Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
NYE IS ACCUSED
OF PART IN SPYING
Attorney General Carlson
Makes Charge After His
Plea Is Barred.
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read a statement pleading for Justice
in the name of a Representative in the
United States Congress and the State
of illinois," but its reading had been
deferred until this morning.
Without permitting any one to seek
recognition Chairman Nye began read
ing q statement in which he announced
dismissal of the Dannenbergs.
The Dannenberg records, thought at
first to contain valuable information,
Senator Nye said, were of no value to
the committee. He absolved them and
said they were no longer needed. The
committee yesterday had obtained pos
session of SO kilograms received by the
Dannenberg agency, many Of which had
been published overnight. They were
chiefly exchanges between officials and
operatives of the detective agency, re-
ferring apparently to the shadowing Of
Senator Nye in North Dakota, Wash
ington and Glacier Park.
In his statement setting forth the
position of this committee" Senaor Nye
denied 1t had ever employed spies to
follow and pry into the private affairs
of any one and denied emphatically that
it had directly or indirectly planned
or participated in any way in the theft
of records from Mrs. McCormicks files.
Mccormick Plea Denied.
Carlstrom stood waiting while Nye
read his statement AS soon as the Sen
ator concluded he began a plea to be
heard.
Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick has
been charged with some very serious
things" he said. Justice demands that
she be given the right to defend her
honor and dignity, both as a candidate
and as a member of Congress. don't
feel that she or the State Of Illinois
is being accorded justice. We want to
establish by proof, on the testimony of
two witnesses, certain facts pertaining to
the work of committee agents in this
matter. We have these witnesses ready
to present in this hearing. We have
kept them from hands into which they
might have fallen, only to become in
Inundated"
Because Senator Wagner is not here
we must defer the permission you ask,
Senator Nye said. Call Mrs. Reinecke. "
To every further plea of Carlstrom
or Charles Randall, Nye had one an
swer, Call Mrs. Reinecke."
Senator Patterson interpolated q
statement as Nye called repeatedly for
Mrs. Reinecke and she took her seat in
the witness chair.
NlEBs NACNOIuACh Ac<aNCos
"I do not join in the statement just
made by the chairman" he said. I'm
til recently I have had nothing to do
with the work of this committee and
had nothing to do with the employing
by the committee of its agents or ac-
countantS. / reserve all opinion and
Judgment until after the hearings are
completed"
After the first clash, in which Carl
strom, Randall and Nye engaged in
three-cornered battle of repartee, the
hearing Gained down to the prosaic bus
mess of questions on campaign expenses.
Mrs. Reinecke testified concerning two
checks to Col. r. r. Mccormick, one for
$4,000 and another for $4,000, con-
tributed toward the primary campaign.
She was followed by o. q. Davis, a
teacher, who worked in the campaign
in behalf of Mrs. Mccormick.
ct is strange to me-" Randall said
when Nye dismissed the Dannenbergs
sunmarily, that this committee cannot
function now without Senator Wagner
here, when it has functioned solely
through its chairman for good many
Every time he repeated his plea
Mrs. Reinecke."
As soon as she was denied her petit
ton through Carlstrom Mrs. Mccormick
disappeared In spite Of the fact the
probe Immediately turned upon her
primary campaign expenditures.
Late last night Mrs. Mccormick is
sued a statement declaring that Senator
Nye adjourned the resumed hearing OF
the Senate Committee after l0-minute
session yesterday because he feared
that sensational disclosures rejecting
upon the committee were impending.