Evening star., 1922-05-27
Senate Told of Telegram
From Arkansas About "Mr.
Matthew'S"
INQUIRY ABOUT THAT
$500, 900 APPROPRIATION
Attorney General Charged With
Using fluids to Pro-
tect Himself.

A telegram from Little Rock. Ark.
declaring that man representing
himself as an agent of the Depart
, vestigating the personal record o.
Senator Caraway was read to the
Senate today by the senator.
Senator Caraway prefaced his re
marks by referring to a letter pre-
viously published in the Congress
sional Record, charging that the At
torney General had assigned agents
of the Department of Justice to shad-
ow and examine the mail of Repre-
sentatives Johnson OF South Dakota
and Woodruff of Michigan, both re-
publicans-
The telegram read by Senator Cara
way today was signed by y. H An
derson," and was dated May 26. 1t
said that a man named Matthews.
representing himself as an agent of
the department. was making inQuir-
les at Little Rock, Hot Springs and
elsewhere in Arkansas regarding SEN
ator Caraway.
Senator's Personal Friend
Senator Caraway declared that Mr..
Anderson was a personal friend of his.
a man of high integrity and inteIli-
gence, a man whose word he would
accept anywhere.
The Arkansas senator said he would
like the Attorney General to tell Con-
gress how much of the $500. 900 appro-
priated by Congress to enable the At
torney General to prosecute war frauds
was being used for the purpose of
shadowing members OF Congress.
He charged that MIR. Daugherty was
using this money not to protect the
government. but to protect Harry
Daugherty." He added that he had no
doubt whatever that the Attorney Gen.
eral was doing this thing.
The Attorney General is welcome to
do 1t, so far as 1 am concerned" said
Senator Caraway, but the man who is
coward enough to send others to sneak
around and intimidate other men TO
keep them from telling the truth about
him is a mighty poor kind of a man
Referring to the letter of the At
torney General written to Senator
Watson of Indiana. and made public
yesterday, in which the Attorney
General denied that he had ever told
Senator Watson that he had no con-
nection with the Morse case, Senator
Caraway said that the Attorney Cen
eral had placed the brand of Ana
Mas on the brow of Senator Wat
SON."
Thinks Watson True.
81 haven't any idea. of course"
said Senator Caraway, how long
Senator Watson will stand that kind
of thing. But I want to say that }
have no doubt that Senator Watson
was telling the truth when he said
that the Attorney General had told
him he was not in the Morse case.
As 4 matter of fact another re-
publican senator out in the Senate
lobby recently told Senator Watson
of Georgia and myself that the At
torney General had told him thai
he was not connected with the Morse
case
Senator Caraway then took up the
Attorney Generals statement in his
letter to Senator Watson to the ef-
/ feet that he had received only $4,000
| in the Morse case. which was moi
enough to pay his expenses. The
Arkansas senator compared this state.
ment with letters and contracts al
legged to have been written by Mr.
Daugherty, Thomas B: Fielder mad L
W. Morse, which indicated that the
| Attorney General had contracted for
i far more than this amount when hs
represented Mr.. Morse.