New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
Borall TO Seek
Deportation of
Gen. Senlenoff
Resolution. Providing for
Investigation Of Alleged
Cruelties in Siberia, To
Be Offered Tomorrow
Mission Here Questioned
Hearing Before Referee Oh
Claim of Trading Com.
pany Elicits Few Facts

Fro'r The r,seGacs Washington Buresa
WASHINGTON, April s.-Senster
Berah will introduce a resolution in
the Senate Monday. the purpose o.
which Will te TO force the deportation
OF General Gregory ScmcnoG. atamau
ef the Siberian Cossseks and former
leader Of the anti Hoishevk forces In
eastern Siberia, recently arrested in
New York.
Senator Bcrah will ask FOR autho
to have the Senate Committee on Edu.
cation and tsbor investigate General
Senlenof's alleged crueitics. The
Idaho Senator said today he had been
Informed by soldiers and officers of The
American expedition into Siberia.
+, General SemenofT was guilty Of the
murder Of American soldiers. the
butchery of men. women and children,
banditry and barbarity.'
The relations between Semenor and
American copsuls in eastern Siberia
also will be looked into If Senator
Borah gets his resolution passed. Fur
thernore, Senator Berah says General
Craves's own report will shed light
on the conduct Of Genera! Semencf
and he will seek to have this report
brought to light.
If the subject OF General Semenef' s
activities IN Siberia is opened up be
fore the Education and Labor Commit
tee, it is possible that present condi-
tions in that part Of the world also will
be eAplcrcd While it is net the In
tenticn OF Senstor Bcrab to seek to
have General Semenoff conc before the
committee and testify, it is thought
here that il the investigation is or
dered the Genera will ask to make
4 statement in his own behalf
The Committee on Education and
Labor has jurisdiction over matters
under the Department of Labor and
deportation of aliens is one of these
matters Senator Borah. therefore.
takes the view that the subject proper
ly will come before his committee.
Senator Borah expects to have cel-
tain documents bearing on the allcga-
tons against Semenoff and he is pro
pairing to attack the Cossack leader i'll
Z speech in the Senate Monday.
Not only is Senator Borah going into
also is desiycus of knowing what he s
doing here now and whether his alleged
purpose OF obtaining funds here to aid
Russian refugees is his real purpose.
Since he has been in this country Cen
erAl Semenof has been in Washington
or mission the purpose OF which is
not known.
Japanese Relations Involved
Among other things which the pro-
posed investigation b. Senator Borah
may bring out is the relationship be-
tween General s,emenofT while he was
in Siberia and different allied govern
ments, including Japan.
General Semenof was questioned
yesterday in bankruptcy proceedings in
connection with the claim of the Your
cveta Home and Foreign Trading Com
psny, Inc. for goods alleged to have
been seized or his order. The exami-
nation was held in the Offices of David
". Kahn and E. S. Greenbaum, of coun-
sci for the trustee in bankruptcy for
the trading company.
Peter B. Olney. referee in the case
was not present, counsel for both sides
having agreed to go on in hi. absence
George W. Glaze, counsel for General
Semenoff. asserted after the hearing
however, that he regarded the examina
tion as unfair. 1t will be continued to-
morrow in Mr. Olneys Office.
The examination covered much