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WEATHER. L 3 Increasing cloudiness tonight, fol- lowed by snow late tonight or tomor- row: slowly rising temperature. Tem- " perature for twenty-four hours ended “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 42, at 2 vesterday; ; lowest, 26, at' 7 day. Full report on page Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 _No. 29142, post office Wasl :30 a.m. to- 4. Entered as second-class matter hington, D. C. PRESIDENT PLEDGES| STERN ACTION N PURSUIT OF GUILTY Tells New York Club Prosecu- tion in Oil Scandal Will Be Pushed to Limit. ASKS HELP FROM EAST FOR WESTERN FARMS Prolonged Applause Attends An- nouncement of Intent to Purge Government. Br the Assoclated Press. NEW ' YORK, February 13.—The country today has the definite prom- ise of President Coolidge that there will be immediate, adequate and un- hrinking prosecutions, criminal and civil, in the oil land leasing disclos- ures. Speaking last night at the National ! Republican Club's Lincoln anniversary dinner during his first visit to New York since he entered the White was “intent on the enforcement of Ilouse, Mr. Coolidge declared he our laws without fear or favor, no matter who is hurt or what the con- | sequences.” “In this effort there will.be no pol- | + itics, no partisanship,” he asserted, referring to the contemplated oil lease prosecution. “It will be speedy, it will be just. | 1 am a republican but 1 cannot on | that account shield any one because | he is a republican. I am a republican but I cannot on that account prose- wute any one because he Is a demo- crat.” The President's references Eenate investigating committee's dis- closure and his attitude toward them aroused the greatest applause of any ©f the declarations he made in his address, which was heard by 2,000 man and woman guests of the repub- lican club. Ald for Farmers, He also referred to the agricultural situation in the northwest and asked the aid of the east in alleviating it. Much of his address, however, was devoted to a discussion of tax revi- slon with a reiteration of his support ©of the Mellon bill “without material alteration and compromise.” The Chief Exceutive presented an appeal to the country to support hit in pressing for passage of the Mellon bill, saying that unless the people 'C'mnke lheh-mwle-heu known to the ongress without regard to Tt this bill will not pase. s Particular emphasis was placed on the proposal to reduce surtaxes to a maximum of 25 per cent, despite the ‘word carried to Mr. Coolidge by re- publican House leaders last week that Buch & reduction would not be grant- DBy the House. Scores Garner Bill. The democratic Garner bill was branded by Mr. Coolidge as “impos- eible In practice” and “political In theory.". One statement made by the President without elaboration was that any settlement of the European situation “would call for a European funding and financing, which would | be of doubtful success without Ameri- can participation.” Mr. Coolidge also reiterated his op- position to the bonus, declaring it wvould result in inflation and higher prices and adding that “a few months of good times are worth more to the service men than anything they could recelve in the way of a bonus.” The sale of arms by the American Bovernment to the Obregon govern- ment in Mexico, which has been at- tacked by Senator Johnson of Cali- fornia, Mr. Coolldge’s only amnounced opponent for the republicaa presiden- tal nomination, was defended. The action taken by the adminlsiration, he sald, was “to exercise a legal right, while at the same time throw- ing our influence in favor of orderly procedure and evidencing our friend- ship toward the friendly sovernment of Mexico.” Arrival in New York. The President, accompanicd on his eight-hour visit to New York by Mrs. Coolidge, left for Washington at 12:45 am, today. Arriving at 4:33 p.m., yesterday in the presidential car attached to a regular Washing- ton-New York train, the Coolidges ‘and their party drove through cheer- ing throngs, amid a driving sno storm, directly to the new Women's National Republican Club. There the President and Mra Cool- idge shook hands with New York's most prominent woman republicans, and drank tea with them. Thence they were hurried to the ‘Waldorf-Actoria, the impending dark- ness being lighted along the route by flares and photographers' flashlights. They remained in the presidential suite on the third floor of the hotel until 7:30. when they entered the historic grand ballroom and were greeted with prolonged cheers by the 2,000 assembled guests. At the President’s table were some thirty distingulshed republicans. Mrs, Coolidge heard her husband speak from a box In the balcony, surround- ed by flowers. The full text of President Caolldge's speech will be found on Page 4. —_—— DELEGATIONS REACHING ROME FOR NAVY PARLEY Extension of Washington Treaty Principles Will Be Con- sidered. By the saociated Press. ROME, February 13.