Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-12
THE ATLANTA rR1-wEEKLY journal

prisonment from which he was saved by q
fve-to-four decision of the supreme court
declaring the act under which he was con-
victed to be unconstitutional. So insist
ent was the public demand for, probe
that the administration forces in the Senate
at length were constrained to act. Having
heard The evidence, they adopted resolutions
describing the Expenditure of such excessive
sums In behalf of a candidate" as contrary
to sound public policy, harmful to the honor
and dignity of the Senate and dangerous to
the perpetuity of free government" Yet, in
the next breath, they voted that Newberry
retain hi seat
From such standards the iniquitles of
Fall, a Forbes and a Daugherty are bred
naturally as flies from q garbage can. The
Roosevelt administration, the Taft admins.
tration, the Wilson administration all vigi-
national defense, those two great fuel oil
reserves, 7,hch the present administration,
through it's former secretary OF the interior,
handed over to private interests. And when
it was brought to light that The shameful
leases had been accompanied by "loans' in
the sum of one hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars to Albert B. Fall, to whom
the department OF the interior had been en-
trusted, what was the reaction In admins
trative circles? The World apty comments.
"The honest men (of the Cabinet) claim that
Hughes has made 8 public statement, saying
that the oil leases did not come before the
Cabinet, and apparently he expects the coun-
try to be satisfied with this explanation of
why Mr. Hughes, Mr.. Hoover, Mr.. Mellon
and others inside the cabinet did not know
as much about them as men like Senators
La Toilette and Walsh outside the Cabinet.
The plea that the honest men were ignorant
may be true, but it does not inspire conf
excused on grounds of abnormal stupidity"
After turning over the oil reserves of the
national fleet to so notorious an enemy Of
conservation as Fall despite the warning
counsel of the naval bureau of engineering
Mr.. DENLY acknowledged that he was igno-
rant of even the broad outlines of the leases
which had cost his department and the ma
ton dear. Such was the administrations
secretary of the navy.
NH
was entrusted command of the Veterans
Bureau with it's disbursements of four hun
dred and fifty million dollars year, is too
notorious to call for further recital. Be it
observed, however, that Republican Senate
committee itself refers to the investigation
as having disclosed "wretched incompetence,
waste and dishonesty" while the commit
tees counsel, General O'Rryan declares: cit
has been conclusively established by the tes-
dence, and by the corroborative effect of the
numerous telltale circumstances broug out,
that fraud and corruption existed in the
bureau, and that Director Forbes was lead
ing actor in an established conspiracy to de-
fraud the Government" Defrauding the
Government and its taxpayers is bad enough,
but what shall be said of those who steal the
comforts, the projections and the necessities
of soldiers whose bodies were broken for
their country, and who now lie helpless?
Fall, Forbes and Daugherty! Was there
ever such trio in any other administration :?
OF the last the World says, after every allow
ance for unreliable" testimony concerning
him: 1.-The fact remains, and it is nowhere
challenged, that granted these men (wit-
nesses who have figured in charges against
Daugherty) liars in their : of brides,
the Attorney General of the United States
lived on terms of intimacy with men who
dealt in crime. Finally, when Daugherty has
been vociferous in his affirmation of inno-
cence, he has to this day never undertaken
under oath and on the witness stand to deny
the specific charges brought to prove that
through Jess Smith the influence of the high
est legal office in the nation was sold"
| That men like these set the moral stand
ard of the entire Harding Coolidge admins
tration is not for a moment to be implied
for if they did, government would fall from
sheer rsttenness. But it is not to be gain
said that affairs at Washington during this