Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 16, 1924, Page 8

Uy fhe Casver Dally Tribune = WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1524. Lines And Angles PAGE EIGHT. Che Casper Daily Cribune MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thy Associated Presa is exclusively entitled to the use for pubiication of all news credited in this paper Magnus Johnsons, and such demagogues as the Heflins, Harrisons, Caraways and Robinsons, it is what we mee ap The people of mited States, without ref- erence to political party will not stand idly by 7 Sixth, a damaging and unwarranted assault sent to the senate and the disorganization and upon one of the country’s greatest industries, an riot they have wrought, just what a proportion- assault upon the integrity of almost every per- ately larger number would be able to do. son concerned in its development, with a paral-|_ We want no revolution nor reign of terror, but if the people continue to neglect their duty and also the local news published herein. ysis ensuing in the business from which it will 7G Suan tise aaenon ening anc | Tequire several years to recover. at the polls and permit the election of such rad-] and haye their government mussed up by any| S*y what epegch that) indiviaibility ts one of he Sunday Morning Tribune every, Sunday. st Cas) Seventh, a suit in court for contempt of a ical irresponsibles us the LaFollettes, Wheeler's | such band of tical pirates and self eeeking poe! balete e brecdieabeotaas Ritebrd in the English Vea AR SES os ra a a n€.! senate committee against a man who knows el Bipot, DME rag conde and erent sieee es Are at least eDae reine 7 constitutional rights and has the courage to de- Earning thelr ren tenacity mmm ite [hi ap Aoies charat theleastreirkee| | (ins oe mh eipacni A a 2 actions and at the same time keep-| This session. Binks — “Her husband rinks, --15 and 16 All Business Telephones -. Connecting Branch Telephone Exchai Eighth, a suit in court to annul two oil land leases legally entered into by both government end individuals and which have already been The Root of the Scandal National Republican. ing the people off the scent of the Teal, underlying wrongs which call for inquiry, and for remedial ad- He (trying to be funny)—“It's too blooming hot to propose.” doesn't he?" Jinks—"I hope #0, poor fellow.” Departments. shown of great profit and benefit to the people. | It is unfortunately true that out ecepting own man was recent! mnced excuse but an imperative reason| Miristration and legislation. There Soh aS a. bp. BE. HANWAY If there has been anything else come out of! of all the orgy of investigation on| for trying to save for the govern-| 18 no indication that it will have any cg eae fa ecomentah fee ¥3 ndred” pay Arvest = < the ofl investigation, of moment, it. may be|Capitol hill the fundamental facts| ment some of the oll which belonged | attention so long as the public mind| cream or an auto ride.” dei Ba sever zeta oupsee 4 elas pidvertiaing | Repreeetavoaer Bidg.. Clv- readily classified as barnyard litter. about ofl leasing scandals have} to it, and which was being diverted|can be kept befuddled by the sort = , eartah to know better yeti len, ing rue |, 1720-2. oe, q « been ignored, if not suppressed. |to the tanks of the compantes| of stuff that has been palmed off as] ram Johnson said in a recent tho same thing again, ‘4 cago, IL, 28¢ Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bidg., Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont- gomery &t., San Francisco, Cal, Copies of the Dally ‘Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside State One Year, Dally and Sunday If the oil industry ever does recover from the silly, unmerited, wanton and illegal senatorial assault that has been made upon it, we trust that those engaged in it, in the future, will see to it that all the glamor of great riches here- tofore attached to it, which has so attracted the cupidity of public and private grafters, is removed; and that the business of producing crude oil and securing oil land for this purpose is placed upon the same basis as the refining of oil, the manufacture of steel, the building of ruary 25, 1920, authors. the Unde: acres of ‘The biggest of all these scandals is the general leasing act of Feb- of which Senator Walsh boasts he was one of the It was this act, togetlier with the rider of June, 1920, wh ch opened the door to abuses of which Doheny and Sinclair trans- actions were among tho least. this leasing act millions of the public domain were taken up under the lqose provisions Payne and Daniels had permitted to enter upon the work of draining the government's lands. ‘This is the big ofl scandal. It has had no attention from the politicians most conspicuous in magnifying the Against ‘‘Snoo - IOLA ISTER a substitute for honest, thorough and effective investigation by politi- clans who have had much to do with the legislation that has re- sulted in wholesale sacrifice of the interests of the American public, automobiles