Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-22
RtEl) IS HEARST
 REPRESENTATIVE.
 BECkEk CHARGED
rfopaeanda investigation Full of sharp Exchanges Between New York Attorney and Missouri Senator.

l "tpulv attorney general of NC" fork, on continued cross exam nation today by Senator Reed of Mis- sour at the Senate committee's Ger
 man propaganda inquiry, declared thai senator Reed represented William Randolph Hearst, about whom most of i the testimony revolved Senator Reed indignantly denied that he represented , anybody or anything except an effort to reach the truth in d maze of dis torted testimony"
 ] The hearing was full of sharn ev- changes of accusations between Mr. Becker and Senator Reed. who sought to snow that Becker drew unwarrant- led conclusions from scraps of evil oence'' of acquaintance between Hearst and Bolo Pasha, Von Bernstorff ana other German agents. Mr. Becker declared he was suspicious of a] most anything that Mr. Hearst did" The cross examination will be con- tlnued when the hearings are resumed alter the holidays recess.
 Before the committee adjourned. senator Reed referred to the financial transactions mentioned by Mr. Becker III the beginning of his testimony of Thursday dealing with $1.OO0 .0OO de- posted with J. P. Morgan and Con- pany to the credit of Bolo Pasha. the amount to be available to Bolo in october, 1916, six months after it's deposit, with interest at 2 1-2 percent In June 1916, after Bolo had returned to France, it was testified the Morgan firm acabled it's Paris branch that al- though the original agreement was not kept it would be glad if some in terest would be allowed Bolo, .'in view of the connection of this client which is of great importance to us.'
 Now if you had a letter like that written by MT. Hearst in which he said the original agreement was not kept and asking him to pay interest regardless of that, you would regard it as very conclusive against MT. IHearst, would you not?" asked Sena- tor Reed T should be suspicious of almost anything that MT. Hearst did. and that does not apply to Mir. Nor gan." Mr. Becker said.
 That is what 1 thought" Senator Reed retorted. !"You would be suspic- ious of almost anything he did, and so comes your testimony to be read in that light"
 "Yes," the witness said, II am very suspicious of Mir. Hearst. l admit it. l think his record justifies it."
 "Then he probably entertains an equally exalted opinion of you," Sena- tor Reed replied.
 Well. God bless him." Becker re- piled, ''he is welcome to it. and he probably will express it in his paper and this is my only chance"
 The Senate committee has placed in the records a letter from Dr. Lauritz Larsen, secretary of The National Lutheran Council, declaring the Church is 100 percent loyal, entirely American and is not subsidized in any way by the Prussian State Church. The Church is pledged to the exclusive use of the English Language except when it is impossible to administer spiritual consolation in that tongue, it was explained
 Attorney and Senator Clash.
 Cross questioning by Senator Reed of Missouri, who is not a member of the committee, led to a sharp clash at today's session of the Senate Com
 mittee investigating German propa- ganda, between the Missouri senator
 and Alfred l.. Becker deputy attorney
 general of New Cork and Major B.
 Lowry Humes, in charge of the in- quiry.
 1 MT. Becker refused to answer ques-
 tionsb by Senator Reed as to the iden- titv of persons, employed by the at- ltorney general of New York to get in- formation concerning the German
 propaganda system. Senator Reed ue'
 manded that the committee instruct
 the witness to answer.
 Becker asked the senator if he de
 sired to have information on matters
 relating to his client, MT. Hearst,
 whereupon Senator Reed told the
 committee that MT. Becker's reply hat
 been framed in an insolent manner l and denied that he was appearing for
 MT. Hearst.
 "You don't mean to say that MT ] Hearst is my client?" asked Senator : Reed.
 - "I beg your pardon,'' said MT. Beck er .vo n.:an,+ hoo my nsrdon,v sena IOu uCcul UC6 ny tor Reed retorted "Your answer was
 what your testimony has been all thu way through this case and it does no ' reflect on your yeracity. am herr ) in the interest of trying to develol
 some truth through a maze ot testl
 mony that has been distorted ! MT. Becker based his refusal to an
 swer the question on the ground tha if was secret service work and secre cy was essential to it's success He sat that he had known that "the Hears forces' had been trying for six month :: 10 find out the names of the men max I ing the investigation "and they nav not found out yet which shows Vt Q have a pretty good secret service.
 Major Humes, who has been conduc'
 ing the investigation objected to sena
 tor tor Reeds questioning and senate
 Reed asked him who he representee T continued on page si1)