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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1913
Page
11
The Roosevelt libel case features Roosevelts testimony about his drinking habits. Witnesses, including Riis and Drs Lambert Rixey Murphy Bevan, defend his temperance, noting his restraint, health, and lack of intoxication during hunting trips and White House years.
In Marquette Michigan on May 27 Dr John Murphy of Chicago testified in deposition that Colonel Roosevelt showed five signs of sobriety after being wounded in Milwaukee The signs included no alcoholic odor on breath no enlarged liver no hand tremor no stimulants taken during treatment and a stable nervous system.
The excerpt recalls an African expedition where a case of champagne a case of whiskey and brandy were taken. Roosevelt notes the brandy was for him only, seven ounces given for medicine over 11 months, and champagne used for three sick party members and some sick strangers met on the journey.
President Wilson sent the Senate nominations for first assistant secretary of the interior Andrieus A. Jones of Las Vegas New Mexico and commissioner of the general land office Charles M. Bruce of Arizona in a May 27 dispatch from Washington.
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