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# M'FADDEN TRIES TO # IMPEACH WILLIAMS Comptroller Challenges Accuser to Appear Before Committee of Senate Monday. # HOUSE MAY TAKE IT UP Sale of Arlington Hotel and Bank Failure Involved in Incipient Scandal. *Special Despatch to THE SUN.* WASHINGTON, July 19.-Impeachment of John Skelton Williams, Comptroller of the Currency, will be sought on the floor of the House if he is continued in office by the Senate confirming his nomination, Representative McFadden (Pa.) told the House Rules Committee to-day. Mr. McFadden in urging the committee to order an investigation of Mr. Williams's official conduct of his office said there was ample ground for impeachment on charges which he would submit to the investigating committee. One of these charges was placed before the committee to-day. Mr. McFadden asserted that the Comptroller shared in a commission that his brother, Louis B. Williams of Richmond, Va., received for the sale to the Government of the Arlington Hotel property here. The sale was made through the Williams brothers by a Richmond syndicate for $4,200,000. Louis B. Williams was paid $25,000 as his share of the commission for the sale, which Mr. McFadden sought to show was completed partly by the official influence of John Skelton Williams. Mr. McFadden also charged that evidence to prove his charges was being destroyed, but that he was certain his claims could be substantiated. He said he could produce papers showing the transfer of funds and bank records. The property in question is now being used by the War Risk Insurance Bureau, the proposed hotel having been completed by the Government as a large modern office building. Concrete Evidence Wanted. Representative Pou (N. C.) insisted that Mr. McFadden must produce concrete evidence before the committee would authorize the investigation. Chairman Campbell (Kan.), however, held that the charges might be the basis for impeachment, and that since Mr. Williams had publicly invited investigation documentary evidence of the charges was not necessary before ordering the Inquiry. "On the other hand," said Representative Rodenberg (Ill.), "I consider the charges so serious that they cannot be ignored. If proven they would lead to the impeachment of the Comptroller." As a further basis for impeachment Mr. McFadden also repeated charges that the Comptroller had encouraged a run on the First National Bank of Easton, Pa. "This was done," Mr. McFadden said, "by Mr. Williams's action in writing letters to depositors urging them to remove their deposits. A temporary injunction to restrain Mr. Williams from using his authority to interfere with the business of the bank and ruin it is now pending in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The injunction would restrain the Comptroller from asking further information concerning the bank." The Rules Committee will meet Monday to take final action on the investigation. John Skelton Williams in a statement said the charges made by Mr. McFadden were "utterly without foundation" and a "falsehood from start to finish." He declared he had no interest in the sale of the Arlington property to the Government and received no compensation in connection with it. Mr. Williams said the Richmond law firm of Williams & Mullen had been attorneys for the owner of the property for many years and that if any compensation was paid to it the payment was for professional services, adding that he had no interest in that transaction. Williams Baits McFadden. In his statement Mr. Williams said he had been urging Mr. McFadden by direct letters to him made as stinging