The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-11
INVESTIGATION OF
DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE WONT STOP
Efforts to Stop Probe of the Depart
ment of Justice are Unavailing-
Sen. Wheeler Going Right Thru.
BY LAURENCE TODD
Federated Press Correspondent


WASHINGTON Although social
and personal pressure of the most
insidious kind is being exerted, es-
pecially from within the Democratic
ranks in congress, to stop the inves-
LEGATION into the affairs of the de-
partment of justice. Chairman Brook
hart and Senator Wheeler say, they
are going forward to its main OBJ
ject-the exposure Of the throttling
of the enforcement of federal law by
Daugherty and his staff.
For even with the dismissal of the
attorney general, the department
makes no change in its policy of in
difference to- the rights of ordinary
people
WHEELER MUST CONTINUE
If they are to escape the deepest
suspicion of betrayal of the millions
of voters who now applaud their
courage, the members of this com
mittee must take up the non-prose-
cution OF the so federal trade COM
mission complaints filed for prosecu-
ton within the past three years.
LUMBER SELLING FRAUD
There is, for instance, the great
lumber selling pool case, in which the
notorious J. H. Kirby of Texas, rabid
wartime patriot" and millionaire
profteers, is the central figure. Kir-
by has quit being a BurlesCn Demo-
crat, and is now a Coolidge Repub-
ican. He recently issued a state
ment denOuncing the undertaking in
Washington. DaUgherty has failed
to prosecute Kirby and his associates.
The names of Fred Upham treas
urer of the Republican national com
mittee, is said to be involved in the
stopping of prosecution of another
of the big cases which the commits
sion prepared for court action at
DaUgheTty's hands. In still another
instance, no less than 10000 letters,
proving a nationwide fraud, were
turned over to the department of
justice by the commission after many
months of investigation and study of
evidence, yet here again there has
been paralysis in the law enforcing
arm eff the government.
PALMER INVOLVED
One of the underground arguments
capitalized by the Democrats-men
who are backing Oscar Underwood or
RalstOn for the presidency-to bring
Ashurst and Wheeler. the Democratic
senators on the committee, into line
for a stoppage of the inquiry is the
fact that former Attorney General
Palmer played much the same game.
STOLE HIMSELF RICH
Palmer defed the laws not merely
in arresting the supposed radicals in
the labor movement, and in securing
lawless injUnctionS against strikers,
and in instructing his special agents
that they must ignore violations of
the prohibition law, but in handling
the alien property custodian's office,
in delaying and compromising the
fight with the meat packers, and in
handing over vast oil deposits to
Standard Oil under pretense of com
promise of suits by dummy clai-
mants.
STOLE ALIEN PROPERTY
Alien property scandals are likely
to break forth in this hearing, any
how. Miller of Delaware. the alien
property custodian at present, is a
former secretary of the Republican
national congressional committee. a
member of the Dupont family COM
binatiOn which secured from Palmer's
man Garvin the chemical patents.
Huge sums have been paid by him
TO Republican politicians of various
states, as attorney fees"-for which
the aliens must pay.
STRENGTHENING RECORD
Finally, and fundamentally, there
is the strikebreaking record and poll
cy of the department of justice to be
Investigated. Chairman Brookhart
IS willing to go thoroughly into this
class prejudice attitude shown by
Palmer and Daugherty and Burns.
lie considers it the perfect fruit of
the system of ownership of the de-
partment by and for the big proper
tied interests centered in Wall Street.