Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23

Government departments to turn
over all Of their market trading
information to Senators.
At this point, Senator Tydings
broke in to assert that Senator Fer
guson had suppressed" for two
weeks a letter received from Mr..
Pauley January 8. In that letter,
Mr. Pauley denied. he had ever
used inside" information in his
market dealings. z
Il think it was a secret, undemo-
cratic and partisan gesture that
members of the committee did not
see that letter. Senator Tydings
said. This is a political hearing
when it should be a hearing in the
interests of the American people"
Ferguson Explains.
Senator Ferguson replied that
Senator Tydings had not been
present at recent meetings, but the
letter had been shown to Senator
Green of Rhode Island. the other
Democratic member. He said any
member who wanted to could have
seen it.
Senator Tydings said he wanted
ito register protest against
Senator Ferguson's failure to tell
the minority members of the letter.
Senator Green began the ques-
tioning by asking Mr.. Stassen
whether he had given the COM
mittee ANY leads" since he last
testified on Government insiders"
in the commodity markets.
Mr.. Stassen said he had suggested
to the committee in telegram
dated January Is that Government
records. including those of the JUS
tice and Agriculture Departments,
be turned over to the committee.
He said he understood they had
not done SO and therefore he re-
spectfully suggested" that Mr.. Tru-
man be called on to order the rec
,Qrds turned over ito the committee.
Mr.. Stassen read the telegram
which suggested that if the commit
tee does not proceed with a thor
ough complete examination of the
records of the insiders specializing
in the food and commodity mar
kets" before he testified again, he
be allowed to have an accountant
make a detailed analysis of the
records" of trading by both Mr..
Pauley and by Ralph K. Davies, for
mer deputy petroleum admins
traitor for war.
Mr.. StaSSen was surrounded by
his staff and Senator Thye, Repub-
lican, of Minnesota, sat behind him.
Senator Mccarthy of Wisconsin,
Stassen for President hacker, also
sat at the committee table.
Senator Knowland, Republican,
of California, accused Senator Green
of "badgering" the witness, but Sem
ator Green said he was only trying
to get answers to his questions.
Senator Green and Mr.. Stassen
traded verbal blows over an earlier
StasSen charge that an Agriculture
Department employe sent the wheat
market up last fall by putting out
a statement saying he was re
signed" to 81 wheat
The Senator said he checked nu-
merous newspapers. including those
in Washington ana New York. from
September to September II and
had found no such report. He said
that the Associated Press had, in
fact. carried a denial of such a re-
ported statement.
"Hearsay" Evidence Charged.
Mr. Stassen quoted from four
published reports in trade and
financial papers. Senator Green
read the record of Mr.. StasSen'S
previous testimony when he had
stated that the report had been car
ried in release by the Commodity
Credit Corp. an agricultural agency.
He charged Mr.. Stassen had. in fact,
been using "hearsay' evidence.
Senator Green then turned to the
hide market and said Mr.. StasSen
had consciously or unconsciously
given the impression that Mr..
Pauley had prof1ted in this market
as a result of inside" information.
Mr. Stassen said Secretary of
Agriculture Anderson, in all the
thousands of names" of commodity
market traders so far made pub
lie, had released no details on hide
deals
The Senator said Government
controls over hides had ended be-
fore Mr.. Pauley got into that mar
ket.