The sun., 1919-10-19
PALMER TOSTART
/ FORD VOTEIN
Administration Will Attempt
to Repay Fancied Debt to
Manufacturer.
GRAND JURY IS CALLED
Indiana Special Prosecutor Is
I. Named to Act for the
J. Government.
Special Despatch TO THE Sun.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-A final effort
20 repay the ADMINISTRATORS imagined
obligation to Henry Ford will be made
when the Federal Grand Jury for the
Western district of Michigan meets next
month, according to a statement issued
BY the Department of Justice tonight
According to the programme outlined
by the legal department Of the Govern
ment, special counsel has been engaged
TO initiate proceedings against alleged
tnfractors of the primary and election
laws of Michigan during the campaign
of 1918 when Henry Ford was candi-
date for the United States Senate against
Truman H. Newberry, the present junior
Senator.
The official statement from Attorney
General Palmer's Office tonight says:
THE Department of Justice made the
announcement to-day that the Depart
ment after careful investigation had de-
cided to bring before the Grand Jury
coon to be convened in Grand Rapids,
Mich. the alleged primary and election
frauds and unlawful expenditures of
large sums of money connected with the
nomination and election of the United
States Senator from Michigan last year.
Before and after the primary election
ment and also public charges of fraud
and corruption were made by the Lieu
tenant-Governor of Michigan and others.
Daley Is Named.
1.-THE Department has assigned to
take charge of this investigation Frank
g. Daley of Indianapolis, who has had
the largest experience in prosecuting
election fraud cases of any prosecutor
in this country. AS United States Dis
trict Attorney for Indianapolis he con-
Quoted election fraud cases against the
Mayor of TerTe Haute, the Judge OF the
Circuit Court. the Sheriff and more than
100 others, including high city and
county officials. All were convicted and
sent to prison.
HE also prosecuted the election fraud
cases against the Superintendent of Po-
lice of Indianapolis and more than
eighty others. including a number of i'm
portant officials of city and county, and
all were convicted. All of these defen-
dants in both cases belonged to the same
political party as Mr.. Daley. The de-
partment found him to be fair and i'm
partial and free from political bias.
THE Michigan investigation will be
made before a Grand Jury Of the West
ern district of Michigan convened at
Grand Rapids by United States District
Judge Sessions, who has acquired a rep
utation for great ability. learning and
fearless impartiality."
Hope to Control Senate.
Ford's claim to a seat in the Senate
was considered by the Committee o..
Privileges and Elections during the last
days of the SiXty-fifth Congress. This
attempt to derogate to itself by the COM
mittee of the expiring Congress a func-
ton exclusively that of the incoming
Congress fell fiat. Ford. since the as
sembling of the Sixty-sixth Congress
and the seating of Senator Newberry,
has filed no claim upon the seat which
has been given any very serious
consideration by the committee having
jurisdiction over such problems The
Democratic Administratio ton, hopeful of
gaining through a possible victory by
Ford an opportunity to control the Sem
ate for the remainder of the present Con-
gress, has now resorted to the only
method remaining by which It may
reflect any doubt on Senator Newberry's
right to his seat.
Senators unite in the opinion that no
matter what the Grand Jury may find in
the question of alleged frauds in the
Michigan elections there is no chance
that Mr.. Newberry's right to his seat
may successfully be contested. Under
the Federal Constitution, Article l. Sec
ton 8, each House shall be the judge
of elections returns and qualifications of
it's own members" and therefore no mat
ter what the outcome of the projected
probe in Grand Rapids the chances of
the motor car manufacturer taking the
seat in the Senate are decidedly slight.
President Wilson is known as ex-
tremely DESTROYS of having Ford in the
Senate. The suspicion prevails that
even the remarkable disclosures In re-
gard to Mr.. Ford's peculiar political be-
1lefs have not allayed the yearning to
see Mr.. Ford rewarded for his support of
the Government