—Delegates are arriving for the naval conference in Rome, February 14, under the au- spices of the league of nations. Ex- tension of the princlples of the Wash- ington val treaty to the other powers will be considered. The Russlun soviet is to take part and will _be represented by former Admiral Behrens. Vice Admiral Al- fredo Acton, supreme commander of the Itallan naval forces, will repre- *sent Italy, Vice Admiral Jejeune, France; Rear Admiral Smith, Eng- land, and Rear Admiral Khiyokawa, Japan. The names of the other participat- ing nations are not yet avalilable, but the full list will ‘be completed with the arrival of the American and German delégattons. to the { Quits Work on Tomb U.S. AND HONDURAS SEVER RELATIONS OVER PRESIDENCY Political Factions Resort to War—Cruisers Are Dis- patched to Vicinity. By the Assoclated Press. Diplomatic relations between the United States and the government of Honduras have been severed by the State Department. The step was taken because of the faflure of three political factions in Hotiduras to reach an agreement under which constitutional govern- ment can be restored by peaceful means. ¥. S. Minister Remains American Minister Morales will re- main at Tegucigalpa, however, in a strictly unofficfal effort to bring the rival political leaders together. Constitutional government ceased to exist In. Honduras at midnight January 31, no majority for any of the threc candidates for the prest: dency having been recorded elther at the polls or by congressional action. The Honduran constitution provided no means of continuing the constitutional power In thls emer- gency. President Guiterrez has informed Minister Morales that he proposes to retain de facto power for a long enough period to permit new elec- tions to be held. T. S. Gave Consent. The Washington government as- sented, but the two leaders opposing Guiterrez refused to do so and each proclaimed himself provisional presi- dent. No serious fighting has been report- ed. The situation is so complicated that the Washington government found it necessary to withdraw recog- nition. The Amerfcan cruiser Rochester has arrived at La Ceiba, Honduras, from the Canal Zone to protect American interests. The crulser Milwaukee also has been dispatched to the west coast of Honduras, and other vessels of the special service squadron are avall- able for such use as may be necessary. CHURCH AND OFFICE FOIFIE PROPOSED Presbyterian Council Consid- ers Ways to Emphasize Denomination in D. C. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., February 13.—Method for empMNsizing Presby- terfanism in Washington will come before the general council of the Presbyterian Church, which opens a two-day meeting here today. A great combination office bullding and church is the most striking sug- gestion that has been made. Another proposes the erection of a Presby- terfan university. It Is not belleved that any definite action will be taken at these sessions, but the church is contemplating serlously a monument of some description in ‘the National Capital. At present the most imposing and historic building in Washington. of which Presbyterians may boast Is the old New York Avenue Church, in which is the Abraham Lincoln pew. It was sald today that the most im- portant plece of business on which the council will take action will be to determine the future of the new era movement.. Dr. W. Hiram Foulkes, secretary of the movement, will re- port its progress to date. - An effort will be made to continue, in some fashion, this movement, which played an {mportant part In’ unifying the activities of the Presbyterian Church. It was originated about five years ago. s Sl FLYERS SCORE SUCCESS. U. S. Aviators End Flight, Pan- ama to Guatemala City. PANAMA, February 13.