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VOL. XXVI. NO. 64
ME IS TNT
BUST DEMOLISHES
NEW JERSEYTOWN
Crashing Girders, Falling
Walls and Rain of Nitric
Acid Send. Death Toll Dp
ward in Explosion
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., March
2.—Forty persons dead, and a hun
dred or more injured was estimated
last night as toll of an explosion
in the TNT plant of the Nixon Ni
tration works.
Flames showered through forty
•buildings of an adjoining celluloid
■wo/ks and demolished the little in
jpiustrial town of Nixon. An accu-
Ffate check on the number killed was
impossible.
As many of the victims, dead and
dying, as could be removed from the
blazing ruins were taken to a half
dozen hospitals and hastily equipped
emergency morgues. Their bodies
were so mutilated and burned that
only a few were identified.
By nightfall twelve bodies were re
ported recovered, and seven had been
identified tentatively. Spurred by
reports of survivors that a score still
lay buried beneath the burning de
bris. soldiers joined firemen, state
police and citizen volunteers in hoist
ing arc lights and beginning an all
night attack upon the twisted masses
of wreckage.
The explosion occurred at 11:30 a.
m. in the ordnance salvaging plant.
The nitration works had been leased
to the Ammonite company for the
treatment of army TNT to be used
as agricultural fertilizer.
The building, two stories high, 300
feet long and of hollow tile construc
tion, was literally blown from the
earth, along with the men believed
to have been within it. The shock
was felt for sixty miles, shattering
windows, lifting roofs and toppling
chimneys in many cities. On Staten
Island buildings rockel as if in an
earthquake.
Forty Buildings Demolished
The single destructive blast crush
ed forty buildings of the Nixon com
pany’s celluloid novelties manufac
turing works, which surrounded the
TNT plant, and razed as if by shell
fire the encircling dwellings of 200
employes whose little settlement was
known as the town of Nixon.
Through shattered roofs and crush
ed walls —upon piles of flimsy cellu
loid sheets in every one of the Nixon
buildings—showered embers, blazing
TNT and boiling acid scattered by
the explosion. The blue flames of
the highly-inflaminable celluloid with
which all the structures were filled,
burst forth cn the heels of the blast,
like a huge blow-torch, destroying
every one and everything within a
radius of several hundred feet.
The screams of men and girls
pinned down by steel girders, crush
ed by falling walls of tile or caught
beneath severed pipe lines which
showered them with nitric acid,
mingled with the cries of house
wives and children whose dwellings
only a few feet from the celluloid
works, came tumbling down upon
them.
Men wounded and frenzied, with
clothes burned off and bodies
scorched black, ran out upon the
road to New Brunswick, two miles
away.
A hundred soldires hastily mobil
ized by Major A. S. Casad at the
Raritan arsenal, were speeded by
automobile to the place of the ex
plosion almost before the echoes had
died away. Accompanied by the
arsenal's ambulances and hospital
corps, they were the first to attack
the flames and start work.
Later, it was discovered that four
of the arsenal high explosives mag
azines had been crushed by the ex
plosion and the roofs of two others
blown in. Fourteen companies of
firemen helped check the flames,
which for a time threatened to
spread to the arsenal's scores of
powder warehouses.
Acid Tanks Burst
Doctors and nurses from hospitals ]
in nearby cities were early on the i
scene. Numerous heroic rescues I
were recorded, nurses and soldiers i
working side by side amid the smoke
dense yellow fumes which all
day rolled up from the ruins as tank
after tank of nitric acid and am
monia burst.
An hour after the explosion the
village of Nixon and the twenty i
acres or more of buildings which had ■
housed the explosive works looked
like a sector of battle front—no
man's land. Only a fe wfragments
of wall remained standing.
For two miles the narrow road
leading from the main highway was
lined with automobiles hub deep in
mud, past which rushed fire ap
paratus, ambulances, hearses, police
and army cars, and people running
and crying. Stretcher bearers car
ried the dead and injured through
cars of relatives of victims who be
sieged the gates of the plant. Tele
phones were being installed on ev
ery standing pole to replace the
lines of communication that had
been swept away by the explosion.
Airplanes with photographers circled
overhead.
Those uninjured who had seen the
explosion were unable to tell what
caused it. Those who were in it and
survived were unable to talk.
It was said the tnt was part of
two million pounds that had been
purchased from the government's
Raritan arsenal by the Columbia
Salvage corporation and removed
from big shells at the arsenal mag
azines. The powder had been turn
ed over to the Ammonite company
at Nixon, whose employes were th* l
first victims of the blast.
