Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-13
HEARrNG ON THE DAUGRERTY
 .,. IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS

Washington, Dec 12.-Hearings on impeachment. proceedings brought against Attorney General Daugherty by Representative, Keller, republican, Min nesota, which opened today before the house judiciary committee, were marked hv freouent clashes between committee members and Jackson H. Ralston, coun- sel for Mir. Keller, first as to. the meth | cd of procedure and second as to the relevancy of testimony.
 The Minnesota representative won the first skirmish, the committee voting in executive session after an hour and a half of wrangling in the open to hear | first evidence on three of the fourteen i specifications designated by MT. kei- liar instead of taking the charges up in numerical order in which they were pre- sented originally. .' Another decision, was against summon l ing Chief Justice Taft whose presence 1 had been requeste ed by MT. Ralston for tthe purpose of confirming a letter which Mir. Taft wrote in 1912 while president to the then attorney general Wicker sham, and which was read into the rec. l ord during the day. The. committee heio 4 that confirmation would be unnecessary
 This letter and one written to Mr. Tar 1 bv Mir. Wjckershams constituted the prin- l cipaI evidence today. Both dealt wnh
 a pardon for Willard N. Jones, convicted in Oregon in 1907 of alleged land frauds and referred to alleged activities or IWilliam J.. Burns, appointed last -yeal Inv -Dausherty as chief of the bure1I I of investigation of the department oi Justice in connection with the drawing oi the jury in the Jones case
 MT. Ralston explained, the letter. lhelned to support the charge that Mir tDaugherty had appointed to position; t'of great importance and large inancta land moral responsibility" men who "ar' luntrustworthy, corrupt and dangerous t Ethe liberties of the people Of the United States" .>
 In the wjckersham report to the pres lident it was set forth that MT. Burns Iwho then was employed by the govern lnlent under Francis J. Heneyv as specia Iprosecutor in the land fraud cases, ob itained in advance list of prospectiv petit jurors who were to- be called in tn T ttriaI before Judge Gilbert and that afte 500 of the 2,600 names had been foun, satisfactory from his. standpoint their T names had been allowed to remain il fthe jury bfx. President Taft in replying to Nr
 wickersham and approving a pardon 10
 Jones' declared the methods, describe'
 constituted the most barefaced and ufi
 fair use of all the machinery for drawml . a jury" which had been disclosed t him in all his long experience in the fed eral courts. He added that this con
 dition gives sufficient reason to justif: a pardon" for Jones .aas well as '.justi flying condemnation of the methods Q
 Heney and Burns. 2 'iisse st..55 },.'f Il, Paul Rowland, of, Cleveland. Ohio who appeared as personal counsel flo Mir. Daughefty, developed from James 4 Finch, pardon attorney for the depart ment of Justice. who prepared the gepor in the land fraud case, that both MI
 Burns and Mr. sHeney had denied tn charges. Mr. Finch also testified tha
 Judge Gilbert had denied the. charges
 but Mir. Raiston declared the ,oficia jrecords show that the trial judge sub sequently had changed hia opinion. I