The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
SEIZED LIQUOR REPORTEDUSED
 BY BURNS MEN
Speaker Gillett Denies,
 However, That He Got Any Of It

wASHINGTON, April 21.-Allegia- tions of liquor disappearance at the Department of Justic. of defaults of anti-trust law prosecutions and of privileges extended to millionaire convicts at Atlanta Federal Penitenti- ary were made today before the Senate Daugherty investigating committee.
 Speaker Gillett of the House was al- an emphatic denial that any of the liquor seized by the departmnet ever reached him. and Chairman Houston Thompson of the Federal Trade com mission, who will be heard to greater extent later, began an account of that body's endeavor to induce the Depart ment of Justice under Attorney Gen eral sDaugherty to institute criminal proceedings under the antitrust law. Recovered Trunk
 Speaker Gillett's appearance before the committee was brief although sparks flew once or twice in his per sonal exchanges with H. L. Scaife. a former investigator for the Depart ment of Justice, who asserted last week that liquor from seized stocks got into his hands. The only basis for the story, MT. Gillett said, was that he did recover for a constituent trunk, seized because it contained liquor back in 1919, but only after the liquor was removed.
 F. NJ. Boucher, clerk dismissed by W. J. Burns from the Bureau of h. vestigation of the Department of Jus tice in 1921 said officials in the De- partment had been accustomed to keep good liquor from seizures in their of- fices for dispensing to friends, while Monzo E. Bunch, who got a court or der for the restoration of more than 100 cases of whiskey, told a story of long and fruitless efforts to get it back, and asserted that it had all been drunk up. B. S. Mclean, Washington pub fisher, got some of it, Bunch insisted. on the word of a man who hauled it away from Department of Justice storerooms.
 During one brief dip into the situa- tion surrounding the Montana indict- ment of Senator Wheeler. into it's prosecutor" the committee was told by Robert S. Glenn of Nashville, Tenn, that justice agent had asked him for facts as to Wheeler last March, and had endeavored to induce him to arrange a personal conference between the Senator and Mir. Daugherty ito call Wheeler off Daugherty."
 Relates Trust Laxity
 Chairman Thompson's testimony first dealt with conditions in the to- bacco industry during 1920 and en- suing years. The commission had recommended to MT. Daugherty that criminal prosecutions be instituted on the ground that combinations existed both to hold up prices of manufactured tobacco to consumers and to hold down prices of the raw material from farm CTS. It was ten months before the com mission could get an answer from MT: Daugherty. the witness said, and the answer did not come until impeach- ment proceedings had been instituted in the House, in 1922, against MT. Daugh- erty. 4ss a as
 J. c. Wilkin, prison guard and school superintendent until April 16. when he was suspended, told of drug trafficking in the Atlanta institution. George Remus, an Ohio bootlegger, Wilkins said, had 6 private room and a bath al the prison, and along with two or three other wealthy inmates was given special dining room service and comforts. designed to alleviate the monotony. He said it was the im- pression that they were given con- sideration because they had money, but he did not know to whom the funds so applied may have gone.