Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-13
CHARGES HOUSE
COMMIT TEE IS
HIDING T ACTS
KelIer's Council Hurls Accu-
sation at Judiciary Com
mittee Investigation.
OBSERVE ALL RULES
Graham and RaIston Wrangle Before
Committee Investigating Charges
Made Against Daughsrty-AttOr-
ney General May Testify.

Washington, Dec. 13.-Charges that
the house judiciary committee is
"stifling" important evidence and is
conducting what amounts to a secret
hearing" were hurled at the commit
tee today by council for Representative
Keller, Mimi, as hearings were resum-
ed in the Daugherty impeachment
proceedings.
AS republican committeeman con-
tinued to insist upon observing strict
legal rules Of evidence and had ruled
out number of letters and documents
offered by the prosecution, Jackson H.
Ralston, Keller's attorney entered en-
phatic protest.
Il will insist upon my rights later,
he declared, "even if there has to be
call from the house Of representa-
tives to produce this evidence you have
thrown out"
rs that threat against the commit
tee?" demanded Representative Gra-
ham, of Pa. "If it is, think the COM
mittee has had enough of you"
Hearings in the impeachment pro-
ceedings were resumed today with for
mer Attorney General Wickersham
and President Samuel Gompers Of the
American Federation Of Labor sched-
uled as "star" witnesses.
Wickersham is the trump card
of Rep. Keller of Mimi, author of the
impeachment resolution, in his charge
that in the person OF William j..
Burns. chief of the federal bureau Of
investigation, Daugherty knowingly
and wilfully" appointed man "un-
fit" to hold position Of trust. Wick
ersham's letter to former President
Taft. in 1912, denouncing Burns for
alleged Jury fixing" in an Oregon
land fraud case. was read before the
House judiciary committee yesterday.
Today, the former attorney general
will be asked to give personal t2stl-
mony in the matter.
Gompers is called by Rep. Keller to
tell that he called the record in the
Oregon jury case to Daugherty's at
tention in 1921 and urged him not to
appoint Burns.
The labor chiefs appearance may be
the signal for an explosion in the judi
ciary committee Regarding the labor
federation as the real force" behind
the Impeachment, several republican
members, including Yates OF Illinois
and Graham Of Pennsylvania, have
served notice that they will insist
that Gompers' testimony be confined
strictly TO legal lines.
Compers probably will attempt to
make a political speech declared Rep.
Yates. "and if Re does /, for one, VIII
not stand for it."
Chairman McChord of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, Thomas Stev-
enson and Oscar H. Horne, labor union
attorneys, of Cleveland, also have been
called as witnesses for today. They
are wanted by Keller to testify re-
garding the charge that Daugherty
put the travelling public in danger by
failing to require strict Inspection VI
railroad equipment during the ran
/ strike.
Donald R. Richberg of Chicago, who
represented organized labor in the
Chicago rail strike injunction pro-
! ceedings. has been called for Thurs
day, when the Keller charge based
on the strike Injunction will be taken
/ up.
! Keller and his counsel have agreed
with the committee that it will not
be necessary to subpoena Chief JUS
: tice Taft.