Mystery Is Deepened
The mystery of the explosion was
deepened by the declarations of
company officials and employes
that. theoretically. TNT should
burn without exploding: that, al
though it is a high explosive, it is
“slow” one, and requires a heavy
detonating cap to set it off.
The only explanation advanced
was .'Kat friction, a short-circuited
electric wire or a foreign substance
in one of the tanks fired some of
the TNT, when it was confined
causing It to explode and act as a
detonator for all the explosive in
the works.
Although the fire was considered
under control tonight, additional
men and apparatus were summoned
with reinforcements of the state po
lice, to guard against a possible
spread of the flames to the alcohol
storage tanks and the few ruined
buildings where stocks of sheet cel
luloid are exposed to flying sparks.
Published Every Tuesday,. Thursday and Saturday
NEW TJX MEASURE
VINDICATES POUCy.
CLAIM -BEMOCRATS
National Committee Issues
Statement Clarifying
House Action on Bill —Par-
tial Victory Claimed
WASHINGTON, March I.—The
tax bill as it passed the house yes
terday was described in a statement
tonight by the Democratic national
committee as having vindicated,
with some exceptions, the policies
advocated by house Democrats.
The statement follows:
“The action of the house of rep
resentatives on the various proposed
internal tax reduction measures
shows a complete repudiation of the
policy of Secretary Mellon and Presi
dent Coolidge to the effect that the
secretary of the treasury should
draft in secret an internal tax re
duction to be'-feported in its every
detail, coupled with a subsequent
demand by the secretary and the
president upon congress to pass the
bill without compromise.
“On a direct vote in the house the
Mellon tax plan was overwhelming
ly rejected by a vote of 261 to 153,
the ballot showing that sixty-two
Republicans had voted against it,
while many Republicans voted for it
only because they knew in advance
it had no chance to pass. The
theory of Secretary Mellon that the
largest taxpayers want their sur
taxes cut in half so that they can
pay more revenue to the govern
ment in the way of income taxes
has been thoroughly exploded.
‘‘ln the second place, the out
come shows that the Democrats in
the house pointed the way to tax
reduction by offering a bill along
the lines of which any measure at
all possible to pass must be framed.
The Longworth-LaFollette compro
mise measure, finally adopted, is al
most identical with the Democratic
proposal as to certain of its princi
ples, while the principle underlying
the higher surtax provisions of the
Longworth-LaFollette measure are a
repudiation of the principle under
lying the Mellon higher surtax pro
posals, and they, at the same time,
tend to approach the principle of
the Democratic surtax plan.
Points of Difference
“The only two points of substant
ial difference between the Demo
cratic and the Longworth-LaFollette
measures are, first, that the Demo
cratic proposal raises exemptions
from SI,OOO and $2,500 for single and
married persons, respectively, to $2,-
000 and $3,000, thereby releasing
about 800,000 persons, now required
to make returns without being sub
ject to taxes, from making any re
turns, and releasing frem further
taxes nearly 1,646,000 persons whose
average taxes are under $12.00 each.
“The Longworth-LaFollette measure
gives no relief as to these exemp
tions, although these millions of
persons are already paying most
grinding tariff taxes.
“The second point of chief differ
ence is in the higher surtax brack
ets due to the flat *25 per cent re
duction of each surtax rate under
tlje Longworth-LaFollette plan. Un
der the operation of this flat 25 per
cent reduction method, the Long
worth plan would effect substantial
ly Larger reductions of the taxes of
'between 15,000 and 20,000 of the
biggest individual income tdx payers
with incomes in excess of $46,000 and
upward, than the Garner (Demo
cratic) plan. The application of a
flat 25 per cent reduction of all
graduated rates is obviously both
arbitrary and unscientific, because
the chief reduction benefits go to
those with the large incomes and
subject to the higher rates. The
higher the rate, in other words, the
greater and the more disproportion
ate are the reduction benefits as
compared with a like 25 per cent re
duction of the smaller surtax
rates.
Condition Illustrated
“This condition could be no more
clearly illustrated than by the fact
that the Democratic tax proposal
affords larger surtax reductions on
incomes up to $46,000 than the
Longworth-LaFollette proposal, and
hence when these two proposals are'
applied to the rates on the higher
incomes. the Longworth-LaFollette
reductions increase much more rap
idly than the Garner (Democratic)
reduction of taxes. The latter scale
of rates is based somewhat on the
usual method of graduation, while
the former makes arbitrary depart
ures therefrom. For illustration, the
Longworth-LaFollette plan gives a
reduction of $24,000 on an income
of $250,000. but only $75 on an in
come of $15,000.
