OCR Text |
Show i COURTESY OF FINIS J. GARRETT I i 1 $ - ' I x, y J it I ;v p f FA '- I X s . V Three cheers for Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, the chairman of the special spe-cial committee of the house which is investigating investigat-ing the long-drawn-out charges by Colonel Mul-hall Mul-hall that a choice collection of grafters could make congress eat out of their hands at any hour of the day and night. On a recent afternoon, when young Mr. Mo Michael was telling how he used to work with McDennott on various schemes in which the two of them were interested, it suddenly dawned dawn-ed upon several newspaper men present that if the committee kept on with its hearings much longer that day and if they held a night session there would be consternation in certain quarters owing to the fact that handsome young Mr. Sartwell of the Associated Press was to be married that evening, and many of the newspaper news-paper men present were to be ushers, guests and general background for the affair. So Bob Dougan, E. F. Ackerman and Joe Annin, as a committee, told Representative Garrett that either the wedding would be slimly attended or the world would go without the news of the lobby investigation. And Mr. Garrett with the most gracious manner possible, announced tnac a weaaing took precedence over a lobby hearing, and all went as happy as a marriage bell The committee adjourned in time to let young Ackerman try on his silk gloves, and no one suffered for a lack of news. |