The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-03-14
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
DENLY Resigns From Cabi-
net and President Is Urged
to Drop Daugherty.
BY EDWARD w. PIckARp

CECRETARY OF THE NAVY DEN
~ BY said repeatedly that he would
not resign from the cabinet Monday
Of last week, to save the President
and the Republican party further EN-
barrassment, he rendered his resfgna-
ton, effective March TO- and il was
promptly accepted.
Attorney General Daugherty, more
persistently attacked even than Mr..
DENLY, declared he would not resign
from the cabinet. The Republican
party leaders in Washington sent SEN
ators Lodge and Pepper to the White
House with the message that it was
the unanimous opinion of the Repub-
ncan members of the senate that the
President should get rid of Mr. Daugh-
erty. The attorney general again said
he would not resign, but at this writ
ing it is believed he will do so, and
within a few days.
Mr.. DENLY stepped out with smile,
and to the correspondents he repeated
his defense of the wisdom of the oil
reserve leases. In conclusion he said:
''Ny own vindication and that of the
Navy department will come with the
proper ventilation Of all questions con-
nected with these leases in the impair
tial courts. As private citizen, If
have committed any offense against
the law, I am still subject to action. I
am able to fight my own battles, but I
cannot fight SANDER protected by SEN
atorial immunity. No one more than
can more deeply deplore fraud or cor
ruption In public or private life, and
where such guilt is shown it should be
vigorously punished.
1.-THE President has stood up man.
fully for right and Justice The
sportsmanlike thing for me to do is to
relieve him of the further embarrass-
ment of continued political maneuvers
and partisan political trickery."
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Theodore Roosevelt retains his office.
He was attacked in the senate by SEN
ator Harrison of Mississippi and de-
Tended by Senator Moses. Mr.. Den
bys successor has not yet been named.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Mon
tana, author of the resolution for an
inquiry into the conduct of the attor-
ney general and the Department of
Justice, led the assault on Mr.. Daugh-
erty, whom he charged with protecting
instead of prosecuting crime and Grim
inaIs. He asserted that offenders had
purchased immunity by payment of
large sums to Thomas B. Fielder, the
attorney generals associate in the
Morse pardon case, and to Jesse
Smith. Mr.. Daugherty's confidential
aide, who committed suicide last year
under mysterious circumstances, leav-
ing the attorney general legacy of
S25, 900. Senator Wheeler raised the
question Of whether the attorney gen
eral received a share of such pay
ments. and declared that if he had not
''he is a bigger fool than the people of
the United States give him credit for
being!'
Mr.. Daugherty denied Mr.. Wheelers
charges specifically and generally, and
said that, though he had been exon
Grated in one inquiry, he was quite
ready to undergo another He then
sent a letter to Special Prosecutors
Pomerene and Roberts, placing at their
DISPOSAL the machinery of the Depart /
ment of Justice. The senate had con- ,
firmed the nomination of Mr.. Roberts
by a vote of 68 to 5.