The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
KELLER FILES
REASONSF FOR
I IMPEACHMENT
Visits Taft, Wickersham and
Gompers as Chief Witnesses
Against Attorney General
HIDES IDENTITY OF REST
Does Not Want Them Terror
lied, He Says, in a Letter
to the Judiciary Committee
BY Universal Service.

BY Universal Service.
Representative Oscar E. Keller,
Republican, of Minnesota, yester-
day submitted to the House Ju-
dietary Committee a partial list
Of specifications in support of his
resolution proposing impeachment
of Attorney General Harry NJ.
Daugherty.
WILL CALL TAFT.
In his letter of transmission Rep
resentative Keller announced he will
ask the committee to call as wit
nesses in support of specification No.
13 Chief Justice William Howard
Taft. former Attorney General
George w. Wickersham, Samuel
Gompers. president of the American
Federation of Labor. and Mr.. Comp
ers' secretary, Guy Oyster.
Specification No 13 charges A.
torney General Daugherty with
knowingly appointing untrus.-
worthy and corrupt" men to posi-
tions Of great importance"
: Summing up his bill of particulars,
Representative Keller asserted that
II "substantiates thoroughly" the
original charges he made in present
ing his resolution in the House on
September IL. The specifications
he added, IF anything, are more
grave than the original charges"
His letter continues:
UNFIT FOR OFFICE"
They set out, and the evidence
In my possession proves, that the
said Harry NJ. Daugherty is unfit
TO be Attorney General of the
United States and is not a safe
person to hold an office that so
e vitality effects the economic inter-
ests and the personal liberties of
every man, woman and child in the
United States
They set out, and 1 am prepared
to prove. that the said Daugherty
ID guilty OF serious misconduct in
Office, highly prejudicial to the
public interests: Of grave abuse of
his discretionary powers: of wilful
and repeated violations of his oath
of office. and of high crimes and
misdemeanors. in fourteen particu-
lars. each Of which is supported
by numerous instances.
FAILED TO PROSECUTE.
II any of these fourteen specifi-
SdtAOhS de<LlaSl tIlc Hairy NJ.
Daugherty can be said to be more
important than any other, il is
that that relates to his refusal to
inforce the antitrust laws.
The specifications attached
hereto and the evidence in my
possession prove that it is the
deliberate policy of the said Harry
NJ. Daugherty to fail to prosecute
Offenders charged with violations
of the antitrust laws
The evidence also shows that his
consistent refusal to prosecute
such violators of the law consti-
tuteS public scandal.
The Judiciary Committees resolu-
tion in response to which Mr.. Keller
made his presentation called for full
specifications in support of his de.
mand for Impeachment, with the
names Of witnesses be will CALL
WILL CONFER TODAY.
Leaders on the Judiciary Commit
tee. II was understood last night,
will confer informally today on the
case. 1t was indicated that hear
ings may he started on Tuesday, in
stead of Monday.
Denouncing the committees de
mand" as impossible" "extraor-
dinary." and without preceden'."
the Minnesota Representative said
he declined to disclose his evil
dence in advance. because he was
advised il is in MANY cases un-
safe for me to do So"
Mentioning no o,ner names of
witnesses except Chief Justice Taft
and the others in connection with
specification No. 13. his letter goes
on:
SILENT ON WITNESSES.
! assume that sou do not in
tend to limit me to the calling
of witnesses who are named How
ever. apart from that considera-
ton, l respectfully and emphat-
ically protest against being COM
PEELED TO comply with this demand
and beg to advise you that I
shall refuse to do so except I'm
the particulars in which i and
my advisers regard 1t as safe
for me to obey.
/ do not propose to have wit
nesses subjected to the surveil-
lance of the detective bureau of
the Department of Justice, espe-
cially in view OF the character of
the charges made against the At.
torney General involving Mr..
Burns.
Nor do 7 propose that the wit
nesses shall be terrorized, brow
beaten, driven or coerced or in
veigled out of the Jurisdiction