The Washington times., 1923-02-25
LIQUOR
DRINKING GIVEN
AIRING IN. HOUSE
GaIIivan Refers to Northern
Pacific Gentleman Subdued
Only After a Lively Tussle
SEVERAL IMBIBE FREELY
Committee Room Said to Have
Been Center Of wet Flood
During Subsidy FiIibuster

Representative Gallivan Of Mas
sachusetts, in q speech in the
House yesterday, vigorously at
tackled members Of Congress who
drink wet and vote dry"
He charged that 20 Senator got
drunk the other night, a dry Sena-
tor, and they had TO stop him
from answering q roll call, and it
took two of his colleagues to
hold him."
LIQUOR FLOWS FREELY.
Gallivan referred to incidents said
to have taken place in the Senate
wing Thursday night during the
filibuster on the ship subsidy bill.
It is open gossip that there was
much drinking this night. A con-
siderable stock Of liquors accessible
to any who cared to indulge is lin-
derstood to have been dispensed In
one or the conveniently located com.
tmittee rooms
How the liquor got into the Cap
itol no one will tell. Those who
provided it, either Senate employees
or Senator'S themselves, violated
the statutory law. They also ran the
gauntlet of the edict issued by Sem
ator Curtis Of Kansas, some two
weeks ago. that any empioye OF the
Senate who brought wIliskey into
the Capitol would be summariIy dis
charged and prosecuted.
The gossip to which Representa-
tive Gallivan referred Is now well
authenticated. 1t centers about one
Western Senator, from q Northern
Pacific State, who became 50 in.
ebriated his colleagues dared not
let him appear on the floor Of the
Senate.
EJECTED. AFTER TUSSLE.
After becoming intoxicated, this
particular Senator was found In
one of the corridors by colleague
from one OF the New England
States and advised to return to one
of the committee rooms and rest.
i. This the Western Senator refused
to do. Something Of a tl1ssle en-
sued, but with the aid of other
Senators the New Highlander was
successful in getting the Westerner
into retirement for the remainder
of the evening.
Just where the scandal will end
no one can tell. Senate history re-
veals that up to the present the
Senate has been the judge OF its
own conduct.
Representative Gallivan's charge
was delivered in the midst of
speech attacking the Volstead law
and the cost of its enforcement.
His remarks precipitated a storm in
the House. Representative Blan.
ton of Texas interrupted with a
point of order that Gallivan was
violating the rules of the House in
referring to the Senators in the
manner he did. Gallivan retorted:
s''I am not violating the rules of
this House when I refer to the
dry Senators getting drunk"
When the gentleman is referring
to roll calls in the Senate, the gen.
tleman is violating the rules" Blan.
ton replied.
Gallivan had hardly resumed when
Blanton renewed his point of or
der, asking that "the gentleman's
words be taken down 'stenographic-
ally wherein he referred to a Try
Senator being so drunk that he
could not answer. to a roll call and
had to be taken out to a cloak
THAT is the only way the House
can review such language. nd 1
submit that such language should
not go into the record He con-
tinued:
sit is a reflection upon the en-
tire Senate of the United States
and 1t is improper in the House
of Representatives"
Gallivan interrupted with this re.
tort:
eff the language with reference
to the dry Senator, who is a friend
OF my friend from Texas, hurts his
feelings, I withdraw the language"
Blanton shouted back:
HE is not a friend Of mine. j
do not know that any such thing
took place and we have no right
to reflect upon the Senate of the
United States"
TAKES FLING AT WHEELER.
Later Representative Madden of
Illinois asked Gallivan to withdraw
from the Record his reference about
the Senator, which he did.
In concluding his speech Gallivan
took a fling at Wayne B. Wheeler.
who was seated in the gallery, say
ing:
"And now, Mr.. Speaker, I adj
dress myself in the closing para
graph to the gentleman who sits
behind the clock in the gallery, the
Hon. Wayne B. Wheeler, Of the
League, the man who
says it is lawless to agitate for the
repeal Of the Volstead law, or even
the Eighteenth Amendment. He
does not belong to the tribe of
Lincoln or the TRIBE of
Jefferson, but to the tribe
of the Pharaoh in Egypt, whose
tomb has just been opened after
three thousand years"
WHEELER REPLIES.
In criticism Of the tactics of pro-
enforcement officers. CALI |
van made particular reference to |
Agent Asher, who recently has been |
active in rounding up dry law vio-
lators in Washington, characterizing |
him as 1.-The latest tin-horn prohibit |
ton officer, Mr.. Asher
Wheeler, who heard Gallivan's at
tack from the gallery, issued a |
statement in reply in which he
said: S
"Mr. Gallivan's TRADE against |
and the Anti-Saloon |
League was as baseless and chimeri-
cal as all of his other Nominations
on prohibition.