(2 of 2)
In the House, Prohibition came to the fore when the Treasury and Post Office Departments' appropriation bill was disbursed. Representative James A. Gallivan, of Massachusetts, Democrat, spoke to a packed house on a section in the Treasury appropriation providing $250,000 for the arrest of violators of the prohibition law. He described a banquet given by two prohibition agents (as described in an official report):
"Glory be to God, what an appetite they must have had! How the prohibition agents do enjoy themselves at the expense of the people! Here I read, tips to maitre d'hotel, $10; to assistant maitre d'hotel, $5; to numerous waiters, $6. Why, when I give them a 25 cent tip downstairs, they nearly fall on my neck.
"Now, what did they eat? 'Supreme of Cantaloupes au Porte. . .' Then after dinner they had cigars and cigarets. But they did not heed the remark of that great Vice President, Thomas R. Marshall, about a good 'five-cent cigar. These birds had to have Corona-Coronas at 70¢ apiece."