Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-12-22

San Francisco. 3-Robert Maynard
cceed Arson Phelps Stokes.
added that when the latter measure
was ready he would be willing to lay
aside the subsidy bill temporarily If it
had not been passed by tnen.
EVIDENCE for and against the move
IL to impeach Attorney General
Daugherty made the sessions of the
house committee on judiciary exceed
ingly lively. In support of the charge
that the chief law officer had knowing
ly appointed unfit persons to office the
case of William j. Burns, whom he
made chief of the bureau Of investiga-
ton, was cited. Letters from Chief
Justice Taft written when he was
President and from George w. Wicker
sham written when he was attorney
general, strongly coridemning the &C
lions Of Burns in the Oregon land
fraud cases, were read into the record.
Samuel GOmperS' secretary testified
that he called the letters to the atten-
ton of Mr.. Daugherty before Burns
was appointed. Next day Senator
Johnson Of California took the stand
| and testified that he recommended the
appointment OF Burns and that ION
question of veracity between Wicker
sham and Burns, I'd take Burns" In
his own behalf Burns swore the Wick
nfCh Ia FOR % Sol
hoods" He said Gompers had hound
ed him ever since he caught the Nc
Namara brothers in the Los Angeles
Times dynamiting case, and that Comp
ers, hearing the prisoners were about
| to admit their guilt, sent an agent to
Los Angeles to stop the confession.
Thereupon Gompers went on the stand
and said this charge was without the
| slightest foundation.
Chairman McChord of the interstate
| commerce commission was called to
| testify as to the failure of the Depart
ment Of Justice to enforce the safety
| appliance and locomotive inspection
| laws. He testified that Daugherty had
co-Operated with the commission to the
| best of his ability.
Representative Keller of Minnesota
| who preferred the charges against the
| dissatisfied with the attitude Of the
| committee and SAID it evidently intend
| ed to ''whitewash" Mr.. Daugnerty. MIR.
| Keller finally declared angrily that he
| would prosecute the charges no further
| before the committee.
| Q EVERAL recommendations of the
" commission appointed to prepare
u plan of governmental reorganization
| have been submitted to President
| Harding, perhaps the most important
| being consolidation of the War and
| Navy departments into department of
national defense under one cab met
member with assistants in charge Of
each branch. The photographic office
of the navy, the coast geodetic survey
and all map making and printing work
would be under the Department of COM
merce. The President, it is said, THINKS
well Of this plan and may lay it before
congress soon.
HHE Supreme court decided that
i person can be prosecuted and pun
ished by both the federal and state au-
thorities for single violation of the
prohibition act. Representative Bren-
nan of Michigan has introduced a bin
designed to prevent such a double
prosecution. Dry and wet leaders are
quarreling over the interpr-tatiea of
the Presidents language concerning
prohibition enforcement in his message
to congress. The former assert It was
an unqualified Endorsement of the Vol
stead act. The latter, as represented
by Capt. w. II. Stayton. say: ITO any
fair-minded person it Is obvious that.
in the Presidents message. the ques-
ton of the enforceabilty of the present
fanatical volstead act is definitely
raised"
DOPE Plus held his first secret con-
sistory and appointed eight new
cardinals, one Of them being Mgr. John
Bonzano, until recently papal dele
gate TO Washington. On Thursday. in
public coDsistory and with great cere-
mony. the pope invested six of them
with the red hat and the rochet; the
other two we're not present.
John WANAMAKER, merchant
y prince, philanthropist and former
postmaster general. died in his Philadel-
phia home on Tuesday. His funeral on
Thursday was attended by many of the
most eminent Americans and was the
occasion Of = frihufe uDSI1rpo Sspd In