Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Seal Denies
Schultz CHARGES
On Resignation
Says Job of Counsel
For Milk Producers
Had No Probe Tie-up

him by Representative Schultz,
Democrat, of Indiana, Corporation
Counsel Elwood H. Seal today
charged that Mr.. Schultz merely
was seeking again to divert atten-
ton from alleged violations of the
District milk code.
After the announcement that Mr..
Seal is resigning as corporation
counsel, effective october 81, to be-
come counsel to the Maryland
| Virginia Milk Producers Associa-
ton, Mr.. Schultz charged in the
House yesterday that the House Dis
trict Committee had been sold
down the river" during the 1889 milk
investigation.
Seal Issues Statement.
In reply. Mr.. Seal issued the fol-
lowing statement today to the press:
MY participation before the sub
committee investigating milk con-
ditions in the District consisted of
| furnishing to the committee at It's
request such information as was
available TO me concerning condi-
tions in the District.
Mr.. Schulte's present attack upon
me is only continuation of his
efforts to divert attention from vio-
lations Of the act of Congress re-
lating to the importation of pure
milk and cream into the District of
Columbia, which act is designed to
protect the public health of the
District residents. 1t was my duty
to enforce that act. 1 did, and I
have no apologies to make.
AT the time of the investigation
no request had been made of me TO
represent the Maryland and Vir-
GINA Milk Producers Association as
its general counsel or otherwise. The
offer and acceptance is of recent
date"
! Previous Clashes.
There have been several clashes
between Mr.. Schultz and Mr.. Seal
over the milk situation and at one
time there was something of a
threat of fisticuffs at a heated de-
bate at a hearing.
Mr.. Schultz, dissatisfied at the
progress of the House subcommittee
milk investigation! led revolt" and
called meetings of his own to sponsor
a bill which would have permitted
much freer importation of milk and
cream from the States beyond the
present District milkshed.
After his attack on Mr.. Seal in the
House yesterday, Mr.. Schultz said he
planned to introduce today bill tC
prevent members of the legal STAFF
in the Office of the corporation
counsel who resign in the future
from becoming associated within E
year with a public utility corpora
ton or any concern that provides
service" in the District.
Attack by Schultz.
With respect to Mr.. Seal. MI
Schultz, in his speech on the House
floor yesterday, said:
"A great many members Of thi,
body who are lawyers who read thC
account in the newspapers tina
our good friend. the corporation
counsel. was resigning to join the
Maryland-Virginia producers tina
he was supposed to be fighting were
dumfounded. and they are Sc
verely Crlticlzlng that action TO-DAY
to the extent that some member.
have asked for a resolution en-
joining any attorney employed By
any municipality from accepting {
position with any public utility o;
any organization of the type o,
; kind of the Virginia mill
producers or any trust for perios
of year.
t The lawyers in the House resen'
] that action. They are very much
surprised, this betrayal of a COM
| mittee, as they call it, would hap
e pen, and rightly So"
t Clashes With Gross.
Several times Mr.. Schultz clashet
| with Representative Gross. Repub-
lican, of Pennsylvania. who abou'
two weeks ago replied on the House
, floor to the remarks of the In
, dianian about the system set up to
: distribute milk at cents quart
, to families on relief rolls. Mr.
Gross has been granted time to an
, swer Mr.. Schulte's latest blast or
floor Monday.
, Briefly reviewing some of the de-
velopments during the milk investi-
, cation, Representative Schultz de-
clared:
Where is our Federal Trade
Commission? We called on the
!, Federal Trade Commission and
asked them for help. do not mind
telling you as member of the
committee that was investigating
this situation that our hands were
tied. We did not have the pro-
verbal Chinaman's chance of get
ting down deep into it. The further
we got the higher the stencil
reached, and the stencil of this
!. thing reached to the high heavens,
I am frank to tell you that"
Says Representatives Trailed.
Mr.. Schultz also reiterated his
oft = repeated charge that the
, Maryland Virginia Milk Producers
Association has a monopolistic con-
troll over the Districts milk supply
and complained that during the
milk investigation members Of the
investigating subcommittee were
trailed by police in an effort to
find them in IAN embarrassing posi-
ton"
IF we are going to be honest and
fair with the people in the District
of Columbia" he declared, they
must have suffrage so they can
clean out that building downtown
that they call the City Hall here
from one end to the other. Then
it is entirely up to those people to
regulate their own business to their
own wants"
, After close of the milk investiga-
, ton Mr.. Schultz said the salary Of
B. B. Derrick, secretary-treasurer
of the milk producers association,
was raised from $4,000 to $12,500
a year. Other officers in the or