Show O w SMITHS SMITH'S AUTHORITY SHOWN DAUGHERTY PUTS FRIEND I IN COMMAND Instructs Subordinates Subordinates to Obey Orders Given By ByI I Jess cHIEF lEx-cHIEF I EX CHIEF WITNESS I Senate Committee Gains New Light on Depart Depart- Department Department Department ment Conditions WASHINGTON 20 Upon the authority of ot former ney General Daugherty D orders gs en g by Toss Joss Smith his lend friend and nd com com coin panion wee taKen and obeyed by bythe bythe bythe the bureau of ot Investigation of the tho I department of or justice Le Lewis Is J 3 Ba Bai Icy its former acting chief testified tied fied today Before the tho senate erty committee Bailey Bally now agent In charge fot fOI the bureau at nt Atlanta was as acting chief troll from October 1920 to Au- Au August Au August gust 1921 H SAld he ho was as told b M Mi Daugherty Daughert to take tako up oil questions with Smith Mi 11 Mi ty said bald ho Ito was as a avery Cr er busy bust man Bailey but that Mr Smith him An thing that camp carni up tip Ie he told me I should se sie Smith about It and whatever Smith told mo me to tn todo todo do w would be all right night Did Did you do so to 7 asked askell Senator I Wheeler Ye Yes yea Bailey Dailey replied rep except In one or t two 0 Incidents where I had some question as 8 to Mrs r Smith a 9 judgment and went ent to the tho attorney general I The bureau was as being reo gan Bailey added and most moat o of ol the consultations i himself and Smith dealt with the th question of loyes to bo he retained l tilt tilt- missed missed or hired Smith he lie said had an office In the tho d and took look an interest in allY anything thing SMI gil LS 31 M 1 N Time witness related how Smith had told an nt chief of the bureau ho ho he had to get gt out Answering AnS a 0 question b bv by Chair n hair man an BI t he said there th ro was no reason In his judgment for tor th decision around the rt ment ment of justice justic recognized a aas as th tho man the tIme had to pay atten attention tion to Bailey said ald Ho He w is 1 the mot most powerful man there next nett to the attorney general BE BEI I ORE one GR un ND JURY May 20 Price MII of Cleeland eland and John Leo Stack Slach Denver oil were th the principal witnesses today before fore the specht federal grand jury into criminal char s gro growing Ing put tut of tho the na al oil lessee leas McKinney testified before the senate oil committee that ho lie hII refused to accede to n Ii request Of f Albel Albeit t B Fall that ho he h had the former interior secretary This was last ember XO at atthe atthe the time the senate were seeking to ascertain the source of ot the funds which Fall FolI used to enlarge enl and nd Improve his New r ranch holdings DEAL Stack Stach testified before the sena senate to committee that Harry V F lessee of ot Teapot Dome had entered Into a contract w with Ith ith him hint and G C the Denver Post to pay them 1 for tor Stack to An In in- in in interest terest crest In the W reserve |