Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1924, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT Cbe Casper Daily Cribune The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening anc The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday at Cas yoming. Publ.cation offices: Tribune Building, © postoftice. ee Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as seound clans matter, November 22 1916 Business Telephones awacatatowseneennts ene 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments. By J. B. HANWAY and EB. EB. HANWAY MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the nse for publication of all news credited tn this and also the local news published herein. ‘Advertising Representatives i Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger ning teed cago, I'L, 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bids. . Mass. Suite 404 Sharon Bidg., 55 New or gomery St., San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Daly Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicagy. Boston, and San Francieco offices and visitors are we~ Se Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. 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Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Register complaints before company is entitled to three rousing cheers from } his countrymen for telling Tom Walsh and his fellow members of the fewer and garbage com- mittee of the United States senate that he will not testify further before that committee, in view of the fact that the matter under investi- gation, towit; the leasing of naval oil reserves and the manner of their leasing, has under a senate resolution declaring the lease of Teapot Dome illegal and contrary to law, and executed without authority of law, been taken out of the hands of the senate and placed in the federal courts. The same having been done by the presi- dent of the United States under the same reso Intion that declared the lease illegal To the committee Mr. Sinclair stated in these words: “It is perfectly clear that the congress and the president have made of the whole mat- ter a judicial question, determinable solely by the courts of the country, and such question is now actually pending in the district court of the United States for the District of Wyoming and whatever criminal act is claimed is about to be investigated by a special grand jury of the Dis- trict of Columbia. “With due respect to your committee, I claim that you are without any jurisdiction to ques- tion me further regarding the procurement of the lease or the validity thereof, or any fact or circumstance pertaining thereto; that such an examination of me by your committee would not only be clearly outside of yopr jurisdiction put would be, in effect, an examination before trial in a civil action between the government and the company I represent by a body of men wholly unauthorized by law and in a wholly unauthorized manner. Or, if your examination irected toward eliciting facts con- soln We Sane or corruption, your committee in effect would have constituted itself a grand jury as to a matter which congress and the presi- dent, by Joint Resolution 54, have directed should be presented to the constitutional author- iti country. act a ‘the president of the Mammoth Oil com- pany and as such represent all others interested in that company. I negotiated the lease of Tea- pot Dome and am responsible for those negotia- tions. Any pertinent question which your com- mittee could ask would necesarily relate to the procurement of that lease and its validity. You and the body from which you derive your au- : thority have already sat in judgment on these questions and remitted them to courts of proper *. jurisdiction. I shall reserve any evidence I may be able to give for those courts to which you end your colleagues have deliberately referred all questions of which you had any jurisdiction and shall respectfully de@line to answer any questions propounded by your committee.” The country should rejoice that there is at least one man concerned in the oil controversy, who stands upon his constitutional rights and refuses to contribute further to the disgraceful inquisition being carried on by a senate com- mittee purely for political purposes, under cov- er of authority delegated by the senate body to conduct an inquiry into matters affecting the people’s property. $ Mr. Sinclair heretofore appeared before the senate committee on five separate and distinct oceasions and answered all questions put to him and delivered all books and papers de- manded of him. That is enough. The moment the suit to annul the government's contract with the Mammoth Oil company, was filed in the Wyoming federal court by the spe cial counsel appointed by the president under the senate’s resolution, that moment the further rights of inquiry into the lease in question by the legislative body ceased and terminated and determination of the matter was transferred to the judicial branch of the government. All aw thority in the matter now rests in the courts. The senate committee is now out of the lease investigation business and if it presists in its work for which it was originally appointed it is exceeding its constitutional prerogatives, In any event, whatever may be the termina. tion of Mr. Sinclair’s refusal to testify, it is high time this particular muck raking adjunct of the United States senate, closed its doors and