Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-03
MENTIONED FOR
 HARDING CABINET VIGOROUSLY
 DEFENDS CONDUCT OF 4. [. r.
Former Chief Of Supply In Exciting Testimony To House
 Committee. Assails Legislators Who Are Seeking To Belitte Results Accomplished During Conflict

MaSHlNGION. FeD- 3--Declaring he was not in politics and was not going in. Charles G. Dawes. of Chiea- go. former chief of supply procure ment for the American army in France, attacked today what he charged were political attempts to discredit achievements oi the people who won the war
 Appearing before a house war in veSugating committee, Dawes struck hard blows at critics who had tried. he said, to detract from the glory Of the great achievement by picking flaws and parading trivial faults 5000 miles away At times the air was thick with oath for which the witness frankly confessed he had neither apology nor excuse
 He reiterated an earlier off-hand statement as to his own part in pOli- tics, which was accepted to mean he would not become member of Hard ins's cabinet
 Dawes sharply denounced the syS- tenn of conducting the federal govern ment, an evil of hundred years. standing, he declared, with which in- vestigators might better afford to deal
 Bland Is SiIenced
 Dawes was called by Democratic members of the committee to rebut testimony relating to waste and extra vagance and particularly with refer ence to liquidation Of American ac- counts in France and sale of surplus stocks to France Answering charges that food and clothing supplies might have brought more than S400.000. 900 paid by France, Dawes turned on one of his QuestionerS. Representative Bland, Republican of Indiana, anu shouted:
 Tt is just that sort of fool argument that forced Great Britain to hold on to its stocks and attempt to drives hard bargain The stuff is there, ro.- ting. There is no use to try and throw mud when you were not there to know conditions. England lost billions of dollars by listening 10 that talk. They are raising the devil in England now, because England did not sell"
 Dawes said he thought France was charged too much
 Here you come and charge, he
  sugar. The war department ordered the sale. The sugar went With the junk. Everything was second hand ] We got four hundred million dollars for it We liquidated every account, and we d1d 1t because lot of big men quit their jobs and went there to help. We cleaned the slate and | congress today still his pending claims that date back to the reVolu- tion. It was a big job and we are proud of it In finding fault and hunt, ing responsibility you don nave Tar to 20. Pershing was the commander , in chief and his shoulders are big enough, thank God, to bear it.
 Bland questioned Dawes about eN- cessive prices paid for material
 "Didn't Stop to Oicker"
 'Sure we paid" he said. We didn't stop to dicker. Why, man alive we had to win. It was mans job We would have paid horse prices Tor ! sheen The man like Johnson, there. he said turning to the chairman, was standing at the front to be shot at We had to get him food and am munition. Oh, it's all right now to say we bought too much vinegar and too many cold chisels, but we saved civilization
 "I am no more ashamed to stand up for England than for the United States" he said, jumping from ms chair and racing about.
 It seems to be fashionable m American politics to attack England I am not in politics and I am not go ing to be, And 1 thank God that Tn a crisis like we had there were no bickerings between the English speak ing people"
 s'The diplomatic system of appoint ing men with pink tea experience Tn war time" he continued, ''was rot ten failure. Sharp was all right. but the rest of them were utter failures ft was all due to the appointment or society men-pink tea fellows, Why. we could not get anywhere. We had George McFadden over there and he did in three days what the diplomats could not do in three months.
 Let me illustrate. we needed SO.0O0 artillery horses They were in the fields. and it was harvest time for France. It was my job 10 get them, and it was my argument that we could