The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-18
ROW MAY END
PROBE OF ARMS
TWo-Year Senate Inquiry
Thought Halted by
Wilson Dispute.
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By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.-Secre-
tary of State Cordell Hull today re-
ferred to the attorney general "for
such action as he may deem appro-
pirate" the names of more than 20
companies suspected of traficking
in munitions in defiance of the law
which requires them to register with
the government.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The
two-year Senate investigation into
wartime activities of American mu-
nitions makers and financiers ap-
peared today to have ended in a
bitter row involving former Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson.
Chairman Gerald P. Nye of the
Munitions Committee revealed only
$500 was left of a $125,000 appro-
priation. Senator Carter Glass Cd,
Va0, chairman of the Senate APP
preparations Committee, declared
that mot another dollar will I vote
to that Munitions committee"
Revelation that the committee
virtually had exhausted its funds
came in the midst of an inquiry
into financial transactions between
]. P. Morgan & Co., New York
bankers, and the allies prior to the
United States entrance into the
war.
The inquiry was recessed over the
weekend, but it was doubtful it
ever would be resumed. j. P. Nor
gan and his partner, Thomas La
mont, have defended heavy loans to
the allies and denied that these in
fluenced this country'S entrance into
the war.
Nye said, however, that he ex.
pected to continue the hearing for
Is days, resuming next Thursday
when the Morgan partners are
scheduled to again appear. He said
he intended to ask the senate for
$1,000 to $4,000 more.
Senator James Byrnes Cd, S. c.
told the Senate that in addition to
its $125,0OO appropriation, that the
Munitions Committee had spent
$4,000 of the funds of the state
and city of New York.
Relief Workers Aided
Mr.. Nye revealed the committee
had spent $4,000 to pay relief work
ers to assist it in compiling records
Majority Leader Joseph T. Robin
son, Arkansas, protested the Senate
had been Inundated and dis
graced" by the use of funds I'm
tended to feed the hungry"
1t was Nye's assertion at a COM
mittee hearing-and repeated yes
terday in the Senate-that Wilson
and his wartime secretary, Robert
Lansing, had "falsified" when they
testified in 1919 that they knew
nothing of secret treaties among the
allies until they went to the Paris
Peace Conference, that precipitateo
one of the stormiest and bitterest
debates of recent Senate history.
Mr.. Glass, close friend of Mr.. Will
son and his secretary of the treas
ury, answered Nye in a speech that
held the Senate and packed gal.
lery enthralled for half an hour.
Glass Trembles With Anger
Trembling with rage and indigna-
ton and his voice cracking with
anger, the 7S-year-old Virginian
pounded his desk until blood spurt-
ed from his knuckles as he gave Nye
such an oral flashing as seldom has
been heard in the Senate.
"Ill never vote another dollar to
anv one or any committee whose
members are so insensible to every
consideration of decency as to stand
on the floor of the Senate and aSsail
two men-two men who today are
honored by their country" Glass
reared
He defended Wilson against sug-
gestions of the munitions committee
that American bankers influenced
his neutrality policy. "Oh, the mis-
cradle demagogy, the miserable and
mendacious suggestion that the
House of Morgan altered the NEIL
trality course of Woodrow Wilson,
he shouted.
Connally Continues Fight
Senator Tom Conally Cd, Tex)
followed Glass with a renewal of
his attack on Nye, North Dakota
Republican. He demanded to know
how much money Nye had made
from lecture tours on which he has
exploited himself as chairman of
this committee"
Nye declined to answer, but said
he had made many more speeches
without pay than with. He an
,lounced later that he had can
celled a speaking engagement sched-
uled for st. Louis tonight because
of the Saturday session of the Sem
ate to vote on the soldiers bonus.
An indication that the contro-
versy may be renewed in the Sem
ate was seen today when Senator
Bennett Champ Clark Cd. MOI, a
member of the Munitions Commit
tee. said he was considering
reply" in defense of the committees