U.S. SCANDALS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 180, 24 April 1924, Page 7

U.S. SCANDALS

DAUGHERTY GIVES SITUATION A NEW TURN ALLEGED CORRUPTION OF WITNESSES By Telegraph—Press Association, —COPYRIGHT. (Rec. April 23, 8.5 p.m.) Washington, April 22. Mr. Daugherty, who recently resigned the Attorney-Generalship, gave the scandals situation a new turn when he issued a remarkable statement, declaring he has “affidavtis and documents signed by witnesses appearing before the Senate averring that words were put into their mouths and they were corruptly influenced to tell untruthful stories of a character injurious to me.” The statement, while bristling with counter-accusations, makes the unusual plea that the American people will not listen to the destroyers of character. The Senate Committee, which has been dragging on day after day, revealing apparently without end details of every imaginable kind of corruption, has been methodically inquiring during the last few days into the disappearance of confiscated liquors from the vaults of the Department of Justice, which witnesses affirm were distributed among friends throughout Washington and various high officials. Daugherty’s statement declares that this is untrue, and says he is not a hypocrite who ostensibly enforced the law and drank privately or furnished friends with drink. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.