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- 2 ¥ DAUGHERTY BANK BLOCKS AUDITOR Brother of Attorney General . Scores Methods of Agent § of Senate Probers. Py the Amociated Press. WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE. Ohio, March 20.—M. S. Daugherty, president of the Midland National Bank of this city and brother of At- torney General Daugherty, today re- fused to permit John Phelom, a spe- cfal accountant sent by the Senate committee probing the conduct of the Department of Justice under the ad- ministration . of Attorney General Daugherty to examine records of the bank, to continue with his work along the plan he had adopted. Mr. Daugherty said that Mr, Phe- lom appeared at the bank yesterday with authority given him by the sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate. This written authority speci- fied that he was to examine the de- posit ledgers of the bank since No- vember 1, 1920, also notes, files and transoripts of owners of every safety deposit box, and records of income drafts and records of individual ac- counts showing withdrawals of amounts of $25,006 o over since that period. Immediately upon presentation of his authority Mr. Daugherty said he permitted Mr. Phelom to start his work and furnished everything he requested. Late vesterday Mr. Daush- orty said he observed that Mr. Phe- lom was preparing to make an ex- amination of the bank's statements and patrons private accounts. Mr. Daugherty said he then informed M Phelom that he could not, out of fai ness to his patrons, whose affairs he eaid he regarded as being outside the scope of the Washington investiga- tion, continue along the lines he was following. Mr. Daugherty said that Mr. Phelom then asked him if he refused to per- mit him to proceed with his invest za tion and was told that he did not, but that until he was advised to the con- trary he would not permit the privato affairs of the patrons of the bank to te pried into. Mr. Phelom may procced with his examinaton to the full limit of his authority and he will not meet with uny interference, Mr. Daugherty said today. AGENTS ORDERED HERE. Navarro and Dwyer Reported to Have Been in Film Case. HONOLULU, March 20.—Ralph Na- varro and D. F. Dwyer, Department of Justice secret agents, ordered yes- terday to Washinzton, are reported to have had previous connection with ‘nvestigations into the showing of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight films. Navarro has been in connection with the Daugherty investigation. : Implication is made here that Na- varro will be asked to tell whether his transfer from eastern United States to Haitl was caused by his ac- tivities in unearthing plans to exhibit fight films. S — DENIES LOTTERY CHARGE. U. S. Attorney Defends Mutual Benefit League. SYRACUSE, N. Y., March 20.—De- nial that the Mutual Benefit League of North America, which he repre- ments as counsel, is a lottery, as crarged by Macon Stewart of Galve: ton, Tex., before the Senate commit- :e’ investigating Attorney General Daugherty, was _made in a statement y Oliver D Burden of Syracuse, Tnited States attorney for the north- ern district of New York. DAUGHERTY NAMIED IN DEAL, IS CHARGE Lawyer Said to Have Told of Getting $200,000,000 Ma- terial for $17,000,000. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, March 20.—Mar- tin J. Powers, a wealthy Philadelphia attorney, was charged in an affidavit read by Charles E. Oelschlager, an architect, in a magistrate’s hearing yesterdzy, according to the Public Ledger, with having declared prior to the opening of the Senate oil inves- tigations that through Influence with Attorney General Daugherty and oth- er high government offictals he had been able to purchase for $17,000,000 refrigerator machinery stored at Chattanooga, Tenn., which had cost the government $200,000,000. The afiidavit also alleged, the Pub- 1ic Ledger says, that Powers told Oel- schlager that through his influence with Waushington officials he had been able to have a number of breweries reopened after they had been cloted by prohibition officials, and had been able to “get in on the ground floor of the Teapot Dome oil deal.” Powers, charged with fraudulently withholding, converting and applying 10 his own use $6,120, alleged to have been