The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
|DAIJGHERTY MUST FACE OLD RECORD Wheeler Sure Of Ousting
 Him If Case Is Prop
 erly Handled TO MAKE CHARGES AT TODAY'S SESSION Deliberate Conniving' At Oil Loot Among Many Accusa-
 tions He Must Face TEAPOT DOME INQUIRY
 TO BE INTERRELATED Department Of Justice Elm pl0yes Called Before Walsh Committee In Code Tangle |
TO MAKE CHARGES
 AT TODAY'S SESSION
TEAPOT DOME INQUIRY
 TO BE INTERRELATED
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l WASHINGTON, March 2.-Con- trasting with the detective drama into which the oil investigation has turned, there will begin in another Senate com mittee next week a legal battle such
 as has been seen rarely at the capitol II when lawyers of national reputation vii. stand opposite each other to probe into and debate the record of Harry M. Daugherty of Ohio as Attorney Gen \ eral of the United States.
 Il Although it will be only an investi- { gation the inquiry will hinge largely \ on evidence which has been heard before \ in bitter Senate debate and in the fruit
 less impeachment proceedings brought
 last year by Representative Keller of N Minnesota.
 Senator Wheeler of Montana is con
 fident he has a case which, if fairly { presented. will force Daugherty from office. The whole proceeding depends on how he handles it, and how he par 5 ries the defense, which will be offered \ by the Attorney Generals personal at- i torneys, ex-Senator George B. Cham \ of Ohio. The latter was Daugherty' s
 lawyer in the impeachment proceedings
 last year. Both are highly capable lawyers.
 On the other side stands Wheeler,
 with reputation for fearlessness 4 gained in his own state as a prosecut- I ing attorney, and considerably increased i by his scorching denunciation of the q Attorney General in recent Senate @ speech. Wheeler is intensely earnest E and will throw into the investigation all the force of his legal mind and his western energy.
 Under Fire For Years
 Between the battle lines will sit Daugherty, who has been the center 4 of political storms for years. He has 3 Dc n under fire off and on since his first Ainvestigation' in 1892 on charge lof being corruptly influenced to cast his vote as a member of the Ohio leg H islature for John Sherman, candidate \ for the United States Senate. Daugharty
 was cleared Though that was the last
 public office he held iantiL he ebeseEle 4 Attorney General, he has been. a politi.
 cal .'Warwickn in state and national
 elections ever since.
 Daugherty ran for the nomination
 for senator from Ohio in 1916, but was 5 defeated, mainly through the Morse
 case" which has been flung at him < since. On this ground he was attacked
 in the Senate in the Harding admins T tration, and the case was aired in the
 impeachment proceedings brought by
 Keller.
 Morse Against Rim
 It will come to the forefront again |s in this investigation Wheeler has re. X gently been in touch with Charles W. N Morse, who has turned against the man [ who was active in getting him pardoned M in the Taft administration. This is X not new story. Neither are some of < the other charges which Wheeler has
 made. Laxity in pushing war frauds
 cases, deliberate conniving at the
 looting" of naval oil reserves in Cali fornia were points in the case brought by Keller. :: Wheeler adds others to these, some M of recent development, such as failure to arrest Col. Charles R. Forbes and |Iothers named in the veterans bureau jIinvestigation, and the three principals < lin the oil probe, former Secretary of ] the Interior Fall, D. l.. Doheny and - Harry F. Sinclair. Delay in acting on
 complaints presented to the department x of justice by the federal trade cOmmis. 4 sion is another complaint. In addi- x tion, Wheeler is said to have other
 charges not heretofore presented. * Wheeler will outline these charges & when he appears before the special com. |H mittee at it's preliminary session Mon.
 day. He said Sunday that he had not N yet decided on the order of their pres N entation, nor how the numerous wit A nesses will be called. The actual in 3' vestigation is expected to start the X latter part of the week.
 .l It is indicated already that this in # yestigation and the oil inquiry will be \ -- ffsanfin,laA nn 'nsaan rwa- raiunnR Eanrl