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Show jooifiy SEIIT AID TO MEXICO, WHEELER HINTS Department of Justice Denies De-nies Request of Daugh-crtjr Daugh-crtjr Committee to Use Conricted Bootlegger WASHINGTON, Umr IT. Th deprtmnt of Juvtlc today onld nquMt of Lh aenau Daustaorty eommlttoo for pormalaloa to tako IOorce fUmua. convlctad bootlrs-ar. bootlrs-ar. to aovoral . Middlo Wtrn elUaa lor Ibm mrpoia ac ahuialaa-dorumnnta ahuialaa-dorumnnta arid rocorda for too commlttoo. Tho eommlttoo waa no1fld that the departmant would aaalst It In other waya, but objoetad to tha "Intoial mannar" of tha trip pro-poard. pro-poard. Th latlrr aalt tha department did not (aal Juatifled In arantln tho raquaat bacauaa Rcmuo "haa braucbt praaaura to bear upon very public official bo could approach ap-proach In an effort to aocure favora Remua teetlfled yaaterday. ' when brourht to tha committee from Atlanta, At-lanta, that iili check reeorde of million of dollar In liquor trana-actlona trana-actlona , would throw additional llfht on hla aaeertion that ha nald between tZM.SOO and ttOO.OO. Ho la atlll under (uard In Waahlnc-ton Waahlnc-ton and dealrea to ao to Cincinnati Cincin-nati hlmaalt to get tha paper. QRIMCS CALLIO. Reaumlnf Ita hearln after the executive aeealon. the committee called to tho atand Warren Orlmea, apoclal aaalatant to the attorney fenerat, and Senator Wheeler aeked him If be did not know that "part of tha lee, too paid Albert B. r"all by B. L Doheny waa for the purpoee of atartlnr rarolutloa In Mexico." Tho wltneea said he did not know It. I Senator Wheeler alee questioned fGiimea, about proaacutlona again at aeveral eommittae wltneaaeg which tha aenator charged were atarted "with th purpoee of impeding tha Investigation. T ha eoconilttea proaecu tor got Orlmea to fcay that ha knew Fred Dato, a brother-In -law of Estaban Canto.' former governor of Lowar California, wag under eubpoena aa a eommlttea wltnaaa along with former Mayor Abbot of CaJexlco. CaL, and ad Gerabon. All of -tha men named. Senator Wheeler'a examination ex-amination indicated, bad aome knowledge of an anterprlaa for amuggllng anna Into afextco. He dropped tha Fa. 11 -Doheny inquiry with tha alngle quest ton. Turning then to the question of proaaeutlona against aome of those named. Senator Wheeler naked: INTIMIDATION DENIED. The raaaon tor thla action Ig bacauaa ba-cauaa theee man had been called here, and you' and W. J. Burns Wanted tO Tl lf tham mnA nawau. cuts them to in ti ml data them?" "That ian't true," Grimes retorted. re-torted. "Tha truth la that there waa In your office a record af violations of tha neutrality law, a conspiracy Including Fred Dato, that wag atlll going on. and there were no prosecutions?" prose-cutions?" pursued Senator Wheeler. I "That Ian't true. There was a lot af matter tn the files as to Data. Our files will show that General Cantu, Dato and others went to New York, came to Wsah. ington and hav attempted to get money to start a revolution "Now. Oerahon wa th man who got th. Information to (top th munition?" "Our later file show szactly th reverse." "Now, after Oerahon got the guns. Burns ordered them returned to th people who bad thera, and Oershon waa fired T" "That Ian't true. Tw United Stat attorney, refused to prosecute, prose-cute, and th teatimony of Burn la that -Mr. Daugherty order.! the guns returned after a cabinet meeting where th matter waa dls- cussed. Senator Wheeler su greeted that Fall waa then a cabinet axmber. "Don't you know your file show that I1S..0OO went to Cantu from th oil Interests?" "I don't know," Grim, gala. "It may be there." RECORDS RRODUCID. Senator Wheeler had a lot of records which purported to be rople of department of Justice files. Reeding from a report written by Grimes, tha senator euggeeted that Orlmea kad recommended that "Dato be carefully handled" (Continued aa page 7.) DOHENY SENT AID TO MEXICO, WHEELER HINTS (Continued from page 1.) to gat him to taatlfy against Gar-ehon. Gar-ehon. "Da to can t ba handled like aa ordinary crook." Grimes aald. "He la understood to havs paid money to Gershoa. Let me aay that tha Cantu rebellion has not been taken eeriouely by tho atata department ior anybody.- There waa a caaa ot bribery of a United States officer to be followed fol-lowed up. Grimes aald. "So. your sola purpoae was lo prosecute OerabonT" Senator Wheeler aaked. "My sola purpose waa that which is heft la hundrede ' of casee," Urlmee said, "to gat evidence for: DreDarlnv a case Wheeler resd htm another extract ex-tract from the fllea signed by W. J. Burns. It said that Qershon waa "posing around aa a moral upllfter and houaecleaner of the government service." and directed S C. Wheeler, agent In oharre at iog Angelea, to- prepare a case agalnat him. MOTIVE IMPUGNED. "I wrote thst for Mr. ' Burns." Crimea said. "We wanted to get Uerahon because wo felt be waa a crook." Senator Moeee. Republican, New Hampahlre. objected that Senator Wheeler waa "Impugning the motives" mo-tives" of Grimes. . "It's about time that somebody did some Impugning of motives." Senator Wheeler returned. "They are Indicting and scaring every wttaeea they can." Senator Moeea replied that he had not objected to the "testimony cf men dragged out of jail." hut did object to attacking "an honorable honor-able man." "I haven't been trying to protect pro-tect anybody." Grlmee aald after the row had quieted. "I didn't meet Mr. Daughterly but once, and I waa there long before he waa." Senator Whaler then called J. K. Hoover, acting director of the bureau of Investigation aince W. J. Buma resigned. "Attorney General Stone h'as directed di-rected that no new Investigations be instituted by the bureau except with hia personal approval." aald Hoover aa examination began. He aald he knew nothing about the prosecution against Oershon. PERSONAL FILES. "Do you know anything about personal fllea having been taken out of the department by Mr. Burner aaked Senator Wheeler. "I know nothing of what Mr. Born, mar have done with personal per-sonal fllea." Hoover replied. The witness also aald the attorney attor-ney general had directed him to rvduoe tho personnel of the bureau, now- numbering 407 employee, "aa rapidly aa 1 can." "I'm glad to hear that." aald Sen-nor Sen-nor Jones, Republican. Washington. Washing-ton. Aa to "undercover" men. Hoover accounted for twelve at present, and aald that by order of Mr. Stone the Uat waa being materially materi-ally reduced." Within the last few days a circular cir-cular restricting activities of the agents also bad been Issued, be declared, and a policy of employing employ-ing of no one but young graduates gradu-ates of' law schools clad beea Initiated. Ini-tiated. 'The bureau la ready to respond to any request ot tbie committee for files or Information," Hoover concluded. |
