The Washington times., 1930-07-22
PLENTY TO Be
UNCOVERED,
HINT
Sen. Brookhart Says There
win Be No SuppressiOns;
Brinkman Gathers Data

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Giving promise that nothing
will be suppressed and there is
a plenty to be uncovered, Sena-
tor Smith w. Brookhart (R0 of
Iowa, author of the resolution
which has started a Senate in
Nestigation of read estate opera
tions in the District, left for his
home today.
Senator Brookhart expressed
entire satisfaction with the per-
Bonnel Of the Blaine subcommit-
tee of the Senate District Com
Rnittee, saying:
"It is good subcommittee
and has started on . big job.
The ramificatiOns of the real
estate situation in the Capital
are such that the subcommittee,
perhaps, will have work to do
during the whole winter Ses-
sion Of Congress. / am con-
yinced there will be startling
results and bad situation here
: will be fully exposed"
Originally, the Brookhart reSo-
aution referred only to the F. H.
Smith Company, now in litiga-
Aion in the courts and with GER
tain officers under indictment.
Measure Expanded
But the resolution was broad
ened by the District committee
to include a survey of the whole
real estate field in the National
Capital.
Assurances are given by Sena-
Tor Brookhart, and members o.
The investigating board, that
Bcrlpulous dealers in realty here
would welcome and aid such a
Senate probe, but no quarter Is
to be shown those who have en-
gagged in Scandalous or question
able practices.
Senator Brookhart limited that
before the inquiry closes names
of several men now, or hereto
fore, in public life will be brought
into the hearings and that the
probe will touch higher ups"
as well as some Of the rank and
file of the hundreds OF the real
estate brokers and statesmen op'
Grating in Washington.
Hearings Suspended
Senator Arthur H. Vandenherg
IR.). Michigan, acting chairman
of the subcommittee since Sena-
tor John j. Blaine (R), Wiscor1-
sin, returned to that State to at
tend the funeral Of the late Rep
resentatiye Florian Lampert, an
nounced that he was leaving to-
day for his home. Vandenberg
said:
"There will be no further
real estate hearings for the
present, as subcommittee mem
bers want to go home after 3
tiresome Congress session, car
ried on lately amid terrific
heat. The committee attorney,
Oscar III. Brinkman, will con-
tinue with the collection of
complaints and data to be pre-
gented to the subcommittee
whenever It's hearings are re-
gumed. think the investiga-
tion has but started"
Senator Brookhart predicted
that eventually the Capital will
be shocked" by the revelations
which the Senate investigators
will produce.
Rotten" Condition
He asserted that a rotten con-
dition" has existed here for some
years and that the complaints
voiced at the first days meeting
of the Senate subcommittee was
just an. "inkling" of what is to
come.
Brookhart added:
81 want all the information
that I and the subcommittee
can obtain regarding real estate
practices here in the Nations
Capital, We are not arraign-
ing the. realtors of Washington
as class or profession, but It
win become perfectly apparent
that q house cleaning Is In
order and I think / can promise
sensational developments as the
inquiry proceeds"