“The tax outcome in the house
i has in other essential respects fully
confirmed and vindicated the atti
! tude and policy of the Democrats, in
i that, the first step in successful in
come taxation involves the imme
diate reform, re-organization and re
vitalization of the administration of
the law by the treasury depart
| ment.
“In the second place.' it is now
very clear that in addition to ad
ministration reform. and before
rates can be considered with any
definiteness. congress must place
upon a relative equality, for the
purpose of the tax, the incomes of
individuals, partners and stockhold
ers of corporations. This equaliza
tion of income involves the stopping
of a number of large holes through
which taxes are either evaded or
avoided.
Adequate Revenue Assured
“With these two prerequisites
properly dealt with, it would then
! become no difficult matter to effect
j either rate further readjustment so
ias to secure adequate revenue under
well-balanced and proportioned rates,
which, in their effects, would no'
be unduly burdensome, or punitive
or oppressive to any class of busi
ness or of individuals.
“Looking back at the course of
the propagandists for the Mellon
| plan, which at no time has had the
i slightest chance to pass the house.
!it strongly appears that a part of
I the tactics has been to divert atten
tion as fully as possible from all
phases of tariff tax reduction, which
;>s chiefly responsible for the exist
jing high cost of living, and is tre
, mendously oppressive to all of the
j one hundred and ten million people
( During the Mellen tax controversy.
1 u
II 7 or Id News
Told In
Brief
WASHINGTON. House adopts
new reveneu bill carrying Longworth
compromise income surtax rates.
MIAMI, Fla. —Harry M. Daugh
erty, attorney general, joins his in
valid wife here for an indefinite stay.
MEXICO CITY. —Occupation of
Jalapa, capital of state of Vera Cruz,
by federal forces, is officially an
nounced. ,
KIEL, Germany.—Shipyard own
ers lock out 13,000 men because lat
ter refused to work nine instead of
eight hours.
NORFOLK, Va. Four-masted
schooner Margaret Thomas is aban
doned by crew off Florida coast, ad
j vices to coast guard authorities say.
WASHlNGTON—Nominations of
Charles B. Warren to be ambassador
to Mexico and William Phillips to
be ambassador to Belgium are con
firmed by senate.
MOSCOW. —Decree will be issued
soon by soviet government establish
ing autonomous Jewish state in Cri-
Imean republic, Jewish Telegraphic
I Agency dispatch says.
SAN JUAN, Nic.—American ma
rines are on Honduran-Nicaraguan
frontier to prevent gun running by
Hondurans in Nicaragua to aid rev
olutionists in their country.
WASHINGTON.—The federal re
serve board’s February survey says
increased industrial and trade activ
ity, with which 1924 started, contin
ues to be well maintained.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Francis B.
Sayre, son-in-law of former Presi
dent Wilson, has been promoted
from an assistant to a full profes
sorship of the Harvard law school.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark.—Babe Ruth’s
doctor denies widely-circulated re
ports that famous baseball player is
dangerously ill and declares his lungs
are clear and condition not serious.
SAN ANTONIO. Mrs. Bertha
Horchem, member of air circus, is
killed when her plane crumbles and
she falls 1,200 feet, her husband and
3,500 spectators witnessing the trag
edy.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Captain T. J.
J. See, navy astronomer at Mare Is
land, announces tests of prominent
investigators show the complete col
lapse of the Einstein theory of rela
tivity.
MANILA. Philippine indepen
dence commission decides that each
senator and representative shall do
nate month's salary to finance inde
pendence commission and its press
bureau.
NEW YORK.—Frank A. Varfaer
lip tells a synagogue .congregation
that President Coolidge has asked
Attorney General Daugherty’s resig
nation, but it has not been forth
coming.
WASHlNGTON.—Prohibition offi
cers made 64,523 arrests in 1923,
compared with 60,019 in 1922. Prop
erty seized and destroyed in 1923
was valued at $3,243,795 as against
$2,969,8*6 in 1922.
WASHINGTON.—Court action in
oil lease cases this weke is promised
by special counsel, the first step to
be civil action Do stop of
oil in California and Wyoming
naval reserves.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge soon will appoint special gov
ernment counsel to investigate val
idity of title held by Standard Oil
Company of California to sections of
naval oil reserves in that state.
