that the
/ customary presentation OF gltts was
! going on in the chamber. When the
| Assembly adjournB every year It's
members, 70 show their fondness or
| dislike for certain other members,
make them members
This year large and glowing diA-
mond rings were presented TO Speak
er Sweet who announced his posi-
lively last and final farewell TO the
Assembly, to Simon l.. Adler. the
Majority Leader; to Charles ID. DON
ohue, the Minority Leader: Marty
McCue making the necessary speech
in the latter case and causing
| Charles ears to turn American
| (Charlie will be President when
Marty can fix II for hlm), and to IL.
Edmund Machold. Chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee.
Then Frank ]. Taylor was called
before the bar TO get his. His pres
ent was a pair OF cuff links, and as
fellow doesn't have to be measured
for them, they probably came as a
great surprise to him. AZ any rate
he made his bow, said a few words
and then, just as he declared, II feel
much overcome"-he dropped In q
dead faint.
He was down for a count OF two
when Marty McCue came down Tho
aisle In one leap and got 10 him
Some one said the customary "Let
him have air" and somebody else
dashed out after bottle OF water
and stubbed his toe at the steps or
his way back. Wherefore the splast
in the corridor, TO say nothing OF the
explosive noise OF Opening some.
thing" and the forward surge OF tho
visiting sniffers, sure they'd caught
somebody with the goods, As The
sniff hounds are not water spanieli
the dark stain on the +" held nc
interest for them, with Low
means OF disappointm~ they slunl
Off Fortunately. MIR. Taylor finally
got a glass of water. and in a few
moments had sufficiently revived tC
walk out OF the chamber. And ther
the obaequies were resumed.
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