New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Asserts PardonW as Issued
After Most Remarkable
Demonstration Ever
Made for L. S. Convict
Caraway Charges
Spies at His Home
Several Republican Sen.
a,ors Reported Lining
Up to Join in Attack

r,sr The T'-iburc's Washington Rurcop
WASHINGTON. May 81 Continuing
sis attacks on Attorney General
Dsreherty in the Senate to-day, Scna-
,o- Caraway put into the record a tele-
ram received from his home state to
lie effect that Secret Service man
ess inyes igating his personal record
A. the same time in the House, Rep
resentatiye Johnson, OF South Dakota,
;o-suthor with Representative Wood
ruF, Of Michigan, of resolution for
the Investigation Of the War and
Justice departments, sounded a warn
ing against attempts to kill the pro-
posed inquiry.
Another development was the is
Nance by the Attorney General of an
exhaustive review Of the case of
Charles ". Morse. attributing the re-
lease Of the prisoner solely to mis-
physical condition.
Republican Senators Line Tp
During the speech of Senator
Carawsy, vigorously arraigning the
Attorney General, it was disclosed that
number of Republican Senators were
following the attacks against MI
paugherty, with the possibility that
some may later join in the criticism of
tic head of the Department of Justice.
According to a telegram read into
the record in the Senate TODAY bv
Senator Caraway, Mr.. Daugherty has
put Secret Service man on the trail
Of the Arkansas Senator in his own
state. He is having Mr.. Caraway's
record in Arkansas investigated, if the
assertions OF this telegram are true.
During Senator Caraway's speech Sena-
tor Watson, of Georgia, interj ected
'arious remarks and Senator Norris,
Republican, of Nebraska, gave close
sttentiou to what passed and asked a
question: concerning the facts in the
Morse affair.
in defending the release of Morse,
M Attorney Generals statement said
ia the record Of the case in the
fhcisl files of the Justice department
h Morse was released from confine-
aent in the Federal penitentIary at
hlsnta, Ga. upon reports of reputable
physicians and United States Army
vrgeons showing him to be suffering
rom serious illness"
Says Thousands Pleaded for Morse
The release" Mr.. Daughcrty addsd.
came as the elimination Of probably
no at.yo n 10 .l-
on behalf of any Federal prisoner ever
convicted in the courts of the United
States. Thousands of people had pc
itioned the government for the par
don of Morse before action was finally
taken resulting in his release ON Janu-
ary Is, 1912, upon the medical reports
Of his physical condition.
Among the thousands who signed
the petitions for the release of Mr.
Morse we're men of national reputa-
ton, many of them occupying posi-
tons Of responsibility and trust under
tae government itself Despite the
hlgh character of those who thus dis
closed their sympathy for Mr.. Morse.
II was not in response to any public
qemand strong as that was at the
Nne that Mr.. Morse was released. but
solely upon the reports of the national
'""IHtiS' tbicl among tNeSe were
the distinguished officers of the
Medical Corps of the United States
Army comprising an army medical
'osrd, who found that Mr.. Morse was
suffering from chonic yalvular disease
OF the heart, chronic nephritis, com
monty known as Bright's disease, ard
NIght arterio- sclerosIs. The officers
constituting this board were Colonel
H. T. Birmingham, president; Major P.
I Fauntleroy and Major F. f. Russell.
recorder This board. under date of
peeembcr so, 1911, expressed the opin-
ION that while MI. Morse was not in
any immediate danger OF death. the
COMPLICATION Of diseases from which
ne was suffering was incurable and
nat on account of the psychic element
ms case an Improvement under ex-
Sing conditions could not be hoped
tor"
ohcials " no Asked Morse Pardon
Inc statement gave the following
oliclals Of the Administration United
9'ates Senators and Repres as
Urging Morse's release:
Senators Eugene Hale. Maine; Ste
Plnen B. Elkins, West Virginia; John
Il n Bankhead. Alabama; William o.
% bradley Kentucky; Thomas n. Carter,
montana; George E. Chamberlain,
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