Show 1 I I WALSH V REPORT URGES SENATE TO PROBE INTO ALUMINUM CO Doubts Cast Cast- Caston on Good Faith of Department of Justice SARGENT ASSAILED Secretary Mellon Head of Corpo Corporation Corning Coming Under Fire WAS Jl WASHINGTON Feb Ib t 1 1 By The Associated Press With Press With the senate judiciary committee considering considering- a proposal al for tor or congressional Inquiry Into the thc affairs of or the tho Aluminum Company of ot America l In which Sec Sec- Secretary Mellon Is interested Allor- Allor Attorney Attorney ney General Sargent today refused to give gho the senate an opinion as asto asto asto to the tho right of ot the federal trade commission to withhold evidence In its lis possession 8 POLICY Easing Basins hl hI hia refusal on en a Il policy polley which ho said had obtained for tormore more than a century the aitor- aitor attorney attorney ney general advised the thc senate In Ina Ina ina a letter leller that he could rind nn an authority for Cor the rendering of Corm formal a opinions opinion on points of oC law lal at the request ot of o either house of cC congress Mr Mn Sargents Sargent's letter better add add- added added added ed however howe that he had no ob-I ob ob- ob ob objection to giving an nn Informal eJ- eJ ex expression of his views on the ques question tion lie He then said aid It was his unofficial cial chit opinion that the refusal of th he federal trade commission to turn lurn turnover turnover over to the justice department the e it gathered cannot under I existing law no now bo be remedied In any I proceedings brought by the tho at- at attorney at attorney I torney lorney genera general The senate or- or ordered or ordered dered tiered the original Inquiry he be said and it alone had the power to com corn compel compel pel pet the commission to divulge the act in the case fi RT WAS WASHINGTON I II Feb 1 By fly TIl The Press Senar p Ier gallon ganion it t f the of America in I r Mellon Mellon- is a rg lociA r r d Im I'm e et ted to the r coria- coria com committee y Senator aish nh 1 Dero Dem Ero crat cral of or Montana This P Is made It se- se seat ator at ator or 31 f aa I because c cf doub dout aroused as aM to the tire vigor arid and goJ gao faith raith of oC the department of lu tu tice tice In the conduct of ts Is to whether the company has hns violated u I federl feder court consent decre I against t I l in 1912 Besides s recommendIng wh wl t it would be a third gover government r r lr of ot the Mellon within within tour four years yearl en tor VIII Wills asks bet ht the senate enato et Ih the federal trad trade commission to tui over to 10 It all tire tho t he evid evidence evidence- nce tu fu fur furnished by y the Jm conc conen antI and which the tire wl with held I held frani the he justice t on the ground that It s s COli con con W lOV D sc Chis- Chis II ell oC of of t tb commIssion as aa Sena takes lakes the tho lo position lIlon that ince since the time senate or ordered th Ih h commission to 10 make he he Illion gation in tn the lISt first liia Itan it tan an compel production o of the thu evIden Attorney y General Sargent nt a I 1 Iother other officials officIal of oC the justice ct d- d d are arc L by Senator Walsh Valair for tor or the manner r Ut iii which the tire Inquiry was 1 after aCler he lie he trade lis It i ha-i to the department derat in Oa 01 In 1924 that the ji I company had haul v violated the decree Calling Callini attention tha thi adduced adduce l at the ice tee lee heading on the subject that I m elapsed before ar I move mo v is made the Lire senator se d I- I II dared 1 I I hat had the I he 1 moved mo with celerity it could 11 ha J the Elden eviden- eviden which nis lIS been recently o from flom fro in It The report tp tl t Ints o ot of time lie wet wet-a titling from rr m a feid t C ld ld 7 that the ire aluminum was well with ns condi condi- conditions conditions lions an Investigator In of If o lh the found much ro- ro plaint coi-plaint plaint against the Aluminum Co parly pany ot of o America and nd nd obtained eVI cv denee dence on i 1 which the Iho Issue issued a I complaint lat last This This is to oe Ie brought n n b V Y bS I It Is sufficient to III toy say Sena fena mr 11 Walsh that tro 10 lo organization could tolen-t tolen xu SU AU I procrastination on tho the part of oC lt It Its legal bureau as has bas the action of the of tn n the matter under unEr In Inquiry It It s 's s cot riot expected that tire the ut t torn y will be r oO 1 with the details of oC o all before his department and hi mn may wH wll be entirely Ignorant lf of oC some Bome matters having or call call q for his attention bu but It tt Is n too mu much h to expect that he le in nt at least be Informed eO p charge by lii his and nd a arm arm- an another other branch of the In effect that a II fellow member o of oC the at least Ii a o corpo iou of ot which he lie is II th the thu 41 factor lane halO been Bully Jully 0 01 COt co- co- co disregard of in 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