Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-17

q. Mr.. Chairman, ] have q
few questions 10 ask Mr.. Adams
concerning his letter Of June
II. 1858. 10 you as chairman
They will be confined 10 as
certaining whether or not. as
a result Of Mr.. Adams calls
and arrangements for appoint
ments for Mr.. ooldfine resulted
In Mr.. Goldfine receiving GER
tain information that an Or
binary citizen who had gone 10
that agency could not have re-
ceived under the Federal stat
ute involved and under the
rules and regulations Of that
particular Commission.
Now, Mr.. Adams. we will all
agree that this is and should be
O government Of laws and not
Of men. is that correct?
A. That is correct.
@. We all agree that the in
dependent administrative COM
missions Of this Government
should administer the law with
out fear or favor intelligentg.
efficiently. and without being
subjected to outside represen-
taJion.
We agree on that, do we?
A. Mr.. Counsel, on that ques-
ton, I touched on that ques-
ton in the statement which I
made. 1t is a close question.
! look back on the system
which over the years has placed
upon the people in the execu-
tive department the duties, as
! see them, of making con-
facts, yes, with independent
agencies. but there is a differ
ence. and have pointed that
out, between simply making
an inquiry or an appointment,
and suggesting that the official
in any particular agency per-
form any act or refrain from
performing any act in respect
to the matter at hand.
That. Mr.. Counsel, / have
never done.
HOwrey Call PrObed
@. Well. inadvertently or not,
/ want to call yourSattention to
certain facts which I will draw
no conclusion from. On June
IL, in your June 18th letter,
1858, you state:
Late in 1853 Mr.. Goldfine
gave me a letter he had re-
ceived from the Federal Trade
Commissions wool labelling d.
vision and asked me what had
prompted it. I called the chair
man Of the Federal Trade Com
mission, Mr.. Edward F. How
rey, on the telephone, and
asked If the information Mr..
Goldfine desired could be made
available to him. AS a result
Of this call, Mr.. Howrey pre-
pared a short memorandum
which I passed along to Mr..
Goldfine.
"A copy Of Mr.. Howrey's
memorandum is enclosed.
About a month later, before
sending the Howrey memo
randum to central files, my sec
rotary called Mr.. Howrey's
Office to inquire whether or not
the matter was still current.
She was informed that two
weeks previously the company
had agreed in writing to comply
in every respect with the re-
quirements of the Wool Label
ing Act and that hence the
matter was closed"
That is a correct quotation
from your June IL letter.
Again on page 2 Of your let
ter. you state, and this time
I will not quote: That some
time in 1856 Mr.. Goldfine, dur
ing q conversation with you,
complained about the actions
of the Securities and Exchange
Commission in what he called
the East Boston case. You say
that he never asked you to do
anything, but that you request
ed special counsel to find out
what it was about, and that
then he in turn called the gen.
eral counsel of the Securities
and Exchange Commission for
this information and reported
back to you.
Now. l would like to ask:
After you received this report
from the special counsel, did
you pass that information on
to Mr.. Goldfine?
A. Not to my recollection.
Q. Did you discuss the infor-
nation you had obtained with
Mr.. Goldfine?
A. Not to my recollection.
@. Did you discuss 1t with
any representative of Mr.. Gold
fine?
A. Not to my recollection.
Mr.. Lishman. As a matter Of
fact, do you know whether or
not the general counsel OF the
SEC came to the Office of the
special counsel of the Presi-
dent and brought with him GER
tain file material from the
SEC?
A. Mr.. Adams. I do not. I
have no knowledge Of such
occasion.
Mislabeling Incident Cited
@. Now I would like to call
your attention to the fact that
In the memorandum dated
January 4, 1854, from Chair
man Howrey of the Federal
Trade Commission to you, the
statement is made. among 9TH
ers, "On November 3, 1858,
Einiger Mills lodged a COM
plant against Robert Law
renee. Inc, a Boston coat man.
ufacturer. operating under the
trade name Of Leopold Morse,
which was using Mortified
fabrication labeled 80 per cent