PITTSBURG.— Warren S. Stone,
president of Brotherhood of Locomo
tive engineers, tells Methodist Epis
copal council that labor does not
think much «f the church ’because
the church does not think much of
labor.
COLUMBUS, O.—George L. Berry,
president of International Printing-
Pressmen and Assistants’ Union of
North America, files application with
secretary of state as candidate for
office of vice president on Democrat
ic ticket.
NEW BRUNSWICK., N. J.—
State and federal officials announce
immediate investigation of explosion
of Nixon nitration plant, near here
where 18 persons lost their lives. 32
were injured, and two persons are
missing.
M ASHINGTON.— Senator Hiram
Johnson, of California, charge Presi
dent Coolidge’s supporters are re
sponsible for placing a Hiram John
ston on the Michigan primary bal
lot, simply a trick which would
disgrace the meanest kind of petty
politics.
CHlCAGO.—Charles R. Forbes and
John W. Thompson, contractor, are
named in four indictments returned
by federal grand jury which has in
vestigated charges of waste, graft
and debauchery in connection with
Forbes’ administration of United
States veterans’ bureau.
ST. LOUIS.— W. G. McAdoo, in a
letter to his Missouri campaign man
ager. denounces Senator James A.
Reed as a man “who resorts to the
most glaring disregard for the truth
in his personal attack on me.” and
asserted Reed is a “stalking horse”
for some other candidate for the
presidential nomination.
WASHINGTON—The Postal serv
ice ommittee of the United States ,
chamber of commerce issues a re
port stating that the wide disparity '
between post office department sal- ,
■tires and wages in private industry
is one of the principal causes of
delay and irregularity in handling
of the mails.
LONDON.—In a letter to Premier
Poincare, Prime Minister MacDon
ald seeks to pave the way for a
more' complete undersanoing be
tween England and France and
criticizes French policies, which
have aroused English suspicion. '
Premier Poincare in his reply re- '
echoes the English minister's aspira
tions for co-operation and defends
I" lances policy toward Germany
and here relations with the smaller
nations of the entente.
any person who dared even to hint
tariff tax relief was branded bv
Mellon champions as an enemy of
tax reduction, or as* placing poli
tics.
“The opportunity is just ahead for
comprehensive tax reduction in the
interest of all the peonle. and this
especially includes tariff tax reduc
tion. which during coming weeks
will be pressed in the house of rep
t esentatives.”
FLORIDA MESSAGES
ARE FOUND WRITTEN
IN SECRET U. S. CODE
Head of Secret Service to Be
Called to Give Testimony
on Use of Private Cipher
| in Telegrams
| WASHINGTON, March 2.—The
j long, long trail of the oil inquiry led
into the department of justice.
A cipher message signed “Mary”
and found among the celebrated Mc-
Lean telegrams carried it. there, and j
the oil committee immediately made,
plans to follow it wherever it may
go.
From 'Williarn J. Burns, chief of
the department’s bureau of investiga
tion; Mrs. Mary Duckstein, a special
agent of the department, and others,
the oil investigators will seek to
learn:
The truth about reports that Ed-I
ward B. McLean, publisher of the
Washington Post, and a central fig
ure in the inquiry, is himself a de
partment of justice agent, and in
possession of the department's code.
Whether ' Burns directed Mrs.
Duckstein to send a message to her
husband, who is one of the McLean
employes, saying that the “McLean
investigation is under way by spe
cial agents of the justice depart
ment” and that he believed the “in
formation is important.”
How Duckstein and other repre
sentatives of the publisher came into
possession of a copx.of the code.
Whether all of the code messages
found in the McLean file of tele
grams are, like the “Mary” message,
in a cipher code once used by the
bureau of investigation.
Sent From Washington
The “Mary” message was sent
from Washington on February 2, to
W. O. Duckstein, described to the
committee as one of McLean’s confi
dential men, at Palm Beach, Fla.
A paraphrase of it, furnished to
the oil committee, reads:
“Sent for by Burns, who told
me to say McLean investigation
is under way by special agents
of justice department. He be
lieves information is important.”
The message was sent by Postal
Telegraph and at the bottom ap
peared this notation: “Chge. Post. A.
D. M. for Mr. W. O. Duckstein.”
Arthur D. Marks is business mana
ger of the Post.
The paraphrase furnished to the
committee bore the signature
“Mary” (Quigley, chief telephone
operator of Washington Post).
Asked today how her name be
came confused with that of Miss <
Quigley, whose name appeared in
one of the McLean telegrams, Mrs.
