The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-12
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 press a judgment until your evidence | is completed. Therefore, say it ap pears.
 The former secretary said, naturally he had felt some indignation that his name had been brought into the inves. tigation.
 II think any honest man would feel precisely the same way" Senator Dill, democrat, Washington wanted to know if Doheny delivered the S1O0,0O0 retainer fee paid MT. Me Adoos New York firm "in satcIiel." He did not, sir" replied s1r. Me Adoo Tt came to me in the form of check"
 LenroOt Says Reed Asked the Question Chairman Lenroot said he wished to explain outside of the record" that the question which had been put to Mir. Doheny and which resulted in the disclosure of Mr. McAdoo's employment as counsel had been made at the request of Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri.
 Ut was in these questions that your name was brought out as one of his counsel" Chairman Lenroot said. :.
 Do you think this committee would have been justified in refusing the re- quest of Senator Reed?
 "No, sir,' replied MT. McAdoo. T am glad you brought it out. hope the committee will continue its inves- tigations and bring out all the facts. I think the matter of my employment is absolutely and wholly irrelevant to this inquiry, as it is not concerned with it, but, nevertheless, l am perfectly willing to have the committee inquire into it. If it will aid the committee in un- earthing the people who have been guilty of wrongdoing, am glad to have it brought out"
 Asked what service" he had per formed as counsel for Doheny, he said special counsel, acting in an advisory capacity in such matters as were pre- scented to me from time to time."
 He has not advised with you about any matters except Mexican matters?"
 Never Consulted In Oil Leases
 "Our professional relations began in that connection and continued in that connection. I have never been consult ed in his oil leases. He has had other attorneys for that work. He was free to ask me about all matters, and if he had consulted me about. the oil matters I would have advised him."
 Chairman Lenroot asked the witness whether he had appeared personally before the government departments here in the matters referred to in his recent letter to the committee.
 T didn't" replied MT. McAdoo; "my partner, Mir. Cotton, appeared before the state department on occasions. 1 purposely refrained from acting my self, because I wanted to observe every propriety in this matter"
 There was no question of politics involved in the matter presented. It was the policy of the administration to protect American interests in Mexico. That policy was observed under the Wilson administration, and has been observed under this administration. I do not believe that any administration could survive that did not stand for the protection of American property and rights; not only in Mexico, but in all na- tions."
 Tells Of Mexican Trip
 Senator Walsh directed the witness attention to a trip he once made to Mexico.
 "In January, 1921, went to Mex ico," Mf. McAdoo replied, "and one os the purposes was to discuss with the Mexican authorities questions concern ing article p of the Mexican constitu- tion.
 II had a conference with President Obregon, in which l stated and i'm pressed upon him that a gVhuine dis aster would result to Mexico if an at- tempt was made to give article 27 re- troactive effect. I not only outlined to him that such an attempt would pre- vent all American enterprise in Mexico and destroy all confidence in the gov ernment, but that the credit, which Mexico needed, imperatively, to develop the country could not be had, if such things should be undertaken.
 T explained to him that the Ameri- can market was the only market where there was available any large supply of credit ill the world and that Mexico had no resort to any other market for such credit"
 This made it imperative, Mir. Me Adoo said, for the Mexican government to make its position plain.
 President Obregon expressed him. self as being entirely in accord with that view" MT. McAdoo continued, ''and said that it was not intended to give section 27 retroactive effect and that there was no intention to cOnfis- cate American property in Mexico" Did Not Handle Income Tax Litigation
 Replying to Senator Bursum, repu5- lican, New Mexico, MT. McAdoo said that neither he nor his firm had ever represented Doheny, or any of his com panies, i-s income tax matters before the treasury department.
 In his reference to Doheny's testi- mony that employment of the McAdoo firm in Washington ceased with the coming of ths Harding administration, the witness said: "Mr. Doheny was in error about that, but do not believe that Mir. Doheny intended to create q wrong impression about the amount of fees and other questions, referring to my professional relations with him.
 When the examination was concluded and MT. McAdoo left the witness chair, the crowd again broke into applause and he turned and waved his hand as he walked out of the committee room.
 MT. McAdoo's statement, which was in the nature of an elaboration of his recent letter to Chairman Lenroot of the committee dealing with his service as counsel to the Doheny companies follows:
 T am informed by your chairman that already there has been inserte, |