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ping said the Senator. "makes me sick.
The thlns Ia just this: MFR. Burns went
into the Office Of Seymour & Seymour
because j. +. Morgan 4 Co. employer
him to do IL. Thc police made a tap OF
the seymour wire because j. y. Morgan
wanted It. The Mayor Is overexcitsj
and In his overcxcltement he is telling
a lot OF things that haven't happened.
I haven't had any warning from tho
United States Government. The only
warning | received was from the Mayor
himself. | refused to issue a statement
saying the Seymour tapping was justi-
Ned and when they threatened to pan
me ] told them to 20 ahead.
I'VE won't call the Mayor. n he isn't
satisfied with his position and wants 10
involve himself deeper he Is welcome
and the committee will hea him. Ger
tain o~f1cials sa. that the publicity has
spoiled the Governments plans. Then
why, ! should like to know. do they keep
spelling them by publicity? ! am no..
The whole wire tapping incident seems
TO me to be up to the District Attorney.
For the last three or four weeks he has
had all the testimony we developed. We
don't intend to call Father Farrell or
Martin EGan or any one else. We have
cleared up the Charities case. We're
through with the wire tappers and we'll
~ Nm y NV wv fSSh VosNs
Whatever action the District Attorney
may take in the Seymour case will de-
pend upon the Seymours. who are not
yet decided III to do. d Swami.
when he was told yesterday thai Senator
Thompson had said he was through with
the wire tappers. issued the following
statement
Il nave received no official notifica-
ton from Senator Thompson or any
member of his committee OF a change
In the committees programme. Should
! there be a change I would first want
to consult the members OF the commit
tee as to what lines were being followed
and what further testimony was In pros
pee, before proceeding.
"Mr. has a right to permit
any person to enter his once. lie has
come to his Office three times. always
Al my request. and although urged TO
GO before the Grand Jury he has an
swered zach time that ne did not desire
to prees a charge against Mr.. Burns.
thereby at least by implication appearing
70 ratify his act. Mr.. Seymour IL the
only man who can lodge a complaint"
" was evident to any one who visited
the offices OF Frank Moss yesterday.
however. that the committees counsel IL
not Of the same mind as the committees
chairman about the committee being
through with the wire tapping inquiry.
! Mr.. Moss said the committee had no
definite plans for Tomorrow and that he
did not know whether or not the Mayor
would testify on Tuesday.
Are GOtnG Ahead, says Moss.
Blu, tho committees counsel was then
busy inquiring into the facts OF the
recent charities investigation wire tap
ping. apparently preparing for the call
ing OF other wire tapping witnesses this
coming week. Mr.. Moss said upon the
subject
We are not through with our investi-
cation OF the practice OF wire tapping.
We will continue a. various leads
develop. II Is entirely within reason
that we will conduct an investigation
into the wire tapping developed in
Brooklyn this week when "A police
man testified ne had tapped 10000
wires during the last eight YEAR,,
From that and other sources We will
probably learn just TO What extent
the police make application 10 tap
telephone wires and what wires they
tap wi,hou, formal application.
We DO not consider ourselves
obliged to call Mayor Mitchell by
reason ~ any understanding arrived at
the other day. The Mayor fumed and
threatened on Thursday that II we in
tended to interfere with the Govern
ment phase Of tho police Investigation