Show LEAVES COOLIDGE CABINET PRESIDENT ASKS ATTORNEY GENERAL TO HAND IN resignation bis dismissal missal of cabinet member Is result of investigation now being held by members of congress washington attorney general harry flarry daugherty intimate friend and political adviser of the harding arding II administration was forced out of office friday by the fire of a senate investigating committee committe which eted president coolidge to ask his bil resignation n at io n desiga th the man n w who h 0 more than any other affected the nomination of the late president harding arding II went out after a long struggle in which he defied the tha senate and house committee to find hin him guilty of wrongdoing in office and opposed the counsel of senatorial friends to resign his big post voluntarily the ouster of the attorney general came with dramatic suddenness after weeks of speculation as to how long president coolidge would resist the demands that he put hi him m out many of Coolid intimate friends and numerous republican leaders in and out of congress persuaded coolidge insistently to act for the good of the party even indirect methods were employed to indicate to daugherty that it would please the president if he got out but daugherty remained adamant he would leave he said only if guilt of misconduct in office were prove proved d against him or if coolidge personally demanded it meantime the senate committee investigating vesti gating his conduct of the department of justice began hearings which to date have developed the most extraordinary tra and sensational stories of intrigues deals of all kinds and the interchange of huge sums of money for mysterious purposes interchanged between men according to the testimony who were intimate friends of daugherty or involved with friends of his attorney general daughertyk Daughert ys letter ot of resignation announced from the white house friday follows my dear sin mr president 1 I hereby acknowledge receipt ot of your letter ot of march 27 by the hand ot of your secretary requesting my resignation sign atlon as attorney general of the united state solely out of 0 inference difference and in compliance therewith I 1 hereby tender my resignation while you do not state when you desire my resignation to become effective I 1 must respectfully request that it become effective forthwith yours tours vry truly n H 11 31 DAUGHERTY attorney general |