and all the other great industries. Take a leaf from the book of business manage- ment of the Standard Oil Company, Henry Ford or the United States Steel Corporation, and profit by the lessons taught. A legitimate business does not have to pay the tribute levied upon it by the fifty-seven One Month, Per Copy One Year, Dally and Sunday One Year, Sunday Only Six Months, Daily and Sunday ww ee wenn meena a $3.90 ‘Three Months, Daily and Sunday -. One Month, Dally and Suncay --—------~=: ‘All subscriptions must be paid in advance and the Dally Tribune wil not insure delivery after subscrip- of the law, without regard to the public interests. Fake claims by the hundreds were filed through dummy settlers and squatters. The law of 1920 authorized the secretary of the interior to validate doubtful titles at his own discretion. An investigation of what hap. amendment would be loath to be- dieve that congress intended to au- thorize one of its subordinate agencies to sweep all our traditions into the fire and to direct fishing expeditions into private papers on the possibility that they may dis- In the routine of the oil investi- gations two questions were raised last week which attracted but Uttle public attention but which may turn out to have results of greater im- portance than tho oli investigation It’s great for growing boys *\in tion becomes one month in arrears. KICK. IF YOU DON’T GET YOUR 'TRIBUNE. If you don't find your Tribune after looking care- fully for ft, call 15 or by “Ipecial messenger. Register complaints before $ o'clock. ek ee Republicans Are Warned 16 and it will be delivered to you; varieties of grafters, money borrowers, hold-ups, porch climbers and common thieves found among the camp followers where oil enterprise is going forward. Much has been made of the incident of a personal loan by Harzy Sinclair to A. B. Fall. More than the thing amounts to. We hold no brief for Mr. Sinclair, and would not accept one |from Mr. Fall. But this incident illustrates not one, pened under this law would reveal but hundreds of scandals. Many millions of'dollars impoundec from the proceeds of oll operation: under questionable titles were re leased to companies which but for this law would have had to turn this money over to the government. John Barton Payne, secretary of the interior in the last months of itself. of the refusal of Harry Sinclair to testify before the senate committee couching his general business and the other out of the refusal of the brother of Attorney General Daugh- erty to produce all of the books of his Ohio bank and show them to the committee. zround that such part of his busi- ‘These two questions grew out Daugherty. Mr. Sinclair took the books and records. close evidence of crime.” That last paragraph would seem particularly to cover the case of Mr. The senate committee in {ts demand upon him has not Mmited itself to asking for papers or books that relate only to the trai actions of the bank with his brother, but have cited him to open all his The failure of sixteen Republican representa-'the point we desire to make. The two men|the Wilson administration, leased In the words of tives td vote on the Chandler-Bloom contested | were old acquaintances and good friends. In jlands right and lett under this law. ness as the committee has any con-|the court the committee is simply election resulted, in the seating of Bloom and the matter of leasing Teapot Dome, Mr. Fall|Many presidential leases, signed by ‘ern with is now before the courts} going on a “fishing expedition,” giving New York State a Democratic majority | neyer exercised better judgment in his life than|M® Wilson, were given. | Secretary a Macisa Bar incr Sar a Wrat thes oe sc ester sarason4 Jegation in the house. _ Six Wisconsin Repub- | wy; i Payne granted leases on 14,000 acre:,| 9 duestion him toue is} what ey may find but “in the delegation pub-| when he awarded the lease to Mr. Sinclair. Hel of iand in the Salt Creek field ad-| Ta! business. Mr. Daugherty takes | hope that something may turn up.” licans voted against Ohandler. Had _ they voted for him the vote would have been a tie. Had their vote, plus those of Keéler, Republi,) can of Minnesota, and Mrs. Nolan, Republican of California, been for Chandler, Republican, Mr, Chandler would have been seated. The five Wisconsin representatives who were elected on the Republican ticket but who voted for the Democrat, were Beck, Browne, Nelson, Peavey, Schafer and Schneider. Kvale, Independent, and Nefald, Farmer-Labor, both of Minnesota,| thousand dollars. There was no thought of}roundea by privately leased of | Urt decision, but the supreme voted for Bloom. Berger, § ocialist of Wiscon-| refusal. No thought of any kind. Simply a}iands, draining the naval reserve,| court of the United States has re sin, did not vote. Patterson of New Jersey, handing over of the amount asked fer. To ajand the California reserve not only | cently rendered an opinion which Roach of Missouri, and Wason of New man of large affairs, like Mr. Sinclair, the