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Daugherty Quits on Request Os Coolidge; Makes Hot Reply & . (Continued from First I‘airr.i the hand of your secretary, requesting my resignation as Attorney General of the United States. “Solely out of deference to your request and in compliance therewith. I hereby tender my resignation. While you do not state when you desire my resignation to become effective. 1 must respectfully request that it become effective forthwith. t “Yours verv trulv, “11. M. DAUGHERTY. “Attorney General.” Follows Senator** Advice. In deciding in favor of another break in his cabinet. President C'ool idgo followed the almost unanimous advice of republicans in the Senate, some of whom, including Senator Borah, of Idaho, have been urging for weeks that Mr. Daugherty had lost the confidence of the country. The factor which had greatest “ weight In bringing the question of Mr. Daugherty’s status to an acute issue was a conviction on the part of the President thja.t under present con- i ditions public business is not receiv ing the attention merited by it in the | Department of Justice. ) See* Officials Tied I p. * Since the Senate investigation of the | department began, on March 12, Mr. I Coolidge has seen plain indications j that some department officials were | giving a large part of their attention to the defense of Mr. Daugherty, to the apparent detriment of their reg ular pursuits. There is no doubt, also, that ahe re peated charges made before the Sen ate committee, leading directly to the door of the Attorney General’s office, although not involving him directly, \ have had their influence in finally de- | termining his fate. Mr. Daugherty had insisted that ho ; h< permitted to remain in office until he had been given opportunity to j , answer fully all the charges made before the investigating committee. I As the testimony has developed, however, it has become apparent that if he were to vindicate his depart- ' merit it would become necessary for | him to disprove also the cltarges against Jess Smith and others closely associated with him. Oil Stock Transactions. Besides the Daugherty committee disclosures, testimony has been given before tha oil committee that the Attorney General dealt in Sinclair oil Stock after he entered the cabinet; that he and others in the Justice De partment were seeking to shield Ed ward B. McLean from appearance on the witness stand in the oil inquiry. • arid that McLean himself was a secret agent of the department. Retention of Mr. Daugherty in the ' cabinet w.as one of the strongest links by which President Coolidge, when he assumed office, tied up the polit ical fortunes of his administration with those of the uncompleted ad ministration of his predecessor. I/Ong I a personal friend of Mr. Harding, the I retiring Attorney General was the ; preconvention Harding campaign ! manager in 1920, and he ent?red the j cabinet acclaimed as the Warwick of the new regime in Washington. | Throughout President Harding's : lifetime their close association re- ' tnained unbroken. When criticism of 1 the Attorney General began, and 1 when his usefulness had been greatly i impaired a year ago by illness. Mr. I Harding assured him that he would i find only support and confidence at : the White House. , First High Office Held. The post of Attorney General was [ the first high public place ever held by .Mr. Daugherty and hi* administra- j tion of the Department of Justice was j perhaps more continually under fire ) during his tenure of office than any j other federal agency under this re- 1 publican regime. It was, at the same | time, strongly commended for posi- L five positions adopted on many oc- ! casions. Mr. Daugherty was frequently as- i sailed in Congress, one of the attacks j culminating in impeachment proceed ings, but he was exonerated by the i House by a one-sided vote. Ho was j assailed for the .alleged part he played ■ * in obtaining the release from Atlanta i l.risen of Charles \V. Morse, banker, j during the Taft administration, and i i was constantly under attack by or- ; , ■ anized labor, particularly after he used the injunction if) Irving to break >• up the rail strike in 1922. j. Impeached h.v Keller. The impeachment proceedings were initiated by Representative Keller, republican. 