Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1924, Page 2

t f j C l V PAGE TWO SENATE OIL COMMITTEE MAKES PROBE OF LOANS FROM M'LERN (Cont ed from Page One) WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—At the re-opening of the oil committee public hearings today Chairman Lenroot read into the record a lette from E. L. Senator Wheeler, tana, be called to testify as to h statements on the senate floor tha Attorney General Daugherty was friend of Doheny. Democrat, Doheny demanding that Mon didn’t about of] matters; I didn't get a chance to talk to these gentlemen ‘g| 80 much as you'd think.” It did occur to me that it would the most natural,thing in the world for you to have conservative with those gentiemen” Senator is} Walsh pursued. at} “I do recall that after the testi- a| mony was given that Mr. McLean aid not nish Secretary Fall's er| be Charles B. Lyddane, vice prest-| $100,000," Mr. Slemp went T y ft n Na.-| was McLean's hotel and ves, as there. He said inging | } ed him to go to ts of Ed. nuda bu he was going to the late| stay In spite of health, until the committee got the facts. or Walsh, Democrat, Mon-| “Secretary Fall sald there was a nok the records. withdrawals durin id December. tor commented, and alsc figures fc in the 2 16, 19 id, was $2,002.40. he t he eted. = Mr. ation. Lyddane read figures showing the Senator Dil!, Democrat, Washing- account to have been $22,301 in nterrupted to fix the date of October, 1921 It ran up 2 down, conversation as January 13. dec stationary at the $2,002 nator Walsh asked if the wit: fi November and rem ness had mmunicated to the el until August you $50,000 « Senator Walsh aw $50,000 <¢ r n r nility of the fr. McLean aga this $2,000 bal- | qommi king the records. e?” Senator Walsh asked I have the messages here,” he “I never did," the witness replied | said, “but as a matter of fact none and was exc Jan H ed. ade: of th vice presiden Commercia They show. the sena. rs for Aug- ae- 1, the from Oc. gentleman who had been associated | with him for who knew the truth, ar t this man should tell the committee the fact. If the man didn’t, Secretary Fall said he would himself, and I advised him to do so."" Senator Dill, Democrat, Washing- ton, interrupted to fix the date of this conve is or White House as to these remark able facts.” Mr. Sle all the facts had ¢ the com. fullest way” but es to the V which dential. said tot ress mittee in th he had se Ho of them re’ t] Theer is 1] to making tt ate to the ofl matter. estion of precedent as em public.” a ¢ nal of Washington presented Senator Walsh did not take the records of Mr. McLean's personal | message copies. Mr. Slemp said he account in that bank. did not know Sinclair or Doheny The record showed the checking | Replying to another question, he necount for November and October, | declared that in testifying “I have 1921 and other months. At end of November Mr. McLean had $41,000 approximately, on deposit: On December 17, the account be came $2,011," Senator Walsh read, “and on December 24 it was $8,000." Had rangements “Not to my Had Mr. for $50,000 against this would it have been paid?” “I think it would after consulta ean made for overdrafts? knowledge.” accoun’ the ar. he McLean drawn a check sought no advice from any member of the cabinet or administration.” Chairman Lenroot asked a ques tion as to the president's statement on oll prosecutior “I've got to preserve every trans. action between the president and his secretary as oonfidentla!,” Mr. Slemp said. ‘I'll vary the custom so far as to say that it was on Satur- day night, and the president was down the river on his boat, about 9 D. m—" Mr. McLean's account, the wit-| President went down the river,” soapy + patndcnaied "| Senator Walsh intervened, “wasn't ness said, never had been over- 2 there a statement given cut that the drawn. He was excused and C.| (tant tad ordered havent Bascom Slemp, secretary to the Sg Rear en ee president, went on the stand, tion of Mr. Holland and Mrs. Sey- mour?” Mr. Slemp said he went to Palm | ™0ur?" : sca Beach, Fla., December and re-} &, ROR tL Fay yinowledgs,”* Mr, turned January 16. ° Mr.’ McLean | S!emp said, and A. B. at the Fall were in Palm Beach time. “I was in Palm Beach for fifty per cent of the time,” Mr. Slemp said, “and toured Florida for the t of the time. I met Mr. Me: n casually, several times. 1 fix dates, I was there for health and recreation “I joined the tourist crowd in Palm “Beach and there was much interest in ofl until it turned out you (Senator Walsh) were com- ing down. There was more con- versations about the Volstead law.” can't the committee about what you talked with Mr. McLean and Secre- tary root “I will say there was no private nor confidential talk between us,” replied Mr. Slemp. “I wasn’t an intimate of either man. Mr. Fall looked it seemed the desire of his associates to avoid the subject. “I met the two men at dinner or lunch. It was possible I met Secretary Fall two or three times before Senator Walsh came. I re- member once Secretary Fall said the committee wasn’t working along right lines. “I said ‘what are the facts about all this senator’ to Fall, and he re- sponde “*I wish, young man, you'd read the records.’ I want you to understand I had no knowledge or official mission down there. I wasn't representing President Coolidge, but seeking re creation The day before Senator Walsh arrived there, I met Mr. McLean, who told me he was going to ‘tell the committee the whole thing.’ I ‘think I told him I hoped he would. “I didn't want my trip there to be political, though it was given out it was so, and I received a continual stream of callers, who talked about local politics, and I got rather ac- curate information about that. I Good ingredients are necessary make delicious desserts. 