Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-15
Ke|l <ncensed at
 DaughGrty Hearing
Characterizes the Proceedings as a Comic Opera Per- formance'' ''-Has Tilt With Volstead.

D0lOAe luc IlOUSe OI the impeachment charges brought by him against Attorney General Daugh- erty.
 Characterizing the hearings as a "comic opera performance" he ceclared he would be untrue to his responsibility as member of the house if he assist ed further in "a bare-faced atxennpt to whiterxash Harry Nj. Daugherg."
 Immediately after he announced his withdrawal, the committee without leaving it's place voted to go on with the hearings; to- subpoena MT. Keller, put him under oath and question him as to the basis for his charges of high crimes and misdemeanors against the attorney general. Later he was sum moned formally by the house sergeant at-arms to appear before the committee at 10.S0 a. m., tomorrow. This turn came with dramatic sud denness and was attended by a tunu!t and uproar seldom witnessed in con- gressional committee room. After ab- senting himself. much of the day MT. Keller appeared with a Epewritten 1 statement and announced that he de- sired to read it. He was refused, but later made public the statement, whica dealt in detail with his reasons for re- l fusing to go on and embodied a demand | that the committee favorably report his resolution to the house so that he might present his evidence ''to an unbiased committee in the pfoper way" i "I reiterate now the statement said. that am in possession of evi- l dence ample to prove Harry NJ. Daugh- 1 erty guilty of all of the high crimes and nlsdemeanors with which I have charged him.
 1 When Mir Keller asked to be heard. Paul Rowland, counsel for MT. Daugh- l erty, demanded that the committee proceed in the regular order unless MT. Keller desired to give testimony. 1 Announcing that he did not have to
 be sworn, Mir Keller said his statement 1 had to do with the conduct of this hearing and he demanded the right to 1 read t.
 "Is it your object to lecture the com l mittee?" inquired Representative Goody- koontz. of West Virginia.
 q may,' was the response.
 There followed a general huibbub into which Chairman Volstead broke with Q direction to MT Keller to "sjt down.
 T refuse to sit down." shouted the
 Minnesota member.
 'sI want to read this. letter and I sub mit-it to you now," he went. on as he
 strode rapidly to MT. Volstead's desE
 upon which he laid the letter,
 
 I you haven't any right to control rni: |, proceeding the committee controls it." .t As MT Keller insisted upon befns heard he again was ordered by. Mr. Vol stead to take his seat
 F. "Do you refuse to hear mel" shouted Mir. Keller. , .EelI, we will have you sworn-yoi can't bully rag this committee" the chairman returned. 1 rejoined Keller. 'T wilt~say to you now
 that if I cannot be heard on this state [ nent refuse to proceed any more il ] this hearing. Nor do I expect to pre- 5 sent any more evidence. I am througl , With you. unless I can present tht
 statement"
 That is just exactly what we expect [ ed from you from t1he start" declared Volstead. ''Mr. Clerk, give us a sub t poena for MT. Keller and let the ser
 geant-at-arms serve 1t on him. He i insulting this committee and trying t , run it to suit himself"
 : Attorney Ralston then announce : that in view of the contents of the let ter submitted by MT. Keller. "there i
 nothing for me to do but withdraw m
 appearance from the committee
 Representatives Yates. republican Il
 linois. declared that KeIler's course wa "a grandstand play, so staged and in
 tended
 7 Mir Rowland also urged that tn l proceedings go forward, declaring tn attorney general had a right to deman it.
 Finally the matter was put to a vot 1 and the motion to continue carried
 Chairman Volstead remarking that i MT. Keller ''can't produce evidence " will go on as best we can" In his statement, MT. Keller said hi ]: lrdecision followed consultation with hi l advisers. among them Samuel Unte- myer, of New York. He made public
 letter from MT. Untermyer, who writin : under date of yesterday, said he "mu. n refuse absolutely to have any conneC . tion with this manifestly biased, pr ! judged white-washing 'performance'
 Renewing in his letter to the comml
 tee his complaint about the postpont . ment of the hearings from last Septen T. Der Is. to December. 4, Mir. Kell,
 charged that the postponement had bee :. taken to such time ''as the comInitt ' knew in advance, that my chief advise 6d Mir. Samuel Untermyer, would not Is able to be- in attendance ' MT Keller then set forth ten specif if complaints against committee actio
 These included:
 I
 committee as to, procedure had bet .- made in secret and without opportuni fv for himself or his counsel to be heal S in advance. fd That these secret decisions had ope d ated to restrict him in presenting | n evidence in the order in which it cou ,r be most "expediesously and effectivel, d presented and that also they had talk d from him the right to call his witness le without first notifying the committee IS to what they would testify
 That the committe had failed to cor 1e ply with his request for the producti Id of documents from the justice and ot ie CT federal departments so that he mig pr obtain from them in advance importa a evidence in, support of his charges. a. That the committe had <"arrogatet of to itself the. right to determine wh nr documents should or should not be a
 nitted into evidence by a, secret exai th nation" of such documents lyf That the committee had announc of that it would fin secret and without 0
 portunity for hearing or argument, cs
 rect the official record"
 That the hearing room at all tim N had been crowded with official al
 unofficial representatives of the s ct oused attorney general; that some t1- these agents have looked over my sho tn der and spied upon my private paper of That the record of the hearings Ll- full of remarks by members of { on committee that indicate bias and pl al judgment of the Case"
 " Before Mir. Keller announced IS. withdrawal thes committee complet h. the hearing of testimony on the seco g of the fourteen specifications, that he- leging failure to enforce the safety ,