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PROBE FROITLESS, " DAUCHERTY SAYS Has in No Way Involved Him, Attorney General Announces. Yhe Attorney General mmade the fol- Towing comment on yesterday's hearing before the Senate committeo Investi- sating the Department of Justice: *The testimony before the Senate committee investigating the Depart- mept of Justice failed again to identify ur connect the Attorney General with uny of the matters which were con- tidered by that committes. Mr. Hayes of Columbus, Ohio, the lacal agent there of the Samuel Ungerleider Com- pany, stoek brokers, positively denied the testimony of Roxie Stinson that he, Hayes, had seen large sums of money in the possession of the late Jess W. Smith. He algo failed to develop any xtock transactiens of the Attorney Gen- eral of any kind or character. “The telegrams back and forth be- tween Roxie Stinson and the late Jess 'W. Smith were of no possible interest to any one and had no bearing upon the present inquiry. o “The bootlegging situation in New York city and the prosecutions the under were aired by oue of the i tiemen who was the principal wit ungd demonstrated beyond question that Te was guilty of violations of the law. hix testimony merely showed that district_attorney’s ofiice in_ New York city arrcsted and prosecuted the whole crowd, although they were un- wuceessful in sccuring convictions in a few cases. Answers Liguor Charges. “So far as the liquor transactions ‘were concerned and the permits that were traded in by these New York city bootleggers, the whole matter was before the prohibition division, which operates under the Treasury Department and is not under the Jurisdiction of the Department of Justice. n no way did the testimony dused vmbarra way the matter pro- or implicate in any Attorney General in any that could properly be the subject of any icism of his de- pariment. It is to be Loped that the committee will at an early date look for testimony beyond the boundaries of the bootlegeing districts of New York city. The Department of Ju: tioe is exceptionally proud of its record of prosecutions of liquor cascs after ther have been brought under the jurisdietion of the Department of Tustice, and has filed with the con tee ‘an itemized statement show ng its wonderful record in connecc- ton with prosecutions under the Volstead act. This information is now in the possession of the com- mittec, but is quietly lying in the files of the committee while self- confessed bootleggers Strut across the stage and occupy the limelight for a day.” FILES SUIT T0 BAN STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1924, SINCLAIR COUNSEL | Hotel Incident W as “Frame-Up” « Page.) the United States for keeping this man in his place of power while this Pracesding goes on. The loast the Prasident could de would bo to sus- pend him from office.” It wus “unfair to the witnesses and unfair to the publio” Benator Wheelcr proceeded, for the Attorney General to be in office. Preasdent Set by Jackwen. Seaator Chamberlain msid that demacratic precedents, set by Andrew Jacksen, justified Mr. Dausherty’s re- tention. He asked that Mrs. Wille- brandt be given oppertunity to speak. Mrs. \Willebrandt said she wanted to cail attention to the fact that she had complimented Gaston B, Means on one ocession only for collecting ovidence against bootlegging. Senator Wheeler recalled Miss tinued from Firet "Since you were on the witness stand,” he began, “you have received land at the time. and that he mouldn't Lo MAT Daighery, ahe agded. hat hé was “on mighty dirty business.” . Weber Parden Case. The committee got into a discus- sion over Hays' action and testimony. “You testified that Jess Smith said something to you about Joe Weber seeking a pardon for his brother-in- law,” Semator Wheoler obsarved. | “What is this note?” He handed her an envelope. She said it was Jess Smith's own nate of Weber's name. “When did you see Jess Seaith witW| sevesty-five $1,000 bills?" Wheeler asked. “I can't be just sure, but sometime in the early months of 1922 “Did T undersjand you to say W. R. A. Hays saw those $1,000 bills™ “Seme time after Mr. Bmith's death, Mr. Hays, in a conference with me, mentioned that Jess told him he had some letters and you desire to make | seventy-five §1,000 bills with him,” a statement? “Rirst, like to state T'm Tere alone and without counsel,” sie said. “I'd like to take up Mr. Daugherty's statement. He referred to me as a ‘disappointed woman’ because Jess Smith didn’t make me his sole heir. 1 didn't expect he would—I wasn't his wife" The Daugherty statement referred t?mhfl' a8 “an angry woman" and ‘“a malicious woman who trie - talize her silence. % oionor “That's utterly false,” she went on. People offered me money to give them leats dbout it. and [ refused.” oftered you money™ S | Wheeler asked. e BERERY Seen by Reporter. “Well, & young man presented him- self at my door and said he was from the Associated Press,” Miss Stinson went on, “and that he represented the citizen and wanted to interview me about Teapot Dome. He told me he knew about an account I had with Ungerleider and Sinclair Oil and that I was in litigation with the Daug- hettys.” : s Stinson said she asked him sent him to her. His name was v Johnson. “He was sent from Washington, he had five or six people to ir- terview.” Miss Stinson went on. “I told him it 1 knew anything I wouldn't give it to a man at my door. “He