Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-04-05
BooTLEGGERs 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 Lot of What
Experts Declare to Be "Fine Old
Stuff"
Rx EDWARD B. CLARK

/ are disturbing Tic SSI01lly VI IhC lCid7
porary and permanent residents of the
capital of the country. officers of the
law raided a fiat in this city recently
and seized a lot # what the experts
declared to be "fne 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
one 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 on the list. The wise ones,
however, kept silent because they felt
| that it was better not to stir the thing
up any more than was necessary.
Washington being the capital of the
country, it 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 here 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 activities of the law
enforcers will cease because of the
lack of cases, legal cases, ands those
holding a dozen bottles.
Two Bars in Capitol.
washington came to prohibition by
what might be termed easy gradations.
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-cover opposi-
ton to the proposal of the representa-
tive who, if memory serves, was
Charles B. Lands of Indiana, 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
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 name
! Cor his saloou This further prevented
| printed insmuations that there was
some connection between congress and
the joys Of drinking.
Secretary Daniels a Dry.
These initial steps toward the end
which came in the form of the prohibit
ton amendment to the Constitution
were followed by other steps to re-
move what might be called the nation
al official sanction from the sale and
the use of liquors. Ten years ago
Josephus Daniels then secretary of
the navy, looked up the Jaw which
abolished the army canteen in which
/ beer was sold to enlisted men, and
concluded it to be good idea to carry
/ forward the abolition movement. The
result was that the secretary issued
the following order which went into
immediate effect:
"The use, or introduction for drink
ing purposes, of alcoholic liquor on
board a naval vessel or in any navy
| ward or station is hereby forbidden"
Under the new rule it was impos-
sible, and it has been impossible ever
since, for officers on board ship to
drink or serve liquor, and it has been
impossible for officers whose quarters
on shore are within the limits of a
navy yard to serve so much as a glass
i of claret at the dinner table.
Prohibition, so far as government
service. and the District of Columbia
itself are concerned, was matter of
evolution 1t was not very long after
the issuance Of the Daniels order that
congress established prohibition in the
! District Of Columbia. This was some
time before the Eighteenth amend
ment was submitted to the country for
ratification. 1t was generally believed
when the law preventing the sale of
liquor in the District was passed that
it forecast sympathetic action in con-
gress on the matter of submission OF
the prohibition amendment to the peo-
pie. Washington, therefore, was sup
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