The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-04-04
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Attorney General Daugherty
Resigns at the Request of
President Coolidge.
BY EDWARD W. PIcKARD

BY EDWARD w. PlckARD
A T LAST President Coolidge has
~ rid himself and his Administered
ton Of the incubus of Attorney Cen
eral Daugherty. Last Thursday the
President in writing asked the resigna-
ton Of Daugherty from the cabinet.
The resignation was received at the
White House next morning and was
Immediately accepted. 1t went into
effect at once.
Mr.. Coolidge's immediate reason for
requesting Daugherty to get out was
the position the latter had taken in
refusing to open the confidential files
of the Department Of Justice. to the
Brookhart investigating committee.
Daugherty made good in his expressed
determination not to leave the cab
met unless the President directly
asked him to do SO. Now he and his
supporters feel that he has not been
fairly treated, in that the investiga-
ton into his conduct has not been
completed.
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A L JENNINGS, evangelist, politi-
"A clan and former train robber,
presented to the senate oil committee
his promised "whale of story" It
was to the effect that in 1920 the late
Jake Hamon, then Republican national
committeeman from Oklahoma. told
him that Harding was to be nominated
for president and that it had cost
Hamon $1.OO0,000. He said that $780,
600 Of this was given to the late Sen
ator Penrose Of Pennsylvania and
$4,000 to VIII Hays. Hamon told
him. continued Jennings, that he was
to be made secretary of the interior
and was to share in public lands.
However, he was killed soon after the
election.
Jennings also quoted Hamon as hav-
Ing said that with the money he would
make he eventually would become
president Of the United States.
WASN'T Hamon for Wood at the
start?" asked Senator Bursum.
HE never liked Wood" Jennings
replied. "He said Wood was too much
impregnated with the id fool hon.
esty of Theodore Roosevelt.
Roxie Stinson told the senate COM
mittee Investigating Attorney General
Daugherty lot more alleged facts
damaging to the reputation Of him and
his associates. and some of them were
confirmed from other sources. Her
most sensational story was about a
1888, 100000 oil stock deal" carried out
in the fall of 1922 by five men of ma
tional prominence, whom she declined,
for the time being, to name. She said
Daugherty and Jess Smith, her d.
v0rced husband, were sore because
they were not in on it This alleged
deal was in Sinclair stocks, but Roxie's
story was so vague that it was re-
garded generally as fanciful.
Harry Sinclair's refusal to answer
any more questions of the Teapot
Dome committee was reported to the
senate and that body, by vote of Y
to /, decided to turn the matter over
to the federal grand jury. The Ques-
ton is one of the constitutional limi-
tations of the powers of congress, and
1t will ultimately be carried to the
Supreme court for decision. C. G.
Chase, son-in-law Of Albert Fall, also
refused to testify, and as he held the
position Of collector of customs at Ell
Paso the senate voted for his impeach-
ment for conspiracy by the house. It
was informed that Chase had already
resigned. but. as Senator Helm
doomed, .'too late, too late. the day
of judgment has come"
The President still, to all appear
ance, is not Disconnected by the
oil and Daugherty revelations. Last
week, at the suggestion of the general
board of the navy. he appointed
commissioner to determine the best
means of conserving the nations oil
supply. The members are George Otis
Smith, director Of the geological sur
vey; Rear Admiral Hilary T. Jones.
U. S. N. president of the general
board and former commander in chief
Of the United States fleet, and 4. D.