The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-12-20
DAUGHERTY CASE
ABOUT TO CLOSE

washington, Lee. 1S.-HrOceeQnRS
before the house judiciary cmomittee
in connection with the impeachment
charges brought against Attorney
General Daugherty by Representative
Keller (Repub!ican) of Minnesota ap-
peared today to be nearing an end
In fact it ~ss indicated that the scope
OF future hearings would depend to a
large measure upon the nature of in
formation to be laid before the COM
mittee by Representative Woodruff
(Republican) Of Michigan, after his
examination OF documents at the de-
partment Of justice.
After q brief public session today,
at which no additional evidence was
received, the commission decided in
executive meeting to hear Mr.. Wood
ruff tomorrow. There was some dis
cussion as to the time of submitting
a report to the house, but decision on
this point went over until after re-
ceipt of the report from Mr.. Wood
ruff. There was axtacit understand
ing, however, that Ese report would
be held until after the Christmas hol-
idays as a number of committeeman
will be away from Washington dur.
ing that period.
Mr.. Keller having withdrawn from
the prosecution Of his charges, the
committee in proceeding with the
hearings on its own initiative, had
before it today Mr.. Woodruff and
Representative johnson (Republican)
Of South Dakota. Both emphasized
that they had no part in the drafting
OF the Keller charges and that they
were appearing solely in response to
an invitation from Chairman Vol
stead.
Declaring that they had been
dragged" into the hearing, Repre-
sentative johnson said the charges
he had made In the house relating to
alleged war frauds had been directed
solely at the war department. If the
committee wanted to 60 into those
charges he was prepared to give the
names Of witnesses to support them,
be- continued, adding that there were
officers in the department who
should be eourtmartialed instead of
tpr0Khoted.r u o. ~
IA TO ths dspaxtment Sf justice &C.
sfinn in.ra9axd to war fraud rsses, Mr..
Johnson said Tint ins-iiis 5uagmsRt
Attorney General DasGhefty had pro-
decided with reasonable promptness
in bringing suits considering that he
had had to reorganize the depart.
ment after he came into Office and had
to have masses of information ex-
amined before any move could be
made.
Representative Woodruff also told
the committee that since he made his
charges in the house last April of q
failure by Mr.. Daugherty to prese.
cute the war fraud cases., suits had
been brought in six Of the eight OF
nine instances he had cited and that
necessarily this had changed the sit.
uation materially. He added that i;
was not his purpose to embarrass thu
attorney general in the conduct Of
court proceedings and that his opin
ion was these cases should not be in
quired into at this time.
Asking that he and his counsel, H
L. Scaife, former attorney en-
ployed by the justice department, be
permitted to examine the document.
in the "Wright-Martin case" Mr.
Woodruff said that whether he coulc
present charges that would form thu
basis for Impeachment proceedings
within the scope Of the Keller speci
fications would depend upon wha
those documents disclosed. Assist
ant Attorney General Seymour imme
diately announced that the document.
would be made available to MI
Woodruff and his attorney at tn.
department at any time during tn,