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Show Makes Public Letters to Attorney At-torney General Palmer and to Reed Smoot DECLARES CHARGES ABSOLUTELY FALSE Denounces Utah Senator andj Accuses Him of Trying to Shame War Record i NEW YORK. April 12 George Creel whd headed the committee on public information tonight made public a letter let-ter he has sent to Attorney General Palmer, insisting that Mr. Palmer investigate in-vestigate nt once charges by (he joint congress committee on printing tbat tho CrerM committee had wrongfully transferred the Official Bulletin to j Roger W. Bahson of Wellesley, Mass. Mr. Creel ?.lso made public a letter to Senator Smot, chairman of the committee, com-mittee, declaring tho senator knewl there was no transfer of tho Official! Bullotin lo Bahson. but that the Joint! committee "aneakingly worked in se-j cret lo frame the indictment that my testimony would have made absurd."; Ho added that the senator "as much as anyone else," was responsible for wip-ng wip-ng out tho Creel committoo June 30, 1919, "in the middle of Its orderly liquidation." liq-uidation." The Joint committee charged that the transfor had been made without cost to Baboon and suggested institution institu-tion of legal proceedings against Crool Babson, C. T. Clayton and S. Rochester, Rochest-er, to see if the Eovernmont could not lecove money Letter to Palmor. . In his letter to Mr. Palmer, Mr. Creel said: "I insist that your office commenco an instant investigation and put myself and every record at your disposal. I want lo know from you also what pro-; lection, a citizen has against the deliberate delib-erate slanders of a member of congress. con-gress. Not only are Senator Smoot's charges false but he knew them to be lies when fie utoered tLom." "The Official Bullotin was not transferred trans-ferred to Roger Babson or anyone else. It was discontinued by the order of the attorney general on the ground that I had no right to sell the property at public auction. Tho ono asset was a mailing list and tills was publicly placed at the disposal of any citizen. "Any private citizen was at liberty to start a publication of similar character char-acter and this Is what Mr. Babson did. He received nothing from the government govern-ment except the right to copy the mailing mail-ing list." To Senator Smoot, Mr. Creel said thath after ho had been ''dispossessed" on July 20. 1919, his records had twice been moved and had been jumbled into army trucks. He declared a "private memorandum staling this confustion, was sent to Senator Warren, but some one sneaked It but lo the press and the conditions precipitated by congress con-gress wero credited to my 'desertion.' "I am sick and tired of this long distance lying," he said, "Your recommendation rec-ommendation to the attorney general to bring action against me is buncombe bun-combe and you know It.- A bettor and quicker way Is to have me appear before be-fore your committee, or any other senate sen-ate committee, and make full answer to tho Official Bulletin charge. Shames American War Record "Ever aince the armistice it has been jour steadfast attempt to shame the American war record, and besmirch every ev-ery man with that record. To date, theso congressional investigations have cost ?2,000,000 but failure to develop de-velop a single instance of graft still forces your group lo rely upon the activities ac-tivities of individual liars." |