Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-03
DAUCHERTY PROBE
To Be COMPLETED,
COMMITTEE RULES

WASHINGTON, March 31.-The
senate Daugherty investigating com
mittee decided today to continue its
inquiry despite Mr.. Daugherty's re
tirement to private life.
At the same time committee mem
bers announced they intended to hold
| CASTOR B. Means, former department
Of Justice investigator, in attendance
under a senate subpoena, in spite OF
the issuance today of a bench war
rant by the federal court at New
! York ordering Means returned there
to answer charges of conspiracy.
The committees immediate oDJec-
tive when it resumes hearings to-
morrow, will be to clear up the facts
as to the department of justices pros
ecution of war frauds and antitrust
| cases.
When news was received Of Judge
Garvin's order in New York for
Means arrest, the committee took up
| the subject in executive session.
This is an apparent attempt on
| the part of II. G.. Todd. the special
assistant to the attorney general, in
charge of Means prosecution, to
block this investigation" said Sena-
tor Wheeler. the committee prose
cutor. ut is the committees purpose
to keep Means here as witness, and
to retain his services for the COM
mittee. OF course, that prosecution
at New York could be conducted at
any time
| Means testified early in the COM
mittee's procedure, telling OF money
payments made to eJss Smith in con-
nection with pending cases.
A decision on the motion before
| the committee to have Nal S. Daugh-
erty brother of the former attorney
general, cited to the senate for con-
| tempt. was postponed.
WHEELER POINTS VINDICATION
AT POLLS IN MONTANA
| WASHINGTON, March 31.-Sena-
tor Wheeler. Democrat, Monanta,
prosecutor" in the Daugherty inVes-
| tigation, yesterday answered charges
made against him by the Republican
national committee news bureau by
| saying that the people of Montana
'repudiated these stories and the
authors of them by a ma jOrity OF
more than 10000 at the last cleo
ton"
The statement OF the Montana sen.
ator was brought out by a detailed
attack on him issued last week by
the News Bureau under the caption
| Of what everybody should know
| about Senator Wheeler and his Mon
tana gang" The attack was to the
| effect that while Senator Wheeler
was United States attorney for Mon
tana "the state became the hot bed
| of treason and sedition, the leaders
| in the reasonable and seditious
movement being friends of Wheel
er's," and that he refused to inter-
| fere.
Everybody knows" said Senator
| Wheeler's statement, "What the story
was put cut for. and everybody in
| Montana knows that the charges are
absolutely false. The people of Mon
| tana repudiated these stories and the
authors Of. them by a, majority of
more than 10000 votes at the last
! ection."
/ Persons convicted under his re
| gime as district attorney, including
| two eX-attorneys general OF the state
| charged with tampering with a jury,
and their friends, the statement con-
| tinued, sought to accuse him when
| the war hysteria was at it's height,
with a neglect OF duty" A com
| plete refutation'' OF the charges, he
said, was made by Federal Judge
| Bourquin, OF the Montana district, in
letter dated November 2. 1922.
II regret to hear there is a revival
of the unfounded charges that while
United States attorney you refused
! to prosecute persons guilty of sedi-
! ton" Judge Bourquin's letter, as
given by Senator Wheeler read. THE
truth is. evidenced by the records OF
| this court, you prosecuted many
charged with that offense, most Of
whom with no reproach to you were
not indicted by the grand jury or
were found not guilty either by di-
rection of the court or the will Of
the trial jury. The times were IA
! Vorable to loose. unfounded, and triV-
| ial charges of that character.
| "a competent prosecutor always
will refuse to conduct such prQsecu'
tons, refuse to persecute, and so far
as you did SO, it was with the sane
ton, appeal and suggestion Of the
court. in furtherance Of sound pub
| nc DOilCN, ana III NlildlCdlIOI VI yObA
| official cath and duty to yourself,
| to the court. and to society"
Judge Bourquin said he made his
statement with no object but sim
pie justice to an honest, able and dill
gent prosecutor in a most trying
| period of our country's history"
ROME mot INTERESTED"
IN DAUGHERTY CUSTER
10
Stinson, whose statements in the
| Daugherty investigation caused a
sensation, returned to her home here
Sunday. Commenting on the resig-
nation OF Mr.. Daugherty, Miss Stin-
son said:
II WIS not interested. I did not
care. 1 do not feel vindictive toward
Harry Dausherty, although 1 dislike
| him.
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