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isiana — Tuesday, fair, cooler in portion; Wednesday, fair.
ansas — Tuesday, fair, somewhat r; Wednesday, fair.
t Texas—Tuesday, fair, cooler in east portion; Wednesday, fair.
CE FIVE CENTS PER COPY
SELF
POISON BOOZE
FIGHT RAGES
IN CONGRESS
Personal Observance of Dry Law by Members Under Attack in Talks
Washington, Jan. 3 (A).—The controversy over deaths during the holiday season from drinking poisoned alcohol reached both the senate and house floors Monday as soon as congress reconvened. At both ends of the capitol the personal conduct of members in the observance of the dry law was questioned, and before sunset the discussion had reached the treasury, where both Secretary Mellon and Lincoln C. Andrews, the prohibition enforcement chief, issued statements.
Caustic Speeches Made.
While Representative Celler, Democrat of New York, was accusing his colleagues in the house of “drinking to excess,” Senator Edwards, Democrat of New Jersey, in a lengthy speech in the senate was condemning the “hypocrisy of some representatives of the people who vote dry and drink wet.”
Celler declared that members of