Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-05
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House Directs Judiciary Com mittee to Send For All Per- sons and Papers It Needs.

directed it's Judiciary committee to send i for all the persons and papers 1t needed ! in it's Investigation of impeachment | charges against Attorney General Daugh- | erty, as filed by Representative Keller republican. Minnesota.
 There. was no discussion or division when Chairman VoIstead asked and ob- tainesi consent for such authorization. He explained that the committee. earlier in the day, had agreed unanimously to take this course. The committee, under the house resolution, also will have au- thority to swear witnesses and sit regard less of the sessions of the house.
 Appearing before the committee with Jackson III. Ralston as his counsel, MT. Keller declared that he was not pre- pared to proceed at once that it would be necessary for the house to order the at | tendance of some witnesses who would not come voluntarily. It was also neces- sary, he said to get possession of certain papers from the files of the department of 1 justice which he could not obtain through i his own efforts. In the event that wit nesses were subpoenaed, MT. Keller stated 1 that he would be ready to go ahead with | in a week. and Dec. 12 finally was fixed ] as the time for taking up the charges. | The bill of particulars, in which MT. Keller set forth fourteen charges against 1 the dllOtHcy al, e1llu bHV ldkllcl | swer made public last night. were for
 mally filed with the committee. Later in
 the day Representative Woodruff, repub- Iican, Michigan, asked that the two doc uTnents be printed in the congressional record in parallel co.umns. but Repre-
 sentative Johnson, republican, Washing
 ton, objected.
 There was an hours wrangle in com mittee over the time and method of pco- cedure before 1t was cut short on a mo-
 ton by Representative Graham, republi- can. Pennsylvania to 20 into executive
 session to determine whether the house
 would be requested to do as Mir. Keller
 had urged-get the witnesses and papers a During the general discussion in, open ses-
 sion, Mir. Ralston and Mir Keller said
 they woud ike to have CNfef Justice Taft
 George W. Wickersham. former attorney
 general. Samuel GomperS president of th1 V American Federation of Labor, and GGII s Oyster. MT. Gompers' secretary. summon = ed. It was set. forth In the bill of par f ticulars that Mc. Keller would seek t
 show "the fitness of William J. Burn
 as chief of the department of justice bu ,s reau of investigation in view of the par 1i said to have been taken by him as gov 10 ernment agent in connection with tn ,e conviction of Willard N Jones in a lam vt case in 1907.
 Taking up the charges generally
 Chairman Tolstead pressed Mir. Rafstof
 who said he was counsel for the Amer g can Federation of Labor, as to what VII u nesses he had in mind. MT. Ralston mer le tioned Donald E. R.chberg of ehnagt .s who was counsel for railway employees 1 l. the recent strike injunction proceeding
 and Stevenson. a lawyer'of Cleveland. ;, whose initials he would not give on -han' ssu We are not trying to prevent this il
 vestigation. but we control procedure an eeyy don't intend to let anybody run 1this con ~ mittee," said Chairman VoIstead at or WI stage. of the. wrangIe Mr. RaIston e,
 plained that he was ready to go forwal ., without house action in ordering the a
 pearance of witnesses. If the commit U. held it had power, to see how 1t worke though he doubted fit would. r'-.
 q am ready to. give you half a dozt names and you can try, 1t out and dete mine whether they will come of their iov - accord" Mir. Ralston said. < ,''' q -'C Concerning the appearance of IN - Gompers. if he comes to testify that is ] =. right" said Representative Yates repu a1 lkcan, Illinois, but if he is coming Sr. flood us with talk as to what other peoy
 think. then shall obect." '
 "Why don't you wait and cross th eel bridge when 1t is eeached?" asked Repi 70. sentative Thomas. democrat Kentucl -fo and MT. Yates replied he would just ,tui soon cross 1t now.
 ~ At Mir. Kellers insistence that the co
 nttee should not proceed without fl
 getting authority to call witnesses. } -av Graham told him they would meet u ,o1 issue. ity We will decide whether to ask u ,en authority" he exclaimed. adding that fl fed was obtained MT Keller would be l eks without excuses when the committee T . to take up the charges.
 Once started M:- volstead said he I by no idea how long the investigation mi ele- run: Dor ''But we propose to start Tuesday g ms, keep grinding away" he declared.