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Show Devlin' office. H declared that If Boardman wished later to britj charnes against pint t he conld do k Hoardman replied that he never heard of any charges having been brought apalnat Devlin and he did not undr-stand undr-stand that it was nocossary to brlri specific chorees against a federnj prosecutor before he could be ouet-tinned ouet-tinned by the attorneys Interested a the inquiry. The chairman rulc-i that Plat.t should not bo called to th stand. Dr. Perrln was called to Identify tho papers takrn from 9ni effects by search-warrant In Arltoni Burns Did Not Urge Action. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24 Tbit the federal graDd Jury which Indtr.v-, Indtr.v-, ed John A. Benson and Dr. E. Ft. per-rln per-rln on charges of defraud ng the fny. ernment In land deals was not urRfj to take that action by special agnt William J. Burns conveyed to tbn Jury no message whatever from Pr. ( ldent Roosevelt was the statement 1 made today by two members of u I lnques:torlal body in tho course of ' their testimony before. Senstor who is investigating tV prosecution of these cases by Unl?sj Satos District Attorney Devlin, r plying to Interrogations by senftto Stone, W. J. Crirnm, foreman of tt r Jury and F. B. F.nley, Juror M ! that the only mention of Burns rona of President Roosevelt was that h (M. RoopcvpIO desired that land-grabbing land-grabbing should be stopped. Senntor Stone said tbnt it hab"-i Intimated about Washington th1' Burns had p--rnded tho de'k v'th his fist and clamored for ind!ctmrt of Benson and Perrln. Both w;tnM-es w;tnM-es denied that he hod done so. 7b? said that he had made no men'V"B of Perrln but had said that Eenoi desorved Indictment. They could recall that he had said that he h-I seen the president In connoctlon with the cases. B3ARDMAN COMES IN FOR RUST SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24 When the Inquiry by the select senate committee com-mittee in to the ronduct of Criminal law by federal officials was resumed today. Senator Stone announces that he had re-eon.ldered his determination determina-tion to place United States Attorney Piatt of Nevada on the stand as ho did not bel.eve the latter's action in procuring the Indictment of Snell for alleged perjury committed !n tho Perrln Per-rln Benson land fraud cases had anything any-thing to do with thi present investigation. investi-gation. L. P. Boardman. attorney for Snell. stated to th0 chairman that his purpose in calling upon h.'m to place Piatt on tho stand was to make the investigation as comprehensive as possible, in the belief that the inquiry in-quiry concerned the administration of criminal law bv all federal offlc ala and not by federal attorney Devlin alone in the case of Dr. Perrln. Stone Denounces Boardman. Senator Stone denounced Board-man's Board-man's statement as a grave dlscourt- ' csy to himself and declared that the ' v""0 "'e Inquiry would deal excluslvo with the conduct of |