sad, ‘Mies Stinson, if you'll just give me a lead, 1' ve y Juse 8 Tl give you | coniqldushed at him. saying that I could use a thousand dollars.” She |had told Johnson, “even if she knew anything" she wouldn't tell it, she concluded. Talk With Jeus Smith. with nic he cautioned me not to talk and spent the whole time telling me whit bank books to destroy,” Miss Stinson went on. “The man was in fear—he was in jconstant fear for six months, He warned me not to go out at night.” H 1 hi!h‘ to abuse confidence,” said Miss Stinson. “I am_ doing it to show you that Jess Smith was en- imeshed and entangled." “The last evening Jess Smith spent | Miss Stingon sald. "I was surprised that Jess had told him his business Mr. Hays said Jess told him he often carried large sums of money.” A letter from Smith to Miss Stin- son, dated March 28, 1922, was read. She recelved it at the Canal Zone on & trip. It was largely personal, with affectionate tone, and arranged for & meeting at the Waldorf in New Yorl. Met Him in New Yeork. “I met him and this was when this Weber business came up,” Miss Stin. son expluined. Another letter, dated January 1922, Smith to Miss Stinson, opened thus: “My dear. Roxie: What's it all about! I just can’t get your slant. The writer said he “couldn’t get away just now.” It mentioned shipment of a bed. “Mr. Daugherty had trouble in sleeping at night.” she explained, “so they had two beds for him, in case he walked from the one to another at night. When they moved to Ward- man Park they didn't have room for them both.” Smith's letter said something about “deals being on.” ‘What deals did he mean?’ Senator Wheeler asked. Some arrangement you could call U mean something legal mething iliegal, perhap What deal did he and Mr. Daugh- erty have on?" Deals with Dangherty. ““Ob, so many | ‘ean’t tell you all"” Miss Stinson exclaimed. Senator Jones asked for one “deal” | involving Mr. Daugherty, where “he mentioned Mr. Daugherty’s name “There was the whisky deal’ Stinson went on. “When they came in, when they had anything to do with whisky or drug deals, there was w0 much said. He reterred to me that it was through permits to drug bouses. I can't give you the words for that, it was so far away." “Did_he mention Mr. Daugherts” Senator Jones put in. “Oh, ves sir,” she replied. “Tt was only ‘through Mr. Daugherty’s in- | fluence that this could be done.” | “Did you ever hear Howard an- Senator | CITES PRECEDENTS Points Out Prévious Chai- lenges to Probe Powers of Senate. In the statement presented yester- day to the Semate oil committee, by Martin W. Littleton and H. W. Zevely, counsel for Harry F. Sinclair. chal- lenging the right of Congress to sub- poena witnesses, it is contended that Congress has assumed the rights of the jud ry. and has no power to proceed along the line now followed in the oil investigation. “A committee of the Senate or House.” sald the statpment, “though #uthorized to do 8o by resolution, is not empowered to compulsorily sum- mon witnesses 1o aid the Senate or the House in the discharge of its log- islative duties. No Fimal Conclusi “This practice has obtained in both houses for a great many years, but has never been challenged to a final | conclusion in the higher courta The iTight to summon and compel persons to appear and give testimony or to produce books, papers and documents is essentially and historically an at- tribute of the courts of justice au- thorized to determine finally cases and controversies between litigants, and the extent to which the practice of committees of the House and the Senate has been judicially sanctioned fs only in those inquisitorial investi- gations the right to conduct which is expressly conferred upon the House or the Senate Ly the Constitution of the United States or the one excep- tion, which is to enable either the House or the Senate to protect itself against decay or contamination by the expulsion of offending members. Cites Early Challenge. ate and the House has many times been the subject of discussion. As early as 1859 Thaddeus Hyatt wis summoned to appear before a select commitiee of the Benate which was engaged in {nvestigat- ing the Harpers Ferry raid in Virginiu. on appearing beforg the bar of the Ser ate, Hyatt c Senate to conduct the investigation. His challenge was overruled and he was committed. On the day when it was ordered that he should be released from his confinement, Senator Sumner of Masmchusetts cngaged the atiention of the Senate in a bref but commanding statement regarding its powers. Among other things, he said: “'Strictly 'wpeaking, the Senate has no generul inquisitorial powers. It has Judicial powers in three cases under the Constitution: First, to try impeach- second, to judge the elections returns and qualifications of its mem- bers; third, to impeach its members for disorderly behavior and with the con- currence of two-thirds expel them. In the execution of these powers the Ser- ate has the attributes of a court and, according to established precedents, it may summon witnesses and compel their testimony, although it may well be doubted if a law be not necessary even to the execution of this power. Two Other Cames Clted. ‘Besides these three cases, pressly named in there are two others where it bas { “The power of committees of the Sen- | lenged the power of the | | the Constitution, | HE WILL ROCK NATION Ready to Start East to Tell 0il Inquirers of “Deal” for Presi- dential Nomination, By the Assortated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif,, March 22.