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Show I BOASTED OF HIS INFLUENCE, CHARGE WASHINGTON". June 9 Representative Represen-tative Woodruff, Republican. Michigan, Michi-gan, declared in the house today according ac-cording to his information from three different sources, J. L. Phillips, Re- ) publican state chairman of Georgia , had stated a week prior to his arrest I on charges in connection with war fraud cases, that " things on the hill j had come to such a condition" that hi probably would be arrested, but that the case would end there. Representative Larsen. Democrat. Georgia, characterized the arrest of Phillips ae an "attempt by the attorney attor-ney general to shield himself from public criticism" ho added that he did not believe the attorney general contemplated con-templated further prosecution. |