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19 1. George Cassiday, "Capitol Tipplers had Weakness For Rye, Bourbon, Says Cassiday," e Washington Post, October 28, 1930. 2. While the 18th Amendment, and it companion enforce- ment legislation, the National Prohibition Act (Volstead Act), took effect nationwide on January 17, 1920, alcohol bans were already in place in certain jurisdictions. Texas Senator Morris Sheppard sponsored the Sheppard Act, which closed D.C. saloons in 1917; Linda Wheeler, "e Day it Poured: Just 60 Short Years Ago, e Ban on Booze in D.C. was About to be Lied," e Washington Post, February 27, 1994; Garrett Peck, Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: How Dry We Weren't (Charles- ton, S.C.: e History Press, 2011), pp. 33-34. 3. "WASHINGTON'S PROHIBITION FARCE," e New York Times, January 14, 1923. 4. Cassiday, "20 to 25 Orders Daily Called Fair Capitol Trade by Cassiday," e Washington Post, October 26, 1930. 5. Cassiday, "'e MAN in the GREEN HAT': Cassiday Reveals Rum Dealings in U.S. Senate Office Building," e Washington Post, October 27, 1930. 6. "BOOZE SHY AND HIGH WITH CAPITOL: Boot- leggers Raise Price Aer Sleuths are Set to Watch Avenues to Senate and House," e Baltimore Sun, May 19, 1921. 7. Newspaper articles during this time period used the spellings "employe" and "whisky"; in this article, the spellings, "employee" and "whiskey" are used outside quotations. In 1921, $7 was worth the equivalent $93 in 2015. "BOOTLEGGERS ACTIVE IN CAPITOL ANNEXES: Whisky Said To Be Peddled," e Baltimore Sun, May 18, 1921. 8. "BOOZE SHY AND HIGH WITH CAPITOL: Boot- leggers Raise Price Aer Sleuths are Set to Watch Avenues to Senate and House," e Baltimore Sun, May 19, 1921. 9. "CAPITOL IS BARRED TO BOOTLEG GENTRY: Senate Rules Committee Chairman Issues Drastic Order to Police Force," e Baltimore Sun, December 24, 1922. 10. Ibid. 11. "CAPITOL BOOTLEGGER GONE: Senator Curtis Has Negro Waiter Who Dropped Flask Dismissed," e New York Times, December 27, 1922. 12. "WASHINGTON'S PROHIBITION FARCE," e New York Times, January 14, 1923. 13. "WASHINGTON AGAPE AT LIQUOR PATRONS: Bootlegger's List Has Men and Women High in Official and Military Life," e Baltimore Sun, March 13, 1923. 14. e Congressional Record, 67th Cong., 4th sess., Feb. 24, 1923, p. 4517. 15. e Congressional Record, 68th Cong., 1st sess., March 7, 1924, p. 3772. 16. In 1926, Senator Coleman Blease, a Democrat from South Carolina, declared "Bootleggers reap a harvest selling liquor at the Capitol." While some "dry" members denied sena- tors and representatives would buy alcohol, Blease reported that "e trouble with Congress is that they vote dry and drink wet." "BLEASE CALLS CAPITOL RICH BOOTLEG MARKET: Tells Police Liquor Venders Make Rounds of Office Buildings Daily," e Washington Post, March 12, 1926. 17. "WASHINGTON AGAPE AT LIQUOR PATRONS: Bootlegger's List Has Men and Women High in Official and Military Life," e Baltimore Sun, March 13, 1923. 18. Ibid. Notes LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, PRINTS & PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION Rep. John Philip Hill (le), the outgoing congressional "wet" leader, congratulates Rep. John C. Linthicum, who was elected to succeed him as "wet" leader (c. 1927). Both representatives were om Maryland, a state that resisted Prohibition more strongly than many others.