— Al Jennings, erstwhile train tobber, and lately active in the fields of re- ligion, real estate and politics, was ready to depart today for Washing- ton to testify befgre the Senate oil investigating committee. Before leaving, Jennings predicted that when the light of his testimony concerning |an alleged $1.000,000 paid for the re- | publican presidential nomination in 1 comes in contact with the in- i flanvmable atmosphere of the oil fn- vestigation, an explosion will result that will “rock the country.” % As a cloge friend of the late Jake Hamon, republican leader In Oklar homa, Jenpings explained, he Jearned the details: of Hamon's negotiations {to swing the 1920 presidential nomi- |nation and knew “what Hamon ex- | pected to get out of it." | "He declared that ghe !mind” who controlled the 0 re- publican national convention and vir- tually engineered the nomination of Warren G. Harding for President upon payment of $1000,000, is an eastermer, an ex-senator, prominent in national republican-circles. “I will tell his name to the Senate committee at Washington,” the for- mer bandit added. A subpoena ordering him to appear before the investigaling committee was handed to Jennings ut the United States marshal's office here yesterday, FOR SINCLAIR LEASE Strauss and Watts to Continue Operation of Teapot Dome Wells. CHEYENNE. Wyo., March 22.—Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss and Albert E. Watts, vice president of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Company, yesterday qualified as joint receivers of the Sin- clair oil interests in the Teapot Dome naval reserve district. Both filed bonds of 350.000. Under orders of United States Judge Kennedy, the receivers are to operate all produsing wells now operating in Teapot Dome: no new wells are to be drilled in the district except those ab- solutely necessary as offset welis, and these are to be drilled only to pre- serve the value of the oil fields. SINCLAIR REFUSES TO_TESTIFY; HAYS DENIES PARTY GIFT ) “‘master | tive bridegroom is a member of the JENNINGS DECLARES |Railway Mail Clerk Leaving Service In Capital at 69; Will Take Bride George W. Harrison, on Road 23 Years, Travel- .ed 1,250,000 Miles. Weds Mrs. Marie Minnie Bair Tuesday—Honor- ed by Associates. George W. Harriron, sixty-nine years old, who has traveled more than a million miles on railway mail cars between this city and New York, re- tired from the Post Office Department today and will get married next Tues- day. His bride will be Mrs. Marie Minnie Bair, forty years old, of 1343 Ran- dolph street northwest, and the cere- mony will take place at the Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 6th and P streets, with Rev. Richard Schmidt, the pastor, officlating. The prospec- Concordia Lutheran Church, Mr. Harrison, who served his last day in the postal service yesterday, will be scventy years old April 21. After a honeymoon spent on the sea between here and Boston the couple will return to this city to take up their residence at the Argonne. Honored by Associntes. Imployes of the division of railway mall service at the Post office yesterday afternoon tendered a luncheon to Mr. Harrison. with Chase (. Gove, assis- | tant general superintendent, presid- ing. | A great smoker all his life, despite | his carly base ball career, when he played shoristop on the old semi- rofessional team, the Eagles. Mr. arrison was presented by his fellow workers with a smoking jacket. It was figured out by oMcials that Mr. Harrison traveled approximately 1.250,000 miles between here and New York during the twenty-threo years he was on the road before he came into the local office. Recalling the brave daye of '79 in base ball, Mr. Harrison lamented afresh today the “bawling out” which be and other members of the old Eagles acorded to Homer Cate, prob- arizen in the public mind concerning | the power of the commitiee might be’ dispelied.” Senator Spencer, republiean, Mis- sourf, took the opposite view. ~There was a “grave doubt,” he declared. as to the right of Congress to inquire into the affairs of a private citizen merely for information which “might or might not be helpful.” Cites Bills Pending. “I think we had much better pay miore attention to the 100 or more bills pending before this committee,” Seua- tor Spencer said, “than pursuing what 1 consider a doubtful right” Senator Adams, democrat, Colorado, challenged Senator Spencer's statement about the committee neglecting pend- ing bills, saying Many now were under consideration by subcommittees. After an hour's discussion, the com- mittee directed Sinclair to take the wit- | i GEORGE W. HARRISON. ably the first pitcher to use a curve ball here. Demounced Curve Bali Pitcher. “We denounced him for throwing balls all around the batter,” smiled Mr. Harrison. “Just think of it!” Mr, Harrison caught bare-handed. He recails trouncing the old als on several occasions. VPitchers were forced to use the underhand fling in those days. but some of the were so clever at it that they really could deliver the sphere from should der height without any one, getting on to ad no pitcher in those da as swift as Walter Johnson, Mr. Ha rison said. “He would have cut our hands to ribbons,” he added. Mr. Harrison has no particular s tem of diet or other health meth but savs that “a contented mind is