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Glasgow, a Philadelphia at- doubt on its legality, torney was at Mr. Slemp’s hotel, but ly asking an opinion.” Secretary Fall had told him, -Di. rector Bain continued, that Attorney ‘General Daugherty had raised no objection to the plan of leasing. “My impression was that the gen- eral policy of leasing had been dis- cussed either at cabinet meetings or after,” “and that the attorney general had Slemp said he had “understood that Mr. Glasgow refused to become counsel for Secretary Fall.” “Mr. Glasgow played golf as bad- ly as I,” Mr. Slemp said, “and was glad to see me.” Stopping the questioning momen- tarily, the witness then said: I want to put in the record the was at Palm Beach when I went there, and hadn't made any arrange- ments to meet him., He said he felt the investigation was in worthy hands and was trying to keep out.” “I have just one job, to serve the president,” he continued, “and what T said about telling the truth to anybody was just a matter of public dpty on any citizen. I left~Palm Beach as curious about those things as: anybody else. I've hot even talked to any member of this com-| mittee.” “You must have regarded this sit-) uation as remarkable,” sald Senator Walsh. “Didn't you think the pres- ident had something to do in such a matter? “I don’t want to make any com- ment on that question,” was the re- ply. “I did not think there was anything for me to do about it.” Mr. Slemp was exeused and Mil- ton E. Alles president of the Riggs National bank took the stand. He submitted accounts between Mr. Mc- Lean and that bank. One of the accounts 6f McLean was marked “special,” Mr. Ailes said “and the other is the joint ac-| count of Edward and Evelyn Mc-| Lean.” | Senator Walsh took the “special” | account record. It had item entered | on April 23, for $1.005 and was a “dead balanc: Mr. Ailes said. The joint account was likewise closed, with a single deposit and check. Mr. Alles was excused. | H. Foster Bain, director of the bu-| reau of mines testified that repre-| sentatives of several oll companies had urged that the interior depart- ment get the opinion of Attorney | General Daugherty as to the legality | of the Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) oil tankage project before a conteact was awarded to the Doheny inter-/ h called attention to | the letter written by Bain on May 12, 1923, to Fall, referring to the unwillingness of the Standard Ol! company of California to bid on naval reserve oil and saying that “none of us want Mr., Doheny to get into trouble.” The letter also suggested that Attorney General Daugherty be asked to give a writ-| ten opinion on the legality of the leasing policy, but said there might be objections to. such a step. | “Oil company attorneys suggested the attorney general be asked to give an opinion,” Mr. Bain said. “My understanding was that the de- partment of the interior considered the leasing legal, and that this was the opinion of the navy department's solicitor, the judge advocate gen-| eral.” “What were the objections to ask- | ing the attorney general for an opin- ion?” “Senator Walsh asked. “The secretary of the interior had executed a contract,” Mr, Bain sald, “and to ask the attorney general for an opinion then would throw doubts on the validity of the con- tract. “Then there was a second objec-| tion, Before the contract was made} Secretary Fall took the position that the solicitor of the department had called the transaction legal and that it was not mandatory to seek the attorney general for further opin- ions, “We'd made a, good bargain, and I as one of the officials administer- ing a contract, didn't want to see it declared invalid. 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Che Casper Daily Cridune ven by mere- ‘But you belleved the attorney general had approved the legality of the contracts?” Senator Walsh asked. nm gereral terms, yes," Under questioning by Chairman Lenroot, the witness sald: ¥ The only profit Mr. Doheny cou'd make in this deal, we thought, was in the possibility it gave him of us- ing one or two of his tank ships which would be otherwise tied up.” Director Bain said also that there were attorneys outside the depart- ment who held the leasing legal. Senator Walish asked him to fur- nish copies of such opinions. The committee adjourned at noon until 10 a. m, tomorrow. Governor Doubts He Is Successor For Denby’s Job HELENA, Mont., Feb. 25.—Gov- ernor Joseph M. Dixon today de- ¢lined to comment on a news dis- be a candidate for reelection. He has served Montana as mem- ber of the house at Washington and as United States senator, In 1912 he was western manager of the Roosevelt ‘Bull Moose” campaign. navy Lieutenant Governor Nelson navy Lieutenant Governor Nelson, B. the unexpired term as governor, Mr. Story’s health has been precarious since his injuries in automobile ac- cident near Pocatello Idaho a few months ago. ANDITS ROB ‘THEATER SAFE NEW "ORLEANS, Feb. 25.— Bandits entered the Triangon thea- ter here today and after gagging two night watchmen, blew open the safe and escaped with $2,000. ao Italian King’s Director Bain continued, them informally. This COLDS: until three doses are taken. The] patch from Washington to the ef- first dose always gives relief. The| fect that he is being considered second and third doses completely | seriously for appointment to the . Health Better 23d] secretaryship of the navy to suc- ceed Edwin Denby. He said he has not received advices regarding the matter from the White House. 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