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4 witness. Harry +. Sinclair, being
called before the committee and being
! on the stand, refused TO answer any
questions that might be propounded to
him by any member OF ,ne committee
! as set forth in the report made by the
committee to The Senate on Saturday.
! the said I'D Gay of March. 1924. copy
of which report is hereto appended and
! made part hereof.
That upon such statement so being
| made by the said witness, Harry +.
Sinclair, questions pertinent to the in
| quiry being prosecuted by the said
committee were addressed to the wit
! ness as set forth in the said report so
| submitted on Saturday, the 22d day of
March, 1924. which the witness sever
! ally declined and refused to answer as
| therein set forth.
| And now your committee reports to
| the Senate that the said Harry r. SIM
! clair having appeared as Il witness be-
| fore your said committee, refused 10
answer questions pertinent to the QueS-
ton under inquiry, and is in contempt
OF the said committee and of the
! Senate.
| Chase's refusal came at the end of
a committee meeting at which "A half
! dozen witnesses were examined on
! as many subjects, and just before
/ the case of Sinclair was formally re-
/ ported to the Senate with a commit
| tee recommendation that the facts
| be passed along to the district at
| unable to say whether the same
course would be followed in the case
| of Chase.
| Oil Counsel Return.
While the Senate was considering
the Sinclair resolution brought in by
! the committee. government counsel in
| the oil suits returned from the west
! conferred with President Coolidge,
!, and announced that criminal proceed
lngS in the cases would begin before
! a gra nd jury here about April 10.
As If the committeeman had deter
! mined to push their task of investi-
| TeSSeS succeeded each other rapidly
! at the big committee table, and most
| of them We're dismissed with only a
! Scant sem mblance of crosS-eXamination
Carmi A. Thompson of Cleveland,
( one of President Coolidge's campaign
managers and a close friend OF the
late President Harding. testified that
he had no knowledge of an ''oil deal"
at the republican national convention
of 1920.
| Harold Vivian, 4 reporter for the
New York Times, told the committee
he had received confirmat ton from the
| New York office of Will II. Hays that
Hays would testify to a stock trans
faction by which Sinclair helped wipe
out the republican national committee
ldeficit after the 1920 campaign. Vivian
isaid such story was told to him by
iJoseph J. O'Neill, Hays publicity
;director, but O'Neill i'll n telegram
Tread to the committee denied it.
Brands Stories Lies.
The next witness, Martin J. Pow
ers of Philadelphia. denied "A story
that he was interested in any way in
Teapot Dome and then proceeded to
brand as "ignominiGus lies" various
other stories he said had been cir
culated about him
He was succeeded on the witness
stand by Michael Circelli also Of
Philadelphia who, in turn. denied
| some of the testimony of Powers.
Immediately after Chairman Iadd
submitted the committee report. max
ling the citation, the committee prose
cutor. Senator Walsh. recommended that
| the Sinclair case be certified to the Dis
trict of Columbia courts for grand jury
proceedings
+, Before the questioning of Thomp-
/ son began there was d brief excur-
sion into the matter of Sinclair's con-
! tribution to the republican national
! committee to help make up the
deficit resulting from the 1920 cam
/ paign. Senator Spencer. republican,
Missouri, remarked that he had no.
! ticed that a subpoena was out for
4
| tional treasurer.
! Asks Democrat Books.
| Il now ask that we subpoena the
chairman and secretary of the demo-
crat national committee" said Sena-
| tor Spencer. Il notice Mr. Z. l..
| Doheny testified he gave $4,000 to
! the democrat national committee,
Z tHI-bi ln I'D hDr ls.kn
/ only $4,000 from him. Since we are
going into these matters we ought
! to get both Sides.
! Senator Walsh, Montana, suggest
! ed that the republican funds had been
! investigated only so far as they were
involved in the oil leases. and Sena-
tor Dill, democrat. Washington, said
| the republican administration had
| been elected and this made the in
quiry into republican funds pertinent.
! At the suggestion of Senator Walsh
! the committee deferred a decision
and began the questioning Of Thomp-
son, who was at the Chicago con-
rention as a Harding supporter. The
witness said he did not hear Jake
! Hamon, oil operator and former re-
| publican national committeeman for
! Oklahoma, make a. proposition of
any kind to Senator Harding or his
associate for the delivery of the
Oklahoma delegation"
He certainly made no such propo-
sition to me-" he added -
} Reads Statement.
! Reading from a prepared state
ment, Thompson said:
/ Il have been called before YOU to
| tell about statement which one
Tiffin Gilmore deputy secretary of
state of Ohio) testified before Won
! that / was alleged to nave made to
him concerning political deals and
other matters at the 1920 republican
national convention held in Chocago
| IF Mr.. Gilmore was quoted cor
rectly in the newspapers, he said that
the conversation he was alleged to
have had with me was upon a Penn
sylvania train leaving Chicago about
Is O'Clock Sunday evening. immedi-
| ington."
| Il did not go to Washington from
the convention. I took the New
York Central train known as the
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