a continual feast. He i one of the two living charter members of the Wash- ington Lodge of Elks and a member of Osiris Lodge, No. 3 A M: Mount Horeb Chapter, No. 7, I Arch: Columbia Commandery, No. Knights Templar: the Home Defense Leaguo and the Temple Club. DEBUTANTE SPRING STILL FICKLE MAID Likely to Cut Up a Bit More Before She Settles Down, Fore- caster Fears. yal Dimplihg her prettiest. littic Miss Springtime was busy today helping to clean up from her riotous *‘coming- out” party of the preceding forty eight hours, Under the golden radiance of her most winsome sgmile the wintry man- tle she had thoughtlessly dropped I. €. C. URGES CHANGE IN MARINE LAWS' ‘Section 28 Believed to Hold Pos- sibilities of Conflict Over Is Discrimination Against Foreign Vessels May Bring Action. nother by Commissior terna enforcement of chant marine act. Chairman Hall to Chairman Smith of ate interstate commerce that the Jaw did not permi mission to pass upon the poi or bad, of enforcing pointed out that the commission | viously has sough tion 28 “to obviate unncce flict with the needs ph was added the Interstate to the jonal pend Commerce comm h the said for the commi c expected to force business away from Atlantic ports other th of New York, Philadelp folk, which ports. It would further Shipping Board" Which the sect under th certification b has been ordered into effect, he d, tend to hampe American mille in selling flo |bther grain products comp with foreign miller: Reciting that that no ocean transy eceive from Americ | benefit of special ir rates ‘unless th A Ameri ships, the { out import and « |many cases, give lowe ne | portation charges than are applied + movement of Eoods over the | route for domestic consnmption 1 ‘A law which in many ca | undoubtedly bring about hig over American railroads whe | trafic 1s moved beyond the ports | foreign vessels than when it provides d zoods mi a | in American vessels apps | the rights and interests | countries,” Chairman Hall's £aid. “and there is always the of retaliator easures art of such countries. irman Hall th export rates normal | railroads serving gulf or Pacific coast size sought to obtain through such a port by 3 freight rates for shipments th to the level of rates made f ments through New York port rate resulting is usu much lower than the dom: such port. cific coust ports, Charies and Jacksonvi Atla; tic, and all the gulf ports as having such export ret Under section 18, Mr. Hall said, r foreign vessels could cnter these po 10 take an export Cargo “‘Presumably the application tion 28 will hav t foreign vesseis to co! such as New York, entl ulted w south Atlantic port of sma foreign trade of se to cause at ports | the service er ports. already undertaken to exercise judi- (Continued from First Page.) cial powers, not by virtue of express- ed words, but in sel{-defense: First, with regard to the ress stand. The vote of the committee against the plea of his counsel was unanimous. probability that section the number of vessels servin other than New York, Phil nington or Bill Orr mentioned?" ator Wheeler asked. *Yes, Mr. Mannington came up.” she | | | Sen- over the National Capital at her in-| jaugural dunce was fast melting and leshed and tangled by whom?" By the man to whom he held his |Sullivan, Ind., his brother, who had a APARTHENT HOLSE Dupont Circle Citizen Seeks to Prevent Erection of Building 90 Feet High. Brs. Ruth Estella Loop Larrabee of 114 215t street northwest, a member of the Dupont Circle Citizens' Asso- ofation, today filed in the District Su- preme Court a suit:for an injunction agsinst the Zoning Commission of the District of Columbia; the five mem- bers of that body; John W. Oehmann, inspector of buildings, and the com- pany known as the 2100 Massachu- setts Avenue, Incorporated. The -ourt is asked to prevent the inspec- tor of buildings from issuing a per- mit to the company to erect an apart- ment house on the corner of Massa- chusetts avenue and 21st street it a helght of ninety feet, under a ruling of the Zoning Commission changing the height of buildings on 21st street. Mrs. Larrabee, whose property ad- joins the proposed apartment, also attacks the validity of the ruling of the zoning commission, and requests the court to set it aside and to decres that buildings on 21st street continue limited to fifty-five feet in Clayton E. the petition as counsel for Mre. Lar- rabee, said he expected, in conjunc are _opposed to the apartment house in the exclusive residential section near Dupont Cirele. The property owners in the vicinity of the proposed apartment recently objected before the zoning commis- sion, where they were told, it is said, that as the application was pending under a ruling by the zoning com- mission, that body was powerless to deny the issuance of a permit. Re- course was then had to the court. Mrs. Larrabeo claims the action of the zoning commission was lllegal «nd its ruling should be vacated, She also asserts that its action constitutes 4 cloud on the title to her property and deprives her property of a large portion of its value. There are faul in the application of the company, it s claimed, and the permit should’ be | demied. Deaths Reported. The following deaths have been reported to | e health depuctment in the last twemty-four ‘Tenbanguchi Wakitchi, 67, St. Elzabeth's lowpital. A. Clifton Poole, 42, en ronte Freedmen Howpital. Tewis E. Rauterbers. §1, 1811 Kilboarne pl. by Cassalty Hospital. 