given to him to pay Internal revenue taxes and storage charge: on whisky, was held in $3,000 bail for court. He denied last night the allegations contained in Oelschlager's affidavit, and declared that Oelschlag- er was “irresponsible. “The country is already too much disturbed by the investiations,” said Poworss “and 1 do not want to 1k about it. But I deny everythin The affidavit wa. the basis of the charges. of fraudient conversion of moroy on which Michael Circelll, a local real estate dealer, had a war- rant issued for Power's arrest. In his afdavit as published by the r Oelschlager swore that Pow ers had told him of a “post office deal in New York city, opposite thi Penusylvania railroad station, Showed me a letter which Daugherty had written to the Postmaster Gen- eral instructing him to give favor- able and immediate consideration to friends of Powers in order to wet through a deal for a new post office on_that site’ Continuing, the affidavit said: Powers boasted of knowing inti- mately Attorney Gencral Daugherty, Mrs, Harding, James G. Darden and rumerous ofiicials in Washington, as well as Gov. Edwards and many men | in_official life in Philadelphia. He told me all about his breweries, how they had been closed, and through nis official connections in Washingtor how he, was enabled to open them again Senator Walsh to Speak. Senator David I. Walsh of Massa- chusetts has accepted an invitation to address members of the Police- men's Association at a meeting in Pythian Temple Thursday. March 27. Policeman C. J. P. Weber, ¢halrman of the comuiittee in ch and | Jap To_ Readiness THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Muma Lays His Troubles to Help Any One Ohio Newspaper Man in New Ya}k, Central Figure in Fight Film Inquiry, Politicians in BY ROBERT T. SMALL, “Jap” Muma, who leaped overnight from the “obscurity” of the blazing lights of Broadway to the headlines of every newspaper In the country, often thinks of himself as the “Happy Hooligan” of eastern journal- ism. He says he is always trying to help some one else, usually with dis- astrous results to himself. “Jap” also says he belongs to a dying race— the old-time reporter. “I know what's going on all the time, but I can’t write it,” complains the man who has become a central figure in the Senate inquiry into the Department of Justice. Muma has already become known on Capitol Hill as the moving spirit in what is called the prize-fight film episode. He is one of the most widely known newspaper men in New York, where he has lived and grown up with the town for the past forty years. Muma is well along in his fifties and has spent_most of his adult life as the New York correspondent of the Cin- cinnati Enquirer. He was working for John R. McLean wnen Nea Mc- Lean, the present owner of the pa- per, was in his swaddling clothes. Works Now and Then. | _Muma is a sort of Institution on the Enquirer, working when he feels like it, which most of the time he doesn’t. He is always on tap. how ever, when any one wants anything done. He is known from one end of Ohio to the other and ha many and as wide a diversity of friends as any man in the United States. “Jap” loves the importance of doing things for other people. Nothing is too amall or tvo big for him. He will reserve a seat at the theater for a friend with as much ceremony as he charters a yacht for a trip around the world. “Jap” Muma’s name was ve fusing to the members of the Senate committee when they first heard it, but it is no more picturesque than the owner of it. _*Jap” is not Muma's real name, but he uses it on all his business and social cards. Out in Ohio they say his rexular given name is Jasper. ap” blushes when he hears it and insists that “Jap” is good enough for him. When he wants to be very dignified he calls himself J. C. Muma. _His last name is a contrac tion of Mumaugh, the shorter spelling having been adopted by all the mem- bers of his family. Muma is a Canadian by birth. He is rather tall, heavy set and has what might be called a blonde complexion, he hair being a light silver. Muma wears many glasses—not all at the same time—but during the course of an evening he will change pairs at least three or four times. The most characteristic thing about him is an infectious laugh. Is Strongly