MR. CURTIS Yes Sir. SENATOR WALSH What was it? MR. CURTIS Nothing. SENATOR WALSH You mean you didn’t confer with this Gentleman? MR. CURTIS I did not. SENATOR WALSH But you know him? MR. CURTIS Never saw him in my life. SENATOR WALSH But you have heard of him? MR. CURTIS Never in my life. SENATOR WALSH But you know of the Washington _Post_? MR. CURTIS Yes sir, I have heard it. SENATOR WALSH Heard it? What do you mean you heard it? MR. CURTIS I have heard Sousa’s Band play it many a time. SENATOR WALSH Play what? MR. CURTIS Washington’s Post. SENATOR WALSH It’s not a tune; it’s a Newspaper. You talk like a Congressman. Where are you from? MR. CURTIS Kansas. SENATOR WALSH That will be all. SENATOR CARAWAY Just a minute, Mr. Curtis, Who is Peaches? MR. CURTIS I don’t know unless it’s Jim Reed. SENATOR HEFLIN Just a minute. I object to the Republican Senator’s slur on the fair name of the Democratic Party. This Investigation is supposed to be Non Sectarian, and I object to having Politics dragged in, just to make a Republican Holiday. SENATOR ROBINSON And I want to know who Prunes was. MR. CURTIS You mean you want to know who Prunes IS. SENATOR LENROOT Mr. Walsh, and Gentlemen of the Vigilance Committee there is a Bell Boy over at my Hotel and he just got it from the chauffeur of a Prominent Oil Man, that Major Leonard Wood’s Son had just heard that his Father was offered the Nomination for the Presidency 3 and a Half years ago, if he would appoint Mr. Jake Hamon Secretary of the Interior. Now that is a very serious charge, and one that I think this Committee should look into at once. Public affairs have come to a fine Climax when a Man in this Country offers to make another one President. I tell you it is undermining the confidence of the Great American People and when you do that you shake the very Bulwarks of the American Constitution. I think a Subpœna should be issued for Mr. Wood’s Son at once and if this is so I am for a swift and speedy trial for the Culprits. SENATOR WALSH