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He then made fourteen specific charges, all carrying general assertion of deliberate failure and neglect, fraud and deceit. When the committee tried to obtain from Mr. Keller supporting evidence, it failed to get anything it regarded as definite, and the Minnesota mem ber finally claimed the inquiry was not being fairly conducted, and said ! he was "through with the case.” Fur | ther efforts to get him to testify j failed, and when the House received ; the committee’s report, it voted to ex ! operate the Attorney General, 204 to Attack on Injunction. Officials of the American Federation I of Labor appeared in the inquiry to j support the attack on the. injunction he obtained in Chicago against thc raii strikci*. The Attorney General's friends claimed this was one of bis boldest strokes in protecting public interest, while, his enemies condemned the action most vigorously. He in sisted. also, that he had acted as a sincere fr’end of labor. There was much controversy, too, over Mr. Daugherty’s ruling that | foreign ships could not bring liquor ! stores into American waters and tiiat ! American ships must remain dry J wherever they may be. Only the I former of these two propositions was j upheld by the Supreme Court. Recently there have been repeated attacks on the Department of Justice in regard to delays and failures to convict in the war fraud cases. | | Notable among these cashes was the i j Chemical Foundation proceeding and that against Charles W. Morse, in I neither of which was the department | able to get a favorable verdict. Baal* of Investigation. The war frauds prosecutions and I the delay in prosecuting those ac- j cased in the Veterans’ Bureau and 1 oil inquiries were among the specific questions referred to In the resolu tion of Senator Wheeler, democrat, asking the Senate investigation. This resolution was introduced after a re- , quest for a hearing had been made | by Mr. Daugherty on the basis of a I previous resolution by Mr. Wheeler ! demanding his resignation. Mr. Daugherty was born at Wash- i ington Court House, Ohio, and passed ! his sixty-fourth birthday last Jan- | uary 26. He was only four years old | when his father died, and through his 1 own efforts obtained an education. I graduating from tire University of ! Slichigan at twenty-one. He began j the practice of law in his home city. : but removed to Columbus. Ohio, in ! | 1593. He organized the law firm of i < Daugherty, Todd & Rarey in 1902 and i | remained senior member of the firm . until his appointment as Attorpey ! | General. I G. 0. P. LEADERS PLEASED. ■ Lodge. Borah and Pepper Wanted i Action Weeks Ago. i The resignation of Attorney General i ! Daugherty at the request of President j Coolidge was received at the Capitol to- ; day with no little satisfaction by re- I publican leaders. It is well known that i Senator Lodge, the republican leader, j and Senator Borah of Idaho and Sena- j tor Pepper of Pennsylvania sought to i bring about the retirement of Mr. I j Daugherty from’ the cabinet weeks ago. j i The action of the President, therefore, ■ in requesting the resignation of Mr. Daugherty was well received. I- Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the ! democratic leader of the Senate, took the position that the President should 1 have requested Mr. Daugherty’s resig nation long ago. he said: "It would seem that Mr. Daugh srty's resignation should have been called for by the President long ago, inasmuch as his administration of the department had been generally discredited. I took occasion to point out in the Senate when the investi- j gation was authorized that if the At torney General remained in office he would employ all the agencies in the department to impede and thwart the Senate committee in its investigation. The refusal of the Attorney General' to give access to the Senate commit Sale or Exchange Business Property | A modern fireproof business building located one-half a square off 14th Street, south of Thomas Circle. Now under lease at $6,000 per annum. Owner will consider exchange for well rented apartment house or larger business property. ** For Further Particulars Apply Hedges & Middleton, Inc. Realtors 1334 H Street N.W. Franklin 9503 I ■ w ; Qantrell & (Cochrane Qinger^Ale Tor family use order this highest quality Ginger Ale in the 16-ounce size nowon sale at the popular price E. 8c J. BURKE, Ltd., NEW YORK Sole Agents, U. S. A. and Canada _ / THi*: EVKNLNU, STAR, WASHINGTON, U. C., FRIDAY,_M ARCH__2B,_I924. toe to the files of the department is an illustration in point. “The President would have been justified in putting at the head of the Department of Justice long ago : _ Daugherty Rated as Closest Political Friend of Harding i Resignation of.Harry M. Daugher- m ty today as Attorney General marks' the passing from the administration i of the closest personal friend and po- i lltical adviser of the late President i Harding. ! It was Harry M. Daugherty who years ago got behind Warren G. Harding, who is said to have urged i Harding out on the platform to j | make his first public speech, who ! managed his campaign at the repub- \ lican national convention nominal- i ing him, and who came into power i and remained as perhaps the closest i confidant of the late I’resident. i Daugherty has b*vn known among < his friends and enemies as a friendly fighting man. He has been the stormy petrel in many a climax in his per sonal and political career, and has relished a battle. Several times he has been the sub ject of attack from Capitol Hill. , which sought to remove him from j office for various reasons, but each ' time he weathered the storm until j today, for reasons explained by hint- | ; self, lie decided to withdraw. j . The major attacks against