Evening star., 1923-02-25
DRY LAW TILT PUTS
HOUSE IN UPROAR
Continued from First Page.l

(Mr. Cpshaw) few months ago
referred to half Of the membership
of this House as drinking ruin de-
clared Mr. Gallivar.
This was denied later by Mr.. Up
shaw. who declared that the state
ment was not borne out by the facts
and that a thing not a fact is abso-
lutely false"
At the suggestion of Representative
Madden, republican, Illinois. Mr.. CAL
livan withdrew the language to which
Mr.. Blanton objected, and went on
with his address in which he in
Weighed against the increasing cost of
prohibition enforcement. and predict
ed that If the present tendency OF
crowding the courts with liquor cases
continued as a result of the "Snoop-
ing of federal agents. the Department
OF Justice would become the Pooh
Bah of America
AS he concluded the Massachusetts
member caused a craning or necks by
announcing that he would address the
last paragraph Of his speech TO the
gentleman who sits behind the clock
In the gallery. the Hon. Wayne B.
Wheeler, Of the Anti-Saloon League.
the man who says il is laWlesS to
agitate for the repeal of the Volstead
law; say to him that he belongs to
the tribe Of The Pharoah whose tomb
has just been opened at Luxor after
5000 years.
"Drys" Hit Buck.
Replies by the "drys'' were deferred
until after Representative Tinkham
had read into the Congressional Rec
ord a letter from William Dudley
Foulke Of the National Civil Service
League to S. E. Nicholson. secretary
of the Anti Saloon League, in which
the charge was made that the pro-
hibition enforcement service was
CORRUPTED from top to bottom by set
Of depraved political officials appoint
ed under the spoils system which you
promoted" Mr.. Foulke was protest
ing against a Senate bill proposing to
rnent force under the civil service. a
measure which he charged, had the
suppirt of the XntiSaloon League.
Making the first reply for the
"drys." Representative Dickinson, re-
publican, Iowa, declared 1t was cost
ing the government practically moth
ing" to enforce prohibition because
of the fines and penalties collected
from violators Of the Nolstead act.
REPRESENTATIVE cram,on INIT e.. fol- followed ,ed
newspaper article to wlich Mr.. CAL
iiyan had referred contained any ref
erence to the Anti-Saloon League di-
recting an investi CATION against men,
bers Of Congress.
TT is all a part Of an attempt to
besmirch and besmudse, ne aeclarea.
matter; facts do not handicap. 1t is
only to put on here a good vaudeville
stunt It is all right here, where we
know this sort of performance.
"1f II is necessary, to get enforce
to
than $4,000, 900 we are going to do
H." declared Mr. Cramton amid ap-
plause.
Raps Attack ON Lawmakers.
Mr.. Cramton had been recognized
for only two minutes and asked unan-
irnous consent to extend and revise"
his remarks in the Record. but Mr..
Gallivan objected and he was granted
two more minutes.
Thank God I can say in two min
utes something %"
"No you can't" interrupted Mr.. CAL
livan.
"That will answer the statements
Of men who have spent ffty min
utes." concluded Mr.. Cramton, in be-
smirching law and order and who
dare not let me put my facts into the
Record"
'.Will the gentlemen tell US about
Anderson in New York? shouted Mr.,
Hill.
Representative Cpsifaw declared
that II he were "as smart - Mr.. Gal
fivan is supposed to be and could en-
tertain people as he can I would not
prostitute my eloquence, learning and
time by defending the liquor traffic
or the saloon that is the trystins
piaes OF anarchy and the gateway to
heff."
Declaring that he would rather be