The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-07
WILSON ATTACK ]. ] EABOOMERANG
 roc. 0. P. HEADS
Accused By Democrats Of Fastening Death Of
 Ex-President
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.f t. Wilson, Senator Caraway charged that the then Senator Fall, of New Mexico, had been sent to the White House by the Senate to turn back the covers" on President Wilson's bed to determine what his real condition was.
 Senator Walsh, of Montana, prose- cutor in the oil inquiry, declared as to debate was drawing to a close that Senator Lodge was undertaking to use the prestige of the presidency to mini mize the oil disclosures. '
 Senate discussion of the Presidents telegrans was opened! by Senator Har- rison with the declaration that when the American people found out that mes- Stages signed by the President of the United States had been sent to Mclean it will cause them further, to shuddcr, to tremble and lose confidence--My God--in this government of ours"
 "It is bad eno1sh," he said, when men employed at the White House send messages to Ned Mclean, when he. at-s mits openly, by his confession, that he has deceived the American people, mis-. represented facts, aye, even that he has. lied about a matter. It is bad enough when messages go to Mclean from employees at the White House when all sai;;,. thi, is asss breaking when the Teap0t is
 Tt is bad, too, when secret service codes, known only to the officials of the department of justice, are em- ployed by Ned Mclean and the enn- ployes of the department in communi- cation with each other. But when the facts are revealed that Ned Mclean, while all this guilt is being heaped upon him, seeks the President of the United States for information and con- sultation-here is the message:
 January 12, 1924.-
 Mind you it was. January II, one day before this message was trans mitted, that Ed Mclean confessed that he told a falsehood when he said he loaned to Fall the $100, 900. The papers were full of it. He was a self-con- fessed liaI Yet the very next day, over the private wires that led from the White. House, in which the American people place all their confidence, a message goes to Mclean down at Palm Beach. This is the message:
 Quotes Coolidge Message
 Washington, D. C., January 12, 1924, 9 p. m.
 Edward B. Mclean, Palm Beach,
 Fla.
 :" Prescott is away. Advise Slemp, with whom I shall confer. Acknowledge. "'(Signed) CALVIN COOLIDGE
 q hope that some real explanation can be made by the President. With the country in fever heat as it is to- day it is incumbent on the President to give statement to remove the sus- picion that is attached to that telegram. Not that Bascom Slemp, the secretary of the President, shall give out a state ment but that the President of the United States shall himself give all the facts touching it.
 T am aware that already there has been sent out, or given out, from the White House two or three lines, mak- ing some kind of an explanation of it, they think, but that is given out by,i Bascom Slemp. Bascom Slemp is the man who was appointed by the President after it was shown in the other Honse that he accepted money from appiiz cants, for appointment as postmasters, and hs said he turned it over,te the republican national committee to help pay the deficit. Bascom is. the man who went to Florida, and who q dozen times in Florida, as shown by the testi-
 
 was present practically every time." "Why The Go-BetWean?"
 q want to suggest to the senator" Senator Dill, democrat, Washington, eff it would not be inter estingN for the President to inform the country why he asked Mir. Mclean to ask Mir. Slemp, the Presidents private instead of asking Mir. Slemp What is, the relationship, that Mir. Mclean should be the Sgo-between the President and his own private sec retary.
 q cannot understand it at alI,'' re- turned Senator Harrison, land sim cerely hope for the good of the country and in the interest of restoring public confidence that the President will feel that he should give out statement un- fer his own signature and pray that It will be plausible, and that it will be in explanation of this whole s
 Averting later to Senator Harrison's Senator Lodge declared the telegram was really a perfectly trivial ,ne and a perfectly applicable one." He said the President had wanted to con- suit Mir. Prescott, who was chairman ,f the republican committee of the Dis triet of: Columbia, in regard to district matters and was informed that Mir. Prescott was away. --
 ''The matter required prompt action," Senator Lodge said, land the President she shape of gift from the govern nent, Mir. Quinn urged his colleagues to stand up for the poor men of this