The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-19
THAT
 DAUGHERTYQUIT ARE RENEWED
Senator BOrah Active In Pressing For His
 Resignation
GENERAL IS
 SILENT ON CONTROVERSY
Has Asserted That He Would Welcome An Inquiry Of
 His Administration

WASdlNGION. FeD. lS.-(by AS sociated Press. s.)-Renewed demands for the resignation of Attorney General Daugherty are receiving serious con- sideration among officials high in the administration.
 The attorney general himself, how ever, is not now inclined to leave the cabinet unless he is requested to do so directly by>President Coolidge.
 The attitude of the President has not yet been made entirely clear. It was indicated tonight that some develop ment might follow tomorrow's cabinet meeting.
 During the past 24 hours increasing pressure has been brought to bear to convince Mir. Coolidge that he should entirely clear his administration of those who have come under attack in the oil inquiry. It has been pointed out to him that with Secretary .Denby out, many of the critics of the discredited Fall leasing policies may center their attacks on the whole record of the present department of justice.
 BOrah Active
 One of those who have become most active in pressing for the attorney gen erals resignation is Senator Borah of Idaho, representing a wing of the re- publican Senate strength that has not heretofore joined with the LaFollette group in> most of it's assaults on the administration.
 Last night at the White House, Sem ator Borah confronted both the Presi- dent and Mir. Daugherty with a de- mand that the latter step out of the cabinet because the country had lost confidence in him. /
 On the democratic side the attack was led by Senator Wheeler, democrat, Montana, who has told his colleagues that he is prepared to present informa- tion of an entirely new and sensational character if the proposed inquiry into the administration of Attorney General Daugherty is followed through. His declarations have been carried indi. rectly to the President.
 Daugherty Refuses To Talk
 Mir. Daugherty has repeatedly de- clined to talk about details of the criti- cism leveled at him, but he is under stood to take the position that the ef- fort to drive him out of office is sub ject which could we'll be taken up for discussion by the cabinet. White House officials declined tonight to discuss a report that it would be discussed at the regular Tuesday cabinet meeting to- morrow. Heretofore the attack on the attorney general has been directed along two lines. One contention of his critics that has been regardless of the actual facts as to his record, the cumulative effect of long series of developments has been to discredit him in the opinion of the public. The other argument used against him has been that although he was not party to the oil leases, and has said he never was asked for an opinion regarding them, he occupied the position of chief law officer of the government at a time when his col leagues in the cabinet were concluding agreements now recognized by Congress, as without authority in law.
 Would Welcome Inquiry
 Whether new factors have entered into the latest phase of the situation is not revealed, nor are the senators op- posing him willing at the present stage to produce publicly the charges they say they will make if he remains in the cabinet and undergoes the ordeal of a public investigation as proposed in the pending resolution, introduced by Senator Wheeler.
 Mir. Daugherty has told his friends in and out of Congress that he does not fear the result of such an investigation has pointed out that as a matter of fact, he himself requested that the inquiry be held after demands for his retire ment had been made in the Senate; and has insisted that his record both as re- gards the oil scandal and all other mat ters connected with his administration is absolutely clear. Today he sent to the Senate in response to an inquiry, a record of the war frauds investigation which he said showed that actual ma terial progress had been made despite great handicaps.