...be excused from answering on the ground named. Whether a witness shall be excused from answering a question upon the ground that his answer may tend to incriminate him always depends, as I understand the law, upon whether the court can see, upon all the facts then before...

...former office or employment in any proceeding wherein he is a defendant or is called as a witness, upon the ground that his answer may tend to incriminate...him or compel him to be a witness against himself, or who refuses so to testify on such ground when called by a grand jury or a congressional committee,...

...not know how that would be handled. Mr. DOWDY. Your bill handles that. His refusal to testify must be upon the ground that his answer may tend to incriminate...him or compel him to be a witness against himself. Mr. JENKINS. There is too much of this business of hiding behind the fifth amendment. Mr. DOWDY. That...

...was sought to be "drawn in question," 28 USC § 1257 (2), was the forfeiture statute.2 But the New upon the ground that his answer may tend to incriminate...him or compel him to be a witness against himself or refuses to waive immunity when called by a grand jury to testify thereon or who willfully refuses...