Arizona republican., 1921-02-04
DAWES CONTINUES BITTER ATTACK ON
 CONGRESS METHOD
 OF PROBING WAR
WOMEN CROWDED IN GALLERIES FAIL TO PREVENT DAWES FROM SWEARING
 WHEN QUESTIONERS REFLECT ON
 ANY SECTION OF OVERSEAS SERVICE
IRepubIican A. p. Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON, Feb 3-Another broadside was let loose by Charles G. Dawes today against the congressional methods of Investigating the conduct of the war.
 Attacking what he characterized as q partisan attempt to blacken the name of the American army because of the blunders of few, the former brigadier general in charge of supply procure ment in France declared the house committee could serve a more useful public service by turning the search light on the waste of millions of gov ernment dollars, right under their nose.
 Women in the crowded committee room failed to prevent MT. Dawes from swearing like d buck" private. He strode about, and swearing madly when he construed the questioning as re- flecting on any section of the fighting outfit of which he was part. Chair man Johnson, a former service man, told Mir. Dawes he wished there had been other witnesses as truthful and as unafraid to talk.
 MT. Dawes did not conceal the feel At times the room was in an uproar of merriment and the echo of oaths swept down the long corridor as he turned his wrathful language upon critics of the war who stayed at home. People Tire of Investigations
 Referring to investigations by the house, MT. Dawes said he thought the people were sick of them
 Why. there is no longer any news in It." he shouted. If was not here, struggling around and swearing. there would be no news in this. Don't for get 1t was an American war. not Re publican or Democratic war, and the record of the glorious work of our army will live hundreds of years after your committee Is dead and gone and for gotten"
 When the name of General Pershing 1 was brought up, MT. Dawes could scarcely control his anger
 There were hounds in this country. he declared, 'swho tried to spread the
 false news that Pershing was at a thea 1 ter on the night of the armistice. He was there. like hell. He was at his office starting the work of canceiling l vast contracts to save money. It will take 25 or 50 years for Pershing to get his place in history, but let me tell you the time will come when every dough boy overseas will be proud to say he was one of Pershing's men You can try to give me all the hell you want-I like it. You kick because I sold a lot of second hand junk to the l French government for $400.000.0oo | instead of keeping 10000 soldiers there
 to guard 1t while we tried to peddle it. | My conscience hurts me sometimes | W1Sit iiilfh Nt ttiSAi ttACtti toe' much"
 l Thinks France Was Cheated l Mir. Dawes said he was a Repub- lican. but was broad enough to give the war department credit for its work in getting more men to the front than France and Great Britain put there in the same period. Then he jumped on the department and denounced it for its refusal to permit promotion of men in the ranks. The rule by which men. eager to go overseas, but kept at home.
 were required to wear silver stripes. was characterized as one of the most disgraceful acts of the war.
 The award of distinguished service medals came in for a fiery attack. It broke more hearts. he said, than any thing else, because thousands of men entitled to the medals were passed by. MT. Dawes said it was all right for congress to try to find and punish men who made mistakes in the stress of the war. but told the committee it would get nowhere, and that the pub lie was not concerned with those mis- takes now.
 EuIogizes Pershine
 | And they are trying to say Pershing
 permitted the sacrifice of thousands of
 lives on Armistice day. It's the most damnable lie ever uttered. And it's all right to sit back here, viewing from a Ipartisan standpoint the work overseas, ] when IT you people so Iree 10 condemn had been there you might have done I just as we did-or worse. Liquida- tion? Why, hell. men, we liquidated everything. There was not any will full destruction of property in France, as this committee has tried to show. The junk we couldn't sell was given laway-it was cheaper than burning or
 buryirfg it. They pinned one of those
 medals on me. but 1t had damned
 sight better gone to some poor devil | in the ranks who better deserved it''
 Judge A. B. Parker, who had much to do with the liquidation job in France
 and who was described by Mir. Dawes
 as hard boiled egg as an army
 trader, will be heard tomorrow.