suspended operations. It has been a dis- grace to the country and added not a thing to the information of the people they did not al- ady know. arid oil reserve leases are not illegal, and they were not negotiated illegally. The courts will so determine. The most that has developed in the whole investigation, has been the fact that Mr. Fall borrowed a hundred thousand dollars Mr. Doheny, because he needed it for pri- ig ee purposes. The two men had been 7, | foolish questions. It is to be hoped the court will 3] Upon the question, whether we are living under yin. In time public opinion will lay hold of them ing money from a friend is a crime, then let us indict and prosecute the large majority of | our hundred and twenty million population. Or lif any of these anxious senate inquirers has the | proof that Doheny grafted Fall with a hundred | thousand bucks to obtain his oil lease, then let him come forward with his proof, and let Fall, be prosecuted as he deserves. It is not suggested that a question of fraud, graft or reward, enters into the Teapot lease to Mr. Sinclair. It is not even contended that it is not a good lease in the interest of the navy department and therefore the people. Reviewing the whole matter from the passing | of the law by congress authorizing the leasing of naval reserves, the acts and things done by the secretaries of the navy and the interior, the} entry upon the property by the lessees and the complying with the terms of the lease by them, every step in the transaction has the appear- ance of regularity and legality. Unless something vitally wrong exists, other than such few facts as the senate committee has brought out to date no court of justice will annul the Teapot lease. It is well at this time that the senate commit- tee go into court as the prosecutor of Mr. Sin- clair for contempt in refusing to answer their know the law and the rights of a citizen under the constitution; and also know the limits of a congressional committee of inquiry. Mr. Sin- clair is to be commended in forcing a showdown a constitutional republic or under the tyranny of a legislatiye committee. | Field Day For Skunks The loose talk, slander and defamation of character running rampant in this country was bound to get the individuals indulging in it, into their proper place in the social catalogue. A brief time ago Frank A. Vanderlip, the millionaire retired banker of New York and once prominent in the public life of the nation, set his mouth in motion in a public address up- state in New York, and while his mouth was thus operating without direction from his brain, cast suspicion upon the sale of the Marion Star by connecting it up with oil graft, which sub- ject was then the leading topic discussed by others, who had no more basis in fact for their statements than Vanderlip had for his concern- ing the newspaper deal. For reflecting upon the memory of the dead president through retailing gossip, which has since been shown to be absolutely without basis in fact, Vanderlip finds himself the defendant in a libel suit brought by the owners of the news- paper in question. Further than that he has_dis- covered that directors of corporations refuse to sit with him on the board and have gone so far as to request his resignation as a board member. He had the grace to resign. Public or- ganizations which had invited him to address them upon economic, financial and political | questions throughtout New York state, have withdrawn their invitations, and expressed a desire not to hear him upon any question. Such is the power of public opinion when a man makes a consummate ags of himself. He is placed where he belongs and where he deserves to be, when he has offended the proprieties and violated the truth. There are a lot more people in and around Washington in public life and through public newspapers, engaged in the same style of char- acter assassination that Vanderlip embarked and select the soft spot in oblivion where they’! will repose for the remainder of time they will cumber the earth. t | Never in the history of the country have skunks enjoyed such a field day as they have. enjoyed since the first day of this year of grace. i Increasing Faith It is looked upon as certain that Calvin Coolidge will be the Republican choice for pres- ident. Attempts which have been made to involve him in the oil scandal have been abortive. Instead of having the faith of the people shaken in the President the inquiry has given them more faith in him than ever. It is known that he | was in no way responsible for the oil leases; that. jhe had nothing to do with the appointing to office of any of the cabinet officers who have been involved in the inquiry; that he has acted throughout in the interest of the people and an be relied upon to continue to act in this way regardless of partisan influences and that, if the President is nominated by the Republican party and elected to office, he will be certain to; surround himself with cabinet officers who will’ ke above any suspicions such as have besmirched those whom he found in office when he succeeded to the presidency. The American people have become accus- tomed to being “fooled” by partisan clamorings. They now discount all such efforts and fix their | own measure as to their importance and weight! The louder the Washington politicians howl,! the more conservative the great mass of tho! people become in passing judgment upon the issues they raime. Right