Democratic, Although Ned McLean has aligned himself recently with the republican party, Jap Muma, his trusted employe, has always remained stalwart in his attachment to the democratic party. TEX RICKARD DECLARES THAT HE WAS “BUNKED” IN DEAL FOR FIGHT FILM (Continued from First Page.) of showing_wasn't part of-the scheme by which the picture showers in each state were arrested and fined once. Rickard disagreed. He said he didn’t know of that. Senator Wheeler asked as to Al- fred R. Urion, a Washington lawyer, and Rickard sald he “got into the pictures through Martin. “You were the man who was ar- rested and took the fine in Chicago?” Senator Wheeler asked. “Yes, sir.” “Anywhere else?” “In New York I was arrested.” Senator Wheeler asked if Justice Landis_in Chicago had tried him. Rickard said it was Judge Carpenter. “The expenses in Chicago were very large?” s “Quimby said they were. Doubtful About Fees. «Wasn't_there $35,000 or so paid to attorneys?” “I don't see how there was that much—the sale was for $25,000," Rickard said; “Quimby sald there was a loss there of $5,600.” He produced records. Senator Wheeler examined them, remarking: 1 see you got $25000 in Califor- nia? You knew there had been no legislation passed to allow these pic- tures to be shown interstate?’ ~Sen- ator Wheeler resumed, “and not- Withstanding that—you went ahead, shipping these all over the country— and gave Orr 20 per cent of the net— Muma 15 per cent and Martin 15 per_cent? Rickard remarked that “disabled soldiers” in New York had asked for the showing. “Oh, don’t hide behind the disabled soldiers,” Wheeler told him. “I'm mot” Rickard said, “let me tell about New York. I took the film there for them, and Hayward told me T'd committed a crime and would have to pay for it How Film Got in New York. “So I was fined, and then the film was in New York. My attorney said there was no law against showing it, and we went ahead.” ~ “Yes—and then you took it fo Il- “T aid.” Senator Wheeler read from the rec- ord that $82,784 had been spent in New York on the film expense, fines and all. i “Why should you give up 15 per jcent to Jap Muma and these others?" “I got bunked, that's all,” Rickard returned. There was a laugh. “Yet you made & second contract with these men?” “Yes—we got afrald of the censor board in New York, and got Orr to work on it, and got past the board in_August, 1921, Rickard said. Rickard repeated his first idea was “to get a law passed. “You don't want to tell us that, with your experience, you fell for their story; that these men were go- jing to get a law passed in a few days?” Senator Wheeler sald. “They talked to me as though they could get it through in two weeks,” Rickard replied. Denles Influence Pledge. “They told you they had influence here to get by?” “They did not.” “Didn’t they tell you they had in- “They did not.” Senator Wheeler pressed him as to why he had gone on with the inter- ltltAQ‘ nhowln“m % ¥ “After we g 80 easy in New i York,” Rickard responded,“we thought we'd try In the rest of the country.” To a series of questions as to Muma and Martin's service, he said: “They didn’t do anything for what they got—they got it for nothing.” 'ou want us to understand you went Into & second contract to give . Orr 20 per cent and these three men 30 per cent?” Senator Wheeler de- P ey haa first tract,” *“The: A the cont o = replied. . | “But that was valid,” Senator ‘Wheeler retorted. Rickard said they “had an interest.” No Rickard repeated that neither Orr nor Muma had pretended to have im- fluence with the Attorney General. Wheeler dropped him, Paul How- land, attorney for Mr, gherty, an- nounced no_cross-examination. Senator lona .,;; ington, as] upence with the Attorney General?" Friend of Many Noted Both Parties. He learned his democracy from John R. McLean and believes in it. That he should be credited with so much influence” in a republican admini- stration here in Washington is at least a tribute to his versatility. Muma long has been the intimate friend and confidant of men prominence in the political and busi- ness worlds. His offices in New York and his apartment, in the very midst of the “roaring forties,” are filled with the autographed photographs of these men of affairs. With most of these men Jap Muma is the first person