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Show ; f Lll PRAISED flf INVESTIGATOR Witness Declares He Found Nothing to Discredit of Diplomat. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. After hear-,0r hear-,0r two witnesses today, James D. Phe-!au. Phe-!au. special commissioner investigating the conduct of James M. Sullivan, minuter min-uter to the Dominican republic, announced an-nounced tliat hearings hero would be concluded on next Tuesday, to be resumed re-sumed in t'.io Domiuican republic. Joseph Jo-seph Tunuilty, secretary to the presi-de'ut: presi-de'ut: Secretary iiryau and Represonta-tie Represonta-tie H iiniiil of New Jersey are the im-fonaut im-fonaut witnesses still to be heard in Yi'asbir.gton. Harry S. Dickey, who investigated for the suite department the accounts of John L. Mann,-former director general 4 of public worka of tho Dominican ru- public, and CJiarles H. Alhreeht, former for-mer vice consul in the republic, were today's witnesses. Both commended the Work of Minister Sullivan. Dickey said he had made a particular particu-lar investigation at tho instance of Secretarv Bryan into charges that Timothy Tim-othy J. Sullivan, cousin of the minister, had been involved in securing contracts for work under the Dominican government. govern-ment. 'His report on this investigation, showing that in one case Minister Sullivan Sul-livan had written a letter to the Dominican Do-minican republic setting forth that he ivished to disclaim any knowledge of the hid of T. J. Sullivan on a bridge contract, con-tract, was placed in the record. "Minister Sullivan," said Dickey, "is all right. He is a good man for the place. He gets along with those people peo-ple down there as well as any American Ameri-can could. ' ' Dickey denied that he had ever charged that the Xational City bank was behind the agitation against Sullivan, Sulli-van, saying ho thought it grew out of the enmity toward the ministry of W. W. Vick, former receiver general of Dominican customs. |