Evening star., 1924-03-27
Committee Considers Having
Nal Daugherty Cited by
Senate for Contempt.
DEFENSE COUNSEL ASKS
NAMES In BIG OIL DEAL
Senator's Fear Trap to Besmirch
Harding-Hear of Alleged
Air Craft Fraud.

The Daugherty investigators today
heard Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of
Jess Smith, go through a cross-exam-
ination by the Attorney Generals
counsel; decided to consider whether
the Attorney Generals brother, NJ S.
! Daugherty, Washington Court House
banker, and others of his bank should
be cited for contempt for failing to
answer committee summons, and lis
tened to a long recital by H l.. Scaife,
who investigated aircraft frauds, and
who charged his investiga tions were
blocked"
Miss Stinson's testimony was in
terrupted frequently by clashes be-
tween committee members and coun-
sci for the Attorney General, mainly
in the efforts of the counsel to bring
= out the names of five men who, she
said Smith told her, had made $33,-
100000 in oil stocks. The committee
had no interest in the matter but
former Senator Chamberlain said he
expected the witness to say "one of
the men was the President of the
United States" Senator Ashurst re-
torted that the committee would not be
trapped into besmirching the name
OF dead man now" %
In Executive Session,
An executive session of the COM
mittee was called to consider the case
of NJ. S. Daugherty after the SER
eant-at-arms had reported him not
present and Paul Howland, the At
torney Generals lawyer, had said he
was not in the city.
Scaife gave the committee a de-
tailed account of his work in investi-
eating war frauds, especially the air.
craft cases, and charged that he was
blocked" at various times in his ef-
y forts.
Question Miss stinson.
The committee met this morning,
went into executive session and then
decided that Miss Stinson should be
subjected Immediately to cross-ex-
animation by Attorney General
Daugherty's counsel, but before this
could be done Chairman Brookhart
from the telegraph company's files
at Palm Beach, Washington and
Washington Court House.
The kilograms dated March, 1923,
did not contain matters of Importance.
Senator Wheeler, democrat, Mon
tana. the committees prosecutor, who
has been i'll, was in attendance, and
before the executive session Senator
Jones, republican, Washington, moved
=. that the committee investigate the
charge that Department of Justice
men were following senators and
members of the committee.
Chairman Brookhart put into the
record a letter from Attorney Cen
II a., L.
committees request for the Depart
ment of Justice reports upon revolu-
tionary activities in lower Mexico
during the winter of 1929.
Refuses Reports.
"These reports are a part of the in
telligence files of the bureau of in
vestigation," the Attorney Generals
letter said, (which are very confiden-
= tial in their nature and their pres
entation as requested in your letter
would be inimical to the public in
terest. Accordingly, decline to send
them"
The committee had requested all the
reports on Estevan Cantu, Manual
Paleax, Lucio Blanco, Pablo Gonzales
and Felix DiaZ and others.
The committee agreed that it would
not force the inquiry further as to
Miss Stinson's story of s33,000,0o0 made
by five" men in Sinclair oil stock
market deals, because it was irrelevant
to the subject in hand.
On February 26, 1928, Nal S. Daugh-
erty, at Washington Court House. wired
to Jess Smith in Washington that he
had plain talk with a party and
needed money to fix up"
Fielder never paid hotel bill for
her." the message went think we
should do so.''
Invited by Mclean.
Z. b. Mclean three times in the tele-
gram series during March, 1923, pressed
Mr. Daugherty to come to Palm Beach.
On March 1 J. ]. McGraw, at Tulsa,
Okla, wired Smith to ask. 'Ts there any
likelihood that appointments will be
made this week."
WAS that about the Federal Judge
Smith appointed down there" Senator
Wheeler inquired. -
There was no answer.
Man From Montana.
Man on way from Montana with full
data" read another telegram to Smith
signed D. L. Thompson of Columbus,
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