they call up when they reach the metropolis. Likc the jolly jack or a frolic, He knows his New York from the darkest corners of the bowery to the uppermost reaches of Riverside Drive. His activities at like all “typical” New Yorkers Muma feels that when you leave old Broad- way you are only camping out. Those who know Jap Muma say that he is bursting with pride that he should suddenly have come in for such nation-wide discussion, but at the same time he would like to know anxious to know what the finish is going to be before he starts anything. That goes for horse racing, too. One of his friends named & horse for him, and the equine Jap Muma has won some rather tidy purses down in Cuba this winter. Jap generally has a small bet down on his namesake, but seldom has thought better of the horse than $5 or §10. Man of Many Words. Muma is a poor man and admits it. He says his salary is not all that it ought to be, but he is happy in his work and wouldn't change it for the world. i From all that has been testified to in Washington, Muma is known by now as a man who talks heaps, reams—veritable tidal waves of con- versation. But like all loguacious persons, he has the utmost contempt for other people who talk a great deal. “Tell that fellow anything and he'll let the whole jail out.” he has often said In expressing his lack of confidence in a Eabby guy. Jap Is a hard person to beat. Re- cently one of his closest friends, epending the winter in New York, bet Jap a suit of clothes and an over- coat that he couldn't stay on the water wagon from Thanksgiving un- til next Derby day at Louisville, May 17. Jap bet that he could. e mount- ed the wagon and became drier than any member of the whole Volstead family. He also became silent and morose. Each evening he would visit his friend, take an evening paper with him and sit in the corner and read. It got on the friend’s nerves. He askéd Jap to stay away, but Jap wouldn’t. He kept coming around drier and more morose than ever. Finally the friend could stand it no longer. “I'll give you two suits of clothes and two overcoats if you'll fall off the damn wagon,” he said. “You're on.” said Jap, and from that time forward a plcasant evening was had. (Oopyright, 1924.) *“Probably influence is a more po- lite word,” Senator Jones agreed. “T'd like to make a statement” Rickard went on. “T'd like to teil the amounts actually given to Muma and Martin. The entire profits were $36,056 in the states outside of Jersey. “The amount—I think—paid Muma and 7 in. “You think?" Senator Wheeler put Burmed Up the Bookn: “Well, Quimby went to Germany and burned up the books” Rickard went on. "This was what I had, Orr got about $4,000, Muma $3,381, and Martin $3,38L." “You are the same Rickard who sald up in New York, youd bet a million dollars they didn't get Daugh- erty?" Senator Wheeler asked. 1 didn’t make any million-dollar remark,” Rickard said. Senator Wheeler read a record of $131,000 gross receipts from the pic- ture in New York. Expenses includ- ed 32,500 as attorney fees to Alfred S. Urion, a man named Dickerson got $2,500 and Sanborn $5,000, Sen- ator Wheeler proceeded. ‘Were Not Attorneys’ Fees. “These all marked as attorney fees,” he commented. ‘Sanborn isn't an attorney, nor is Dickorson,” Rickard returned. These wero men who took the films to other states, he explained. “You entered into an agreement on June 30 for transportation of these to films in violation of the law?" Sena- ! tor Wheeler asked. “No, sir; it was an evidence of good faith. “But no law was passed?” “Yes, sir.” in? “Because I thought these men weren't doing any good. “Yet you were willing to give them 30 per cent?” “1 did do it.” “And you went ahead and shipped them—and you've never been prose- cuted for this conspiracy?” N “I haven't—I was threatened with £ “When?” Hadn't Met Daugherty. M"Qulmby told me he was in Novem- . Rickard asserted he hadn’t met At- torney General Daugherty. ‘How did Urion, the Attorney Ge: eral's friend, come t torney in this matter “He wasn't except in Nabraska or | Minnesota.” Senator Wheeler cited the $2,500 payment to Urion in New York. Tapestries at 15 Former Prices Our entire stock is included. If you have furniture that needs npholzterint:hio is cer- tainly the time to have it done. The Lanshargh Co. Interior Decorators 729 Eleventh St. of | tar, Jap is always ready for a fight times also extend to the Bronx, but | what it is all about and how it is go- | ing to turn out. Jap a'ways has been | Ri »Why did you insist that Orr be put i all the arrangements.” Rickard ssid. 