The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-08
Lodge Launches
FrGiL Craft to
Salvage ID enb y
by The Federated Press
BY LAURENCE TODD

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that's what it is" cried Senator
Lodge, furiously, protesting in the
senate against the resolution de-
manding the resignation Of Secre-
tary DENLY. TT is an outrage on
every principle of justice and fair
play. It is a proposal to deprive this
official of the right to be heard; it
would strip him of all the ordinary
means Of defense; it gives him no
opportunity to avail himself of the
rights that are granted the mean
est skulking thief"
Nobody had called DENLY a mean,
skulking thief. He had merely been
charged, and proven by much testi-
mony, reviewed for the senate by
many of its prominent members,
to have known the unanimous pro-
test of the naval officers against his
giving away control of the naval
fuel supply to Fall He had been
shown to have taken part in this
lawless and indefensible betrayal of
public interest, and to have testified
afterward to abyssmal ignorance,
and finally to have written a letter
saying that if he had the chance
he would do it all over again. Then
the Robinson resolution had called
| offered the same resolution, as an
amendment, TO the Walsh resolut-
ton ordering suit to recover the oil
lands, and declaring their transfer
from the navy illegal.
Admits DENLY Wrong
Lodge admitted, with much re-
luctance, that DENLY had been in the
wrong all the way thru, but
argued that there was no proof
that he is not an honest man."
Maybe he had shown incompetence.
But that was the worst that could
be said of him.
On the other hand, Lodge begged
the senators to remainder, this de-
mand for resignation of a cabinet
member was a direct invasion of
the prerogative of the executive head
of the government. 1t violated the
plan laid down in the constitution.
1t is a dangerous move.
Borah indicated that he, too,
thought congress had no right to
dictate designations from federal Of
fice--it could only impeach.
Pittman asked why the senate,
which had exercised its constitu-
tional power in confirming Denby's
nomination to the Office he holds,
was not equally entitled to notify
the president that it had changed
its judgment as to Denby's fitness
to hold pubic Office. He agreed with
Borah, however, in asking TrammCtl
to withdraw the Deaby resignation
measure as an amendment to the
oil lease cancellation resolution, and
to let the senate deal separately
with it. TrammeH consented.
More Raw Justice Wanted
Lets have less of refined justice
and a little raw justice right here,
was Senator Howelis proposal. He
offered a substitute resolution on
the lease cancellation issue, where
by the government would proceed to
seize the naval oil lands, expel the
Sinclair and Doheny companies, on
the ground that they are trespass-
ers, and then bring suit to recover
the price of all oil thus far taken
from these reserves. The senate de-
feated this plan without a roll call,
just before it adopted, unanimously,
the Walsh resolution.
During the morning of this final
day of debate on the cancellation
measure, President Coolidge had,
for the first time, called to his Of
fee, any of the Democratic senator's.
Walsh. with Robinson, the minority
leaders, saw Coolidge for a few
minutes, and talked over the pros
ecutions which congress is now COM
polling him to begin. Republican
. leaders were also consulted by the
president, separately from the DEM
ocrats. The game seemed to be one
of sidetracking the resolutions de-
handing that DENLY resign. The
town was full of reports that Cool
idge had arranged for voluntary
patriotic" resignation by DENLY and
Daugherty, but had found them dis
inclined to get out unless he should
publicly guarantee their characters.
A. f. of L. Hits Daugherty
The A. f. of L. News Letter has
come to the support Of the movement
aimed at forcing Daugherty out OF
the cabinet. It contrasts his haste
in attacking the railroad shopmen,
thru injunctions, with his utter
disregard of lis duty of law-enforce-
ment in the Teapot Dome case.
There is now no press statement
from Daugherty, such as he fire.
quent.y gave out during the shop
mems strike, as TO how he would
protect government by law" The
suggestion is made that a few in
dividuals in this case may be made
scapegoats, but that the higher-ups
will go free and keep the swag they