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Show I II III ll HUM .u j STANDARD STEEL I OFFICIAL SCORES ' REP. GRAHAM j CHICAGO, ..ov. 5 Replying to (.Statements orcrlited to Re present at! ve William J. Graham, halrmnn of a con-. con-. pn --3lonal sub-eommittcc in puhllslied n- t&rvlewfl followlnic the ub-eomniitteo's hearings on army ordnance contrac'r, , liere. J. f. Hansen, president of th Standard Steel company of Hammond, j lnd severely arralioicd the conduct of the Investigation In a statement today. Congressman Graham was quoted h.- say ins the sub-committee was satisfied i the government had ben the victim of a "gigantic fraud." on a $40,000,000 con-, con-, tract given the Standard company and that the committee would ask crimizuJ i prosecution of ' at least a dozen army j officers and civilians." and a civil su'l for recovery of from JI3.000.000 to $15.-j $15.-j 000,000, of which, he said, the government govern-ment had been mulcted. Mr. Hansen, in his statement points eut that no officer of the company was ailed to testily before the committee, no notice given of the heannps. no oppoi -(unity given for the cross-examination of adverse witnesses and that the prln-l prln-l cipnl witnesses "relied upon by our sub- committee were subordinate accountants j and clerks' He terms the hearing "a I travesty upon Justice." and suggested ' that Mr. Graham's' published statements I).- "withdrawn.'.' The contract Investigated," Mr Han sen continues, "was the largest ordnance artillery contract during the war It was at first refused by the company and , f then accepted n- -iti il to tlv fucccsj- tyM ful prosecution of 1 1 war." ijl Settlement was reached after repeated : A conferences. Mr Hansen cays, the items 't Involving; "not merely the details of ac- 'jj, countlnc for c xpenditures, but the ev-'"- ri.e of jii'lcment and discretion." In com- , pen atlng the company for its loss of oth- ppj er business. He points to the fact that u although $12,000,100 was appropriated for 9 the vnrk the company expended oni' $18,000,000. t |