Evening star., 1934-05-19
HURLEY DEMANDS
|PR0BE Of EFFORT
TO DESTROY NAME
Former War Secretary Says
Justice Department Ma
| Iigns Reputation.
SENATE COMMITTEE
P0STPONES DECISION
Alleged Republican Plot to Keep
Offices Filled by Own
Party Aired.

Former Secretary of War Patrick j.
Hurley today demanded an investiga-
ton to determine If the Department
of Justice is attempting Ito destroy
the reputation of all the members OF
the former administration" or If
| merely one of its officials A. V. Dali
! rymple, is Just an irresponsible falsi-
| fer in charge Of the wooden pistol
section of the Department of Justice"
Hurley angrily crossed swords with
Dalrymple and with Senator Nickel
| lar, Democrat, of Tennessee during
the display of verbal fireworks before
| the Senate Civil Service Committee.
The outcome was a decision by the
| committee to defer further inquiry,
| pending vote by the whole commit
tee next week.
Dalrymple, portly and explosive
special assistant to Attorney General
Cummings, read TO the committee
letters from two men who had told
Dalrymple third parties. whom thcy
refused to name, had told of an J.
legged Republican patronage rlot
| matched" at Hurley's Virginia home.
Criticizes Department.
The former War Secretary. inter-
rupted by frequent arguments with
Dalrymple and Mcclellan, also causti-
cally criticized the Department of
Justice for permitting one of its
officials, Webster Spates, to read to
the committee an anonymous. pre-
viously confidential report, captioned
The New Deal With the Same Old
| Dealers"
; The report charged that "the same
| old gang of standpat Republicans are
gatekeepers to the patronage pas
! lures"
/ Hurley, supported later by John S.
Hurley, an official Of the Internal
Revenue Bureau, demanded that he
/ be given a public trial on the con-
! spiracy charges and that c. w.
Broom and Lee Shannon, signers of
| the letters introduced by Dalrymple.
| and all other persons responsible for
| for questioning.
Suggests Inquiry.
At another point, the former War
Secretary suggested that the Justice
Departments Division of Investiga-
| ton, under j. Edgar Hoover, conduct
a thorough inquiry into the truth or
| falsity of the charges by Dalrymple' S
I informants.
During the hearing, Senator Glib
son, Republican of Vermont, men,
Der of the committee, asked that
former Republican Senators Watson
of Indiana and Moses of New Hamp-
shire, named as conspirators with
Hurley and others, be subpoenaed to
testify. Mcclellan said he thought
| this should be done, but after the
| hearing, Chairman Bulow told re-
porters he was inclined to let the
whole controversy drop without sum-
moning any more witnesses. Final
decision, he said, will rest with the
full committee next week.
Mr.. Dalrymple is an official of the
Department of Justice" former Sec
retary Hurley declared. The De-
partment of Justice is in command OF
the greatest investigating unit in this
Nation, the Division of Investigation.
The division is in much better position
| to ascertain the true facts than is
this committee.
"Charge on Character"
"Why should the Assistant to the
Attorney General be permitted to
make a false, slanderous. malicious
and cowardly charge upon my char
acter, introduce it into the record of
the United States Senate, spread it
/ on the front pages of the presses of
the Nation, before he has used the
great investigating agencies OF his
| department to ascertain whether the
, charge is true or false?
Il met in this room Mr.. Webster
| Spates, an official of the Depart
ment of Justice. He read to the
| committee an anonymous confidential
report entitled The New Deal With
the Same Old Dealers In my pres
ence and with the consent of the
committee, he complacently stated he
| wanted to put this confidential anony-
| nous report of the Department of
Justice in the record, but preferred
not to disclose its origin.
"The report was confidential; 1t
| was anonymous; but the Department
| of Justice made it public, put it in
this record and gave it to the press.
Wants Witnesses.
| I'm view of these things we are
compelled to ask: What is the De-
partment of Justice trying to do to
me? Is it trying to get false state
ment of fact before the public without
assuming responsibility for it? Is the
Department of Justice afraid to give
the public the name of the author of
the confidential report?
"'Is the Department of Justice
afraid to produce the witnesses or give
| the committee the names of the wit
nesses upon whom the department,
through its assistant to the Attorney
General, Dalrymple, based its false
and cowardly charges against me? Is
the Department of Justice bluffing?'
Hurley said that If the Department
of Justice has in 1t the square dealers
that think it has," it will promptly
remove Dalrymple' from office.
At the outset of the hearing today
Senator Reynolds of North Carolina
! testified that John S. Hurley had
failed to carry out a promise to ap-
point constituent to the Justice dry
} unit, but Hurley, called to the witness
| table, said that he had qualified his
promise by stating that man would