Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
.PROBERS DEF|ED
AGAIN BY insult
Committee to Demand Mon
day That He and Others Be
Cited for Contempt.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,

The Senate will be asked on Mon
day by the Reed slush fund commit
tee to deal with Samuel insult, Chi
cago public utility magnate, and two
other recalcitrant witnesses.
The Reed committee will demand
that the recalcitrant witnesses be
punished for contempt.
The other witnesses who have de.
clined to answer questions put them
by the Senate committee are Daniel
~. Schuyler of Chicago. attorney for
Mr.. insult. and Thomas W. Cunning
ham of Philadelphia, treasurer Of the
Republican State committee.
All three of the recalcitrant wit
nesSes were summoned before the
Reed committee In the course of the
inquiries into rhe Illinois and Penn.
sylvania senatorial primaries OF last
year.
insult Again Defiant.
Mr.. insult was before the commit
tee again today. He declined fatty TO
answer questions put to him by Sena-
tor Reed of Missouri, chairman of the
committee, in relation to contribu-
tions amounting to $4,000 which he
said he made to influence nominations
for local offices.
MIR. Schuyler declined to answer
similar questions at meeting OF the
committee last Monday.
Mr.. Cunningham, who has testified
that he gave $50, 900 to aid the cam
paign of William S. Ware for the
Republican nomination for the Senate
last year, declined to answer the
questions of the committee as to where
he got the $50 900 at the meeting on
last Monday. He had declined to an
swer similar questions when he ap-
peared before the committee last year.
Con to Present Case.
Whether the Senate will move
against these witnesses through the
United States attorney for the Dis
trict of Columbia. or whether the
Senate will seek to punish directly
for contempt, remains to be seen. The
committee will lay before the Senate
probably on Monday the record Of the
testimony and of the alleged con-
tempt. Senator Golf of West Virginia
La to prepare the report and present
the alternative courses of procedure.
This will be the first showdown be-
tween the Senate and witnesses VINO
have refused to testify before its COM
mittees since the recent decision in
the Nal Daugherty case in which the
Supreme Court upheld the right OF
Senate committees to summon wit
neSSes.
Makes Statement to Committee.
When Mr. insult appeared before
the committee today he was accom-
panied by Gilbert f. Porter, his coun-
sci, and brought with him a check
which he had drawn for $4,000 and
which he testified last Monday had
been used to pay for part Of his con-
tributions in the primary campaign.
Mr.. insult made the following state
ment to the COMMITTEES:
"OH looking over the transcript of
my testimony given on Monday last,
/ find there is some confusion in the
questions as well as the answers.
Therefore, / wish to make this state
ment for the purpose of clearing up
the confusion and remove the pos
sibility of the misunderstanding of
nay testimony.
II have heretofore testified that I
made contributions totaling $237,-
! 92519. in connection with the primary
election held in Illinois on April 13.
| 1926. OF this sum, $l72,925.19 was
contributed for the purpose of in
| fiuencing nominations of United
| States Senators. The remainder.
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