WASHINGTON SCANDALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18689, 21 April 1924, Page 7

WASHINGTON SCANDALS.

EVIDENCE OF CORRUPTION. A. and N.Z.—Sun. WASHINGTON, Apl. 18. Giving evidenco before the Senate Committee which is investigating the Department of Justice scandals, Gaston Means provided a new sensation. He asserted that the late J. Smith equally divided 250,000 dollars with the AttorneyGeneral, Daugherty, which he collected from the New York bootleggers' ring. The ring claimed the return of the money because the plans for securing liquor went wrong, but Smith, accordingto the confession ho made to Means, i told them he could not repay it because Daugherty had taken his share and refused to give it up. Howard Mannington and Daugherty a brother both refused to testify before th. "SSS-W relaW °" Hamon told hta that Mr. Foil's appou Secretary of the Interior was resting him 500.000 dollars, one-third P aya j the remainder in four years. Hamon ha SS" wanted General Wood to A President, and had a Cabinet prepared, but General Wood declined to promise

"to'E-.. m B»U«d that Mr. Harding, who had been selected by Sinclair's crowd, had chosen Mr. Fall.. It was as simple as buying a steer* ..