sum|surtounded but honeycombed with is of special interest in view of the This was in Hampshire, Republicans, were paired but were favor of Chandler. The Democrats voted in solid phalanx for Bloom, who was seated by a vote of 210 to 198. While the friends of Chandler would have rejoiced to see him win over thé strong-arm methods employed by the Bloom voters in the Wth New York District, the main interest in the contest centered on the hint the votes would give as to the posible lineup in the house should the Third Party succeed ip-its design next No- vember of throwing the presidential election into that body and invoking the 12th amendment to the constitution. Under that amendment if no candidate has a majority in the electoral college the House elects from among the three highest, each state having one vote. On the basis of the Chandler-Bloom vote an analysis shows that the Republicans might count on 22 sure votes, while the Democrats could count on 21. The danger is that in view of past per- formances, the Wisconsin delegation might swing its state for the Democrat, and Minnesota is ex- ceedingly doubtful. It is to be borne in mind that it is this congress, not the one to be elected in November, which would choose a president should the election go to the house, as the Third Party desires. The states voting for the Democratic can- didate would thus be Alabama, Arizona, Arkan- sas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,! United States is becoming more and more ri-|two years. ‘The resumption of pur- or cra der Mississippi, Minnesota (? uri, Nevada, diculous and irresponsible. That is an awful|chases necessary to accumulate the Sopanenees In one part, of. the de- everything totiredeyesand ragged of betes aaa tsdlasteicey fo New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Okla-| statement to make and publish with reference | normal reserves, together with the | © trnd right of ye 4 b: merves. - mater } jn on, ; an, 7, “ rs = ‘ y. c r alr C1 ¢ ar! of access given by the homa, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vir- to what has, until recently, been known at home |reduced production of American} stat pap the stones ap ltagar + Cee 5 This Coupon is Wi Ce: zinta’ West Virginia, and Wisconsin—21. | 'The|and abroad ns the greatest legislative body on | Sirti wiih seem te 0s unter we Siaed eal Gocectenta Nee fecoee Whether it is a, mansion or a orth 40 Cents Republicans might confidently figure on 22. earth. That it does not shame the maker of ee vip eke oes es ase ais SLOP IR Ge PRLog cottage there can be no real rest or Fill out this coupon and present it to us within \the statement, is that it is the absolute truth) jj 45 y 2 Ime @c-! analogies of the-Inw do not allow i comfort in the midst of worn or cect We will give you Free #40 Cent can : any Devoe Paint and Varnish Product you delegations Five states have their equally divided. They are Maryland, Montana, Nebras- Owen D. Young, Just want Juction Cents ka, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. They| Will deny the truth of it. * The senate itself, | the denartace gf ee eat efere | call for all documents in order to Devoe AquasparVarnish and make publi ctorr eee ste wouldeach be given one-half a vote. This would|nor any member of it, can truthfully deny and)n.esion for Europe, in » letter to] fry at shew 90 not contain th:, Gare, the disquieting,drab surfacescheer- | tnean that, as things now stand, the Republican | disprove such an assertion, and take the senate’s |the editor uf the Agricu}:ura: Review Pepe Se Ave ibe. shown toe. supp: ful and attractive. Toon. : \own official record as the evidence. ef Konnas City, sald: ing that the documents called for # do contain it. Devoe Aquaspar Varnish is easy Deve Agents Neme———____ 416 presidential candidate would receive 2444 votes in the house, while the Democratic candidate | could count on 234% votes. That is a little too close for comfort, for in the interim anything might happen to pull one of these five states over into the Democratic column. Should one state be so changed as to the majority of its delegation, the vote might go to the Democrat. Should the vote be a tie, the Constitution called in question; in ware both the Sxeusite ; é ae — Phone 33 provides that the Vice-President “shall act as} and judicial branches of the government have | {ns sound con itions created for| . jone Coan Provident, as in the case of the death or other|been invaded and their constitutional powers | erican sgnculture than for any oT: Horlicks er, Wyo. a : aie seat Se 7 hame of th onle ch of our activities. “The ORIGINAL 4 constitutional disability of the President.” But/ usurped. All to the great sham: e peop’! Our industries are quite able to Malted Milk AUTHORIZED AGENT FOR: | the same difficulty might arise with respect to the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose its Vice-President.” This would certainly eliminate the ird Party candidate, but it would almost certainly result in the usual Democratic-Radical