Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-06-23
DAUGHERTY AND
THE MORSE CASE
SENATOR cARAWAY EXPOSING
THE ATTORNEY GENERALS
ACTION IN CONTRACTING
WITH THIS MAN.
5000 RETAINER FOR pAueHERrY
What Chance Have Tho People To
Stop Or Prevent Frauds Against
Their Treasury.
BY WALLACE BAssFoRD
Especial CORRESPONDENCE

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| Senator Caraway rose in his place in
the Senate on May and charged that
Attorney General Daugherty received
a fee for helping c. w. Morse to mako
his getaway from the Atlanta Penl.
Tertiary during Tafts administration.
Senator Jim" Watson, OF Indiana.
made haste to defend Daugherty and
to deny the whole story. He did this
| on the word and authority of Daugh.
erty, he said.
On May 20 Senator Caraway had
printed in the Congressional Record q
letter which Daugherty had written
Morse demanding balance OF $25, 900
due on contract. The Washington
News on that day printed a photo.
graphic copy of the letter bearing
Daugherty's signature. as we'll rs e
copy of the contract which Morse
made with Thomas B. Fielder, OF At.
lanta. who brought Daugherty into the
case because OF his close relations
with the President of that tlme-Taft.
While the contract is made by Fielder,
1t provided for retainer OF $4,000 for
Daugherty. and expenses. with an ad.
ditional $4,000 in case OF Morse's re-.
lease being obtained
Senator Caraway. who has done the
people the service Of exposing Daugh-
| erty's action in contracting with this
man, who was n convicted felon, agree
Ing to relieve him from his very proper
punishment through his influence with
the President. stated that the only
| decent course left open to Daugherty
was to resign. or course, the man
who put this job over on President
Is not the sort who will resign. and
the present incumbent at tho White
House hasn't enough OF the Roosevelt
spirit to fire him, as he so richly de-
serves. OF course. Morse did not pay
| the $4,000, but proceeded to organize
new companies which sought and OBJ
tanned Government contracts, and is
again in the tolls for alleged frauds on
the Government.
In the Ladies' Home Journal OF
April, 1914. is found an article by Pres
ident Taft, in which he said: "One
never knows until he has been in the
that is brought in one way and another
to stay prosecutions and to pardon
criminals. had two cases before mo
In which 1t was represented that both
the convicts were near death. En.
aminations were made by the Army
Medical Corps, watches were estab-
lished and 1t was reported that both
were in the last stages of fatal dis
ease. One OF them died soon after he
was released. Another of them is ap-
parently in excellent health and seek
ing to re-establish himself in the neYd
In which he committed a penltentiary
offense. This shakes ones faith in ex.
pert examination" 1t would look like
President Taft thought some one had
put job on him. 1t would be inter
esting to have his opinion OF Daugh-
erty, but he declines to be quoted
| the refuge of the man who has nothing
good to say.
Mr.. Woodruff, Of Michigan, Repub-
lican Congressman, printed in tho Con.
gressional Record OF May Is. letter
from Captain H. i. Scaife. Mr. Wood
ruff explained that Captain Seattle was
engaged by the Department of Justice
to investigate the aircraft frauds. but
resigned when he found himself con.
stantly blocked by men In the Depart
ment. Scaife's letter to Woodruff eI.
plains ut length how, just after an in.
terview with Daugherty he met Fielder.
and Fielder told him he had just seen
Daugherty, and that .Daugherty wanted
him to see Scaife. Fielder then offered
Scaife employment to defend the
Bosch Company, and went from that
meeting to spend the night with
Daugherty at the Wardman Park Inn
The next day Seattle received letter
from Fielder retaining him as counsel
In the case! 1t is well to bear in mind
that the Attorney General, whose duty
1t Is to represent the people in prose
cutting the Bosch people, advised the
Bosch attorney to hire away from the
Government It's chief witness against
the Bosch Company! The question
naturally arises. what chance have the
people to stop or prevent frauds
against their Treasury so long as q
weak President puts such men n
Daugherty at the head of the Depart
ment of Justice, whose chief function
Is to prosecute the hooters OF the pub
lie funds?
Chairman Arivrrc"6. Rouse, of the
Democratic Congressional Committee
says:
The great millionaire Republican
Ways and Means Committee Of the
House last Wednesday presented bill
providing for ten extra collection dis
tricts in the United States. This bill
met with the unanimous opposition oil
the Democrats, and 30 many Republi
can members opposed tine Legislation
that the leadership saw if vote were
taken It would be badly defeated. THAI
bill is now resting in the morgue.