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Lea And Caldwell Denounced As Robbers Of Taxpayers Before Tennessee Assembly Nashville, March Luke Rogers Caldwell, financier, and B. Ram sey, former Knoxville banker, were described in the Tennessee House of today as "men had robbed and from the taxpayers of Tennes Robert Brown arguing for the Legislature the Affairs Invesits the committee had placed the foundation the Federal of Caldwell and Ramsey on charges of having the national banking laws and Indictment of those men robbed. and de from the taxpay Tennessee the of the taxpayers "The must go on The has been the deposits of in closed banks in which and were Ram the Bank Knoxville the of the Lea-Caldwell in "It Brown Luke Lea were running the affairs our Governor The legislature finally voted to reuntil May 25 that the might with an inquiry various departments. After the report, con12,000 words. had the Legislature, Hal ments, Knoxville, arose say that more unenlightening report never adding advise prosecution ousting of state for in the so-called well' banks that failed Now in all sincerity and truth, Clements you know officials did that and report if they guilty of violations the law them in they simply are for Turning the reference to the Committee calling of the Comptrol to the statute regarding fixing bonds for handling and the Clements they the law, they have to be put on to That's the "couldn't are necessary tart politics," 'up in my people are little children had no Santa and honest men bereft of their by these poli tical that you and by Luke Lea and Rogers Cald went out and took their lives. However he he favored tinuation of the investigation. but warned that the did not "wash their dirty linen" the Republicans would it for them in 1932.'