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Show l S. DAUGHERTY 10 FAGECHARGE SENATE INVESTIGATORS FACE TEST OF POWER IN DAUGH. ERTY SQUABBLE Sergea'nt-at-Arms Instructed to Place Man Under Arrest; Legal Batlle Is Expected To Be V.arm One Washington, The Imugherly investigating inves-tigating committee of the senate .faces t lie first real test of its authority this week in a legal battle with M. S. Daugherty, Ohio banker ami brother of the former attorney general. Members of the committee are awaiting word of the arrest of the banker for his refusal to allow the investigators complete access to all tlie books and records of his Midland National bank at Washington Courthouse, Court-house, O. The senate has directed that M. S. Daugherty be held in custody until he complies with the orders of the committee. The banker, it is expected, expect-ed, will seek immediately a writ of habeas corpus and the case be fought to a finish in the federal courts. This case together with the one against Harry F. Sinclair for his de. fiance of the senate oil investigating committee, will determine definitely the authority of congressional bodies to conduct general inquiries Sinclair was indicted on the charge of refusing refus-ing to answer a question, and will be tried in the federal court. M. S. Daugherty will" be held on contempt warrant. Meantime 'both committees will pro. ceed with their inquiries. The Daugherty Daugh-erty investigators assembled Monday to take further testimony bearing upon the conduct of antitrust cases by the department of justice under the administration of Harry M. Daugherty Daugh-erty as attorney general. The oil committee met on Tuesday to hear the widow of Jack Hamon, Re. publican national committeeman from Oklahoma. Hamon has been quoted as having told of spending huge sums of money in connection with the Republican Re-publican national convention in 1920. The Daugherty committee also will place on the stand for the third time Gaston P. Means, investigator under indictment, whose voluminous records were taken from him by means of a forged letter in the hands of two be gus assistants to the sergeant-at arms of the senate. Means has to.d Senator Wheeler of Montana in charge of the "prosecution," that he has plenty of material "in his head to blow the roof off." The committee has sent a letter to Attorney General Stone asking that Means' trials in New York be again postponed for thirty days in order that he may remain in Washington to aid Wheeler in the investigation. The trial already has been postponed thirty days until May 1, at the request re-quest of the committee. |