'You'd never employed Urion in any case except in this case?’ Senator whleb;er asked. % n't employ him then—Quim- by, did,” Rickard replied. b Don’t you know the reasons why {:::ee:punun were 80 big, was be- c e was tause he was paying out a'lot to fix we T don’t know that,” said Rickard, Quimby pald out a iot of money he didn’t account for, but I think it was from one pocket to another.” Oh, yes, and you paid out to Orr 20 per cent yourself to fix things?" Yorl: to pass censorship up in New Thought They Could Get Law. _ “Who broached this matter of a 150 per cent dalvision in the first (Place?” Senator Jones wanted to know. HE “Myma and Martin,” sald Rickard. i{“They thought they’ could get the {law passed and that it would be worth {something.” Muma, he thought was “a very in- ‘fluential fellow” with a lot of friends in_the Senate.” The first contract provided the two men were to get the law passed with- in_two weeks. |, “I thought it was pretty funny business at Chicago,” Rickard com- mented a little later, “when we paid $35,000 to get the films in.” Chalrman Brookhart pushed the quizzing on this point. | T paver could get a statement ‘(rnm Quimby,” Rickard repeated. “He {went to Germany." lapAnd all the showing of power and influence Muma made to you was statement he knew a few Sena- 7" Chairman Brookhart asked. He said he knew some,” replied | Rickard. | . “But you got by with the showing?" |Senator Wheeler asked. i Made Money for U. S. { “We made the government some ! money with the 10 per cent amuse- i ment tax,” said Rickard. ! Mr. Howland took him up. ! _“Quimby testified here that Mr. | Hayward, district attorney in New ! York, suggested you lay low for { thirty days,” Mr. Howland said. The committee members objected. It was “somebody in Hayward's office who made the suggestion, according to Quimby,"” Howland corrected. “I didn't’ hear that,” Rickard said. He said Hayward told him “they all QuEht to be in Jail.” He was fined the mit. “You didn't tell the court you were going to make the fine money back out ‘of the showing?’ Chairman Brookhart asked. ," Rickard said. He said that the Chicago district attorney asked the court to “uphold the dignity of Illinois by fining me as much as they did in New York.” He was dropped. Would See Bank Books. “Mr. Chairman, understand that the Midland Nationai Bank, of which Mr. Mel Daugherty is president,” Senator Wheeler began, “has refused to al low the committee’s auditor to ex- amine its books. I now ask that a subpoena be issued to bring its books here.” Senator Moses, republican, New “Hampshire, suggested an executive session. Senator Wheeler refused. He said Attorney General Daugherty's counsel had agreed to the examina- tion. . ““This committee has no right to &0 into these bank books for any pur- pose except to show accounts of ref- erence to this inquiry former Sen- ator Chamberlain of the Attorney |General's "counscl eaid.” The dis- cussion was laid back temporarily and Mr. Robb, chief file clerk of the Department of Justice, was called. Disposition of Letters. Senator Wheeler got the witness to explain that letters from the prohi- bitlon bureau went to the Attorney General or his assistants. All “com- munioations of unusual Inportance” and all replies to his letters, ' Robb eaid, went to the Attorney General's office. Jess W. Smith, Robb went on, got no departmental mail. A telephone clerk kept records of wire communications; Senator Wheeler asked for a list of all cases filed in the Department of Justice since March 4, 1921, when Mr. Daugherty took office. ~Mr. Howland aaid an attempt would be made to furnish it. Robb said it was a “Her- { culean task.” Before leaving the witness chair Robb testified that he never sent any departmental mail to Howard Man- nington, heretofore fdentified as hav- ing a desk in “the little green house on K street” and being involved in the “whisky “deals” testified to by rr. Muma Fafls to Appear. Jap Muma was called to the stand after Robb. Muma, however, did not