Brookhart Bidmed for Broadcasting Tales About Host COX. SreCIAL seavien Washington, Nov. 5.
Describing before the Senate t>- day the famous. "Senate liquor party" given in Washington by Wall Street men in 1926, Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Towa to-day 4e-clared that President Hoover should demand the resignation of Mr. Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, and appoint someone such as General Smedley Butler to the Position.
General Butler's "clean-up" "netivities in Philadelphia some years ago, the vigour of which lost him his job as special clean-up chief, as the sort of effort which are now required throughout the country.
Senator Brookhart told the entire story of the liquor party. He namei no Senators who drank, however.
The story is believed to be included in the testimony he intends to give to the grand jury Tuesday.
Senator Brookhart also read to the Senate a letter received from Robert Mintone, berating him for what was termed "broadcasting tales about his Rest" and saying he might take a lesson in the code honour among gentlemen from two Washington reporters who recently. preferred to go to gaol rather than disclose information on the liquor situation which they had obtained in confidence.
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