AMERICAN SCANDALS.
A COUNTER-CHARGE
AN ALLEGED CONSPIRACY,
(Australian and N.Z Cable Association.)
WASHINGTON, April 10.
The Democrats moved swiftly to vindicate Senator Wheeler. The Senate adopted a resolution to investigate Senator Wheeler’s counter-charge that the indictment was a Republican conspiracy to ruin his reputation and abort the Senate's Daugherty enquiry.
Senator Walsh, who introduced the resolution. defended' Senator Wheeler, and branded the indictment as a political trick to divert attention from the committee’s serious disclosures.
Senator Wheeler, in a bitterly indignant speech, declared, that the indictment was one of the most damnable conspiracies ever hatched in the United. States, saying .- ‘‘My client was an independent operator, who was being robbed by the big oil interests holding Governmentleases, but I never appeared on his behalf in any Federal department. lam not asking for sympathy, but -want the Senate to know the truth.” Chairman Brookhart. meanwhile, stated the Daugherty committee’s investigations will proceed' with a force and determination it had never known before.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16405, 11 April 1924, Page 5
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