Show DAUGHERTY LEAVES I COOLIDGE CABINET PRESIDENT ASKS ATTORNEY GENERAL TO HAND IN RESIGNATION Dismissal of Cabinet Member Is Re Re- suit of I Investigation Now Being Being Be Be- ing Held By Members of Congress Washington Attorney General Harry Daugherty intimate fri friend nd and political adviser of the Harding administration was was forced out of office office office of of- fice Frida Friday by the fire of a senate investigating committee w which h hie i c h President Coolidge to ask his resignation The man who more than any other affected the nomination of the late President Harding went out after fter a 1 along along long struggle in which he defied the senate and house committee to find him guilty of wrongdoing in office and opposed the counsel of senatorial senator ial friends to resign his post volun volun- The ouster of the attorney general came with dramatic suddenness af after after af- af fter f- f ter weeks of of speculation as to how howlong howlong howlong long President Coolidge would resist the demands that he put him out Many of Coolidge's intimate friends and numerous Republican leaders in and out of congress persuaded persuaded per per- Coolidge insistently to act for forthe forthe forthe the good of the party But Daugherty remained adamant He would leave he said only if guilt of misconduct in office were prove proved against him or if Coolidge personally demanded it Meantime the senate committee investigating investigating investigating in in- his conduct of the department department department depart depart- ment of justice began hearings which to date have developed the most extraordinary extraordinary ex ex- and sensational stories of intrigues deals of all kinds and the interchange of huge of sums mone money for mysterious purposes purposes interchanged ed between men according to the testimony who were intimate friends of Daugherty or involved with friends of his Attorney General let ter of resignation announced from the White House Friday follows My lIY Iy Dear Mr Ir President I hereby acknowledge receipt o of your letter of March 27 7 by liy the hand of your secretary requesting my resi re re- si as attorney general of the United State Solely out of difference and in inc c compliance therewith I hereby tends tende m my resignation While you do not state when you desire my resi resignation J Jt t to become effective I must reSle respect respectfully t. t ful fully request that it 1 become effective t forthwith Yours wry vry vr t truly uly II M. M Attorney Gene General a |