Evening star., 1924-06-04
DAUGHERTY FLATLY
REFUSES TO HEED
INQUIRY SUMMONS
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ing, and. up to this time, OF course,
have had no opportunity OF calling
witnesses on my behalf or on behalf
or the Department of Justice. be-
fore definitely replying to your Sug-
gest1on that ! appear before your
committee, / wish to call your at
tention to certain matters which
seem TO me to be pertinent at this
time.
4. The great volume o. business
OF the department of Justice. so di-
Versified that it vitally touches every
branch of the government, is of
necessity handled in detail by the
various assistant attorneys general
and special assistant to the Attorney
General but under the general di-
rectlon and superN ision OF the At
torney General himself. In order to
arrive at Ii correct judgment re-
Sarding any particular case. it is
absolutely necessary 10 call said
assistants Nhu have had that case in
charge, and who, haViTs access to
the files OF the department, can fully
and accurately advise the committee
in every detail in connection there
with.
Needs TO Get Data.
1t would be absolutely necessary
for me or any Attorney General to
refer TO the assistants and the files
before l could with any degree of
satisfaction attempt tn make a state
ment before your committee. That
being true, such assistants and 9TH
ers having the active charge of cases
and fully advised with reference to
al details and executive work under
inquiry, and who have full access to
ana the use of records and files per-
tanning thereto, and are familiar
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should have been called before your
committee prior to my appearance.
The adoption of such course
would III all probability eliminate
the necessity of my appearance in
connection with the investigation of
my official duties. by reason of the
fact that full and accurate inforrna-
ton would be in the possession of
the committee as a result of calling
the assistants in active charge of
litigation. The calling of these wit
neSSeS at the commencement of the
inquiry would have enabled the COM
mittee to bring this inquiry to an end
at an earlier date, at least in so far
as it concerned my official conduct
as Attorney General
Had Hoped to Appear.
40. Since the commencement of
your inquiry-that is to say, on the
18th day of March last--I had hoped
TO be asked to appear before your
committee, and have been somewhat
surprised thst | was not asked to ap
pear at an earlier period in your pro-
ceedinSs, as l was under the impress
sion that the investigation would be
confined to my official actions as At
torney General Of the United States
and matters directly relating thereto
The fact that your committee has
not up to the present time called q
single witness suggested by me. and
has sought for evidence from uneX-
pected sources and generally from
persons so situated that under ordi-
nary circumstances very little Gre
dence would be given their testimony.
has from the beginning caused me to
feel that there was a feeling of an
taSonlSm entertained toward me by
certain members OF your committee,
and that these members of your COM
mittee, instead of prosecuting a fair
and impartial inquiry into my official
conduct as Attorney General of the
United States. have made u desperate
attempt to blacken-my reputation and
injure my standing in the country by
the statements of unreliable witnesses
which would not be admitted in any
court of justice.
Il have never been able to under
stand why your investigation was
conducted upon such unusual and
peculiar lines. and with such bitter
personal feeling toward me on the
part of certain members of your COM
mittee. Nevertheless. full of conf
dence in the ability of the Department
of Justice to demonstrate to the salts
faction of your committee, or any
other. the fact that it's functions dur
ing the time of my administration
attained to a high degree of efficiency.
l have been ready and anxious to
assist your committee in every way
within my power to make public the
splendid record of accomplishment of
the department.
Denies He PrOfted.
"At this point I take occasion to
contradict and deny any inference,
surprise or suspicion that ] profited
in any illegal, corrupt or unethical
way. directly or indirectly, by reason
of any activities of political asso-
ciates or friends at any time, or that
my conduct, either official or per-
sonal, was directly or indirectly in
fluenced at any time, in any way, by
yenal and corrupt motives. No wit
ness has appeared before your COM
mittee who has by surmise, innuendo,
suspicion or otherwise. >intimated the
existence of any such circumstance,
except by way of the grave, and the
silence of the tomb has forever rem
dered the direct denial of these SLAM
ders impossible.
"3. The controversy which arose in
regard to the power of your commit
tee to issue a subpoena duces tecum