him have f I been on account of his prosecution !of war profiteers, which whs alleged ! to have been too slow, his former J connections with Morse, the ship- , I builder, which caused a furore, final- j i ly subsiding, following explanations;; j liis famous injunction suit against I the railway unions and finally his . general conduct of the Department j , of Justice. j ] ( oarage Praised by Friends. ! I Daugherty lias been praised and!' adhered to by his friends as a iaw- i yer of ability, a political genius, as | ' a cabinet member and presidential I , adviser of sterling character and un- ; ' daunted courage. Although suffering from ill health | much of the time, personally worried ; over the invalidism of his wife and 1 i harassed by the attacks of his ene-j , jnies from many quarters. Mr. Daugh- , , i erty fails to show his sixty-four years ; ( I of age. i; Mr. Daugherty was born in Wash-j , ington Court House, Ohio, received his ; ( education in the local high school and j ( at the University Os Michigan, where , , he received the degree of bachelor of; ? ! laws. Opening his practice at Washington | i Court House, he moved later to Co- i j lumbus, in 1893. and from that city j 1 | directed the activities which were ■ later to take him to the cabinet of | I j the Harding administration. ; I Held Few Office*. j _ j Although a candidate for office i 1 j many times. Mr. Daugherty was elect- ! j jed to few offices, but remained a!. I power in the political counsels of his j i party. It lias been his boast that he j ] j never but once backed a candidate for ; , i election who failed to win. He was first elected a township j | clerk in Fayette county; his birth-i- I place. He served in the city council ‘ j of Washington Court House for two j ; terms in the late SO's. and as a mem- j 1 her of that body helped to put ! | through one of the first municipal j j prohibition acts. He served two I (terms in the general assembly from j Fayette county in t. 891 to 1894. Following this service he was a i candidate for the nomination for at- i ; torney general in 1895. when the coil- j 1 vention gave the nomination to j ; Frank S. Monett of Bueyrus. Then • ! in 1897 he became a candidate for j j governor, the selection falling upon i George K. Nash of Columbus. in i J 191 <5 he sought in the primary the J : nomination for United States senator.! I hut the choice fell upon former Gov. ; i Herrick, later defeated in the elec- j i tion by Pomerene. j Mr. Daugherty served in 1898 as ■ ___________ ' ' =■===-1; j I i I I i j I i I RECOMMKMOBO RY SCOTT ft BOWNg I I i some one who could be relifed upon to assist in the litigation growing out of the various investigations, as well as the general litigation of the de partment." chairman of the state committee and was active before legislative bodies in behalf of clients. He was als< in the hanking business as vie president of the former Columbu Savings and Trust Company. In 1912 Mr. Daugherty took l' - management of the Ohio campaig for Taft. In the primary Taft 10. a majority of the district delegate but the Taft-Daugherty force gained control of the state eonven tion. which selected the "Big Six" t the Chicago convention. Mr. Daugl erty became one of these and wsi active in the convention where Tal wan renominated over Roosevelt. FINK LODGED IN JAIL ON SWINDLE CHARGE Daugherty Inquiry Figure Unablf I to Make $20,003 Bond in Old Case. By the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, X. Y„ March 28. Alexander E. Fink, Buffalo stock broker, who was prominently mentioned by Miss Roxie Stinson in her testimony before the Senate committee investigating charges against Attorney General Daugherty, was arrested here Yesterday on a bench warrant issued under an in dictment charging him with swindling Mrs. Emma J. McCartney of Fairport out of $65,000 worth of railroad s-’curi- ! tics. Fink was found in a hotel room, liav- j ing come here secretly with his bonds- i man. Charles Jacobson, from Buffalo to arrange for bail on the grand larceny i harge. He posted $lO,OOO bail when arrested last October, but had failed to renew the bond after the grand jury in dicted him in November. He ignored demands by the district attorney’s office for his appearance to arrange hail mat- ; ters. Imprisoned for Bail. Arraigned before County Judge Oil- * iette, Fink pleaded not guilty, and bail ! was increased to $20,000. Unable to' furnish this amount, and deserted by his j bondsman. Fink was locked up. At the hearing Judge Gillette notified Jacobson to produce Henry Ellis of Buffalo, jointly indicted with Fink, by next Tuesday, or bail of $5,000 would be forfeited. Trial of the pair was set for May 22. 1 I Fink protested arrest, declaring lie was j under subpoena to appear before the Senate committee in Washington next ! week. He threatened local' authorities : with contempt proceedings. 1 l'ink was alleged by Attornev General : from Norway’s Seas SCOTT'S EMULSION The Strength-maker. ® cott A *mt, Bloanfteld. JT. 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