Duckstein said;
“Oh, very few people knew that
my ‘pet’ name is ‘Mary.’ ” Het
name is Mrs. Jessie Duckstein.
Mrs. Duckstein was then at the
oil committee hearing room in re
sponse to a subpoena, and she de
c!?ned to discuss the reference to
the “McLean investigation” in her
telegram.
Code of Department
Expressing his willingness to
tell the oil committee all he knows,
Burns said he understood the code
employed in the “Mary” message'*
was used at one time by agents of
the justice department.
“The department of justice,” he
said, “never had anything to do
with the oil scandal or Teapot
Dome. I never gave any tips to
McLean. The only telegram to Mc-
Lean that I know about was all
right. It contained no tips of any
kind.”
Burns would not deny the report
that McLean was on the roll of spe
cial agents of the bureau of investi
gation at a nominal salary of sl. a
month, and that he should be fur
nished with an official badge and
a pistol. There have been reports
that in the past a number of per
sons have been enrolled as agents,
“at such a salary, with an under
standing that they would give only
part of their- time to departmental
work.”
After learning that the “Mary” mes
sage was in a one-time department
of justice cipher. Senator Walsh,
Democrat, Montana, the dominant j
figure of the oil investigation, sent ;
to the department for an official
copy. At first his request was re
fused on the ground that his agent
was not sufficiently Identified, and
the senator then wrote a formal let
ter to the department.
A formai subpoena for Burns was
withheld. Senator Walsh saying
that he would be “invited” to ap
pear in the course customarily fol
lowed in the ease of government of
ficials. He will be examined after
the committee resumes its hearings
next Tuesday.
Would Question President
Advertising the code matter in the i
senate. Senator Caraway, Democrat, ;
Arkansas, charged Attorney General j
Daugherty with responsibility for
use of a department of justice cipher
in telegrams sent on behalf of Me
[ Lean.
“I would like to ask the president
himself,” said Senator Caraway,
I "whether he had any communica- !
i lion with those people in Florida. He!
I ewes an explanation to 100,000.090 )
i people as to why McLean had any I
right to a ‘quick qnd easy access to I
the White House.’ ’
The oil committee examined John ■
I F. Major, author of most of the Me- 1
Lean telegrams and John J. Spur- j
geon, managing editor of the Wash
i ington Post, as to McLean’s private ‘ ,
wire to Florida, but got little add! '
i tional information.
Closing the committee-room doors. I
j the investigators examined a new!
batch of telegrams and records of , ,
the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- ‘ ;
phone company. It found additional i
code messages and that three mys
terious telephone calls had been made ' •
to Albert B. Fall at New Orleans (
from the New Willard hotel here.
Officials of the telephone company i
will be asked why the name of the .
person or persons making the call?
do not appear in the records. 1
After the committee had adjourn- -
ed until Tuesday, subpoenas were is \
sued for the managers of the tele-! ;
graph offices at Three Rivers. N j '
M.. Fall's home. They will be re- '■■
quired to bring to Washington all
messages sent or received by Fall. ' f
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West Tennessee
Officer Found Dead
LEXINGTON, Tenn.. Feb. 29.
Mr. V . F. Appleby, about forty-five.
United States marshal for west Ten
nessee district with offices in Mem
phis. was found dead in bed in his
room at a hotel here Thursday.
Death was attributed to heart trou
ble. Mr. Appleby was in his home
county to visit a sister and to attend
next Saturday s meeting of the Hen
derson county Republican conten
tion.
Mr. Appleby was appointed mar
shal by President Harding. He was
secretary of the Republican state
convention during the campaign
which resulted in Mr. Harding's elec
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Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, March 4, 1924
The Weather
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
Virginia: Cloudy; moderate tern
bcrature.
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia: Fair; mild temperature.
Florida: Fair.
Extreme Northwest Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi: Cloudy and warm
er.
Tennescte, "Kentucky: Warmer;
followed by rain.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy to cloudy.
Arkansas: Unsettled, showers in
north portion.
Oklahoma: Unsettled, probably
scattered showers, colder.
East Texas: Unsettled, colder in
northwest portion.
West Texas: Partly cloudy to
• cloudy; colder.
English Town to Be Sold
DERBYSHIRE, March I.—Crom
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tion, is included in the forthcoming
sale of the Wilersey Castle estate.
The first English cotton mill was
erected in the town, which for many
years was a center of the cotton
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INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Feb. 29.