coalition which would make the Democratic ndidate the Acting Pres- ident of the United States, The moral is that the Republican party can not afford to ignore Third Party plans, and that the people who want Coolidge for President n not dally in November, It is better to be ‘¢ than to be sorry, which means everyone to the polls and a rousing majority. voice. His action has cl the approval of the ye See | people of the nation. The assumed power of Ranils To D the senate, the cowardly hiding behind what is Final Close Out On All Types of Gas Heating St esults 1o Date called the senate immunity, by its members re- Including the F g stoves In a cold and impartial analysis of results sponsible for the present diabolical situation, g the Famous prchi ge hP have so aroused the impatience of the people of the battle of petroleum, just what are they? First, excellent leases of nava] reserves in the interest of the navy and the people of the United States. Better leases than it would be possible ever again to negotiate. ceeing any constitutional powers possessed by it and affording victims no opportunity to dis- prove perjured testimony, nor possible recourse in damages, Second, a Republican former secretary of the for long. P aha interior borrowed some money to improve a 2 You can own your iat work for ‘ ranch and buy additional land and Honk If further conflict of authority is to be the ready to come ‘and plant your own garde Don’t Fail to Take Advantage of This Most U; Third, a Democratic secretary of the treas-| OTder the only outcome will be the use of power Delete OF maroon tts, boating, hiking, » chickens, Our Stock Will Afford You a G : nusual Reduction, ury given a fee of a hundred thousand dollars, | ¥Y the executive to restore the status quo. in Value of land; oll well just spudded in neat thin eee uu a Good Selection if You Come Early ras attorney, for exerting his influence upon In its obstinate and hidebound frame of mind Srty SpA oll Fights £2 With the Iota each lots boughe + & Democratic administratior the ante PON! the senate is riding for a fall, In short it is Brisbane saya orks high ae $90,000 at Long Beach: smocratic oil operato hy zg 0 + Heine : Me Fourth lot Peeat related about dead men,| Witen it raises a question of its supremacy over of avaric fits on real estate beyond the dreams as hea 5 egg $5.00 Up and Remember toatl wade tiaeat dead mens! any other branch of the government, the oxe- Raw Beis ee Nig : y BO Ee ee area iareputales en'| cutive not excepted, It in high time to put it in COEGrRER. Bue sete Mt Yo Reduction On All called. “e J back in its place, if it requires the army and| fornia tsa piece of wold” Yous Fifth, the character of honest men shame-.|"*¥y to do it. OCEAN Vinw Mlustrated booklet on requeat lessly blackened by a gang of blackguards, and The country has, we trust, learned a lesson arr AND, Co. A By oe SB ee tag. wa. | from the experience through which we are " Seeing ¢ e recorded by a senate co! ittee, « Li e are pass ‘ae. e solemnly reco’ y An mmittee, ¢X-!ing. A lesson that will arouse the people to Lon Angeles, | ‘vt i Ppilance Ine. O. knew that Mr. Sinclair was the only man en- gaged in the business, who had the enterprise, jinitiative and ingenuity end could command the capital to undertake so large an enterprise successfully. Mr. Fall’s judgment was vindi- ;eated promptly. Upon the heels: of so success- | ful a transaction, it was quite the natural thing \for Mr. Fall to apply to a friend of long years | for a loan, Fall then being long out of office. The loan we believe being the sum of twenty-five f twenty-five thousand dollars would be no more ‘han a five dollar loan to the average man. |Nor would the transaction be longer remem- |bered. ‘The scandalmonger and suspicious man cannot disassociate such/a personal transaction from graft. To the person who knows men and is familiar with circumstances that arise, and the affairs of everyday life, knows that there was no more graft in,such a deal than the borrowing of a five dollar note from a friend until pay day. It was the interpretation placed upon the transaction and the line of questioning pursued by the investigating committee that gave this perfectly innocent transaction the sinister aspect the oil committee desired it have before the country. We speak of this incident as showing how ninety per cent of the criticism of the men con- cerned in oil, has arisen. An incident wholly innocent and regular in itself but with great possibilities of misinterpretation by 2 committee careless in its regard for the reputation and standing of persons brought before it to testify. The President Calls Attention | Day by day in every way the senate of the ‘and no person of knowledge and observation For months past this body, supposed to num- ber among its members the truly great men of the republic has carried on a number of investiga- tions in which a ruthless disregard of the laws of the land, both basic and statutory has been | shown; in which the good character of countless respectable