The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-11
RUM RUNNERS
MAKE TROUBLE
eooTLEecERs DISTURB THE Sc
RENITY OF THE RESIDENTS
OF THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
LIST OF NAMES PUBLISHED
Officers of the Law Raid a Flat In
Washington and Seize a Lot of What
Experts Declare to Be "Fine Old
Stuff"
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK

Observation-Disclosures and their
victims, If that is the proper word. still
are disturbing The serenity of the tenn
porary and permanent residents of the
capital of the country. Officers of the
law raided q fiat in this city recently
and seized a lot f what the experts
declared to be "ene old stuff" and
something else was seiZed-a list of
names of many government officials
and many residents of the capital of
high social and business standing.
1t was taken for granted that this
list contained the names of the boot
legger's customers. A Washington
newspaper printed the list of names,
taking care to say, however, that
there was nothing TO show that any
n whose name appeared in the boot
legger's directory" had purchased any
of the Illicit stuff. People in Washing
ton drew their own conclusions.
For a few days in several of the
departments of government certain in
dividuals felt called upon to establish
alibis. All sorts of excuses were made
for the appearance Of this name or
that name oil the Il. The wise ones,
however, kept silent because they felt
that it was better ut to stir the thing
up any more than was necessary.
Washington being the capital of the
country, 1t is the desire of the forces
of the law to make the, place clean in
a, SO to speak, spiritual way. They
are having their troubles he'e as they
are having them elsewhere, but In
truth it seems that the end of the day
of supply fast is approaching and that
little by little the pctivities CT the law
enforcers will cease because of the
lack of cases, legal cases, and those
holding a dozen bottles.
Two Bars in Capitol.
Washington anne to pro .ibition by
what might be termed easy graddtions.
Twenty years ago q representative in
congress introduced an amendment to
a bill providing that no liquor should
be sold in the capitol. At one time
there were two bars in the capitol
where liquor was sold. At the time of
the Introduction of this resolution the
house bar had been abolished. but the
senate bar was still in existence.
There was much under-coyer opposi-
ton to the proposal of the representa-
tive who, if memory serves, was
Charles B.. Lands of Indiana, q BROTH
er of Kenesaw Mountain Lands, the
arbiter-in-chief of the baseball pastime
and industry. Some of the senators
said quietly that if the house wanted
to do away with its bar that was all
right, but they had noticed that since
liquor no longer was sold at the other
end Of the capitol there frequently
were the markings of a quorum of rep
resentatives in evidence at the senate
bar. However, the senators finally ac-
quiesced in the house measure and the
public bar disappeared from the SEN
ate precincts.
AT the same time congress managed
to put into force a regulation which
prevented any liquor seller in the dis
trict from using the name congress"
or congressional" as a part of a name
for his saloon. This further prevented
printed i%nsinuations that there was
some connection between congress and
the joys of drinking.