Senators levelled their fingers at Edwin Denby and cried "Oil!" The result was that Mr. Denby resigned (TIME, Feb. 25) on the ground that he was an embarassment to the President. At once Senatorial fingers began to turn towards Harry Micajah Daugherty, Attorney General.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, Democratic radical called for an investigation of alleged failure by Mr. Daugherty to institute prosecutions under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act on evidence brought out in the Veterans Bureau investigation and on evidence disclosed in the oil investigation. The resolution was referred to...
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