U.S. SCANDALS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18972, 25 March 1924, Page 5

U.S. SCANDALS

STILL ANOTHER ALLEGATION. Received March 24, 11.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, March 23. Will Hays, Republican campaign manager in 1920, told the oil committee that he approached and obtained from Sinclair, who subsequently received the oil lease, 75,000 dollars with which to help liquidate the deficit l in a million dollar campaign. Curiously enough, Sinclair had been a liberal contributor to both Republican as well as Democratic election expenses. Sinclair also appeared before the committee, but refused to testify. The committee indicated that Sinclair would be cited for contempt.

DAUGHERTY’S RESIGNATION DEMANDED. Received March 24, 11.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, March 23. The Daugherty committee’s hearing reached a climax when Senator Wheeler demanded that President Coolidge suspend Daugherty 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, defenceless woman.” Senator Wheeler here referred to a statement issued by Daugherty, following Miss Stinson’s charge. MISS STINSON’S STORY. Received March 24, 11.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, March 23. Miss Stinson (the divorced wife of the late Joss Smith, who suicided in Daugherty’s apartment), resuming her testimony, offered a variant concerning the late President Harding’s nomination, declaring that Jesse Smith, who was Daugherty’s closest associate, told her of a machination during the 1920 Republican Convention whereby Daugherty, as a return for the Harding nomination, extracted the latter’s promise to give the Secretaryship of the Interior to a representative of the oil interests.