The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-11-15
BROOKHART
EXPOSES BIG
BOOZE PARTY

" du eApecIdnL anu CiOSely dlteuL
i've senate today by Senator Smith
Wildman Brookhart of Iowa, who
said he sat between Otto Kahn
and E. E. LOOMS of the Morgan
company.
After throwing his invitation to
the dinner, received from Walter
J.. Fahy, Wall Street broker, into
the waste basket, Brookhart said,
he was urged to go to the dinner
by "our distinguished president
pro tenn" He referred to Senator
Moses, New Hampshire, who was
presiding.
81 said who is Fahy?" Brook
hart told the senate in relating his
conversation with Moses.
He said he is an old friend of
Norris and LaFollete," continued
the Iowan. And that's true,
guess. So l said l would 60"
In the reception at the
dinner, Brookhart said, there was
a rack and when some one lifted
a curtain there was revealed a row
of silver hip TASKS.
81 was told to help YOURSELF
A considerable number there did
help themselves. But l want it dis
tinctly understood that Senator
Smoot, who was there, did not
help himself and was as much dis
gusted as I was and as much
against it.
Senator Gooding didn't take a
flask and I didn't. AS to the other
boys they can say for themselves
whether they helped themselves.
Then we went into the dinner"
Brookhart related that when he
arrived at the hotel meeting place
the first person he saw was Otto
Kahn.
ut didn't occur to me that he
was much of a friend of Norris
and La Toilette" he continued,
"but l went on"
Wall Streeters at Dinner
The Iowan picked up the pro-
gram of the dinner with the list
of guests but he did not read it.
remarked that there were a
number of wall Streeters" there.
Senator Thomas of Idaho, later
reached over to Brookhart's desk
to take a look at the program and
Brookhart halted his speech to de-
clare "get away from there"
Brookhart and Kahn brought up
the matter of railroad %consolida-
ion in which he (Brookhart) was
Interested.
after demolishing all my theor-
es about economic Matters the
.owan continued, Kahn proceeded
o "eulogize the New York stock I
exchange" and said what a won
lerful benefit it was to the people S
If my state" e
A some what similar conversa- Y
ion took place between him and !
1oomis, Brookhart said. /
During the course of the din !
Ter, he asserted, Mr.. Loomis
took his beautiful silver hip t
Task and poured out some of that v
lcoholic stuff in a glass and mix +
d it with water-it was too n
trong to take raw and he drank h
v
Others down and around the q,
able" followed suit, he said, and y
hen Senator Gooding and I u
roke away" 0
He said he was called back by II
enator Edge, republican, N. j., :
asked him if he did not know B
e was sitting between Kuhn, I
.oeb and company and Morgan il
nd Co. II
Don't you think they contain
you a little?" the Iowan IL
noted Edge as saying. eC
Iaccinated" Against Wall Street &C
Brookhart said he replied that al
was "vaccinated" against all al
at and for that reason was ri
invited to a Wall Street &C
nner again. az
A well filled chamber was on
md for the promised disclosures 81
the Iowan and the senate SEEM tn
to relax from the tension of to
e long tariff struggle as the Id
embers turned their chairs a. hi
und to face the senator who so
God in his accustomed place in wi
e rear row. m,
Speaking in a high pitched
ice which cracked several times
'ookhart literally shrieked that Ell
cohol is an evil and a poison. bl;
= said he started ION that Gle
cory" lit
The senator chose for his text:
on must begin with the big fell mi
VS." on law enforcement. He foi
n%gratulated president Hoover, fel
ce President Curtis and Sir Es- of
Howard, the British ambassa- ne
r on their personal attitude to-
I'd enforcement. Br
He said that unless the other PR
.mbers of diplomatic corps sta Ne
ned at Washington voluntarily i'm.
lowed the lead of the British The
.%bassador, he would be in favor the