Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-20

lavishly, as his vouchers show. Then
on the 18th of June we find the fol
lowing entry in his voucher:
Ten am, saw Venice and he gave
me reCeipted bill for S229 to cover eX-
penses of party of 10. including the
item of $61.75 for refreshments, but
which in reality was whisky, namely
five bottles of odd Smuggler' Scotch
whisky, and two rounds Of cocktails.
THE banquet was originally for II,
but only IS showed up, an unlucky
number for somebody in the prohibi-
ton department.; at $3.50 a plate. and
have the menu for that banquet.
which the department deemed. neces-
Sary in order that ii might secvre evil
dence against this hotel or some of its
managing directors. | know the
House will like TO hear how prohibition
agents enjoy themselves at the cx-
pense of the people. Listen to the
Lucullian feast they had, Here 1t is.
The banquet began with supreme of
cantaloupe au porte Think of II.
Supreme of cantaloupe au porte. Then
comes cold essence of tomato, celery,
olives, radisheS. salmon imperial, cold.
After that he needed something hot to
cheer him up. Then we have breast
of chicken t1orentine, and julienne po-
tatoes. asparagus holandaise, and then
they had cigarettes and cigars.
Came Well Supplied
Evidently the agent III charge had
never heard that we had Il wonderful
Vice President who died bur Il few
years ago, Thomas Riley Marshall.
who said that the best thing that he
had found in Washington was a scent
cigar: but these birds had to have
CnrnnD at nt f. N
wonder the House has had a demand
made upon IL by the taxpayers Of this
Republic to reduce the taxes. and
and gladly yesterday /
voted for the committee bill as 1t came
out of the committee reducing the
taxes; may | say this is one OF the
reasons why | voted with the majority
Of this House. We must cut the taxes
If We are going 10 spend the peoples
money on supreme OF cantaloupe'
and other things for the enforcement
of prohibition. Mary you, this man in
charge Of the frame-up had plenty Of
liquor when he registered at the hotel
in May. He came there we'll supplied.
He WOrmed his way into the good
graceS of some of the employees by
them up now and then 10
have u drink, and the night OF the
banquet he said to the head waiter,
! am all out of liquor, and you have
got to help me: of course, the head
waiter fell for il, and, according to
the voucher. he had six bottles of Old
Smuggler' Scotch | mention the
name now because, as the general
rule do not mention names as il
might look like Advertising, but YOU
cannot advertise liquor now any
where except here on the floor of the
House. They had cocktails, and then
they had some cordialS. and the hotel
waiter, mark you. brought into this
mans room the two hootleggerS from
outside and gave him their names and
telephone numbers so that he could
always be supplied; yet this prohlbl-
ton agent never laid hand on the
from that day to this. but
he caused 10 be arrested the hotel
waiter and his assistant | find that
all these vouchers We're approved by
the department, and / IND that the
money had been paid to this man who
was not the great Congressman from
Ohio, and who, probably. had never
heard of the distinguished Ohioan
until he was told by some one OF MS
chiefs to use the name or Theodore
T.. Burton. Let me read another Item
as this man recorded IT.
Expense of Banquet.
".To amount expended for giving
banquet to certain agents whose AT
tendance would enable them TO see
and testify concerning violations of
the national prohibition act. the sum
of 1929, the banquet being held in JET
ferson room of Mayfiower Hotel.
II want you gentlemen to pay
marked attention to this next thing
that I read, He had but 13 guests,
but he had to have printed invitations
for them!
"'For printing invitation cards in
connection with banquet. SOIL.
He lied in this voucher and l can
prove it.
Think of that Ten dollars and
eleven cents for the cards that in
vited these men to the feast at the
Mayflower. Now, we have an entry
of a tip to the maitre dhotel, $50
this tip was never received by Mr.
Venize-and "a tip to the assistant
maitre d'hotel, 50; and another item
of tip to walters, s.. Twenty dollars.
Why, if l give them % cents down
there they are ready to hug me.
Iaughter) Then, after having con
sumed six bottles of Old Smuggler'
whisky and various cocktails and
cordials, we have an item here for the
purchase of one bottle of Scotch whis-
ky, purchased for evidence, $40. OF
course, they already had the evidence,
but 1t was safely ensconsed within
them, and they felt it's cheering
warmth, and it would have needed a
stomach pump to produce it in court.
so they bought an extra bottle and
paid $40 more of the taxpayers
money. Iaughter)
Square Deal to People.
Il want the dry and the wet mem
bers of this House to read the story
as it is told in the committee hearings
and you will not wonder why / am
going to oppose the appropriation of
$3.50, 900 which was asked for in our
committee hearings for actions such
as l have been describing TO you.
shall not vote for one dollar to aid
men of that type to solicit and entrap
poor devils to commit crimes against
the law of, the land. and I hope this
House, when it is considering the bill
by paragraphs, will seriously ponder
as to whether it is a square deal to
the American people to waste $3.50 900
in that manner.
the Democratic side that ! would try
to complete my remarks in Is min
utes, and 1 am going to keep my
promise. So l shall not be able to
tell the House all that l wanted to saw
and am going to ask una nimous con-
sent to extend my remarks by insert
ing certain portions of the record
itself and nothing else.
THE Chairman - The gentleman
from Massachusetts, asks unanimous
consent to extend his remarks as in
dicated. Is there objection?
There was no objection.
Now. there is reason why these
fellows have done this thing. There
happened a, few weeks ago in Column
bus, Ohio, an incident where an agent
arrested a boy 10 years of age who