Word: zihlman
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...this offense. Evidence was adduced before the committee to show that the Republican National Committee had joined with the Department of Justice in an attempt to bring the charge against Mr. Wheeler. Attorney General Stone was reported as saying that the case against Mr. Wheeler would be pressed. Zihlman, Langley. A committee of the House, which was investigating charges against two Representatives -Zihlman of Maryland for accepting a bribe, and Langley of Kentucky for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act-returned a report. In the Zihlman case the committee agreed unanimously that conflicting evidence had been heard and that "taken...
Last week Representative John W. Langley of Kentucky, one of the two men, was indicted with others for conspiracy to withdraw liquor illegally. Representative Frederick N. Zihlman of Maryland, the other man accused by the Chicago grand jury, was not indicted. Thereupon the House committee took up its own investigation, handling the Zihlman case first, in order that the Langley case might have time to go through the courts...
Representative Frederick N. Zihlman, Republican of Maryland, rose and declared: "You can well understand the humiliation that I have felt at the insinuations which have been made against my name and character. Those of you who have served here with me know that I am no master of eloquence and it would be absolutely impossible for me to move you by any eloquent appeal...