appear. “Is Spellacy here?' Senator Wheeler i i i Choice of Our Entire Stock of i Ladies’ and Men's i WATCHES asked. T. G. Spellacy, a former jus- tice agent, was named by Gerald O. Holdridge as able to confirm the al- legations as to the fight fllms conspiracy, Again there was a wait. He did not appear, and H. F. Taff, superintend- ent of tho Western Union Washing- ton office, was called. ! He brought with him telegrams ex- | changed between Jess Smith In ‘Washington Court House, Ohio, and Attorney General Daugherty In Wash- ington.; He also had some from San Antonio and Texas points. He ob- jected to producing them except un- der order. Chairman Brookhart over- | ruled the objection and said the com- mittee would receive them in execu- tive sesslon. Spellacy Takes Stand. The Washington Court House tele- erams Mr. Taff gave the committee ! were sent during the months of March, April and May, 1923. Previous messages have been destroyed, he said. “Are we entitled to inspect these ! messages? Mr. Howland asked. “After we get through’ Chairman Brookhart returned. Mr. Taff left the, records. { Spellacy then took the stand. 3 “I notice a newspaper account in which you denied you talked with Jap Muma,” Senator Wheeler said “One newspaper man caught me, but I told him T had nothing to say.” Spellacy said, “I know Jap Muma very well.” Spellacy agreed that he had made an affidavit to Holdridge's written re- ports upon Muma and the alleged con- | spiracy, saying the reports were cor- | rect, { Makes Some Corrections. “There are a few little changes T: would like to make.” Spellacy added. | He first met Jan Muma several years ago. He joined the Department of, Justice in 1921, Spellacy went on, and | was_ordered to report for duty to} Holdridge, in northern New York. | In the fall of 1521, Spellacy stated, he took Holdridge to call on Muma in the Ansonia Hotel, New York. i “Muma had often told you of his| acquaintance with the Attorneyv Gen- eral and Mr. Burns?” Senator Wheeler asked. “He aid." Muma had Daugherty’s autograph- ed picture and a letter or two from the Attorney General to show. The letters showed Muma got some sort of a position for an old_gentle- man through Mr. Daugherty, Spellacy went on. “To be frank with you, T had a great admiration for Muma and believed In the influence he had. 1 wanted him to get a promotion for my chief, believing the chief would take care of me when he went up in the department.” Told of Showing Fiim. “Muma told you of showing the fight pictures in Washington to Pres- ident Harding, to Mr. Daugherty, to several members of the cabinct?” Sena- tor Wheeler asked. “Yes, sir,” Spellacy sald, “By that time my breath was gone.” : Muma, Spellacy said, convinced him that as pretty well up to the throne “He thought a good deal of George Christian, sald they were good friends,” Spellacy went on. “He said Mr. Daugherty said trans- porting the picture around the coun- try was against the law, but the law was made for a nigger.” “Did he (Muma) say Daugherty sent him to Urion?" “Yes, but I believe Muma said, too he'd known Urion a long time.” “You and Muma are good friends?” “As long as I've known hi haven't scen Mr. Muma since the Thinks Daugherty Quoted. “Do_you remember Muma saying that the Attorney General told him he ought to get a big cut, at least 50, per cent?” “I think he said something about Mr. Daugherty saying he ought to get an interest” . Spellacy remembered some of Holdridge's reports on other detalls. “I remember Muma saying that Urion and Mr. Daugherty were asso- clate counsel in some Chicago case.” he _sald. “Remember that Muma sald he did g0_to Urion?" cXes that he saw Urion quite »ften. “And_that at these meetings they planned how to send the pictures ar! nd the country?” state, to be fined?” don’t remember just as to that— to comnect up that goat word—the: used some characteristic language.’ Called “Jap” By Harding. He recollected that Muma had told of seeing Ned McLean. Senator Wheeler read from Holdridge's re-: port where Muma was represented as | calling himself the “master mind,”| the friend of President Harding “who calls me Jap. 