Show I SEN EN WHEELER HEELER iNOT- iNOT W IN INi i MONTANA BASEI CASE BASE I Ready to Tell Jury Everything When Trial Trial Opens Opens S SI I GREAT T FALLS ALLS Mont April 11 ii I By lly t l t. t I I Senator Senator Burton Durton I K Wheeler toda today concluded his hi major majorI I preparations for defense when he e will go JO on trial in federal co court rt I here hel April 16 I Declaring ho he was going to rest restI I up UI a olt nit the Junior Montana senator senator sena sena- j tor left for his home In Butte Dutte where ho he will remain until Tuesday Im not worried he ho said with I his characteristic assurance I 1 1 told 1011 the senate nate Investigating committee committee com corn I all about this case an and anal It found ch charges against me were Vere groundless WILL TELL ALL When I go o on trial next week I 1 will take the stand and tell the Jury everything I know Senator Wheeler is tac facing ng charges of appearing before the interior de department department department de- de for tor fee after he ho became senator as attorney for tor Gordon Campbell a Montana oil operator According to the char charges es in the md indictment Wheelers Wheeler's law firm Wheeler Burton was paid I I for his services In procuring drillIng drill- drill Ing permits I Senator Wheeler heeler will VIII dell te to toI I I any technicalities by which dismissal of ot the may be asked His case he declared will willbe willbe be tried strictly on its merits HAS QUASH GROUNDS I He lie Is well welt aware that he lie has an opportunity to move to have the Indictment in indictment indictment In- In quashed on the grounds that unauthorized persons appeared in the grand Jury room when his case was pending It was on these grounds rounds that the supreme court of the he District of Columbia recently threw out indictments against formen former for- for mer men Secretary of Interior Albert B. B Fall Harry I F. F Sinclair E. E L. L Doheny Doheny Do- Do heny and E. E L. L Doheny Jr According to members of the grand Jury that indicted Senator Wheeler John S. S Pratt then special assistant to Attorney General Harry M. M Daugherty argued the the case be before before before be- be fore that body Pratt actively di directed directed di- di reeled the work of the department of Justice i in gathering evidence ill illi against Wheeler rh Senator Vh Wheeler eler ele however declared declared de de- de- de dared he wants to t have the case tried strictly on its merits and will not seek to find any flaws in the by which the indictments indictments indictments indict indict- ments were obtained |