The Coconino sun., 1924-04-04
THE SENATE'S ROCUES
GALLERY WITNESSES

The Walsh committee and the
Wheeler committee have developed a
very jealous rivalry.
The Walsh committee held the
boards for quite while, counting that
day lost which did not see some new
SANDER broadcasted from it's commit
tee room.
The Wheeler committee got late
start IN the free for all slime sling
ing contest, but with the very valua-
BILE aid of two blackmailers, couple
of self-confessed boodlers and several
who have been indicated by the Dep
artment of Justice for violation OF
criminal laws, it spurted ahead OF
the Walsh committee.
No use talking, young Wheeler OF
Montana, put it all over his political
godfather, Walsh, of Montana, IN
grabbing the first page of the news
papers. But as soon as the tactics
of the Wheeler committee were evld-
ent the Walsh committee came right
back, and at this writing it is one
train robber ahead in the contest.
AL jennings contribution is supposed
to be political gossip which he obtain
ed from politician who was killed in
a drunken quarrel with his paramour.
The admission as evidence of alleg
ed conversations with persons now
dead is not permitted even in police
court proceedings. To allow such
! testimony to be dignified as evidence
would open wide the doors to unre-
strained perjury. That is what has
taken place in the Wheeler commit
tee investigation. 1t has taken place
because Wheeler and the majority of
his committee deliberately desire that
sort of evidence. 1t is so easy to
prove things by conversations with
/ dead people! One is not embarrassed
by the truth
The star witness of the Wheeler
committee was CASTOR B. Means, who
first came into notoriety as German
spy "E-13" in the employ of Count
Won Bernstorff and Captain Boy-Ed
during the war. His next bid for the
first page position was in connection
with the murder in North Carolina of
his association, Mrs. Maude A. King.
Means was acquitted of the charge
after long deliberation by the jury.
/ In connection with the murder of Mrs.
King, Means produced a will which
would have benefited him. This viii
was pronounced a forgery. Means
and his attorney, Thomas B. Fielder,
are now under indictment in the fed
eral courts, charged with conspir-
acy to bribe Attorney General Daugh-
| erty. Means and his secretary, Emil
! w. Jarnecka, are also under indict-
ment in New York for conspiracy to
remove millions of dollars worth of
whiskey from government warehouses
and permit it to reach bootleggers.
1 Means, on the witness stand before
the Wheeler committee admitted that
his principal business was answering
criminal indictments.
Other witnesses called by Wheeler
in the effort to besmirch Attorney
General Daugherty admitted on the
witness stand that they were boodlers
and have been engaged in bribery
conspiracies to corrupt public officials
and break criminal laws. Some of
them are under indictments in the
criminal courts.
If the innovation of proving honest
men and public officials guilty of high
crimes and misdemeanors by introduc-
ing testimony of convicts and ex-
convicts, crooks, forgers, bribe takers,
murderers, train robbers and other
criminals is to be followed then there
is no end in sight of the present in
vestigations until all the inmates of
our penitentiaries have been put on
the stand.
Too bad this method was not
thought of years ago! Jesse James
and Calamity Jane and all the other
cutthroats of a generation since died
too soon. Some Of them ascended the
gallows and met felon's death,
when, had they lived in these times,
they might have taken a de luxe trip
to Washington at the expense of the
taxpayers paid out of the senate s
contingent fund!
Arriving in the nations capital
they would have become the center
of attraction, shown all Difference,
photographed in all poses, taken night
JOY rides in senatorial automobiles,
and brought their career to climax
| by ascending the witness chair before
some committee to spill their venom
4 and their slander to the profit and
] glory of the democratic party, and the
personal qualification Of the political
blackguards who have made the Unit
ed States senate cesspool of poll
tical filth over which floats the scum
of their own putrid motives.