NEW SENSATION

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 177, 21 April 1924, Page 7

NEW SENSATION

INQUIRY INTO UNITED STATES SCANDALS DIVISION OF MONEY FROM BOOTLEGGERS By Telegraph—Pbbss Association. Copt.WGHT. Washington, April 18. At the .Senate inquiry, Mr. Gaston was the means of providing a new sensation when he asserted that Jess Smith equally divided with Daugherty the 250,000 dollars which was collected from a New York bootleggers’ ring. The smugglers claimed the return of the money because the plans for securing the liquor went wrong; but Jess Smith, according to a confession ho made, told them he could not repay it, because Daugherty had taken his share and refused to give it up. Howard Mannington and Daugherty’s brother both refused to testify before the committee. —Sydney “S<un” Cable. A “SLATE” CABINET WHAT ONE APPOINTMENT COST Washington, April 18. At the Senate inquiry, Henry Ballard related how Jake Hamon told him that Mr. Fall’s appointment as Secretary of the Interior was costing him half a million dollars, of which a third was payable in cash and the remainder durinir the four following years, Hamon had originally wanted General Wood for President, and had a “Slate” Cabinet prepared : but General Wood declined to promise anything. Later Hamon told Ballard that Mr. Harding had been selected by "Sinclair’s Crowd,” who had chosen Mr. Fall. “It was as simple as buying a steer,” he said. —Reuter.