Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1925 — Page 6

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SOME LAWMAKERS DRINK, SOME DON’T % That's What Miss Robertson, Former Member of House, Says—Believes Conditions Are Improving,

Bu Times Special e---l USKOGEE, Okla., Jan. 9. |]\m Revelations of drinking and I***l other indiscreet conduct by Congressmen In Washington, as contained in the divorce trial of Representative Scott of Michigan, have been no surprise to Miss Alice Robertson. She herself observed the same things. But Miss Robertson, who is 71 years old and was the second woman ever to be elected to Congress, doesn’t think Congressmen are gen-, erally a bad lot. She admits that she sometimes noticed liquor on Congressional breaths, that she once saw a Congressman intoxicated on the floor of the House and that she often attended functions where i quor flowed freely, but she asserts that bad constituencies are to be blamed for bad representatives. Fault of People All theee scenes of official “inquity” were forced upon Miss Robertson and she implies that she would have seen much more had she been on the lookout for It. “You always And what you look for," she declared in an interview. "But I resent the attacks on our Congressmen,” she said. "There are some who come there who do wrong things, bilt that is the fault of the people who send them there.” “While in Congress,” Miss Robertson continued, warming to the subject, “I saw one Representative intoxicated on the floor of the House. No, don’t mention his name. The black sheep at Washington are sent there by the black sheep at home.” Confronted with the direct question, “is there really much drinking

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eral rule, I believe that the Congressmen are a sincere and law-abid-ing lot. “I went to many social functions in Washington, however, where liquor*was available to those who wished it; and where thd host or hostess always called attention to the fact that it was powerful stuff and good, as good goes in such j cases. Bridge is the only form of j gambling that I noticed, and I did! not approve of that.” Sometimes, however, temptation comes to lawmakers in heavy doses, for: ' j “I attended one affair that I recall, where a cocktail was served at

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my arrival wine served with the dinner and other drinks were available in the library after dinner,” the former Congresswoman declared. Things Improving Conditions in Washington and throughout the country ard nevertheless Improving, according to Miss Robertson. She dwelt upon the night life and immorality existing in i the nation’s capital when she went | there as a to clerk In the Indian | Offloe more than fifty years ago. “There wag a bar at the Capitol then,” she recalled, “and immorality existed in some instances among the Congressional set.” Mias Robertson, who devoted many years of her younger life to the edu-

cation of the Indians, and who was swept to the national Capitol with the Republican landslide of 1920, ! s now ponductlrig a quiet, sedate roadhouse in a suburb, where she features a first-class chicken dinner. “The main trouble is,” she con tinued, “that the salary of a Con gressman is not sufflicient for the upkeep of his office. I went to Con gress for two years and when I re turned to Oklahoma, I had to go to work.” ■I ■■■ - • f La Porte Is Two Words Bfi Times Special ' LA PORTE, In<J., Jan. I.—The local postoffict has received word from Washington, ordering the spelling

of La Porte as two worus with a capital “P.” Lincoln Guard Dead Bv Times Special BEDFORD, Ind., Jan. 19.—Word has been received cf the death of Emmanuel Stairs, 83, former local resident, at Portland, Ore.. He was one of the first surviving members of tile old body guard for President Lincoln. s Com King Named Bu Times Special I COLUMBUS, Ind., Jan. .—Hannibal Arnold of Shelby County was corn king today. He won the honor at the annual com show here.

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