Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-13
BAKER MAY BE NEW TAR6ET I IF. .C ] N GRESS|ONAL
 | N INVESTIGATION
Fleet Introduces Plan To Shift Probe To Alleged
 Secrecy Of Reports
F A CTS $ DEMANDED
Charge That War Depart
 ment Was IUnfavorable \ To Slenths' Probed

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12-A resoIu- tion which is expected Co shift the congressional investigation of the con- duct of the war into new field was introduced today by Representative Flood, Democrat of Virginia. member of the general Investigating body.
 The resolution called on Secretary Baker for all facts connected with the application of J. M. Hill and c. C.. Lindsey for permission to inspect the secret archives of the war depart ment and the refusal or the depart ment to grant such permission"
 The two were employed by an in- VestlSator who was employed by the Johnson subcommittee, and not dir ectly by the committee, the chairman explained. 4 voucher for S24OO for their work or part of il, made out in the name of their employer, is held 0y Chairman Ireland of the house committee on accounts, and has not been paid.
 Their names were brought before the general Investigating committee last June. Flood, in denying chrages then by Republican .-EmbeTs that the war departmeHt's attitude was unfav- orable to the investigation, declared the only refusal was in the case or Hill and Lindsey, who were seeking certain secret records containing the settlement of contracts. This action, he charged. was taken after thes de partment authorities had found that their real purpose was to obtain mon- ey from d newspaper for information supposed to be on file among gov eTnment records ''in the event they were unable to obtain large sum through blackmail."
 Chairman Ireland in the house this week criticised the expenditure of large sums by Investigating commit tees, declaring he had seen no real application Of concrete results from the war investigations and that his committee undoubtedly would have disapproved many of the contracts had il known about it. IL was indicated tonight that another resolution bear ing on the case would be introduced Monday
 In his statement to the committed, which he made public today, Flood said Hill and Lindsey went to the war department with a letter from Samuel T. Ansell. former acting judge advocate general of the army. cOunsei for the Johnson subcommittee.
 Floods statement to the Graham committee last June said:
 ''The subcommittee has assumed to investigate the conduct of the war and such testimony as it has taken with respect to expenditures is only incidental to this main purpose. The gentlemen who constitute the majority of this subcommittee charge that the war department attitude was unfav- orable to the investigation and that certain fiscal records were not avail able. There is nothing in the conduct of the war department to justify this charge and the statement that the records are not available is wholly without foundation and fact.
 ''The only instance in which the war department declined to honor in yestigations was that of a MT. Hill and a MT. Lindsey, who went to the war department with a letter from General S T. Ansell, the $20,000 at torney, requesting that these gentle men be given access to certain se- cret records containing the settle ment of certain contracts
 Upon investigation, che war au- thOrities found the real purpose of Mir Hill and MT. Lindsey was to Ob- tain money from a newspaper for this information in the event they were unable to obtain a large sum through blackmail. The proper authorities in the war department very properly re- fused 10 honor General Ansell's re- quest. and the secretary of war wrote letter to the chairman of the select committee in which he set forth req sons for such refusal. Mir. Graham, the chairman. naturally agreed with the secretary of wars presentation of the matter and his refusal.