Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1915 — ONE ON SECRETARY DANIELS [ARTICLE]

ONE ON SECRETARY DANIELS

Hm« of th, Navy Evidently Not an Expert as to the Odor of Alcoholic Liquors.

A story is going the rounds In Washington about Secretary of the Navy Daniels which may or may not reflect credit on that official, according to the point of view. According to this story the secreta/y was one morning conferring with an officer and in the middle of his conference Interrupted the proceedings to say: “This is the second morning that I have smelled whisky on your breath, sir!” To which the officer is said to have replied: “I beg your pardon, Mr. Secretary, it was whisky yesterday, but it is gin this morning.” No name has been allowed to leak out in connection with this story, and it may be that there is more Action than fact in it. —Boston Transcript