and honorable citizeus have been and to the sacrifice of the prestige of the people’s government. ~~ | To such extremes has the senate gone in its | mania to “investigate” and discredit by improper methods the co-ordinate branches of government, | officials, private citizens and business institu- tions that the president has been compelled to call the senate body’s attention to the®limita- tions of its authority, and warn it against fur- \ther trespass upon the rights and prerogatives ‘of the executive and judicial branches of the government. The president has done this in no uncertain that it is surprising that some untoward inci- |dent has not occurred. Such an intolerable situation as the senate now presents, with no immediate promise of a return to sanity and good order, can not exist greater care in selecting the persons who rep- resent them in the national legislature and else- where in publie office, They can plainly see by the handful of bolshevists they have already it. One great field. He still holds it. office he found reserve itself. on merrily, Fall's loans To three for formulating the take up life. he markets from Mr. American agriculture. appreciate action, this and points the way. along political paths, legislative halls, fidence and cre its joining Teapot Dome, and draining company secured nine tenths of the leases in this ric) The commissioner of the gen eral land office under Wilson retired at the end of the Democratic ad ministration to accept a $35,000 -a year sinecure with this company. When Secretary Fall came into Teapot Dome sur. such leases. Payne and Daniels had made seven leases on the California The work of draining off the government's ofl was going There is no excuse fo from Sinclair Dokeny, but there was not only an Light Breaking _ | The natural trend of forces. accompanied by a return to reason in Europe now promises to restore to American agriculture that measure of comparative prosperity which the most frantic and well meaning political and legislative ef- forts have failed to bring chout Americans—General Dawes, Owen D. Young and Henry M. Robinson—will be due the credit plans which Europe seems about te again the orderly processes of ‘The laying up and maintenance of etores of foodstuffs in Kurepe which in tae post absorbed the overplus of American production, and relieved depressing weight, has been lacking for nearly t is unnecessary for me to tell you how deeply interested I am. in I on a farm, struggled on it during all my earlier years, and T am still struggling with the same farm. I know something from actual exper- fence of the problems of the farmer, and I have greater interest in see- take care of themselves. culture is very largely at the mercy of foreign disorganization. the farmers of the country fully will If they will, they will get it. In those few words, Mr. It does not lead or It runs in the direction of restoring order, bacco and isted. economic under plied court was born Our agri- ) I hope demand Young through con- he position that the committee has so right to any of the records of ais bank except as may relate dl- ectly to the subject of inquiry. If he committee on its part and Mr. 3inc’air . theirs stand pat, the question. will get into the courts and the decision they may render wil! be of vast and ar-reaching Of course, no one can forecast a present controversy. the cases of the feCeral trade com- mission against the American To- lard company, Inc., and the decision gstablished the fact that the com- mission had no authcrity to order wholesale papers, widence of illegality —if any ex- tion of the district court.“The con. test was the result of the following circumstances: The senate in 1921, commission to investigate the tc- bacco. business with prices paid producers, prices when manufactured and the export price for leaf tobacco. The commission made more or less of a wholesale demand upon the two companies for documents and correspondence files relating to transactions with their jobbers. The companies refused to comply with this demand. to compel carried the case direct to the su- preme court. The opinion of the court was unanimous in favor of the tobacco the party wanting the evidence to And pretty plainly voices the opinion of the court against the course which the plaintiff desired to take: “Any one who respécts the spirit as well as the letter of the Fourth Covet Rich Milk, Malted Grain ext. in powde: ‘orm,tmakes The Food-Drinkfcr AllAges Digestible—No Coo! always at hand. Also Ask for “‘Horlick’s,’’ at all Fountains. such a procedure the provisions of the people to be and Mr. Daugherty on importance. to be seized. which declares that It certainly is questionable whether does not violate the Constitution “the right of secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects" shall not be violated but upon prob- able cause supported by oath “par- ticularly describing the place. to be searched and the persons and things company and against P. 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