928 4th st_n.e. Mary Ptta Peck, 48, Gullinger Hospital. Oscar Kalteabauser, 45, St, Elizabeib's Hos- pital. *'Niarion . Cook, 8, Providesce Howpltal. J. Bartlett Rameay, 5 mosths, Washington Home for Children. Barbara A. Oliver, 70, 802 Fairmoat st. Helen B. Quillin, 65, 627 P st Carrie_Barrett, linger_Hosy New York tia Wri i = s Witiiams, 49, 2315 Dambarton ave ‘Annie Brown W Bdward B. Gray, 7 months, Freedmen's Hos- pital. NEW MILLINERY FIRM IN 13TH AND F CORNER The store at the northeast cormer ¢t 13th and F streets northwest, in he Homer building, occupied by the #allroad ticket office, has been leased 1o the Great Eastern Millinery Com- pany of Philadelphia, Pa., it was an- #ounced today by Weaver Bros. Ex- tensive improvements are to be made, it was said, and the property will be ready in sixty days. e LOCKOUT 1S DEFERRED. NDON, March 22.—The threat- ino‘d’ national lockout in the ship- bullding industry has been deferred. At a conference in Carlisle yesterday the employers agreed to grant fur- ther time to bring pressure on the Sogthampton workers to resume work. In the meantime the employers nave offered arbitration by an indus- trial court, failing .mutual settle- ment. Emig. who filed | erection of an | great loyalty.” Miss Stinson went on. The man Who is using his great Power to terrorize and intimidate | witnesses. “Who is the man?" Senator As| jdemocrat, Arizona, put in. “Harry Daugherty,” she In controlled, but tearful languagze, &he said she was “being followed" and that her telephone conversations at home were being listened to. Dentes Hetel Storr, Vil admit I'm nervous,*Miss Stin- son said. T Taking up a tharge of' the Daugh- €riy statement us to her conduct with nk, the witness said: “The insinuation of Harry Daugh- erty that I occupied-a room with this man is false and impossible.” On finding her name wrongly regis- tered Miss Stinson said She had e used to check out * humiliation to m, R, 1o “Was Fink ever your agent for any purpose or Kind > Senator Wheel- er asked. Absolutely not,” Miss Stinson said. P et o amading from notes. Pink had introduced named Eilis, she said. RéEtor e mau S she was in her room, Fink cam to her door and told her that “woare er arrest fo flcflgoun aab to) registering under a “He said 1 was going to b the ‘bars unless I promised. to ton notbing agalnst Harry Daugherty,” Miss Stineon went on.” She said she had m.k:h'd. “He was so excited {and so jumbled up 1 ldn’ - xadice P I copldn't under hurst, said { Calied Up Broker, Fink told her “they were holding Ellis” and that she was in danger. He called up Samuel Ungerleider, broker, she went on, and. told him }“I can’t make this woman understand the seriousness of things.” The events all oocur: - land hotel, she went on. Ungetieider came up to her room, she said, and told her that he “didn't understand jmuch about it, but it seemed there is a conspirac v Daugh!"y'>,m Y agajnst Harry “Ungerieider told me that I wi be behind the bars” she wumngl: “T told him to take me, that this was a frame-up, pure and simple. Fink was pacing up and down- the room. Ungerleider said, she recounted, that Fink aad Ellig “were being heid under 350,000 bond,” and pointing to Fink, said that “he is so scared he will testify to anything." Wanted Her Promise. “I asked ' Ungerleider why ,Mal | Daugherty or Harry Daugherty, or whoever was -engineering the ‘con- spiracy, didn’t come over themselves,” she went on, “and Underlaider said they just want your promise not to talk about Harry Dangherty.” She told Ungerleider that ‘they jcouldn’t stron-arm her,” and | “there isn’t going to be a convenient {bullet through my brain,” and that she would testify in Washington. Ellis, Miss Stinson said she heard, was to make an afdavit that she had asked $150.000 from Dauwherty. Ungerleider later told her, she said that “Fink told me, outside the door. you had nothing to do with it and that this “wes the only thing that saved Fink.” Couldn't See Him. “This was on the 2ist of February. this year,” she said. “On February 22 I went to see Mal Daugherty. I was boiling. *“Msal Daugherty wouldn't soe her, she said, so she went to har attorney to “tell him about this frame-up in Cleveland.” “Was it your idea that the frame-up included registering you as some man's wife?” Senator Ashurst asked. “I'm_not clear in my mind as to that> Miss Stinson replied. Senator Jones asked where her from. She said they itten copy of originals made on bruary 23 after the alleged “frame-up.” The originala, in pencil, she said, “she had torn up.” Senator Jones asked her to get the originals, ‘saying they were ‘“very important.” o “I read them off the pencil copy to ray jon at the hotel” Miss Stinson explained, “and she typed them.” On_February 24, Bfl Clevela'nd.vshe t Mal Daugherty for a conference. m“!‘You lo;:_i Mal Dl\l";;?‘ll.zmfl. Ll.lg frame-u| Senator ank 1 dld.’ud he sald he was in Cleve- a said. “T met him at & dinner party at the Deschlar Hotel in the fall of 1920. Jake Hamon was ther Deal With Jake Hamon. Smith told her of the d with |Jake Hamon at the Chicago conven- tion. “1 heard the cabinet over and over again,” she sald. “Jake Hamon told me at Washington Court House that he was to have a cabinet position.” | "At the last minute at the Caicago convention," she went on, *‘through the strength and strong arm dogged- |ness of Mr. Daugherty the Harding | nomination was ‘put acress.’ " | There was a secret deal at e morning and Mr. Daugherty just utted into it,” she asserted, and got the help of Mr. Hamon. “That's_just'a sidelight,” observed Senator Wheeler;: ‘“coming back to this liguor, had he ever told you abgut Maauington being mixed up?” “He mentioned Mr. name?>” “He aid the deals couldn't be put across without Mr. Daugherty's in- fluence.” “What did he say as to the money they got out of it 1o, TRt was the first evenue of mak- jng mone: ey open: - “‘After L‘ll, lh-'a”w-m others." “Oh, yes, and they got to worrving about the whisky deals.” “Did he tell you about the poker parties and the conferences at the little green house on K street?” “He said they had people there— senators and others.” iThat was Mannington's house>” “Who was there>’ “I remember Senator Watson. Pos<- master General New—oh, yes, Mr. Daugherty.” “That was the place thev carried on the Department of Justice busi- Daugherty's “Now, Jess Smith was worrying about liquor for six months before his death. How did he express nis worry?” “The first indication was a long distance telephone call,” Miss Stinson went_on. “He said he hadn't been out for two or three days, couldn't leave Harry. I said it was always ‘Harry, Harry,' who stoed in his way. He said to me, ‘Don’t you talk croas to me or I'll jump right out of this window.” ‘“That was the first intimation I had Mr. Daugherty was getting “The man (Smith) was afraid— worrying_about anvthing. “At_a hotel, he'd look around and say ‘Who is man over there? In a lobby he'd get a seat with his back to the wall." Tells of Smith's Fear. He wanted “to get Home befors dark,” she went on. Her voice was dramatic as she repeated Smith's words of fear, as to possible spies about him. “He put a brief case full of papers on my knee,” she said, “when we were on the train, and said I should carry them. “For months,” said, she “was bolstering him up." “He was in fear—in mortal fear— the last night he spent with me,” she said. “It was fear for me, and fear forj himself. He said to me, Tm afraid said: ‘“They have passed’it to me.'” “I said, ‘Oh, no they won't,’ and he said: “They have passed it to me.” Blame Passed to Him. “I understand,” Miss Stinson went on, “that he meant the blame was being passed op to him. He had his house {n order—" “What do you mean?" {Jones put in. “He had his business affairs straightened up, his bank books cleared, he told me to burn his papers. " ““Tell me all about it I begged him. He said, ‘Oh, no, just cheer me up.'” Miss Stinson was weeping. “He tried to get somebody to etay all she went on. “He knew what he he was afraid of an expose?” SenatoP ‘Asburst put in. ‘Yes-—he wab afraid of that” “He indicated fear he might be kiljed ™ Senator Jones put in. B L afraid of that for “Yes, sir—he. was Harry Daugherty, Smith said, was | t Senator “Do you me “feariess,” and things “just ran off his |and another box at the Riggs Baak, | sidering “the back.” conduct of its servants. s of its printer; second, | “purely personal” transaction with Sin- when its privileges have been vio- E |cla | citizen guilty of j with no offens <fmaid. lated, as in the cass of Willlam Du- ana, by a libel. or in the case of Nugent, by stealing and divulging a treaty ‘while still under the seal of secrecy. It will be obuerved that | these two clamses of cases are not {sustained by the text of the Consti- tution; but, If sustained at all, it must be by that principie of uni- versal jurisprudence and = alo nat- ural law “which gives to everybody, Whether natural or artificlal, the rEght to protect its own cxistence “Furtber on in his admirable state- ment, Senator Sumner xaid: 'l know it is said that this power | 18 necessary in ald of legislation. I deny the necessity. Convenient at times it may be, but necessary never. We do not drag the members of the cabinet or the President to testify before a committes in aid of legtslation, and I say without hesitation that does not apply equally to the hum- born have rights as ample as if they were officeholders Saw Menace in Procedure. uch a power as without sanction of law and merely at the will of a partisan majority may be employed to ransack the most distant states and to drag citizens Wisconsin or South Carolina—may be convenient and to certain persons may seem to be necessary. An al- leged necessity as authority well may be the Apology for wrong. “*“To aid a committee of this body merely in legislative purpose, a 0 crime, charged presumed to be inno- cent, honored and beloved in neighborhood, may be seized, hand- cuffed. kidnaped and dragged away from his home, carried across state lines and then thrown into jail. The mere statement of the case shows the dangerous absurdity of such a claim.’ The statement reviews the doubts which Congress itself has had con- cerning the practice of compelling the atterdance of witnesses. “Committces of the House and Sen- ate, moving along in the paths of least resistance and subject to no general review,” charges the state- ment, “have from time to time claimed and exercised the authority to summon and compel the attend- ance of witnesses with books, paper: and documents, but this practice has not. received the sanction of the courts as justified under the Constitution and has developed rather because there was no method of review thi because of any inherent soundness. Impeachment proceedings against Daugherty were in progress before a House committee about the time. “He (Smith) sald it would be all right in the Senate,” Miss Stinson went on. -Did Ho tear Mr. Daugherty?" Sen- ator Jones asked. “On the last Friday befors his death, Mr. erty was with Jess at the shack Stinson went on. “Jess had been going around with his head down, and I'd tried to get him straightened up. I asked if every- thing had been straightened out, and he said ves. He looked like his old self.” Row With Dangherty. Miss Stinson wept, but continued: “Mr. Daugherty had been asleep, but Jess aroused him, and he blew up, swore and Jess called for his car and left. Jess came right into town and bought his gun—he'd made his decision. That was why he could walk straight™- Smith told the hardware store clerk he “was buying the gun for the Attorney General,” she sald. “Had he ever used a gun in hig "' Senator Wheeler asked. e had & horror of guns all his “Did Mal Daugherty tell you any- thing about wounds on the body?” “Well, when Mal Daugherty came back from Washington,"” Miss Stinson said, “he was mad.” Opening Deposit Box. She went on to tell of Mal Daugher- tv as executor opening Smith's gafe! deposit box without witnesses, she Senator Wheeler read a telegram. It said that Smith’s box at the Mid- land Bank contiained’ . “securities worth between $200,000-and $300,000,” ‘Washington, held $29.000 in securi- they can clalm no immunity which : blest citisen. Mr. Hyatt and Mr. San- | this—which | before the Senate all the way from ! his | Offers to Show Books. | “You are welcome to go over my | book: Hays said, and repeated the |offer several times. The law firm of Hays & Hays of Sullivan, Ind, of which Hays and his brother are members, represents Sinclair interests, the witness said, adding that Sinclair had large inter- ests tn Indiana. Hays declared he had severed his {relations with the law firm when he entered the cabinet. He pointed out !that he had to make contracts for carrying the mails with rallroads ‘which the firm represented and that, | of course. he had quit the firm. Never Up in Cabinet. Questioned by Senator Dill, demo- crat. Washington, Hays said the naval oil leases nover were discussed at any cabinet meetings whica he attended. » “Let us get this straight now." Hays sait “There was no discussion | of the leases by the cabinet when I | was present.” Senator Dill said there was evi- dence before the committee that tho | matter had been placed before the cabinet, but Hays insisted. “Was any stock besides Sinelair consolidated used in connection with the deficit of the republican natiounal committee?" asked Senator Dill. “No stock of his company or any other stock was used.” “No stock used as a loan?" “Not while I was chalrman, and 1 suppose not since.” “Did Sinclair propose to underwrite these loans™” “Did Mr. Doheny make any contri- bution?” “No, not that I know of."” “Did you ever usk bim?" The witness was excused and the committee went into executive ses- sion. Simclair and Hays Present. Sinclair, with his array of counsel, was on hand early and sat chatting with his lawyers while the commit- tee was getting its session under way. Hays came into the crowded commit- tee room just before Chairman Ladd rapped for order. ( At the outset Senator Walsh, the committee prosecutor, read from au- thorities to show that courts long have recognized the rfl'flr of execu- tive bodies to compel the attendance of witnesses, a power denied yester- day by the Sinclair lawyers. The senator said he cited the precedents 8o that “any dombt that may have lln."_l!a described it as an auditor's scars,’ Senator asked, referring to marks on gherty told me that the ‘wounds m the appendicitis operation on Jess body was opened, so that they had to use formaldehyde. T went to his doctor, and he said it was impossible.” “Do know if a coroners inquest Mentioned Liquer Cases. “Did Smith ever mention Mr. Haynes or Mr. Blair in connection with these liquor permits?™ asked Senator Moses, republican, + New Hampshire, “I remember hearing their names,” “Did he ever tell you what Howard Mannington's duties were here? Senator Wheeler asked. “He was supposed to do politically —he was their henchman down here. He was in politics out in Ohio. But they changed their minds about a lot of people from home after they got down re.” Senator Wheeler introduced a let- ter dated November 16, 1921, from Smith to Miss Stinson. “Did Smith ever tell you ef con- | forenges in New “Apurhber of time: The lptter. written in New- York city, mentioned the writer as con- present conference may do some good.’ York?' he asked. {United Statea” the statement said. By a vote of nine to two the commit- tee also rejected a motion of Senator Bursum, republican, New Mexico, that Sinclair not be questioned about any matter involved in the court proceed- ings brought at Cheyemne in the oil lease cases. The only senators sup- porting this motion were Bursum and Cameron, republican, Arizona. Simolair Refuses (o Testify. Sinclair refused to testify. 