now some of these) Washington politicians are howling too loud and altogether too often. | Cabinet Furniture There are few administrations which have not experienced trouble over some member of the cabinet, who manages to make a misstep so as to offend the public engendering thereby a loud call for his retirement. Grover Cleveland had his in Garland who was attorney general, whom the President kept throughout the clamor in his own party that he be retired. Blaine had to |retire from the Harrison cabinet and there was }a great public explosion over Secretary Alger | who was at the head of the war department in | the Spanish war and was attacked for the food audals of the time. Roosevelt joined in a round robin against the management of things. | Roosevelt used to dispose of his cabinet minis- == » Che Casper Daily fribune Lines And Angles BY TED OSBORNE Ritt—“Why is Miss Ann Teak so sweet to you. She must be quite smitten.” Ratf—“Not at all; she hates me ike poison.” Ritf—"But then, why all of the et- fusiveness?”* ““Well, she and I was born on the same day, and she Is afraid I'll tell somebody.” The Inducement “You have @ very nice place here, but what under the sun made you buy a house in such a forsaken spot as this?” “One of the best agents in the business.”" “Advertising costs me a lot of money every year.” “Why,-I have never seen any of your advertisements.” “Oh, I don’t advertise, but my wife reads other people's advertisement. Uncle Hook Says “Th’' only way t’ grasp an op- Portunity is to meet it as it comes; once {t gets past you, it’s durned near impossible t* catch.” Diner—“Haye you any oysters?” Waiter—“Any clams?” Waiter—"No, sir.” Diner—“Well, have you any aba- Jones?” Waiter—“No, sir, we have no shell fish at all—except eggs.” “John, I consider sheep the most stupid of all creatures.” “Yes, my lamb.” “Is Patterson in Who's Who? ‘No, but he's well known tn Here's How.” Uncle Hook Says “It's all right t’ burn yer bridges behind you, but be sure you're across before you strike th’ match,” Definite She—"What I would like to know is, do I i§ Soprano or contralto?” He—"No, you don’t.” “T'm afrafd I shall never find an- other girl like you. You are so different from the rest.” “Oh, you will find that most girls are different from other girls.” A Hard Battle “Did you have a hard time win- ning Miss Chase?” “Did you hear about the awful] peuple vote = third-party Mrs. affiiction that bas befallen Gabby? Gloom Ahead After the convention Mr. McAdoo probably will regret that he was so precipitate in dropping that $25,- 000 retainer.—Pittsburgh Gazette Times. In These Times Who would imagine the capital of the Nation was named in honor of the grown up, boy who never told a \ie?—Buffalo Enquirer. Looking Ahead It is Just about a year from now that President Coolidge will be showing us what he can do as a cab- net maker on his own account.— Fairhaven Star,. National Housecleaning” The country recognizes President Coolidge has had thrust upon him a scandal and a problem for which he Random Newspaper Opinion is in no degree responsible, and !t realizes that so far as he can, he will go to the bottom of it and com pletely clean it up in the courts The point I would emphasize ts tha: he be given active’and sincere assist ance. No service is done the coun try nor the President by attempts tc confuse and befog the issue or tc whitewash the acts of any guilty man or indiscreet official. ‘That must not happen. There must be a first class job of cleantng house at ‘Washington.—Capper's Weekly. New Russian Word The word “ara” to ‘give in love and charity,” ts incorporated tn the Russian language as a tribute to th- activities of the American Relief ad ministration. If any nation ever Performed a more graceful act of appreciation, what was it.—New York World. Effects of Oil Scandals Below is given the result of an \ttempt to get an idea of how the exposures at the capital are im- pressing the people by engaging in conversation on the subject a variety of persons, including busi- ness men, lawyers, hotel porters, walters, clerks, salesmen, taxi drivers, railroad employes, news dealers and others. The comments are given verbatim: @ “It's a good thing Harding died.” “This fellow McLean reads like Falling asleep on outpost is the present danger. At different times in the history of the country the enemy to Amer- ican industry has stolen a march on the people and lald waste the land under the guise of freedom of trade. There are indications today that a similar scheme ts on foot, as witness the great fanfare of eloquence wast- ed in Congress and out over the oil scandal, which, by the way, {s not a political question in’ the slightest degree. If political shysters can cover up the real issues by raising a camo- uflage of o!l atrocity, well and good. Under such a smoke screen they will attempt to creep into power, after which the tariff barriers against for eign importations will be removed and a hilarious rioting !n free trade ideas will smother the country. American patriots should be up and awake to all this special schem- ing to silence the fears of business with regard to the tariff. Back in the early nineties. with a free-trade congress and a free trade president, the party which has so often soaled down American wages and smother- ed American factory fires got in their work. It was a work that bank- rupted the nation and gave cause for serious alarm. So completely were the Democrats in bad