The Holly chieftain., 1924-02-28
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
DENLY Resigns From Cabi-
net and President Is Urged
to Drop Daugherty.
BY EDWARD W. PIckARp

- AM vi NAV DfN-
- 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 resigna-
tion. effective March 10, and 1t 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 1t was
the unanimous opinion OF the Repub-
Ilcan 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 1t 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 !:
my own vindlcation and that Of the
y
proper ventilation of nll questions con-
nected with these leases In the Impair
tial courts. AS private citizen. II
have committed any offense against
the law, am still subject to action. I
am able to fight my own battles. but I
cannot fight slander protected by SEN
atorial immunity. No one more than I
can more deeply deplore fraud or cor
ruption in public or private life, and
where such guilt is shown 1t should be
vigorously punished.
"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 manehvers
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
by's successor has not vet been named.
Senator Burton X. 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
inals 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 n legacy of
S25,0OO. Senator Wheeler raised the
question OF whether the attorney gen.
eral received share of such pay
ments. and declared that If he had not
"he is bigger fool than the people of
the United States give him credit for
being"
Mr.. Dargherty denied Mr.. Wheeler's
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 letter to Special Prosecutors
Pomerene and Roberts, placing at their
disposal the machinery of the Depart
ment of Justice The senate had con-
frmed the nomination of Mr.. Roberts
nv vote of 6S to s.
THROUGH the senate investigating
l. committee held no public hearings
during the week, 1t was busy inqulrlng
into the alleged "milllon-dollar slush
fund" and with preparations to bring
to light stock transactions connected
with the oil leases. There was lot
of Scandal talk" circulating and vari-
cnS prominent men were mentioned.
Mr. Daugherty frankly admitted that
he had bought and sold stocks, as he
had been doing for years, and Senator
David ElkIns OF West Virginia issued
u statement saying he had bought Sin
clair oil stocks, but without any
fnuwledge with respect to the Oil
lenses Harry Sinclair returned from