1n a statement he declared he did not de- | sire to plead that his replies might | tend to incriminate him, because “there is nothing” he continued, "in any of the facts or circumstances of the lease of Teapot Dome which does or can ineriminate.” | The statement then recapitulated | the operator's previous appearances | before Senate committees regarding | the lease and added: 1 “Thus it appears that 1 have been before your committee at five dif-| ferent sessions and answered all questions and produced all books and ! papers called for, and 1 was finally excused from further attendance.” Cites Resolation. Sinclair called attention to the fact that the resolution authorizing prose- | cution in the oil lease cases had| been passed by the Senate since his| last appearance. The resolution in effect “denouncs the lease between the government and the Mammoth Oil Company,” he said, on the ground of frand and corruption. “This is an assertion that under | the ‘rights and equities’ of the Unit- ed States the land covered by the lease of Teapot Dome belongs to the “I shall reserve any evidence I may | be able to give,” Sinclair said to the committee, “for those courts to which you and your colleagues have delib- erately referred all questions of which you had any jurisdiction. and shall respectfully decline to answer any questions propounded by your committee.” . ‘When Sinclair had finished reading his statement, Senator Walsh said he desired to ask him about, the tes- timony of Ferderick G. Bomils, pub- lisher of the Denver Post. §iThe op- erator conferred with his¥ counsel, Martin W. Littleton, and then replied: “I decline to answer, on adyice of counsel, on the same grounds.” Again Refuses Reply. Senator Walsh asked about Sin- clair's purchase from the Pioneer and Belgo Ofl companies of their claims in Teapot Dome and got the sams answer. Then the prosecutor put a long line of questions covering all of the important matters on which he desired to interrogate him. and the ofl magnate declined to answer each “on the same grounds. Sinelair then was excused. “Thank you very much, gentiemen,” said Littleton. as he accompanied his client away from the witneas chair. DENIES OIL STOCK GIVEN. Adams Declares 10,000 Contrib- utors Wiped Out G. 0. P. Dept. The $1,600,000 deficit of the repub- lican national committee after the 1920 campaign was not wiped out by contributions of oil stock, Chairman | John T. Adams of the repbean na-| tional committee declared last night after Will H. Hays former chairman of the committee arrived here to be questioned by the oil committee about a story that Harry F. Sinclair donated a large batch of securities to pay off the debt. | Mr. Hays made no statement, but Chairman Adams sal “The story that 75,000 shares of oil stock were used to pay off the deficit of the re- | publican national committes is, of | course, ridiculous. About 10,000 or more cofitributors from every state in the Urion made up the amount. “It took three long years of strenu- ous work by our financial organiza- tion to wipe out this indebtedneas and there was no contribution of oil stock or easy money of any kind. i o A A e Y | probabiy will frown fitfully. the city’s streets once more began to| assume the appearance of Washing- | ton thoroughfares, rather than Ve- netian canals, Still Rather Fiekle, But the weather man, wise to the ways of dimatic flappers, gave warn- ing today that Miss Springtime is still very young and therefore very fickle. She may shed her most on- saging personality upon Washington today, he said, but tomorrow she “Partly cloudy late today and morrow,” was the way he put it “There will be no rain for the next thirty-six hours, but ond that we cannot yet say accuralely The tem- perature will remain about the same. In faot, the lowest we expect tonight will not fall below 34 degre Very warm weather, however, is.not yel in_sight” 4 In the meantime mere man is per- spiring overtime helping Miss Spring- time mend the damage she did when she “showed off” almost immediately after her introduction. Comparatively little harm was done, however, and the most serious consequences of her caprices were the interruptions they caused to repairing the very serious damage winter accomplished at his| farewell party. Repair Work Halted. The Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- phone Company was obliged virtually 1o suspend operations on the tremern- dous task of repairing $800.000 worth of ruined lines of communication ad- jacent to Washington. The company, howewer, reported no additional dam- age. Neither the Postal nor Western Union Telegraph company enced any serious damage, a thorough check-up today showed. Virtually the entire northwest sec- tion was dark last night from 11 o'clock on, when water flooded the Potomac Electric Power Company's | conduits. R. B. Patterson, superin- tendent of distribution, to- experi- | blamed the | Baltimore and Norfolk, and about higher rat ports.” Abe | I\‘Iar;in'Sa'\'s: | | Dan Cupid never waits fer 1 | finish. Pragtice make « ¢ National carelessnes- * Serviee Remember municipal street cleaning authorities, | however, more than he did the weath- er. Almost every time it snows, he said, similar trouble is experienced, | ‘“becanse the city does not clean the snow away immediately.” Everything on Massachusetts ave- | nue from the Naval Observatory to Dupont Circle was dark. Like condi- tions prevalled on New Hampshire avenue from Dupont. Circle street. Connecticut avenue, Columbia road and 14th street sufferpd dark- mess, too, as well as v points scattered through Mount Pleasant. Suburban sections out toward Chevy Chase also were dark. A Novena Begins Tonight. ‘The monthly national novena in honor to U| The Telephone Numbers Day Phone, all Departments: MAIN 6660 After 6 P. M. Sundays and " Holidays: SERVICE ...,. Main9721 SALES . Main 7943 USED CARS .. 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