Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-10-01 | Page 1 | Sen. Goff Assumes Responsibility in Alien Claim Case

Sen Goff Assumes ty inAlien inAlien in inAlien Alien Claim Case N NEW W YORK Oct Ocl 1 AP Com AP-Com- Com Complete responsibility as far as the at aU torney generals general's office went for the release of of shares of the American Metal company was as asI assumed assumed as- as by Iby Senator Guy D. D Goff te tes testifying tee tee- I la in the Daug Miller Daugherty-Miller Uller ertY conspiracy trial today Called as the second def defense nse witness witness witness wit wit- ness he replied to questions by Max D. D counsel for H. H M. M Daugherty Daugherty Daugherty Daugh- Daugh erty attorney general in In President Hardings Harding's cabinet that he ho had never taken the matter of the metal claim claims up with Daugherty but had allowed them by his own authority Were Vere you ou ou In c cOmplete charge of alien property matters in Daugherty's Daugherty's tys ty's office he he was asked I was vas Were you accustomed to refer such matters for final de decision to Daugherty after you yourself had bad reached a c conclusion I 1 was vas not In the specific instance of or these metal claims did you confer with Daugh Daugherty before the re release release release re- re lease J I did not S SS S Did Daugherty ever in any wa way discuss discua this matter with matter with you or sec seek to influence nce your independent conclusion conclusion con con- elusion He did not ot S Were Vere you over ever ver approached in person or Ol writing v in an effort to influence v u by Jesse Smith or John T. T King nI n. I I was n not t That rh Senator t is 16 all