Evening star., 1924-03-23
CARAWAY RAPS GuLETT.
Senate Investigations Non-Parti.
san, Says Arkansas Member.

The Teapot Dome and Daugherty
disclosures became the theme of an
other sizzling debate in the Senate
yesterday, when Senator Ca-away,
democrat, Arkansas, undertook to reply
to various criticisms recently direct
ed at him and some Of his colleagues
Starting with the recent Boston
speech Of Speaker Gillett, in which
he characterized the Senate as "a
school for scandal" Senator caraway
declared the House, over which Mr.
Gillett presides, has sunk to the
lowest point in its history as Iegis-
lative body"
What revelations made by this
body have so stirred the ire of the
Speaker asked Senator Caraway.
Was 1T because we revealed former
Secretary Fall as a traitor 10 his
country or the fact that the Attorney
General stands stripped before the
nation as unfit for Officer"
Claims No Neglect.
Replying to the suggestion of Sem
ator Borah, republican, Idaho, that
the Senate cease it's grand Jury ac-
tivities and get down to business"
Mr. Caraway declared no legislation
had been neglected as a result of
the Senate investigations. The tax
bill, he said, Is at the same point in
committee consideration where it
would have been without the iuvesti-
cations.
Referring to the famous "princi-
al
sisted that the testimony Of Ira Ben
nett OF the Washington Post. who
Curtis. republican, Kansas, was an
attempt to 'besmirch" Senator Cur
tis' character.
Defends Curtis.
II know that Curtis wasn't the
principal" he declared.
who does the senator mean nv
.principar? asked Senator stany ny
field, republican, Oregon, member
what?". IL
"Oh, If the senator wasn't so bnsv
questions he would know who the
principal was,' Senator Caraway
declared. who objected when viii
Hays was questioned about the con-
erlnutions LTD to & the republican campaign
Il did" Senator Stanfield replied
and l was within my rights"
Wants Member. Named.
Senator Caraway demanded that
the Speaker, the next time he UNDER
took to criticize the Senate in Massa-
ehusetts. tell which members of the
best traditions of the Senate"
Senator Caraway said his demand
for this information applied not ONLY
70 the Speaker, but to '.all those.
both individuals and newspapers, in
Guiding the New York Times, wash
ington Star and the Philadelnhia
Public Ledger, and others that are
tons" -,
IT wish they would tell the coun-
try, continued Senator Caraway.
when they are bemoaning the inyes.
legations that are going on in the
Senate and decrying the motives Of
senators who carry on the investiea-
tions,. Just what 1t is that has been
1eseaied tese e. by these Investigations that
disturbed and is the Speaker upset
because Fall was disclosed as a
traitor. who sold the oil reserves of
the country for a consideration?
Asks Cause Of Anger.
Are they angry because the At
torney General now stands stripped
before the American people as a man
atS PSt NCt SCu Ills OIIlCc TO protect
crime and to profit by the sale of
permits to violate the law?
Or does the Speaker object to testi-
mony that discloses that the whisky
ring Of the country had bought with
drawal permits for hundreds of dol
lars worth of liquor and paid money
to the people near the Attorney Gem
eral for the privilege to bootleg? Or
does he object, and do the papers
which criticize the Senate object, be-
cause Forbes is no longer director of
the Veterans Bureau"
Senator Caraway said later:
There may be in the minds of
some people belief these investi-
cations are partisan. That is what
The Star says. However, the ma
jority Of the Senate committee is re-
publican. The senator who until re-
Gently was chairman is as ardent a
partisan as / have ever known. 1
want to show how foolish 1t Is for
any silly person anywhere to say