Show ANCIENT ACCUSES DANIELS Teh's TeUs Committee He Can CanD See Sec No D Use in I Digging c 0 I Up Past ast Br nr A f. Press I I Washington ton May fay 23 Secretary Daniels accused ed the tIme Senate naval na In- In ye s t I ga t I n g corn committee rn it t e e t tOOn today o ay with v I th dl digging up ancient history and airing air I ing ng the thc grievances ances and grudges rud es o 01 odis disgruntled dis dis- naval officers The Tho accusations acc came luring during a n long series of questions from Chairman Hale regarding regard rehard in ing disappearance In 1914 from the thc flies files of the na navy department of a aletter aletter aletter letter fr from m Rear Admiral Bradley Fisk FINI m or ort naval na prepared preparedness Mr Ir Daniels told the tho committee that he had no objection to prolonging th the hearings b by going b back bk tk as far tar as 1914 but said hr hI did dill not see gee ho how thc the matters matters matters mat mat- to to- had an any hearing bearing on the tho question of or the naval nn-al conduct of oC j the war chairman Hale replied that he was seeking to 10 show that Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- I tar tary was warned b by his chief chie technical advisers that the American not prepared for war navy nay was pre pre- J I Continued on Pa Page Pago o 2 n 2 I ANCIENT HISTORY ACCUSES DANIElS I Continued from Pago Page 1 Io s to the entry of ot the United St States tes into the war The chairman virtually charged Mi Mr rJ Daniels at another point with having havIn haying hav hay In ing withheld from tho the Senate a letter from Rear Admiral Austin M M. Knight w written itten in August 1914 advising the immediate withdrawal of or American battleships from Crom Mexican waters and tho the preparation of the navy for tor possible possible pos pos- sible eventualities resulting from the world war then just beginning To support his contention Senator Hale read a Senate resolution asking for communications from the navy general general general gen gen- eral board regarding garding r war preparation of ot the navy examination Cross of oC the naval na chief centered largely today around tho the old controversy contro between Mr rr Daniels and Admiral Fiske regarding rec reorganization U tion n of or the navy nay department t and placing placing ins ing and authority for tor forthe forthe torI th the direction of the tho entire navy In Inthe Inthe Inthe the hands of oC naval officers Characterizing Charac Charac- er Admiral J Fisko Fiske as a t. t monumental monumental mental egotist who bored me mc to exhaustion cx austion the secretary said the of officer officer of- of fleer was wa's actuated b by a a. desire to the tho navy Chairman Halo HaJe announced that in view of ot the thc gravity gray grav It ity of ot the char charges cs Admiral Fiske would bo be given an opportunity to appear appear ap ap- ap pear later and defend himself Mr r. r Daniels mado made no objection but said ho he would Insist In that event ent that he too 1 bo be 0 given an opportunity to appear when this new phase of ot the Investigation a tion had been d developed examination Cross of ot Mr fr Daniels will wn bo be resumed tomorrow |