Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-22
Urges Harding To Issue
Proclamation Banning
Drinking by Officials
HILL DEMANDS PROOF
Marylander Says He'll ask Georgian
TO Produce Evidence In Open
Dares Any Man In Congress To
Call His Hand.
CBy United Press.)

Ca, today threatened TO name state
and federal officials who according to
his information are violating the pro-
hibition law, by patronizing bootleg
gers.
The congressman recently startled
Washington by claiming that large
numbers Of public officials got liquor,
while lot of "poor devils" can't. He
called on all public officials to take an
oath to abstain from violating the law,
and today, just before leaving for his
home in Georgia, warned that he in
tended to force them to do it.
Washington, Dec. 22.-Represen-
tative Upshaw, of Georgia, militant
dry, wrote President Harding yes;eI-
day urging him TO issue 4 Christina
proclamation calling upon all officials
to observe as well as enforce the Try
law. Mr.. Upshaw would not make
his letter public.
He announced also that nc would
attemn; - get from police rtc1ds
here the names of members of Con-
grss who patronize bootleggers.
Mr.. Upshaw launched his campaign
against drinking in high places yes
terday, when in . Rouse speech he
made an impassioned appeal to all
officials, from the President down, to
take an oath to abstain from drink
ing Illegal liquor This plea was re-
ceived in the capital with the broad
est sort of "a grin,
There really is possibility that
something will come Of Mr.. Up
shaw's spirited invocation which
would furnish Washington with the
finest sensation it has ever enjoyed.
Representative Hill. of Maryland,
spokesman for the vets in the House,
declared he was going to force the
issue at the first opportunity on Rep
resentative Upshaw, implied charges
Yesterday that Governors and men,
bers of Congress are hypocritcal on
the liquor question.
"I was very glad" Mr.. Hill said.
chat Mr.. Upshaw made the whole
sale charges of violating the Volstead
act against members OF Congress,
members of the Cabinet and Senator'S
and all others in authority, or an
appropriate occasion. | intend on
the floor to ask him to produce from
the prohibition department the evil
dence with which to back up his
charges. D."
When informed that a plan was
afoct to cali for his proof, Mr.. Up
shaw said he dared anybody to call
for the proof, because ne was ready
for Just such an emergency. lie was
not prerqred, however, to make pub
lie his information at this time.
an all good humor dare any man
On the floor of Congress to call my
hand" he said. ! am more and more
convinced that my declaration was
sane. It was based on absolute facts
and | call again on the people who
want to prosecute the law to keep the
law. Prohibition has been wonder
full success. 1t is not yet ideal.
The righteous can not wait for ap-
proval of the wicked to enforce thelr
laws. God, himself did not walt Tor
that in the Ten Commandments.
a statute that outlaws thing as
vicious as the salocn is an expression
of a honest necessity in our economic
and ocial life. People who are good
and brave will try TO stand by the
righteous life. May God have pity
on the towards"
Every public official publicly insists
that in his case no new oath is neces-
sary. he is only using the stock ne
providently laid in when the shadow
of national prohibition was cast over
the country. but most OF them are
willing to trade bootleggers address
ses with all conlers.
hawod ow om do mod ON do mod ON
Possibly the briskest market IN
Washington today for the wares OF
the illicit traders is in the lobbies oil
the Capitol and the House and Sen
ate Office Buildings. A very fam
Gus Senator, himself IS it, happens n
total abstainer, although he opposed
the dry legislation. was telling the
story the other ylav that a young,
p-an called on him in his Office and
electrified him BY asking if he could
not take his order for ChriStn IS
cheer, offering the recommendation
IF various other Senators as TO quail