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Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 134, 25 March 1924, Page 5

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IN AMERICA’S WASHTEB. BRINGING THE PRESIDENT*INTO IT. (By Electric Cable.— Copyright). Aust. and JS.Z. t.abfo Association). Washington, March 23. The Daugherty cbmmittce’.s hearing reached a climax when Senator Wheeler demanded that President Coolidge suspend .Daugherty lrom his portfolio of -Attorney-General until the investigation is finished. Senator Wheeler sharply attacked President Coolidge for permitting Daugherty to retain tremendous power in controlling the secret service for personal advantage. "I think Daugherty stooped to a cowardly. dirty trick when he attacked the character of a poor, ‘defence-lees woman.” (Senator Wheeler here, referred to a statement issued by Daugherty, following Miss -Stinson’s charges). MISS STINSON’S STORY. Washington, March 23. .Miss Stinson (the divorced wile of th f . late Jesse Smith (who suicided in Daugherty’s apartment), resuming her testimony, ottered a variant concerning the late President Harding s nomination, declaring that Jesse Smith, who was Daugherty’s closest associate, told her ot a machination during the 1920 Republican Convention whereby Daugherty, as a return for ihe Harding nomination, extracted the latter’s promise to give the Secretaryship of the Interior to a representative of the oil interests.