LONG DELAYED
TRIAL WHEELER
NOW UNDER WAli
GREAT FALLS. April 22.—Unitec
States Senator Burton K. Wheeler, o:
Montana, who stood before the natior
six months ago as a candidate for th<
vice presidency, appeared in the fed
eral court here the 17th of the montl
as a prisoner at the bar, accused ol
selling his political birthright.
The trial came after a long post
ponement. Senator Wheeler was in
dieted here more htan a year ago, Apr
8, 1924, for receiving fees for appear
ing before the interior department and
prosecuting oil lease applications for
his client, Gordon Comphell, Montana
oil promoter. Before the election of
November 4, last year, he pleaded for
an early trial, declaring that he was
entitled to acquittal or conviction be
fore the voters of the country con
sidered his name.
ARONERICSON
Painter and Decorator
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John W. Davis, recently spent a short vacation.
The case was delayed, however, un
til last month, when it was set for the
17th of April.
Senator Wheeler is specifically
charged with violation of section 113
of the penal code, which makes it a
crime for a member of congress to ac
cept fees in appearing before any gov
ernment department in prosecution of
a claim for another person. The in
dictment accuses him of having ac
cepted $4,000 from Campbell betvyeen
January 8, 1923, and February 16, of
the same year. It was charged that
the money was paid to the law firm
of Wheeler and Baldwin of Butte.
In the senate, on the day following
the returning of the indictment, Sena
tor Wheeler’s colleagues ordered an
official investigation of the case and
a senatorial committee was appoint
ed to take testimony. This was af
ter the Montana senator had, made an
impassioned speech in the upper house
branding the indictment as “palpably
a frameup,” and declaring that it was
the fruits of a plot between the then
attorney general, Harry M. Daugherty,
and the Republican national commit
tee. Senator Wheeler charged that
Daugherty and the Republican organi
zation had caused the indictment to
be brought to harrass him for his ac
tivities as the prosecutor of the sen
ate Daugherty investigating commit
tee.
In the senate investigation of the in
dictment the Montana member was
“wholly exonerated.” The commit
tee which investigated the case made
a report in which only one of its five
members dissented. The minority
report was made by Senator Sterling
Republican, of South Dakota, who held
that the bringing of the formal accusa
tion was justified by the evidence.
In the senate probe Campbell who
also was indicted by the same grand
jury for using the mails to defraud,
testified that he had paid Wheeler
$4,000 for appearing in oil litigation in
the Montana courts, but that there was
a specific agreement that the senator
would not be called upon to appear in
any federal matter. This testimony
was corroborated by several witness
es, but documentary evidence was pro
duced by the department of justice in
tended to show that Wheeler had prom
ised Campbell to take up some oil
lease matters before Edwin S. Booth,
then solicitor of the department of the
interior.
After Harlan F. Stone succeeded
Daugherty as attorney General, the in
vestigation of Wheeler’s case was re
opened before another grand jury in
Washington, which on March 27 last
returned an indictment against the
Senator from Montana and Campbell
fcnd Booth for conspiracy to defraud
the government out of certain oil lands
in Montana. Mr. Stone took the re
sponsibility for the activities of this
investigating body.
Federal Judge Charles N. Pray, of ■
Montana, who received the report of
the Great Falls grand jury, disquali
fied himself in the trial of the case
and Federal Judge Frank S. Dietrich
j of Idaho was called to preside.
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