Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-07
SETS
DAUGHERTY PROBE
FOR DECEMBER1 z

| w ASftINIloANy dec. o. - Inc
house judiciary committee has decid-
ed to ask the house for authority
to subpoena witness and to obtain
papers requested by Representative
! Keller, Republican, Minnesota, in
prosecuting his impeachment charges
against Attorney General Daugherty.
In taking this step the committee
acceded to the plea of Mr.. Keller,
| who had contended he could not pro-
coed unless he got possession of pa
pers from the department of justice,
and could force the attendance of
witnesses.
Without discussion, the house
subsequently adopted a resolution
authorizing the judiciary committee
! to send for persons and papers in
it's investigation of the charges
against Attorney General Daugh-
erty.
Chairman Volstead announced the
formal hearings would begin Tues
day, December 70. and that the COM
mittee, with power to administer
oaths, would grind away as fast
as possible
| Jackson Fl. Ralston, counsel for
Mr.. Keller, was requested by the
chairman to submit a list of the
documents desired. Mr.. Keller said
that with favorable house action on
the committee request he would be
ready with his case next week.
Desired Witnesses Named
I In arguing that the committee
J should ask for more authority. Mr.
Ralston gave the names of Chief
Justice Taft, former Attorney Gen
eral George w. Wickersham, Samuel
Gompers and Guy Oyster, Mr.. Comp
, ers' secretary, as witnesses he want
ed to appear before the committee.
In connection with charges that Mr..
| Daugherty had failed to prosecute
antitrust cases, Mr.. Ralston said
that Donald r. Richburg, a lawyer
of Chicago, and a Cleveland lawyer
named Stevenson, whose initials he
/ did not remember, should be called
A row developed at the outset of
the hearing, and it lasted for nearly
an hour, without getting anywhere.
Chairman Volstead declared the COM
mittee was not trying to prevent the
investigation, in pressing Mr.. Keller
| to give the list of witnesses, whico
he said he was unwilling to do I'M
| less the house acted first on his resO-
luton.
MIR. Ralston sal dhe was ready to
! give the committee the names Of
some half dozen witnesses" and that
| it could best determine whether they
would appear.
"Some of these witnesses are sub
! ject to the very power of the de.
PENDANT" said Mr.. Ralston. There
are many issues concerning the con
duct of W. j. Burns, for instance.
Daugherty Attacks Move
Formal reply to the charges by
Representative Keller had ben pre-.
pared by Attorney General Daugher-
| ty for presentation t. the committee
when it met.
Answering categorically the four
teen specifications submitted in the
Keller charges, Mr.. Daughertys
reply, as summarized in a depart
ment of justice statement published
| today, declared in reference parti
cularly to Mr.. Keller's demand for
access to department documents,
! that it showed to be arrayed behind
the move for his Impeachment Ger
| tain radical leaders seeking to serve
notice upon every future attorney
general that if he dares enforce the
laws of the United States against
such organizations, he does so under
the penalty" of attempted impeach-
| ment.
"PrOfiteers mad Grafters"
Joined in the move with these, he
asserted. were the prOfiteers, the
grafters, the so-called war defraud-
ers" who sought by Questionable
{ INSCRIPTIONS means" to gain
Knowledge of what those charged
with bringing them to justice have
secured as the result of the most
painstaking, faithful and earnest eff
! forts possible" on the part of the
a orney general and those associ-
ated with hir;.
| Whenever I nSistent with prOtec-
| ten of the governments interests
and those of individuals who have
reposed confidence in it, Mr.. Daugh-
erty said, the department Of justice
/ stands ready to meet Mr.. Keller's
! de. III for acvC~S to documents. To
| do so in certain important matters
now in preparation for presentation
to the proper tribunals" he said,
would be "highly injurious to the
| interests of the people"