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testimony today, that the job
would have to be one of the Is
under consideration and that
that is what the Secretary wants
to do"
Representative Kean. Republi-
can, of New Jersey, then COM
mented that if the Treasury Sec
retary already was in favor of the
move, the only place Mr.. Grune-
valid could have put pressure
would have been higher up-in
the White House"
MY whole concept of this
thing. Mr.. Oliphant said. "is that
he didn't say he was going to do
anything"
Mr.. Oliphant mentioned Sena-
tor Bridges name when Mr.. De-
Wind asked about the tax cases
which Mr.. Grunewald had dis
cussed with the former Revenue
Bureau official.
I The witness said one of the
instances involved a jeopardy as
seSSment made against H. H.
Klein, Baltimore businessman
and said Grunewald told him he
was asking about it "on behalf of
Senator Bridges"
Says Bridges Asked About Case.
He testified that earlier Senator
Bridges had inquired about the
case and expressed the hope that
some arrangements could be
worked out to settle the matter.
He emphasized that Senator
Bridges had said he did not want
to do anything improper.
How did Grunewald get into
the picture?" Mr.. DeWind asked.
To the best of my recollection, +"
Mr.. Oliphant replied, ''he was rep
resenting Senator Bridges in the
matter"
Mr.. Kean asked if Senator
Bridges had ever told him Mr..
Grunewald would represent him
in the case. Mr.. Oliphant replied
that he could not recall.
Has he tried to influence you
in the case?" Representative Kean
asked.
mo, sir" Mr.. Oliphant replied,
adding that he thought Mr..
Grunewald was lust following up"
the efforts of Senator Bridges to
get the matter settled.
Steamer Ticket Involved.
"Was the taxpayer represented
by anybody" Mr.. De Wind asked.
Il don't know who represented
the taxpayer" Mr.. Oliphant re-
piled.
He explained that bureau peo-
pie" had placed the jeopardy as
sessment against Mr.. Klein, after
seeing him purchase steamship
ticket. Mr.. Oliphant added that
Senator Bridges told him at con-
ference in the bureau that the
steamship ticket was for a vaca-
ton in Bermuda.
Members of the subcommittee
staff said the Klein case was
civil one involving an amount
running into six figures" 1t was
their understanding that the case
has not been settled.
Mr.. Oliphant did not say when
the conference with Senator
Bridges about the case was held.
Mr.. DeWind told reporters after
the morning hearing that he
thought it was sometime in 1949.
Grunewald Subpoenaed.
Mr.. Grunewald has been sub
poenaed for questioning about his
relations with Mr., Oliphant and
other tax officials and about the
sensational charge Of Abraham
Teitelbaum, wealthy Chicago at
torney. that he was the target of
a $500.000 shakedown attempt by
two men claiming they had con-
nections with a Washington
Clique" of present and former Of
ficials seeking "a soft touch" from
taxpayers in trouble.
The subcommittee has set no
date for hearing Mr.. Grunewald
since he is still confined in
Georgetown Hospital. He re-
fused to talk when members of
the subcommittee went to his hos
pital room earlier in the week.
Mr.. Byrnes confronted Mr.. Oil
phant with testimony he said was
given by Mr.. Caudle in closed ses-
sion to the effect that Mr.. Caudle
had learned of the subcommittee S
acquisition of his tax returns from
Mr.. Oliphant.
This testimony occurred, Mr..
Byrnes said, soon after the sub
committee began it's probe into the
affairs of Mr.. Caudle.
81 advised him that Senator
Williams had asked for his tax re-
turns" Mr.. Oliphant declared. IT
did not advise him that the sub
committee Of the House Ways and
Means Committee had asked for
them"
Oliphant Explains Attitude.
i Mr.. Byrnes wanted to know on
what basis Mr.. Oliphant felt he
had the right to disclose even the
request of Senator Williams. The
Senator has launched a number
of personal Investigations of tax
cases and the way they were
handled.
Under further questioning, Mr.
Oliphant said he would mot nee
essarily" call member of Con-
gress to advise him that request
had been made about the Con-
gressman's returns, but that he
thought it was all right to advise
Government men I worked with -
i Mr.. Byrnes wound UP the ex-
i lchange by asking permission to
insert into the record testimony
by Mr.. Caudle "in which refer
ence is made to a conversation
i with Mr.. Oliphant by which Mr..
lCaudle became aware that the
subcommittee had his returns"