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Muma had told the story to Burns, he had said, Spellacy declared. “Muma showed me the contract he said he got with Tex Rickard,” Spellacy went on, “I only got a quick look and saw the name ke Martin slgned to it.” With Urion, Muma and Holdridge, Spellacy said, he had gone to break- “Remember_a young lady coming in,” Senator Wheeler proceeded, “and as the widow of a the widow of some “You wrote no pleading letters?” He Was Demoerat. “Oh, no,” Spellacy said, “1 had the reputation of being a democrat, and when Mr. Harding was elected and Burns took office 1 expected to get the rush.” “What changes did you make Holdridge's statement Howland inquired. “Well, as I remember Muma's state- ment,” Spellacy began, “it wasn't that Mr. Daugherty suggested a 50 per cent cut, but that he thought Muma was interceding far Tex Rickard, and that Daugherty said Muma ought to get an interest for that. Muma said he told Daugherty he was going to get an interest.”” He thought his chances “didn't amount to much.” Wan Asked to Resign. Spellacy said he was asked to send in his resignation after a row in the Sunset Inn. “My conscience is clear about that matter,” Spellacy said, “I didn’t want to be removed under a cloud—I want- ed to be reinstated and then resign.” Spellacy agreed that he faked * polite way of gettini the gate.” Mr. Howland produced a letter from Speliacy to former Senator Calder, ying the writer would furnish the “everlasting _gratitude of himself and his family” for a reinstatement “Did you ever check up on these conversation® with Muma to see if they are true?” Howland asked. nd you didn't attend any of those parties down on K strect with the Atorney neral, either?’ Senator Wheeler shot in. “1 object.” Howland said. “You'll object and I'll ask the ques- tion,” Wheeler said, “if this is the way this examination is going. to at- tack and besmirch every witness.” Room in an Uproar. There was an uproar in the room. “And vou haven't been to any of the parties on K street™ Wheeler went om. . No, sir,” Spellacy said. ‘And you haven't had any of the Walsh girls for sweethearts, have you No, sir”" ‘The exaynination Wheeler recalled statement aud, nt_to Mr. quieted down. O. Holdridge' refcrring to Burn public statement to newspapers, ask- ed for a letter from Mrs. Holdridge to Burns, ‘The letter asked Mr. Burns “not to take away his good reputagion” speaking of her husband. It said there was a “terrible injustice being perpetrated” against her husband. Plea From His Wife, “No man who has grossly wronged another can remain successful,” the letter went on, addressing Burns. “Just put yourself in my place, to look at my husband, who has been so loyal “After you wers reinstated, Mr. Holdridge, did Mr. Burns direct you to go on a trip with the President of the United States?” Senator Wheeler asked. “He did.” Holdridge put in a letter from the editor of the Knickerbocker Press, which said an injustice had been done to Holdridge by its account of his ar- rest at the Sunset Inn. “Mr. Burns has said 1 wept like a child. Nothing to him,” Holdridge said. “Mr. Burns is a liar.” ‘ou may cross-examine,” Wheeler said. - “That's enough,” Howland retorted. The session adjourned. No Important Disclosures. There were no very important dis- closures in the sheaf of teicgrams received today by the committee, ac- cording to members. They contained THE The Book Thas Shows Uscle Sam At Work B R R T EEE——————. vrincipally personal messages be- tween Jess Smith and his divorced wife Roxie Stinson. None of the telegrams from Texas were those of either Edward L. Do- heny or Harry F. Sinclair, whose mes- sages were called for under the subpoena. They were said to be almost entirely from Gus T. Jones, a_federal officer” once attached to the Mexican Investigation committee. headed by A. B. Fall. Senator Wheeler a; rman Brooknart had o heated semument with the Daugherty counsel after to- day’s session regarding the examina- tion of the Midland Bank books at Washington Court House. No agree- ment was reached: nator Wheeler said he w: < pared (o fght in (he courte, It neces sary, to get the Information. dr. Daugherty's counsel said it was im- possible to give a committee repre. sentative power to run through ti books at will, but that a request fo. specific, pertinent information wouic be granted. Talk on Child Neglect. 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