The New York herald., 1922-05-30
CARAWAY QUESTIONS
DAUGHERTY FINANCE
$4,000 in Morse Case Used
in Five Months, Not i'll
Year, He Says.
'OTHER INACCURACIES
You Said What | Said You
Said He Remarks of Wat
son (Ind.) Defense.
FIELDER Is DENOUNCED
Watson (Ga.) Asks Why At
torney-General Was so
Thick With Lawyer.
FIELDER rs DENOUNCED
Special Dispatch to THE NEw YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. c., Nav 20,


New York Herald Bureau
Washington. ID. G., May 20.
Senator'S Caraway (Ark.) and Wat
son (Ga.) renewed their attacks on
Attorney-G General Daugherty in the
Senate to-day while the new orgapiza-
ton created to. help the Department
OF Justice in the prosecution of war
contractors got to business.
Mr.. Daughertys absence from Wash
ington. aboard the yacht Mayflower
with President Harding, made the long
standing controversy a one sided affair
for the day.
Senator Caraway attacked Mr.
Daughertys's statement of Saturday in
tended for lis defense as counsel for
Charles w. Morse in obtaining his re-
lease from tAc Atlanta penitentiary
He declared there were inaccuracies
in the statement. and made a point
that 1t was only five months and two
weeks and mot over a year" from the
time Mr.. Daugherty was employed by
Mr.. Morse until Mr.. Morse was out of
prison. He hurried to say, tEen, that
this. was the length of time that Mr..
Daugherty had been able to spend the
$4,000 he recently spoke of as his ex-
penses in TIE case.
ut seems" said Senator Caraway.
that the Acknowledgement and Charles
w. Morse have both gone to sea. If it
should not be offensive, l should like
to know if they are going outside the
three mile limit to settle their differ
ences on whether Morse paid his fee
or not. 1t seems the Attorney-General
went to sea with the President on Sat
cording to this mornings newspapers,
either sailed yesterday or were to sail.
There may be something in the fact that
both elected to leave the country at the
same time. So far as I am concerned,
and I expect so far as the American
people are concerned. there isn't much
worry as 20 when they will return.
But before the Attorney-General
gets entirely outside the sphere where
we may communicate with him. 1 wish
to refer to one fact. 1t has been said
there Is no man who is such a poor
witness as a lawyer. The Attorney
General made his contract with Morse
on August 4. 1911. Morse's sentence was
commuted January 49, 1912. and there
fore the entire time covered by the en-
ployment was five months and two
weeks and not over a year as stated
by the Attorney General.
These are little inaccuracies like the
Misunderstanding between the Senator
from Indiana and Mr.. Daugherty. The
Attorney-General wrote TO the Senator
from Indiana that he, the Senator. mis-
understood him. But the Senator from
Indiana has vindicated the good opinion
/ entertain for him. for on Saturday he
stated the Acknowledgement and / un-
derstood each other perfectly and that.
If II means anything at all. means you
said Just what I said you said
THE Senator from Indiana is standing
up like man and saying the Attorney
General told me what said he told me-
that is, the Attorney General himself
said he had absolutely nothing to do
with the Morse case and never received
penny for it,
There is one other feature of the
situation to which desire to direct at
tention. Sunday there appeared in the
newspapers a statement from the De-
partment of Justice incidentally I un-
derstand that a local newspaper has
lent them a reporter to be their
publicity agent during this controversy
Petition Not Effective.
IL do not know who pays him. / have
not been Informed. However. there ap-
peared a statement showing n very
large number of very reputable men and
women signed a petition for Morse's
release. Unfortunately for any effect
it may have been expected to have. Mr.
Dargherty. Mr.. Wickersham and Morse
himself are all on record as saying the
petition had absolutely nothing to do
with tho Communication of the sentence.
Therefore the publication or the alleged
petition had absolutely nothing to do
with this controversy"
Senator Watson (Ga) then took up
the attack on the Attorney General
He referred especially to the release of
seized cargoes of liquor at the port of
New York and reiterated the charge
that Instructions for the releases came
from the Department Of Justice after
Thomas b. Fielder had conferred with
the Attorney-General.
In the course OF his remarks Senator
Watson said "the people are anxious
to know why the Attorney General is
80 thick with man like that" Fielder
he characterized as "a legal sewer rat
and gutter snipe." He made some
caustic remarks about his legal prac-
tices and declared "Daugherty was not
brought into the Morse case because
he was n great lawyer but because he
was great wire puller."
THE public is greatly aroused over
the charges being made against the At
torney y-General" he added. Tho whole
country Is anxious TO know why Morse.
the rich man. was released from prison.
while poor men are kept there because
they made some ill-advised remarks
during the stress OF war.
1T will be a sad day for this country
II the people lose confidence In the De-
partment OF Justice. Recent exposures
have gone far I'm that direction"
anNy SHAVER GEMS "a Xr.ane