Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1924, Page 4

Blair Coan Tells of Investigating 1 Senator and Also Senator } Walsh. INO PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE Important Data in Justice Depart- i. ment, He Declares. Practically all the testimony re- Furding the indictment of Senator ‘Wheeler of Montana has been taken by the Senate investigating commit- tce. A report by the committee is expected before long. The hearings before the committee were virtually completed yesterday svhen Blair Coan told the committee he had been sent to Montana by George B. Lockwood, secretary of the Repubdlican national committee, to in- vestigate the activities not only of Senator Wheeler, prosecutor of the Daugherty committee, but also of an- ©ther senator. After he left the wit- ness stand Coan said this senator was Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana. prosecutor of the oil committee. Justice Department Data. Cean told the committee that he Bad no personal knowledge as to any employment of Senator Wheeler by Gordon Campbell, Montana ofl man to prosecute oil permits before the Interfor Department. He stated that the Department of Justice had some important documents bearing on the case which might interest the com- mittee. 1t was agreed that Attorney General Stone would be asked to fur- pish them. W. W. Rhea of Idaho Springs, Col. | who said he had had an interest in the Phil McGowan permit held by Campbell, testified that he had heard Senator Wheeler say that Campbell and Rhea need not worry about that permit; that this would be all taken care of when he got back to Wash- ington. Before Rhea was cailed as the first witness of the day, Chairman Borah put into the record a letter from Commissioner Spry of the gencral land office, saying that an examina- tion of the files of the land office failed to disclose that Wheeler had appeared as counsel in land permit matters. Conference Over Permit. Rhea said the statgment by Sen- ator Wheeler had heen made at a conference at the Rainbow Hotel. in Great Falls, Mont, on the night of January 15, 1923, and that the main purpose of the conference was to discuss the Phil McGowan permit, Which, he later declared, was then in contest before the Interior De- partment The witness said he could not state that Campbell had said at that time that Senator Wheeler was employed to look after permits, but he testified that Campbell had stated the Mc- owan permit would be fixed up when Senator Wheeler got to Washington and that. Senator Wheeler had said that it would be “taken care of." Campbell was quoted by the wit- mess as having said that if the permit was fixed up the owners would give Wheeler quite a. slice out of it Rhea's recollection was that Wheeler had made no statement respecting this suggestion. Ordered to Hawaii. Brig. 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Now, with these f l.i‘ in mind, go to it and let ave all the new. humarous. gems you create er which you hear. Y S . H O E GROSSMAN PARDON . BAFFLING, LANDIS TESTIFIES IN PROBE (Contiiéd from First Page.) Grossman continued to run & saloon der had been Department of Justice representation to “Prédident Cooblidge that but one witness had testified to the incident of selling whisky, which. resulted in the man’s septence for contempt. It was pointed out that C. W. Mid- dlekauf, special assistant attorney general in Chicago, recommended Grossman’s pardon. Cites Middickant Pleas. think Middlekauf talked to me, Judge Landis said, “and sald the evi- dence against Grossman should not have been depended upon, because one of the ‘witnesses was not credible. “I told him to remember that if Gross- man got pardoned the other fellows con- victed upon the aame evidence should be gotten_out, too. You know, you don’t get a Sunday school convention in these liquor cases.” Senator Wheeler read Judge Landis a newspaper interview in which he ‘had strongly criticized the Grossman par- don, had said that political infiu ence “had exactly as much right to in- fluence executive power in pardon as it did to influence the judicial power be- fore conviction.” “Those are my views," Judge Landis asserted He was asked about the liquor situa- tion in 3 You can’t go to a dinner party.” he said, “where the talk isn't for ten minutes about the Volstead law and fifty minutes about bobbed hair. Tells of Dinner Parties. When Chairman Brookhart pushed a query “about these dinner parties, the witness responded: “You are asking me to violate the ws of hospitzlity now. I'll confess I'm not a total abstainer. 1f you talked to me about a law that would let people serve stuff to guests in their homes, well I might fall for as an afterthought, he went on m most impressed ‘with the hanging-on powers of this pre-war stuff, and the hostess always comes up and says to try this, because it's a little that's left over from the old They seem honest.” Howland, counsel for H. M. Daugherty, took Judge Landis over for cross-examination. His first ques- tion was whether Judge Landis want- ed to “criticize the use of the exec utive power in the absence of knowl- edge as to the full facts. The witness reiterated you bhad senators from Illinois recommended this pardon would it lnkflud!n('t your dgment?’ Howland asked. . n £ a particle,” Judge Landis t k. O eator Afoses. Republican, New Hampshire, and Senator Ashurst. Democrat, Arizona, both protested t “one senator from Illinois” had ked to have it shown before the committee he had not sought fGrossman's release. Cites Record of Letters. “Then he had better go to the Department of Justice files,” inter- jected Senator Jones, Republican, Washington, “because there are let- < [ters there from both of them, but one of them may be a forgery. Judge Landis worked a pair of steel-bowed glasses away up his forehead into his shock of white hair and lit a long stogy while he exchanged retorts with the Daugherty ‘counsel. “I think the federal justice people didn't always get the finest law- yers,” he told Howland in response The Card She Sent. My Visit at Your House. I'm home again this card Spwures, ‘With happy memories, to0; A stay at your house always cures Me when I'm feeling blue! Most women want their novels to be like chocolate creams—all dark and mysteriogs on the outside and delightfully mushy in'the middle. 