South Bend news-times., 1922-12-22
DAUGHERTY CASE
HEARINGS ENDED
Judiciary Committee Will
y Meet Again on Jan. 4 to
Reach Decision.
Bv LOUIS LUDLOW.

Iardcd as its most Vulnerable point
There - a feeling. az least among
many o. those who are lending aid
and cncoura cement - the move
ment. that In the attorney general
tney have located the weakest spCt
in the administration armor and
they are cOnfcntrdtirs the force of
their attacks on this supposedly
weakest piace The thought also
is prevalent that il the attorney
generals s1alp can be obtained it
would be a dogUIg effective blow at
. the administration because Of the
close and confidential personal and
poldcal relations between DauSh-
erty ana tho president
The same purpose could not be
accomplished by tho nmO.au1u OF
any other membe. Of iho cabinet
Secretary Of interior Fall. for in
stance Nigh. have been made n tar
get after the fashion Of Secretary
BaIIrEer fu the TAFT administration.
ss the turning over OF vast oil
producing domain to a standard OF
subsidiary in the Teapot Dome con-
tract afforded what might cCarsely
'ake "A flll out OF Fail. but the SEC
retary or interior was passed by
while all hands jump on bausherty
and belabor him hip end thigh.
Position Threatened.
10 IS doubtful if any Of the lead
ers who are engineering the attack
on the attorney general really eN-
pcct that he viii bc impcached but
il .hou1d not be judged from this
statement that things are not serI-
Gus for DaIgherty The danger
from his standpoint iz not 90 much
that he VIII Ice impeaChed. which is
not even remote probability as
matters row stand. as D. IS that AN
atmosphere VIII be created that Will
make his retirement from the Cabi-
net an inevitable necessity. The
plain fact Is that many Of the forces
back of the present i-Daughcrty
movement IN congress arc using the
Impeachment proceedings as lcvor
TO cxpel him from the cabinet. some
because OF animosity toward the at
tcrnev general himself and others
because they think that II fhey can
squeeze Daushe-ty OUT OF the CaDi-
net they will very nearly break tie
baCk-b bone OF the Harding admins
tration.
An analysis of tho forces that are
or he trail OF DdughCrty reveals a
curious coalition. For instance.
Samuel Gompers. president OF the
American Federation Of Iabcr wh5
is vitality Interested in the impeacl.-
ment proceeding and who has EN-
ploycd an able attorney. Jackson II.
Ralston. to prosecute certain phases
OF 10. IS an implacable zoe OF DaJgh-
rty largely on account of the l1.
BuaCtion which the attorney general
secured az Chicago last summer
against the railroad workers. ON
the other hand former Atty Gen.
George ". Wickcrsham, VINO Is just
as implacable toward Daughcrty as
Gompcrs dare be, thoroughly in
dorsed the "Dlusherty injunction"
as "a necessary and detensible rem
edy 90 meet q critical situation. II
is difficult TO imagine any other i'm
stance In which Gompcrs and Wick
crsham could get together or COM
mon ground except iu opposition 90
Daugher3y.
Democrats Favor Move.
Certain influences close "a
another former attorney general
\. Mitchell Palmer. are also said to
be back OF and leading encoUraee-
mcut 90 the impeachman, proceed
iucs. Democratic l,ausrs in and on,
/. of con-ress. are egsIug ON the move
mont for the very obvious reason
that they would like % obtain q