because of their free trade | ideas being carried into effect, there was no show for them to win an- other national victory under the slo- gan of tariff reform. What then did the party thus dis- counted in advance do to regain the confidence of the pople they had so rudely betrayed? ‘They dropped all reference to the tariff and came out in flamboyant cries for the free coinage of silver. This apparently was a new issue, that of the tariff being dead so far as the free-traders were concerned, Under the lead of Bryan a cam- paign for free silver was waged, but the siren song of the Free Trader and free silverite was drowned by the voice of a free people electing McKinley and good times under the banner of sound money and a pro- tective tariff. What happened then will happen again this year if our public men are alive to the situation and do not per- mit themselves to be cajoled {nto dropping the tariff issue for some- thing less important. It is plainly evident that the main issue this year will be tax reduction and a protective tariff. There should be no politics in the effort at re- ducing war taxes although the Dem- ocrats have sought to make It so, and we firmly believe, endangered their political chances by their un- patriotic efforts to down the Mellon tax plan. Ever since the Civil war, and even before that, the Democrats stood for low tariffs. No matter under what banner they play their political gime this year, they are sure if victorious to at once enter upon @ plan of en- jacting low tariffs which, according |to all recorded history have proved injurious in fact ruinous to nation- al prosperity. Once defated under the slogan of free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, the next attempt to curry favor with the American people was under the banner of “Imperialism.” ters before they could “hurt hi his Ballinger to wreck his administration and Wilson accepted a number of resignations, some of which he forced, not necessarily because of , Scandalous conduct. Now comes Coolidge with an inherited cabinet in which the public would like to see.several changes. Uneasy lies the close friends for over thirty years. If borrow: head that has a cabinet, ” Taft had) ‘The voters were too wise to be caught by such ridiculous chaff and again the American policy of pro- tection was triumphant, This year We are confronted with numerous sham tssues while the tariff is left in the shade. ‘The fact remains that the one overtopping issue, the ene that most concerns every man, Guard Against False Issues woman and child under the flag is protection versus free-trade. This fact must ever be kept upper- most, and the men who carry on the camptign for true Americanism must not be sidetracked by any pretense of other isues whatsoever. It be- comes more evident every day that the free traders mean to get under rover of the smoke screen they have thrown out regarding oil leases and taxation, This ofl debacle should be handled by the courts and wholly left_out of the political arena. something out of a dime novel.” “It's going to beat the Republi- cans this time.” “I hope one of these crooked con- &ressmen is a Democrat.” “Politics is a rotten game. Both sides was in on this thing, I think. We ought to kick them all out.” “I am certainly glad they smeared McAdoo. Look at the way that guy was cleaning up. And him still run- ning for president! Ha, Ha."* “They'll never put anybody in jail. It's all a lot of politics.” “Harry Daugherty may be rotten, but he’s got guts. Denby was just @ poor old bonehead.” “I don’t think Coolfdge a big enough man for his job, but I would just as soon (ake a chance with him as with anyone the Democrats are apt to nominate.” “Doheny may ‘lose his off lease, but Fail is still $100,000 ahead.” “Borah ought to be president.” “Coolidge is going to get lost in the shuffle.” “No party can stand the kind of exposure that has been made of the Republicans. Any Democrat . not tarred by the investigation can win.” “This business will make a lot of THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1924 ticket if] “The substantial people of the - | country have not lost faith in dent Coolidge.” ‘ “Yes, suh: I’. just a Republican, boss. Don't know nothing about dose things.” Anyone who from the foregoing can estimate “public sentiment” ts entitled to first rank as an estimator. they get a chance.” thought that sickness was a [eee eeers Me bat vo Bw now. The secret is in the food the mother allows the child or three times aday. Mrs. J. Russell of 19,141 Havana Ave., Detroit, Mich., her of two 9. 3 s the ailmen: take it, and it is much better for than castor or coal-tar drugs like reer even covered with sugar or chocolate. Syrup Pepsin is mild and gentle in and your child will have an TRAIN SCHEDULES Chicaso & Northwestern Arrives 15 p. m. Arrives 4:45 p. m. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Arrives Weatbounad No. 603 ... Eas! 7:10 a. m. No. 31 9:55 pD. m. SALT CREEK BUSSES 3 Busses a Day Each Way LEAVE CASPER—ARKEON BUILDING| Leave Salt Creek Baggage and Express Linerron Called for and Delivered sam 9's. m. Salt 2pm ee aa 2:30 p. m. Tel. 144 3 p.m. ek Company DURBIN STREET BUS ROUTE: From Rialto to Durbin Street; south to Tenth; west to David Street; south to Twelfth; east to Durbin Street; north to Eleventh Street; east to Beech Street; north to Sixth Street; west to Durbin Street; then to Rialto. 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