Omaha daily bee., 1922-05-22
Attack Against
Attorney General
Renewed in Senate
Arkansas Democrat Charges
Dsusherty Employed to Get
c. W. Morse Out Of Fed.
cral Penitentisry.

Washington. May sL-A hal
charge tha, Attorney general Daush.
er,y was employed in conjunction
with Thomas b. Fielder to get c.
w. Morse out OF the Atlanta peni-
Tertiary in 1911. and that the part
nership" OF the attorney general and
Fielder still exists. to the detriment
OF the government. was made on the
floor OF the senate by Senator Cara
way. Arkansas. democrat.
Senator Caraway produced photo
statistics Of alleged documents sign
ed by I'll. NJ. Daugherty," and Field
es 10 sustain his assertion that the
attorney general had been retained
a. counsel with Fielder in the Morse
case.
The second part OF the charge by
Senator Caraway, that the attorney
general was still cooperating with
Fielder in opposition to the interests
OF the government, had to do with
an alleged attempt on the part OF
Fielder to employ Capt. II. L. Scaife.
formerly army officer and recently
dismissed by Daugherty from the De-
par:ment OF Justice.
Advised to See Seaife.
Scaife in q letter to Congressman
Woodruff, Michigan, asserted that
Fielder had asked him to become an
associate counsel in a suit he was
bringing to set aside the sale Of the
Bosch Magnetic company's plant by
the alien property custodian. Scaife
charged that Fielder said he was ad-
vised by Attorney General Daugh-
crty to see Scaifc.
Representative Woodruff said q
very substantial retainer" was offer
ed to Scaife.
In his letter to Woodruff detailing
Felder's visit to him at the Shore
ham hotel and his offer to retain him
in the Bosch Magnetic case, Scaife
concluded:
"While I think it is emincntly
proper that a suit should be brought
to set aside the Bosch Magnetic sale,
ard while under ordinary circum-
stances would have had no hcsi-
tation in being employed in the case,
when Col. Fielder disclosed the fact
that he had come to me from the at
torney general and with the arrange
ments that had been suggested, the
impropriety OF the proposal / con-
s:der reprehensible, and l desire that
you be acquainted with the facts"
Daugherty Leaves Capital.
Attorney General Daugherty left
Washington last afternoon for Bal.
timore, without commenting upon
the charges of Senator Caraway. At
his office it was said that the at
torney general had not obtained a
copy Of the newspapers publishing |
the documents regarding the Morse
case.
The climax of the discussion in the
senate came when. Senator, Caraway
called upon the attorney general to
resign his office.
II say there is but one decent thing
for the attorney general to do," said
The Arkansas senator, "and that is
10 resign. He ought not to embar-
rass the administration by longer
in office, because he has
not denied for a whole week this
statement in the record that he in
iuced Fielder, his close associate and
'ormer colleague, in the procuring
# the pardon or commutation Of
sentence for Morse, to hire the gov
.rnment's witnesses in this case (The
Bosch Magnetic case) which he, the
lttorney general, was under his oath
Il office compelled the prosecute"
Senator Willis, Ohio, republican,
eplied to Senator Caraway that
7elder was not to be believed. None
# the other republican senators rose
o defend Mr.. Daugherty. II