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Show Becker Refuses to Answer An-swer Senator Reed on Identity of Persons w Propaganda Probe. Declares Hearst Forces ! Failed for Months to ; Find People Making Federal Investigation. ! AVASHIXGTOX, Dec. 21. Alfred L,. I Becker, deputy attorney gcncVal of New j i York, on continued cross-examination to- I day by Senator Iiecd of Missouri at the j senate committee's German propaganda inquiry, declared that Senator Reed rep- : resented William R. Hearst, about whom ! most of the testimony revolved. ! I j Senator Rccd indignantly denied that ; : he represented anybody or anything ex- . cept an effort to reach the truth in a I maze of "distorted testimony," ! i ; The Ilea ring was full of sharp exchanges ex-changes of accusations jctween Mr. Becker -and 'Senator Heed, who sought to show that Pecker drew unwarranted 1 conclusions from "scraps of evidence." of 'acquaintance between Hearst and Bolo Push a, Von Perns torf f and pthcr German Ger-man agents. Mr. Becker declared he was "suspicious of almost anything that Mr. Hearst did." The cross-examination will be continued when the. hearings arc resumed after the holiday recess. MONEY TO CREDIT OF BOLO PASHA. "Before the committee adjourned. Senator Sen-ator Rccd referred to the financial transactions trans-actions mentioned by Mr. Becker in the beginning of his testimony of Thursday, dealing with $1,000,000 deposited with J. J'. Morgan & Co. to the credit of Bolo Pasha, the a mount to be available to Bolo in October, 101G, six months after its deposit, with interest at 2U per cent. In June, 1916. after Bolo had returned to France, it was testified, the Morgan firm cabled its Paris branch that, although al-though the original agreement was not I kept, it would be glad if some interest I would be allowed Bolo, "in view of the I connection of this client, which is of great importance to us." "Now, if you had a letter like that j written by Mr. Hearst, in which he said i that the original agreement was not kept, and asking him to pay interest regardless of that, you would regard it as very- irregular against- Mr. Hearst, would you not?" j SUSPICIOUS OF HEARST, WITNESS DECLARES. "I should be suspicious of almost any- ! thing that Mr. Hearst did, and that ; docs not apply to Mr. Morgan," Mr. i Beeker replied. j "That is wha t I thought," Senator i Reed retorted. "You would be suspieious j of almost anything he did. and so comes j your testimony to be read in that light." I "Ye?," the wi tness sa id. "I a m very i suspicious of Mr. Hearst. I admit it. I! think his record justifies it." j "Then he probably entertains an equal- I ly i'-altcd opinion of you," Senator Rccd j replied. "Wei!. God bless him." Becker replied, I "he is welcome to it. and lie probably 1 wiil express i; in his paper and this is my oniy chance." The senate committee has plaeed in flie records a letter from Or. Eauritz Farsen. secretary of t he .Vationa 1 !u-Iberan !u-Iberan council, dec 'tiring the ehurrh is pm per cent loya. eiu'rely American and is not subsidized in ny way by (he I I'russian state church. The ehureh is pledged to (he exclusive use of the English En-glish language, event when it is impossible im-possible to administer spiritual consolation consola-tion in that tongue, it was explained. Mr. BecUer refused u answer questions ques-tions by Sena tor Reed as in the identity of persons employed by the attorney general gen-eral of New York to get information rnn-eerning rnn-eerning the tierman propaganda system. Sen a toi Reed dniM nded t hat I fie fom-mitt fom-mitt ee i nstruct t he wit ness to a nswer. SECRECY ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESS OF WORK. j Pecker askd i he senator if he de- ! s!r"d to have information on "matters 1 rel.Vne- to his ehei.i. Mr. Hearst." j whereupon Senator k...--d t..!d the com- J miftee that Mr. F.rr-kr-r's roplv had bf---'ii fra mod m an ins'-int nianror and de- I m-'d that he was appearing '.or Mr. i Hearst. I "You dn"t mean ;-. ! Hear st is nr ouei.: ?" aked Senator Rr-I. i o'z -:r p. ird-s,( "d "Mr J'.c- k ":-. , (Continued on Faze TVo, CLASHES FEATURE SENATE IHQUIRY (Continued, from Page One.) way through this case and it dnps not reflect on your veracit y. I am here trying try-ing to develop some truth through a ma Tie of testimony that has been given.'' .Mr. Becker ba.'