Evening star., 1924-02-21
Senator Understands Presi-
dent Was Advised - Evil
dence indicating Attorney
General Bought Sinclair
Shares, He Says.
MOVE TO FORCE CUSTER
is STARTED IN SENATE
Drive Follows Failure Of G. O. P.
Senators Plea That White House
Voluntarily Drop Justice De-
rartment Head-New Accusa-
tions to Be Aired at Hearing.
By the Associated Press.


BY the Associated Press.
Senator Wheeler, democrat, Mon
tana, author OF the resolution pro-
posing all investigation OF Attorney
General Daugherty's administration,
said today he understood informa-
tion indicating that the Attorney
General had dealt in Sinclair stocks
had been laid before the President.
Information came to me through
a special investigator" said Sem
ator Wheeler, indicating that Mr..
Daugherty had dealt in Sinclair oil
stocks. and | understand that those
facts were laid before the Presi-
dent"
1t can now be disclosed that this
information formed the subject mat
ter of the last Sundays conferences
between Chairman Lenroot and
Senators Wheeler and Walsh, demo-
crat, Montana, and Atlee Pomerene,
a special government counsel in the
oil cases.
Say Investments Lost.
The story as it has reached sena-
tors is that the Investments were
comparatively small. and resulted ul-
timately in sale of the stock eta
loss.
AS an outgrowth of these discus
sions, republican senators held a
conference Yesterday, and Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts, the party
floor leader. and Senator Pepper, re-
publican, Pennsylvania, were dele
gated to inform the President that
in the opinion of the republican Sen
ate organization Mr. Daugherty
should retire from the cabinet.
What Mr.. Coolidge replied is not
revealed. Both Mr.. Lodge and Mr..
Pepper declined today TO discuss even
the purpose of their long conference
with the President, and White House
officials remained silent.
After the Sunday afternoon confer
ences Chairman Lenroot and Mr. Pom
creme visited the White House Sunday
evening. Senator Lenroot said to-
day that certain Information which
had been brought to his attention
had been discussed with the Presi-
dent, but he still refused to discuss
the nature of the information.
Borah Urges Retirement.
Later in the evening Senator Borah,
republican, Idaho, also called on Mr..
Coolidge, and Mr.. Daugherty joined
the conference. At this meeting oil
was not discussed, but Mr.. Borah
frankly told the Attorney General
that he should retire, because the
country and Congress had lost conf
dence in him.
In the face of the story Of Oil trad
ing, the Attorney General has re-
manned adamant in his determination
not to quit the cabinet. He spent
most OF today at work at his hotel
on war frauds cases, and told his in
Inmates again that he had no inten-
tion of resigning.
guilty of no wrongdoing, and has
used no confidential information as
the basis of stock investments.
1t was to run down the report of
oil investments by Mr.. Daugherty that
the committee set auditors at work
examining the books of Harry Payne
Whitney, New York financier. and j.
p. Bernhard & Co., New York stock
DTokeTaSe nr1n.
The result of this examination.
now in progress in New York, is
not known here.
Dawes Name Mentioned.
Efforts to run down another report
of transactions by Mr.. Daugherty.
Charles G.. Dawes, first director of
the budget; Albert B. Fall, former
Secretary of the Interior, and other
high officials in the stock of another
oil company, rot in anywise in
rolved in the Senate investigation,
are being made through examination
of the books of other brokers'
Some members of the oil commit
tee said today that this was one
purpose of the examination of the
books of Ungerleider G. Co. a Cleve-
land stock brokerage firm, which
formerly maintained a branch in
Washington under the management
or James Sloane, jr, former White
House attache.
The audit Of the books of the
CORNER Washington branch has been
completed, it was said, and the ex-
pert accountants now are working on
the books in the main Office at Clcve-
land. The results of the audit of
been made known to the committee.
PabIic Probe Planned.
Preparations went forward today
for the public inquiry into Mr..
Daughertys administration of the
Justice Department, provided for in
Il resolution by Senator Wheeler. Re-
publican Senate leaders are under
stood to have consented to the Sc
lection Of Senator Brookhart, repub-
lican, Iowa, as chairman of the in
vestigation committee. as proposed
by Senator Wheeler himself.
Senator Brookhart is one Of those
who has voted on several occasions
with the La Toilette insurgent bloc,
and the Senate leaders at first had
suggested that some other senator be
chosen to head the committee. Sena-
tor Wheeler insisted that he wanted
n real investigation, however, and
the republican managers appeared to-
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