Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-01
have a conference with him and

to have a conference with him and
Golf.
Ibid that conference ever occur?"
asked Senator Jones.
mo, sir"
did you ever get any word from
the attorney general?"
Never"
He added that Castor r. Means
had told him that Jess Smith had
told Means that they were going to
kid him (Scaife) along"
Means also had put him in touch
with Fielder, Seattle said, and they
told him they were going to have
Scaife retained by aircraft and other
companies he had been Investigate
ing.
Fielder had suggested a $4,000 re-
tainer fee to him in the Bosch Mag
neto case, Seattle said
, '<What reply did you make to Eel
| der?" asked Senator Ashurst.
II haven't replied yet
! Senator Jones remarked that "the
witness has brought in the first di-
rect testimony connecting the attor-
ney general in this inquiry
WAS anything ever done in the
| Bosch Magnetic case?" asked Chair
man Brookhart.
mo, nothing substantial" Seattle
said. This was a. property seized
| by the alien property custodian, ana
sold by A. Mitchell Palmer, then in
| charge, for grossly inadequate
! sum-
Martin Kerns, a friend Of MFR.
Palmer, was the purchaser. Mr..
Means worked up all the evidence
about this. Means found that the
Bosch Megneto sale was financed
through Hornblower & Weeks"
He read a telegram alleged to
| have gone from kerns to Griffen,
an officer of the Magnetic com
pany.
Suggested "Quietus"
'Why don't you take J. w.
Weeks to Daugherty and put a
quietus on ali this stuff" the mes
sag read.
Nov, this fact ought to be put
in the record" Senator Jones said
that Mr.. Weeks, now secretary of
war, is not now a member of the firm
of Hornblower & Weeks, and hasn't
been for some years. Isn't that
| true?"
II understand that is So Seattle
replied, "but Secretary Weeks went
to Secretary Hughes and asked an
opinion on this transaction
| In the Lincoln Motor case, Seattle
said, 100000 in government over
payments were involved, and two
senators" interviewed to have matters
held up when it was a race of Just
a few days with the statute of limi-
tations. Neither is now in the SEN
ate, he added.
| j. w. Grim. assistant attorney gen
eral, who always acted promptly"
Soaife said, brought the case in time.
1.-TWO senators, I understand, asked
Mr.. Grim to hold up the case" Seattle
said, land he refused. The case was
taken up by somebody above him,
and it was delayed"
| But Representative Woodruff, Re
publican, Michigan, made a. speech
in the house urging action, Scaife
said, and 'the case was taken up and
filed in time"
The committee recessed until Tues
lday at 10 a. M
IACCUSERS ARE PLAIN LIARS.
DAUGHERTY STATEMENT SAYS
| ATLANTIC CITY, n. J.. March %.
iBesieged by newspapermen on his
tarrival here Friday evening, former
Attorney General Daugherty decided
to issue a formal statement in con-
nection with his resignation. AS he
handed a sheet Of hotel stationery,
upon which he had scrawled few
lines, to a group of insistent report
ers, he said:
"Well. boys, I hope I'll get along
now for awhile"
The statement follows:
II know nothing further to say at
this time, or While here. as far as
know, except to take advantage OF
this, my first opportunity. to advise
the country that I hope the lies told
by irresponsible so-called witnesses
as to immoral conduct, disgrac eful
Idoings and improper associations on
my part, will not be believed.
They are just plain lies procured
TO be told to create prejudice. Con
lsidering that the committee S with
out legal authority to make inquiry
Into any such subjects, prosecution
for perjury would fail. My friends
know full we'll the kind of life I have
always lived"
After issuing the statement, Mr.
Daugherty left the hotel for a stroll
along the board walk. He took the
elevator TO the street floor, EVIDENT!
wishing TO avoid walking through tbs
crowded lobby. where his arrival nae
created a stir earlier in the evening