Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
DAUGHERTY TO STAY,
HE SAYS, REPLYING
TO WHEELER CHARGES

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the senator's, is entirely gratpitdus,
replied the Ohio senator. 1T is also
beside the point.
Cites 1922 Proceedings.
Senator Wheeler then explain &c
that he had undertaken to choose the
personnel of the committee because
he recalled what had happened during
the Daugherty Impeachment proceed
ings in the House in 1922. Instead OF
Mr.. Daugherty. he said, the man who
introduced the resolution was. in real
ity, tried"
Ever since the Attorney Genera
he now holds" Senator Wheeler con
tinued. various charges have been
made against him in the newspapers
and by individuals from one end OF
the country TO the other.
"Rece ntly when the oil scandal frs,
torney Generals name was mixed in
IT, II appeared. if you please, that
he was Il friend of Ned Mclean
Everybody knows he was friend OF
Sinclair. Everybody knows he was a
friend of Doheny. Everybody knows
that those three men met in the apart
mcnt OF tho Attorney General from
time to time.
Everybody knows that Jesse Smith
who was brought from the state OF
Ohio. and had an office in the De-
partme mt of Justice. and who was no,
on the pay roll, was accepting money
in connection with various cases that
arose in the Department of Justice
The newspapers in New. York car
ricd the details of how the ATTORNEY
Generals former partner and friend
Mr.. Fielder, was collecting money foI
he al st...
pointments. and for the dismissal OF
whisky cases in the city of New York
Says Friends Were Paid.
Everybody who knows anything
about the history of the case knows
that other friends and confidential. ad
visers of the Attorney General of the
United States were collecting money
and were giving as their reasons for
collecting it that they could use in
huence with the Attorney General.
"Of course, it is Very difficult tc
trace these matters and to show by
his close personal friends that he
accepted this money. ! say that il
the Attorney General has not actu-
ally got the money that has been
collected in these various cases from,
one end of the country to the other
he is bigger fool than the people
of the United States give him credi,
for being"
Asking why the Department OF
Justice had taken no action agains,
Albert Il. Fall after the full testj-
mony relating to the story of a loan
10 him by Edward Z. Mclean be-
came public, Senator Wheeler con-
tinued:
Charges Protection Given.
we find the Department of JUS
tice. instead of trying. to detect the
greatest crooks and those guilty OF
the greatest crime against the nation
that ever has been perpetrated. pro.
tccting them all during this time
We find Them protecting them to-
night. because J am reliably informed
that only last Sunday the Attorney
General of the United States held a
conference with Ned Mclean.
We find the Attorney General go.
ing down to Palm Beach ana there
consulting with MIR. Mclean. Wher
the newspapers carried the story tina
Mclean was about to testify as to
expose Mr.. Daugherty, we find Mr.
Daugherty Immediately getting iT
touch with Mr.. Mclean again.
This is not question OF demo.
cratic or republican politics. The
yelled threat was held out ever nj
testified ii would involve some dem.
ocrats and some republicans. i
makes no difference to me whether
there are democrats involved OF
whether there are republicans in.
volved. The greatest duty we cal
perform to the country is to show
up the crooks, whether they are re.
publicanS or democrats.
Il propose in my resolution to name
the members of the committee in or.
der that 1 may know, and in order
that the people of the country ma,
know, that there is going to be a fail
and impartial investigation and tba
il the Attorney General is guilty III
will be driven from the public of,
fee. and driven into oblivion, and that
if he is Not guilty, his name will b,
cleared.
This Is only a small portion. al
extremely small portion, of the testi
mony that will be produced" sale
Senator Wheeler, Showing .beyent
any question of doubt in my mind tina
the Attorney General sof the Unitet
States, instead of prosecuting crime
has been protecting crime and Grim
inaIs."