New-York tribune., 1920-04-13
Creel Demands
Investigation
OF U. S. Charge
Asks Palmer for Imme-
diate Inquiry Into Allie
cations Made in Report
of Congressional Body
Assails Smoot's Action
Asserts Senator Knew There
Was No Transfer of The
Official alBulletin' to BabsOn

George Creel, former chairman of
the Committee on Public Information,
last night made public letter he had
sent to Attorney General Palmer, in
sissing that Mr.. Palmer begin an i'm
mediate investigation Of charges made
by the joint Congressional Committee
on Printing, that the Creel committee
had wrongfully transferred "The Of
fetal Bulletin" the committees pub
lication, to Roger w. Babson, of We'll
lesley, Mass.
At the same time Mr.. Creel made
public letter to Senator Reed Smoot,
chairman of the joint committee, de-
claring the Senator knew there was no
transfer of "The Official Bulletin" to
Babson, but that the joint committee
"sneakingly worked in secret to frame
the Indictment that my testimony
would have made absurd" He added
that the Senator. "as much as any one
else" was responsible for wiping out
the Creel committee June 80, 1919.
"-ight in The middle of its orderly
liquidation"
The joint committee charged that
the transfer had been made without
cost to Babson and suggested institu-
ton of legal proceedings against
Creel, Babson, C. T. Clayton and Ed
ward S, Rochester, to see if the gov
ernment could not recover money from
them.
In his letter to Mr.. Palmer, Mr..
Creel said:
Deliberate Slanders, Says Creel
Senator Smoot has filled the press
with the statement that the government
should take action against me for my
proceedings in connection with The
Official Bulletin l insist that your
Office commence an instant investiga-
ton, and put myself and every record
at your disposal.
Il want to know from you also what
protection, if any, citizen has against
the deliberate ISLANDERS of member of
Congress. Not only are Senator Smoot's
charges. false in every particular, but
he knew them to be lies when he ut
tered them.
"'The Official Bulletin was not trans
ferred to Roger Babson or to anv one
else. 1t was discontinued by the ex-
plicit order of the ATTORNEY General
on the ground that I had no right to
sell the property at public auction.
The one asset was mailing list and
this was publicly placed at the disposal
of any citizen caring to copy it. an &C.
tion also taken under orders Of the At
torney General.
ANY private citizen was at liberty
to start publication of similar char
acter and this is what Mr.. Babson did.
He received nothing whatsoever from
the government except the right to
copy the mailing list at his own ex-
pense. The whole record is clear and
available, and since Senator Smoot has
no interest whatsoever in anything but
his malicious effort to defame: l de-
pnand that the Office of the Attorney
General afford me opportunity to be
heard"
Letter to Senator Smoot
To Senator Smoot, Mr.. Creel wrote:
"The war is over and am no longer
compelled sit silent under your malice.
Better than any one else you know the
utter falsity of your charges of ir-
regularity in connection with The Of
fetal Bulletin You did not have the
deoency or the courage 10 call me be-
fore your committee, but sneakingly
ment that my testimony would have
made absurd"
Asserting that after he had been
"dispossessed" July 20, 1919, his
records had twice to be moved and
had been jumbled into army trucks
Mr.. Creel declared ga private memor-
andum, stating this confusion, was sent
to Senator Warren for his information
but some one sneaked it out to the
press and the conditions precipitated by
Congress were credited to my 'deser-
tion.'"
Continuing, Mr.. Creel said:
II have given weeks of my time and
all too much of my money to the
work Of liquidation, and l am sick ano
tired of this long-distance lying. Youl
Recommendation to the Attorney Gen
eral to bring action against me is bun
combe and you know it. A better ant
quicker way is to have. ME appear be
fore your committee, or any othe
Senate committee, and make full
answer in open session to this 'Oficia
Bulletin charge.
ever since the armistice it ha
been your steadfast attempt to shane
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