Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-03-04
SULLIVAN AND
MURPHY
BY H. PADDOCK
Says If The People Could
Analyze Testimony They
Would Not Allow Pay
(By stan Correspondent. }

Attorney n. A. Paddock. secretary
of the: industrial commission as a
climax to his summing up of evidence
brought out at the senate audits hear
ing Of Thursday afternoon urged that.
III the people Of the state could see
and analyze the transcript OF testi-
mony taken they would not stand for
payment of one dollar. to the at
torneys (Murphy and Sullivan of the
house committeeJ for the kind OF in
ivestigation they conducted
Paddock for h past ten days hal
been conducting an examination OF
practically all witnesses before the
senate committee. Thursday he in
tr6duced3 as exhibits two notes signed
statement that he had nevef. borrowed
and dollars, the other for two thous-
and dollars, as REPUTATION. of Brinton's
any money from the Scandinavian
American bank Of. Fargo. The notes
were dated July g.. 1919. 4.
Paddock talked to the members Of
the committee for three quarters Of
an hour. The burden Of his argu-
.ment was that although attorneys for
facts to show many prominent
leAguers had borrowed money from
Fargo or, other league banks.
They had only questioned a total of
two hundred, forty-nine~ thousand
dollars collateral out OF a total of $5,-
6~05.1S7.47 held by the bank Of North
Dakota for total towns of $2,407,265
loans. 1.-The, chief crime was that
members OF the Nonpartisan league
Paddock yCleyerly Sums Case.
Paddock carefully and cleverly
summed up his case avoiding all men
ton Of the sisal trust check and loan
deal, generally attacking the. members
Of the committee and@lsespecially
Francis j. Murphy and John +. Sui
livan, attorneys for that body. His
charges included an i~nsinuation that
]. r. Waters, who tainted when un-
der examination before the house
committee, had become i'll more or
less peculiarly to prevent further
cross examination before the senate
he charged that every
movement and ~act of the house at
torneys was a costly verification of
stories garfield by 1.-The Fargo Fo-
ton had not shown that the Bank of
North Dakota had loaned a dollar to
the National Nonpartisan league. the
league exchange, or other enterprises,
he charged that house committee at
torneys had deliberately misread
testimony: that they had not dared.
come before the senate committee in
answer to the summons, but he did
not admit in his long harangue that
the senate committee, had not m
powered him to subpoena anyone but
the Bishop Brissman accountants, that
the house attorneys knew it, and
therefore would not answer. II there
was anything he failed to charge as
political intrigue against the house
committee attorneys. it was because
he had forgotten 1t and-Mr. Pad
dock had q remarkable memory.
Mostly Aimed ut Attorneys.
The attorney especially emphasized
a small amount Of paper in the bank
of North Dakota questioned by the
house committee attorneys but he also
carefully avoided any mention Of the
lack of time necessary to check all
much as possible in the time allowed.
While the house committee men,
bers generally came in for some re-
marks. practically all Of the talk by
Paddock was aimed at the attorneys.
He especially wanted to know what
they were being paid, having heard
that the investigator, E. B. Nc
C%utcheon of the house committee was
getting $4,000 a day and wound up
mittee to prevent the house bills be-
ing paid. He failed t. mention that
the industrial commission is paying
his own salary, hat Of the court re-
Iporters taking the testimony and Of
witnesses brought before the senate
whitewash board.
His talk to the senate committee
members is practically the same as
the report which will be rendered by
| $1A ~~~, ~,@-Ao.. - -
board. This report was to have been
ready early this morning. -,