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Show Becker Gives Senator Reed Several Stinging Mot Shots, ALL GOES IN RECORD Ussourians Retorts Permitted to Stand at Request of Attacked, WASHINGTON. Dec. 21 Another flare up occurred today when Senator Reed asked Mr. Becker if it were not true that ho obtained information which he used for political purposes. Mr. Bcckgr interrupted the senator in his long nucfetion with the comment: "I hope the Hearst reporter is getting get-ting this." A moment later he apologized to the committeo for tho remark. Senator Rqed tried to make Mr. Becker state the expense incurred in obtaining the affidavits and depositions. deposi-tions. Becker said he could not remember re-member the aggregate but that nothing, noth-ing, was paid the witnesses-or exponents expo-nents except to cover their loss of time in making tho affidavits. Ho added that all the affidavits were taken tak-en in "good faith." and "along with many others about Mr. Hearst wliich I havo not made publlc.V Tho commitee reserved its ruling on whether Mr. Becker should bo compelled com-pelled to make public the names of the state Invesligators.- Later when Becker spoke of Senator Reed "holding a brief for Hearst," the senator addressed the committeo and asked that such references be stopped. "If the committee doesn't stop him I will take my own way of doing It," he said. Chairman Overman said ho believed the reply to be improper and Mr. Becker Beck-er again apologized. Senator Reed asked Mr. Becker about a statement given out jointly by Attorney General Lowis and Mr. Becker dealing with a dinner given in honor or William Randolph Hearst by Bolo Pasha. Becker said that Mr. Hearst's indignation at that statement was tho beginning of a suspicion in his mind that there might be a connection con-nection between Hearst nnd Bolo Pasha. Pa-sha. 'That statement coupled with the fact that Hearst lied when ho said that he had met Bolo only once, when the statement of his own employes showed that he met him at least three times: right then was born in my mind the impression that there might be something wrong." Senator Reed asked the witness if he stood by his statement that Mr. Hearst lied about the Bolo incident. Mr. Becker replied that he would change tho reference to a statement that Mr. Hearst told something that was untrue because, he said, a lie implies im-plies an intent to tell whaj. was not true. The committee adjourned until after af-ter the holidays but not until after Senator Reed and Mr. Becker had another an-other clash. Senator Reed said he had known Mr. Hearst as a newspaper man, that he had no social or personal relations with hlra and no political with him "except generally he supports the party par-ty to whidh I belong." "I have followed these hearings closely," he added, "and I havo become be-come convinced that 'there has been some attempt to fasten the crime of treason on Mr. Hearst by placing together to-gether scraps of information. For that reason I asked to cross-examine this wjtness and I would have done the same tiling for the editor of the! New York Times or any other newspaper, or for any street laborer." "That is why I am here," senator Reed continued, "and any man avIio intimates anything to the contrary is a common scoundrel." Chairman Overman directed the official offi-cial stenographer to strike the last reference ref-erence to Mr. Becker from tho Tocord, but Senator Wolcott interposed an objection. ob-jection. "If the committee does not keep this witness within the traces he will have to lake his medicine if he gets out," Senator Reed continued. "I have no objection to tho remark going imoUho record." said Mr. Becker. Beck-er. "I am used to being attacked, and I am glad to be pursued by any one representing the Hearst crowd " The remark went into the record. nn |