The New York herald., 1922-05-04
M0VEFORWARGRiFY
inquiry Wins 6 TO5
House Rules Committee Fa-
vOrs Committee Of Fiji
teen to Investigate.
DAUGHERTY A TARGET
Caraway Renews Attack on
His Alleged Relations
With G. w. Morse.
DEFIANCE In THE SENATE
Arkansas Man Dares Attorney
General to Meet Him There
or Anywhere Else.

New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. g., May 3.
BY vote of to'5 the House Rules
Committee to-day favorably reported
out the Woodruff resolution to create
q special committee of fifteen men,
bers to investigate war contracts and
charges that the Department of JUS
tice, the War and Navy departments
and the Alien Property Custodian lad
failed to exercise proper diligence in
the prosecution of war profiteers and
had not protected the Government in
the settlement of war claims.
While this was taking place Senator
Caraway (Dem., Ark.) renewed his at
tacks on Attorney General Daughcrty,
charging that Mr.. Daugherty has dis
charged inspectors from the Depart
ment of Justice because they exposed
his failure to prosecute offenders
Senator Caraway offered to waive
his legislative immunity and meet Mr.
Daugherty outside the Senate Cham
Der at any time or place. He referred
again to his charge that Mr.. Daugh-
erty had received a fee of $25 900 be-
fore he entered the Cabinet for OBJ
tanning the release of Charles w.
Morse from the Atlanta penitentia-y.
Mr. Daugherty declined to make any
comment on Senator Caraway's chal-
lenge.
Sounds Suggest n Row.
The vote in the Rules Committee was
taken after several hours of debate. in
which persons in the corridors could
hear what sounded like fists being
pounded on the table. and loud voices
Three Republicans. including Chairman
Campbell Qxans), and three Democrats
voted in the affirmative. The five MEM
bers who opposed the resolution were
all Republicans. BY the committees
vote the resolution will come before the
House under a special rule which viii
insure early action.
Letters from Mr.. Daugherty and Sec
rotary Weeks saying they did not op-
pose the proposed Congressional inquiry
were read to the committee by Chair
man Campbell
II do not mind little cheap sneer of
man like the Attorney General.' de-
clared Senator Caraway. "The Attorney
General is quoted in the papers as
saying he ought to have a place on
the floor of the House and Senate so
that he might answer irresponsible per-
sons. If he answers all who charge
him with offenses more or less grave
he would be the busiest member of the
Cabinet. Two members of his own
party IN the House recently charged
him with offenses, and they meant what
they said, unless he should act they
intended to move to have him impeached
and removed from office. He immediate
ly got busy to avoid action upon their
part Whether he was afraid or sud-
denly awoke to his duty l do not know
and do not care.
He has fired, as I understand all
the honest inspectors in his department
who have called his attention to the
swirdlers of the Government he did not
want to prosecute. If any of them are
left do not know their names. He has
put back into office the physician who
helped to get a fraudulent pardon for
Morse. and II there is any other duty
that is incumbent upon him to have not
heard of 1t, and he has manifested no
disposition to pursue those other duties
Challenge to Daugherty.
II waive every immunity that I may
have about what i am seeking to say
about him. and IL the Attorney General
cannot be accorded the floor l should
be glad to see him anywhere at any
time, under any circumstances that suit
the Attorney General"
Senator Caraway then said that T. Il.
Jeluer, Formerly OIL Atldnta, had come
10 his office this morning and wanted to
take the blame for having obtained the
Morse pardon. Fielder. he said. rushed"
into his office and evidently came from
the Attorney General!
Mr.. Caraway asked Senator Watson
(Ga.) If he knew Fielder.
'Mr. President" said Senator Watson,
''for the last forty years 1 have known
Thomas B. Fielder well. I know him to
have been professional lobbyist Tor the
whisky ring, opposing every one of the
temperance laws that was advocating
and other temperance people were advo-
eating in Georgia.
I'VE had to close the barrooms over
his protest and he never ceased TO be a
lobbyist in Georgia until the attack
made upon him by myself and by others
destroyed his usefulness in that line |
Then he left the State and went TO New
York.
"r would not say this IL l had not
said II to his face in a State convention
in Atlanta. where l denounced him anc
he did not open his mouth. am assert
ing the fact i'm saying he is not lawyer
but a lobbyist, not an honest man, but a |
crook not witness whom anybody
would believe"
II think myself added Senator Cara
way. The Is very likely very worthy
representative of the man whose offenses
lie wanted to assume"