The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
Attorney General Daughtery
Resigned-Quit By Request
PRES. COOLIDGE DEMANDS RESIGNATION
AS RESULT OF REFUSAL TO TESTIFY
Daugherty Following Example of His Brother HAL Refused
to Testify Before Senate Investigation Committee Last
Saturday-Defes Authority of Senate Investigators
DAUCHRTY REFUSED Gun RUNNING REPORTS

aShIngtOn. saturday March, -
Bowling to President COOlidge's for
NAL request, Attorney General Harry
NJ. Daugherty has resigned to take
immediate effect. His defiance of
the senate was assigned by Coolidge
as the cause for the demand. -. ....
as the cause for the demand.
BY LAURENCE TODD
Federated Press Correspondent
Washington. Saturday, March, 20
Following the example set by Harry
Sinclair, Harry NJ. Daugherty and his
brother Nal Daugherty, president of
the Midland bank at Washington
Court House, o., defed the authority
of the senate investigators. Nal
Daugherty has failed to come to
Washington in response to sub
peona served upon him March p, and
Senator Wheeler has asked that the
senate take action to bring his case
to the attention of the district at
tOrney.
DAUGHERTY
REFUSES REPORTS
The attorney general refused to
furnish to the committee the reports
in his department dealing with the
gun running conspiracy on the Mex
lean border, and Wheeler replied in
open session that the reason Daugher-
ty refused to give up these records is
that they prove not only the exis-
lance Of the conspiracy but the fact
that Daugherty failed to take action
against it.
SPRUCE PRODUCTION
IN FOR AIRING
II OW fhn NUor dnra 1-7,,ooA ~
both the Newton D. Baker and the
John w. Weeks administration, fail
ed to give a thorough investigation
of the spruce production graft in con-
nectlOn with the aircraft frauds was
recited by Captain Seattle, formerly
In the aircraft production bureau and
later a special agent under Burns as
signed to investigate the whole air
craft situation.
EMINENT MEN"
PROTECTED
Among numerous amazing dOcu-
ments put in evidence. by Seattle was
an order from Secretary Baker as
to how the spruce grafters should be
investigated by the war department.
Baker declared that the characters
of the eminent men who have
served their country in a manner
which can never be repaid" must
not be destroyed by irresponsible
methods of investigation, and that
suck a record should be made and
kept as would preserve for the fu-
ture' the regulations of these disting-
uished Americans.
WHITEWASH
INSTRUCTIONS
Scaife remarked, in answer to a
question as to the meaning of this
order that it would naturally be in
terpreted as a whitewash instruction.
He also testified that when he came
into the department of Justice, under
DaCgherty and Burns, over S7,OOO,-
600 was due the government on the
Wright-Martin ard other aircraft
construction contracts. He could sget
no action from the department, and
after a year he resigned, protesting
that his attempts at starting a pros
ecutiOn had been SYSTEMATICALLY
blocked.
CASTOR B.
MEANS AGAIN
When he began his work Burns
assigned CASTOR B. Means to assist
him. and Scaife testified that he first
investigated Means and then worked
with him until Means was suspended
at the instance of the attorney gen
eral. lhis took place, he said, "when
they found that Means was getting
the big crooks" Numerous letters
from Burns and other officials of the
department commencing Means as a
courageous and faithful public SER