Myron Gross, 15, messenger for the
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Affairs of Attorney General
Are to Be Probed by Board
Headed by Brookhart of
lowa
WASHINGTON, March 2.—Head-
ed by a Republican insurgent of th®
I La Follette group, Senator Brook-
hart, or lowa, a special senate com- .
inittee will begin an investigation
Monday of Attorney General Daugh
erty and his administration <pf the
department of justice.
Tlte inquiry, expected to rival the
oil investigation in its ramifica
tions, was ordered Saturday by the
senate in adopting the resolution
of Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon
tana. The vote was 66 to 1, Sena
tor Elkins, Republican, West Vir
ginia, standing alone in opposition.
The choice of Senator Brookhart
for chairman came in a spectacular,
climax to two days of bitter debate.
He was nominated by Senator La
Follette, of Wisconsin, leader of the
Republican insurgents, after having
been selected originally by Senator
Wheeler.
The regular Republican organiza
tion abandoned its effort to retain
control of the committee, and con
tented itself with nominating Sena
tors Moses, New Hampshire, and
Jones, Washington, while Senator
Robinson, of Arkansas, the Dem
ocratic leader, nominated
Wheeler and Ashurst, Arizona, as
committeemen. No other nomina
tions were forthcoming after a long
and dramatic pause, and the slate,
as agreed upon by Senator Wheeler
after conferences with Senators La
Follette and Robinson, went
through without a roll call. Pri
vately, Republican leaders said they
regarded it as useless to oppose the
insurgcnt-Democratic coalition,
Daugherty’s Lawyers Busy
After an adoption of the Wheel
er resolutions, attorneys for the at
torney general, Paul Howland, of
Cleveland, and former Senator
George E. Chamberlain, of Oregon,
sent formal letters to each member
of the special committee, requesting
the privilege of being present at
all hearings, of examining all wit
nesses, of presenting independents
evidence, on having processes is
sued for witnesses and of present
ing oral and written arguments.
They gave assurances of the as
sistance of every agency and fa
cililty of the department of justice.
Chairman Brookhart said tonight
that the committee would meet
Monday to draw up a plan of pro
cedure, and would proceed “as
speedily as possible” in its long
task, which is expected to take
weeks if not months.
“There are masses of papers to
be gone over in a preliminary way,”
said Senator Brookhart, “it is hoped
to begin the hearings in a very few
days, probably some' time ‘next
week.’’
While definite procedure is yet to
be determined, members indicated
there would be no formal complaint,
with detailed specifications, drafted
and filed, as in the house impeach
ment proceedings a year ago against
Mr. Daugherty, but that various
charges attd complaints would M
taken up as they developed with com
mittee members and in the hearings.
The first field of inquiry is expected
to be the department of justice bu
reau of investigation, headed by Wil
liarn J. Burns, in connection with
the activities of its agents in several
parts of the country.
Text of Resolution
“Resolved, that a committee of
five senators, consisting of three of
the majority and two of the minor
ity, be authorized and directed to in
vestigate circumstances and facts,
and report the same to the senate,
concerning the alleged failure of
Harty M. Daugherty, attorney gen
eral of the United States to prose
cute properly violators of the Sher
man anti-trust act and the Clayton
act against monopolies and unlawful
restraint of trade; the alleged neglect ■
and failure of said Harry M. Daugh
erty, attorney general of the United
States, to arrest and prosecute Al
bert B. Fall, Harry F. Sinclair, E. L.
Doheny, C. R. Forbes and their co
canspirators in defrauding the gov
ernment as well as the allegpd neg-
: ect and failure of the said attorney
general to arrest and prosecute many
others for violations of federal stat
utes, and his alleged fialure to pres
ecule properly, efficiently and
promptly and defend all manner of
civil and criminal actions wherein
the government of the United States
is interested as a party plaintiff or
defendant. And said committee is
further directed to inquire into, in
vestigate and report to the senate th®
activities of the said Harry M.
Daugherty, attorney general, and
any of his assistants in the depart
ment of justice which would in any
manner tend to impair their efficien
cy or influence as representatives of
the government of the United
States. The said committee above
referred to and the chairman there
of, shall be selected by the senate of
rhe United States.”
Virtually unlimited jurisdiction to
i-’.cstigata—affairs relating to mt.
Daugherty and the department of
justice is given under the senate
resolution which as finally adopted,
provides:
The senate, without opposition, ac
cepted a slate agreed on earlier by
Senators LaFollette and Robinson, '
and elected the followings commit
tee;
Brookhart, lowa, chairman; Jones,
Washington: Moses, New Hampshire,
Republican; Ashurst, Arizona, anjj
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