The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-29
DAUGEIERTY HEARING ENDS
 BECAUSE PREJUDICE. RULES .
 HOUSE OF HIS FRIENDS'' Keller Forced to Withdraw, Leaving Committee to Bluff and Whitewasl-Inquiry to Be Carried Into Next Congress-
By International Labor News Service.

By International Labor News Service
 Washington, D. C., Dec. 2o.-At- torney General Daugherty may soor be greeted with a verdict of approval by the house committee on judiciary. but he will not be through with trou- ble.
 Congressman Oscar Keller, who i'm peached Daugherty in the House finding himself confronted with a hopelessly biased committee, with drew from the hearings in.disgust, but indicated that his action then was not to be the end of the effort to bring out the facts about Daugherty's ofic- ial conduct
 Washington has seldom if ever seen more. biased proceeding than the hearing presided over by Con- gressman Volstead. With four "lame ducks" on the committee there ap- parently was feeling that no harm could be done by going the whole route in supporting Daugherty.
 After hearing testimony on one count out of fourteen, the whole in- vestigation blew up with bang, with Keller taking himself out of the case
 Witnesses were bounded, brow beaten, humiliated and generally given to understand that they instead of the accused attorney general were the ones under fire.
 Fire in Mass Formation.
 Committee members, astute law yers, joined en masse in firing ques- tions at witnesses The committee also followed a policy calculated to wear out those handling the case for Congressman Keller. Documents which the congressman asked for were produced only when sessions began, thus allowing no opportunity tor adequate examination. Counsel also found 1t necessary to work far into the night in order to prepare for the next days hearings because of this policy of producing documents only at the last minute
 Everything was done to make 1t difficult for witnesses who came to tell of their experience or to give what information they had. Everything was done to make 1t difficult for Con gressman Keller and his chief counsel, Jackson Ralston, to make adequate preparation from day to day and ev- cry aHront-possible was heaped upon them
 Commenting upon the committees conduct in the examination of Samuel Gompers, testifying in relation to the Burns phase of the case, a Washing ton newspaperman working on the story, said, Ut wasth most uncon- scionable thing I have ever seen Nothing else has ever so thoroughly aroused me-"
 Newspapers Fail to Picture Case.
 Newspapers in general failed utterly to report the hearing as 1t was There were honorable exceptions, but in the main the daily press failed complete ly to convey. to the public a true pic ture of the biased, prejudIced per formance presided over by the de- feated congressman from Michigan
 After Congressman Keller with drew from the proceedings the com mittee blusteringly threatened to sub poena him and for several days they dangled this threat before the public gaze Finally the bluff became too shop-worn to be further maintained and the committee admitted that it could not carry out the threat
 Determination has been expressed to carry the Daugherty case into the next Congress in one of two ways, either new impeachment effort or an effort to secure senatorial inves- tigation-unless Daugherty resigns meanwhile