Early in 1924, the junior senator from Montana, Burton K. Wheeler opened an investigation into misdoings in the Justice Department under the late President Harding. The airing of Attorney General Harry Daugherty’s habit of trading influence for cash led to the AG’s reluctant resignation on March 28, 1924. On April 8, 1924, a Federal Grand Jury in Montana, meeting without a court reporter, charged Wheeler with “accepting compensation for…services rendered in relation to any proceding…in which the United States is a party.” In other words, Wheeler had been accused of the same crimes that had driven Daugherty out of office.
Author Nathan Masters, in his excellent book Crooked: The Roaring Twenties Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the birth of the American Political Scandal, details a speech made on the Senate floor by Burton Wheeler on the following Monday. Here he paraphrases:
Julie Means Kane - Author 
Thank you for posting this commentary regarding Attorney General Harry Daugherty. Of course, none of us were there, nor were we even yet born. I’m fully aware of how individuals tend to find a scapegoat to divert attention from the true culprit(s). For some balance, I recommend reading Harry Daugherty’s side of the story in his book The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy. Thanks again!
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Thanks for this! His book is already on my reading list. — JMK
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