Investigations

Believing that the days of the session were numbered, Senators continued avidly in pursuit of the facts supposed to lie behind their various investigations. The two chief plays upon the board were the Daugherty and Mayfield investigations,

Daugherty:

It was asserted that Mr. Daugherty had halted prosecution of the United Gas Improvement Co., charged with violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, that he had illegally turned over to a Swiss company which was in reality a German subsidiary, $6,000,000 derived by the Alien Property Custodian from the sale of its securities.

Gaston B. Means, ex-supersleuth ot the Department of Justice, testified that Secretary Mellon had had a part in an illegal scheme to withdraw liquor from bonded warehouses. Said Mr. Means: "Mellon is the arch enemy of the Government, the arch traitor. Daugherty is a much higher class man, a much finer man than Mellon. Mr. Mellon was born grabbing dollars."

Senator Lodge was implicated in a similar affair by Mr. Means, but went on the stand and vigorously denied anything of the kind.

A voluntary witness, A. L. Fink, of Rochester, N. Y., declared: "I am the man to whom Frank Vanderlip tried to give $1,000 for perjured testimony against President Coolidge." Senator Brookhart replied: "We 'don't want your lies!" And Senator Ashurst told Fink he was a "crook."

Meanwhile Mr. Daugherty was summoned to appear before the Committee and give testimony provided he would waive immunity.

Mayfield:

Edward Young Clarke, former Imperial Wizard Pro Tern of the Ku Klux Klan, appeared to testify in regard to the contested election of Senator Earle B. Mayfield of Texas. He testified that he had agreed with Dr. Hiram W. Evans, also of the K. K. K., that the Klan would do everything in its power to elect Mayfield and that Evans had said money must be no consideration.