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At that the judge stood up, glasses in one hand, cigar {a the other, and maade & little speech of reminiscence ory to announcing his jud lrfl never been his policy 5 expl. , to- seek se pardons. qQuestion got Iést entirely. He did agree, howsver, that he had not seen any remission of efforts to enforce the prohibition March, 1921. “Grossman ran a regular saloon in & part of our town where they breed and develop criminala” he sald, “and he continued to run that saloon af- ter he was convicted, and down to the day of his pardon. Whether he quit then or not, I don't know.” After Judge Landis was excused W. B. Wooden, counsel for the Fed- eral Trade Commission, continued his testimony about anti-trust law inves- tigations involving the General Elec- tric and Westinghouse companies, American Flint and Plate Glass asso- clations and other business conoerna Says No Action Taken. law since D. C, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1924 tested elections to the Senate and the determination of the qualifications of its members and the trial of im- peachme 2. Even assuming that the Senate has power to exset evidence in aid of its legislative functions, the reso- lutions and the whole course of the (oil) committes and the Senate show that the committee was throughout engaged in a judicial inquiry beyond its cognizance, and - the questions (asked Mr. Sinelair) could by no pos- sibility relate to any legisiative in- , 50 far as relevant to the resolution ‘at all, related to said J dicial inquiry. “3. The passage of Senate joint resolution No. 54 (directing the Presi- dent to proceed to cancel the ofl leases, declared void for alleged fraud) deprived the Senate of juris- diction to make any further investi- gation under Senate resolution 252 as amended, as well as under Senate resolution 147, passed February 7, Elaborated in Briet These and other more technical points attacking the Sinclalr indiot- ment were elaborated by the Sinolair counsel in & brief of more than 150 pages citing numerous precedents. n_connection with the claim that the Senate was conducting a fishin, expedition and engaging in politi muckraking, Mr. Sinclairs counsel The board of review of the trade |sai commission held in a formal opinion in September, 1921, he said, that the glass ation practices constituted “both a civil and criminal violation of the Sherman law.” “But no action has been taken by the Department of Justice.” he added. In March, 1923, Assistant Attorney General Seymour wrote the commis- sfon that the Department of Justice was “investigating.” SINCLAIR ARGUMENTS PRESENTED TO COURT (Continued from First Page.) order that it might intelligently leg- islate. That no provision of the Con- stitution and no decision of the courts limited this power. On the contrary, they asserted that such decisions as have been rendered. by the courts fully sustained this power. The government answered the co: tention of the defendant that the com- mittee had no further jurisdiction after the passage of the resolution ordering suits to be brought by call- ing attention to the terms of the res ey ted oy asserted that the committee had broad powers and that it had other functions besides the mere set- ting aside of the leases. They called attention to the fact that Congress might and probably would desire to legislate further upon the question of naval reserves of the government. Counsel for the government further contended that the questions asked Mr. Sinclair were pertinent to the in- quiry for the information of the Sen- ate and to guide it in such delibera- tions as it might desire to take. They pointed out that the books subpoenaed were not those of Mr. Sinclair, but of & corporation; that he had no property in these books and could not refuse to produce them. Prineipal Points Presented. Three principal points presented by Mr. Sinclair's counsel were: “l. The Senate of the United States has no power to compel testi- mony or the production of documents when acting in its legislative capac- ity; a construction of section 102, Re- vised Statutes, as extending thereto would be obnoxious to the fourth and fifth amendments. The only power the Senate has to compel testimony or productien of documents is in the course of the exercise of those fi dicial functions committed to it by the Constitution, namely: The pun- istkment of its own members for dis- orderly conduct or for failure to at- tend sessions, the decision of con- “It is no answer to say that the prospective defendant of a criminal charge could refuse to testify upon the ground that his testimony would tend to Incriminate him. Such a claim may well be made by an inno- cent man, as evidence may have & tendency ta incriminate, although there be no actual guilt. There is also, however, not the slightest doubt but that a claim of privilege operates prejudicially to the public mind; for 2 real ‘prosecutor to call & prospec- tive defendant before a grand jury would result in vitiating the indict- ment returned by such grand jury, re- gardless of whether the party claimed privilege or not. 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Yet the effect of what was attempted by the Senate committee's ‘prosecutor’ is precisely the same. “The debates in the Senate clearly indicate that the committee regarded themselves as having powers and functions of fr-na jury, and Sena- tor Caraway refers to the suggestion that the Senate had In effect consti- tuted itself a grand jury. i isoyssing’ the firat point, on the powers of Congressions1” committees, Sinclalr brief declared h h““l uo“lmru't f the leases, ihquiry into validity of s, demonstrated that it was a “judicial inquiry. : The "question of power to compe! testimony, it was declared, been considered but not decided by the Supreme Court. o Proceeding to the second majo point, that the oll inquiry was es sentially judicial and not legislativ the brief contended that the re: tions demonstrate by their text that it was intended “to inquire into valid- ty of the leases.” ! passage of the resolution directing presidential action was said in the brief to be “a complete divestiture of the legislative branch of the govern- ment of all jurisdiction.” The con- troversy was said to have been thus “lifted out of the legislative branch of the government and deposited in the courts of competent jurisdiction. 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