-ed his refusal to answer the questinn on the ground that, it was iP.'j-ot service work and sc-roey was ossential os-sential to its sii'-eess. He said that lie had known "the He:u-st forces" had been trying for six months to find out the names of the men making the investigation, investiga-tion, and they "haven't found out f et." Major Humes objected tn Mr. Reed's question ing and Senator Reed asked him j w'n-'tn he re presented. Major Humes re- plied that he represented tho committee, j Hivl had "been d- ta iled by the wa r de-jparliuent de-jparliuent to conduct the investigat kn nd under orders from tiie cojinmt- tee." "If yo'J do re pros en I the com mi 1 1 ep,'' raid Setu.t.ir Reed. "I want to know what kind oi representation it is that on give I when yon refuse to give the iuiiucs of j people wlii gut this t est i m"'ity." ' "I will not digii'fy That que-Jon with ' an .'i nwcr," rep ied Mn.i'T 1 i u ipc?. i A not.her fla re-un oecu rred wh.-n Sen -' a I or Kecd a,skcd Mr. iJccKer if it were not true that he obtained information which he used for political purposes. Mr. Becker Beck-er interrupted the senator in his long question with the comment: j "I lmpe the Hearst reporters are get- ting this." A moment later he apologized to the , committee for the remark. i Dinner by Bolo Pasha. Senator Reed tried to make Mr. Becker state the expense incurred In obtaining the affidavits and depositions. Becker said he could not remember the aggregate, aggre-gate, but that nothing was paid the witnesses wit-nesses or deponents except to cover their loss of time taken in making the affidavits. affi-davits. He added that all the affidavits were taken in "good faith," and "along with many others about Mr. Plearst, which I have not marie public." The committee reserved its ruling on whether Mr. Becker should be com- 1 pelled to make public the names of the state investigators. Later, when Becker spoke of Senator Reed "holding a brief" from Hearst, the senator, addressing the committee, asked that Huch references be stopped. "If the committee doesn't stop him. I will take my own way of doing it," he said. Chairman Overman Kiid he believed the reply to be improper and Mr. Becker again apologized. Senator Reed asked Mr. Becker further about a statement given out jointly by Attorney General Lewis and. Mr. Becker dealing with a dinner given in honor o& William Randolph Hearst by Bolo Pasha. Mr. Becker said that Mr. Hearst's indignation indig-nation at that, statement was the beginning begin-ning of a suspicion in his mind that there might be a connection between Hearst and Bolo Pasha. "That statement, coupled with the fact that Hearst lied when he said that he had met Bolo only once, when the statement state-ment of his own employees showed that he mot him at least three times, right 1 then was born In my mind the impression impres-sion that there might be something wrong." Senator Reed asked tho witness if he stood by his statement that Mr. Hearst lied about the Bolo incident. Mr. Becker Beck-er replied that he would change the reference ref-erence to a statement that Mr. Hearst told something that was untrue, because, he said, "a lie implies an intent to tell what was not true." The committee adjourned until after the holidays, but not until Senator Reed and Mr. Becker had another clash. Senator Sen-ator Reed said he had known Mr. Hearst las a newspaper man, that he had had no i social or personal relations with him and no political relations with htm, "except generally he supports the party to which ,1 belong. " "I have followed these hearings close-by close-by he added, "and' I have become convinced con-vinced that there has been some attempt to fasten the crime of treason on Mr. Hoarst by placing together scraps of information. in-formation. For that reason I asked to cross-examine this witness, and I would have done the same thing for the editor of the New York Times or anv other newspaper, or for anv street laborer." "That Is why 1 am here," Senator Reed continued, "and anv man who intimates inti-mates anything to the contrary is a common com-mon scoundrel. " Chairman Overman directed the official stenographer to strike the last reference to Mr. Becker from tho record, but Senator Sen-ator WoleotL interposed an objection. 'If the committee does not keep this witness within the traces he will have to take his medicine If he gets out," Senator Reed confirmed. "I have no objection to the remark going into the record," said Mr. Becker. "I am used to being attacked, and I am glad to be pursued by anyone representing represent-ing the Hearst crowd." The statement went into the record. |