Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-04
TAKE STEWART
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though one here was reading news
paper and another there signing
correspondence.
Walsh held the floor. AS the read
ing ended Senator Smoot, OF Utah,
was on his feet holding in his hand
an amendment to the pending in
terror department appropriation bill.
A page stood nearby
The Montanan was unperturbed
He asked that a typographical cor
rection be made at one place in the
report and that was done with some
delay.
''Now I send to the desk resolu-
ton and ask that it be read"
Senator Smoot sat down as the
clerk intoned the language of the
measure directing the immediate
arrest of Stewart.
'Now 1 ask unanimous consent for
the immediate consideration Of the
resolution" the Montanan said.
els there objection?" again de-
manded Vice President Dawes. Again
silence.
without objection the resolution
is agreed to- Mr.. Dawes announced
The senate sat as though stunned
There was a sudden rush OF reporters
from the press gallery to telephones
and Tres. That alone broke the
silence and at it's height one senator
looked up and smilingly called for
''order."
A prepared copy of the warrant
Was handed up to the Hce president
who signed it. Then clerk handed
it to David S. Barry, sergeant-at-arms,
who Immediately lett the chamber
and in the company OF deputy, John
McGrain, left at once for the Willard
hotel.
A group of newspaper men followed
to the eighth floor and swarmed
outside Stewards suite. Barry and
McGrain knocked and entered, one
of them turning the key in the lock
behind them.
A few minutes later, Barry emerged
and announced that the Chicago oil
operator had been mice and agree
able" and had said that he would
place himself in the SergeanC-at-
arms hands and make no trouble"
Colonel Stewart was calm and
cool when we served the warrant"
Barry added.
The Standard Oil magnate also was
rather calm and cool during his
second day on the witness stand,
but at times he showed flares OF
temper and time and again told the
several senators who questioned him
that he did not intend to "argue"
with them.
At one point when Walsh asked
Him why he heSitated in answering
a question, the coil operator bluntIy
told the senator it was none of
his business.
'That's good English, senator. You
can interpret that as well as I can"
Later on he told Senator Bratton.
of New Mexico, that a qUestiCb put
to him was irrelevant"
Turning tc the S8,OOO,OOO profits the
Continental stood to make out OF
the purchase OF oil and its resale
to companies controlled by the
Standard of Indiana and the Sinclair
Consolidated, Stewart said he didn't
care about that; what he was inter-
ested in was getting crude oil that
he needed.
'Not that I have lost my respect
for eight million dollars, SENATOR
he cdded with a.cchuekle.
The real dramatic moment OF the
hearing came while the Standard
officer was under questioning by
Senator Cutting, republican, New
Mexico, who took the witness into
the realm of assumption, saying mat
it might be assumed that he was the
greatest OF business men.
"Let'S leave that cut, Stewart said.
"Then again we might assume that
you are an imbecile, which none OF
us does assume" Cutting pursued.
"All right the witness returned.
''Then we might assume that you
are committing perjury"
ST say that's an insult" the bulky
oil operator shouted and it seemed
for a split second that he would
Spring from his chair toward the
New Mexican. "I shall leave this
room instantly if that is to go on.
The senate of the United States
has not authorized you to insult me-.
Senator Walsh smoothed the waters
by suggesting that the matter be
withdrawn from the record, TO WHICH
Senator Cutting readily agreed.
AdJGT OIl ll1S SuUJCCG Woo clCAHSA WV
to again and Senator Cutting ex-
planned that Stewart had cut him
off in the middle OF his statement.
That he had intended to add, but
the committee does not believe that.
"Oh, it's all right" Stewart said
"I have no feelings about it now"
At intervals during the hearing.
committeeman put to the oil operator
the questions which he had refused
to answer the Gay before and he
persisted i'll his refusal 10 answer
those and some others All OF them
had to do either with whether he
had knowledge OF the disposition OF
liberty bonds by the Continental or
had discussed that subject with
Sinclair
The witness put his refusal on the
same grounds as before; that the
issues were in the courts in the Fall
Sinclair case and that he should give
his testimony to jury ano Judge.
After an hour on the stand, Stewart
was excused from the witness chair,
but directed to remain in Washington