Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-23

stood by his vote, would investi.
gate the past administration. I,
| would add to the Graham investi.
CATION, if it could. The house or.
ga~nization is in the hands of the
republicans. The republicans would
not suffer any injustice by a COM
mittee that might be appointed, and
the democrats would be investigat-
ed and the democratic administra-
ton would be investigated as we'll
as the republicans, and they are
ready for it. applause on the
democratic side).
Il have here a letter from the
former attorney general of the
United States, a man who was as
sailed mor viciously, probably,
than any official in high life, ex-
eept the president himself, by the
republicans, during the latter part
of his administration. I can not
read ali of the letter because I have
not the time. He knows this COM
mittee would investigate him and
he invites the investigation. What
does your attorney general say7"
The letter Of former Attorney
General Palmer gives the facts as
to all the big cases which were
handled by him as alien property
custodian; referring to the Bosch
Magnetic case, he said:
THE Bosch Magnetic company
was German to the core. Before
we entered the war its manage
ment violated Jul neutrality in the
most infamous fashion. Its offic-
ers sought to conceal its true own
ership behind a camouflage of Ger.
man-American stockholders. They
finally made sworn report. how
ever, declaring all the stock to be
enemy owned, and I thereupon took
charge of the company. In the in
vestigation as to its ownership
Otto Helms, representing the Ger
mar owners, declared it's value to
be So, 500, 600. Its stock was final
ly sold through my direction at an
open public auction sale, after wide
advertisement, for 81, $780, 900 to the
highest bidder, representing a syn
dicate Of more than a hundred
American bankers who organized
a new corporation to make the
business a 100 per cent American
enterprise"
Congressman Walton Moore, in
discussing Chairman Campbell's
remarkable flip-flap, said in part:
"The chairman of the committee
on the third of May voted for the
resolution, and except for his so
voting it could not have been pass
ed, and now, forsooth, the chair
man stands here and says the critic
isms he hears in regard to the at
torney general and in regard to this
whole business, makes him think of
the issue from the mouth of a
sewer. Yet, he is responsible for
those criticisms having been DELHI
.erately considered and for the res
olution to investigate having been
adopted. After the attorney gen
eral had been in the office for more
than a year, listening to and con-
sidering the charges against him,
the chairman of the committee was
instrumental in having the resolu-
ton passed by his committee and
directed to be brought before the
house.
Now, l wish to say this-and l
speak for myself, and l think I can
speak for every member of this
side of the house-that anyone who
directly or indirectly charges that
who favor an Investigation, who
favor it. among other reasons, be-
cause the sentiment of the country
calls for an investigation, that we
are endeavoring to prevent the
prosecution and conviction of
Indicators can conceive but one
answer. If any such assertion
should be made with respect to me
or any of the gentlemen who sur
round me upon this side it shall be
in only one way, and that
by a sharp, short word of three
letters.
when l have the time and
not as a partisan but as
an American citizen and represent
alive and as an American lawyer,
I am going to discuss the record
OF the attorney general since he