The Raymer enterprise., 1922-12-21

was ready he would be willing to lay
aside the subsidy bill temporarily II II
had not been passed BY then.
EVIDENCE for and against the move
II to impeach Attorney General
Daugherty made the sessions Of the
house committee on judiciary exceed.
ingly lively. In support Of the charge
that the chief law officer had knowing.
ly appointed unfit persons to Office the
case Of William J. Burns, whom he
made chief Of the bureau of investiga.
tion, was cited. Letters from Chief
Justice Taft written when he was
President and from George ". Wicker
sham written when he was attorney
general, strongly condemning the ac-
tions Of Burns In the Oregon land
fraud cases. were read into the record.
Samuel Gompers' secretary testified
that he called the letters to the atten-
tion Of Mr.. Daugherty before Burns
was appointed. Next day Senator
johnson Of California took the stand
and testified that he recommended the
appointment Of Burns and that "on a
question Of veracity between Wicker.
sham and Burns. I'd take Burns" In
his own behalf Burns swore the Wick
ersham letter was "a tissue Of false
hoods" He said Gompers had hound
ed him ever since he caught the Nc
Namara brothers In the Los Angeles
Times dynamiting case, and that Comp
ers, hearing the prisoners were about
to admit their guilt, sent an agent to
Los Angeles to stop the confession.
ThereupOn Gompers went on the stand
and said this charge was without the
slightest foundation.
Chairman McChord OF the interstate
commerce commission was called to
testify as to the failure Of the Depart
ment Of Justice to enforce the safety
appliance and locomotive inspection
laws. He testified that Daugherty had
co-operated with the commission to the
best Of his ability.
Representative Keller of Minnesota,
who preferred the charges against the
attorney general, and some others were
dissatisfied with the attitude Of the
committee and said II evidently intend
ed to "whltewash" Mr.. Daugherty. Mr..
Keller finally declared angrlly that he
would prosecute the charges no further
before the committee.
G EVERAL recommendations Of the
- commission appointed to prepare
a plan Of governmental reorganization
have been submitted to President
Harding, perhaps the most important
being a consolidation Of the War and
Navy departments into department Of
national defense under one cabinet
member with assistants In charge Of
each branch. The photographic Office
Of the navy, the coast geOdetic survey
and all map making and printing work
would be under the Department Of Com
merce. The President, 1t is said, thinks
well Of this plan and may lay 1t before
congress soon.
THE Supreme court decided that a
L person can be prosecuted and pun.
ished by both the federal and state au-
thorities for q single violation Of the
prohibition act. Representative Bren.
nan of Michigan has introduced bill
designed to prevent such double
prosecution. Dry and wet leaders are
quarreling over the Interpretation Of
the Presidents language concerning
prohibition enforcement In his message
to congress. The former assert It was
an unqualified Endorsement Of the Vol.
stead act. The latter, as represented
by Capt. W. H. Stayton, say: ITO any
fair-minded person 1t Is obvious that,
In the Presidents message. the ques.
tion of the enforceabllity of the present
fanatical volstead act Is definitely
raised" a...
DOPE Plus held his first secret con
l sistory and appointed eight new
cardinals one Of them being Mgr. John
Bonzano, until recently papal dele.
gate to Washington. On Thursday. In
public consistory and with great cere
mony, the pope invested six of them
with the red hat and the rochet; the
other two were not present.
John wANAMAKER. merchan.
y prince, philanthropist and former
postmaster general, died In his Philadel,
phla home on Tuesday. His funeral on
Thursday was attended by many of the
most eminent Americans and was the
occasion Of tribute unsurpassed In
Philadelphia. A thoroughly goot
American citizen has passed.