—The Amer- fcan Army aviators completed their flight from the Isthmus to Guatemala City yesterday, according to mes- sages received here. Thay will re- turn over the same ro.fi starting aext Monday. . ch WASHINGTON, D. C,, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1: CARTER, RESENTING DISCOURTESY, ENDS LUXOR OPERATIONS Excavator Declares Collabo- | rators Refuse to Work Un- der Egyptian Restrictions. ) iCRISIS IS PRECIPITATED | AS WIVES ARE BARRED| Tomb 6f Tut-ankh-Amen Is Closed After Press Representatives View Casket. 3 By tle Asociated Press. LUXOR, Fgypt, February 1. |owing to what he characterized as the “discourtesy” of the Egyptian | public works department, Howard { Carter, head of the excavatlon work, closed Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb today and abandoned operations. It is un- derstood the crisis was preciplated by the refusal of the Egyptian gov- ernment to permit the wives of the excavators to visit @the tomb this morning. The following notice was posted in the hall of the Winter Palace Hotel this afternoon: “Luxor, February 1 “Owing to_the Impossible restric- tions and discourtesies on the part of the public works department and its antiquity section, all my col- laborators, in protest, have refused to work any further upon scientific investigation of the discovery of the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen. I am there- fore obliged to make known to the public that immediately after the | préss view of the tomb, betw 10 {o'clock and noon, the tomb will be closed and no further work will be carried out. (Signed) “HOWARD CARTER.” PARTY WITNESSES RAISING. | | Scientists Are Stunned by Mag: nificance of Revelations in Casket. (B Cable to Tie Star and the New York mex, through arrangeinents with the Car- narvon estate. Copyright. 1824. by the New York Times. LUXOR, Egypt, February 13.—The 1a of the great etone sarcophagus of pharach Tut-ankh-Amen was raised vesterday afternoon In the presence of distingulshed Egyptologists, revealing a magnificent golden mummy case of co- lossal elze made to the likeness of the monarch who 2,300 years ago ruled as a supreme despot the greatest emplire the world had known to that time, It was a drafmatic moment, and of the many strange scenes and many wonder- ful happenings that have had their stag- ing in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings since it was first chosen as the royal burial ground in the dass of the new Theban empire this, the latest, will undoubtedly stand out as one of the most interesting in Egypt's long history. The tomb which had attracted more at- tention and more controveralal discus- {ston than probably ansthing else in the lannals of Egyptological research had not only surrendered another of fts imany secrets which had been so jeal- {ously. concealed during 3,300 years, to which the opening of the shrines a! month ago gave a direct clue, but it had furnished the solution of one of the greatcst mysteries which have so far bafMed archeologists of every age. The sclentists present were stunned (Continued on Page 12, Column 1.) 1,800 PHILIPPINE ' FANATICS KILLED Further Slaughter Feared as Riflemen Move to Repel Avenging Bolomen. l ! BY WALTER J. ROBB. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1924, MANILA, February 13.—Eighteen hundred Colorum fanatics have been slain by constabulary rifiemen on hte islands of Bucas, Surigao and Leyte since the first little battle on Bucas island a few weeks ago. After each killing, new fanatical bolomen appear ! llke sprouting dragon's teeth. The' situation is now such that Governor General Wood himself wlill leave Manila the end of this week for a personal tour of investigation, The renewed strength of the fanatics is probably explainable on the ground that the relatives of the slain (who are not themselves adherents of the strange faith) take the fleld in an at- tempt to avenge their dead kinsmen. Col. Bowers moved this morning with 200 _riflemen .against 400 col- orums. The fanatics’ stronghold is located near Socorro mountain. Bowers' force has two machine guns, in addition to mountain pleces, and will bombard the stronghold before commencing the assault. A feaful slaughter - of the fanatics is antici- pated, owing to the fact that few, if any, have rifles. Students .of Malayan psychology belleve that conditions will grow worse as the killings increase and regret that the constabulary wais un- able to capture the ringleaders of the movements at the outset without killing so many hundred ignorant follower: . i —_————— MAY RECOGNIZE RUSSIA. ! | Norway Assembly coniddars Pro- posal of Foreign Minister. LONDON, Febriary 13.—An agency dispatch’ from Copenhagen says it 'is rumored there that Norway is soon to accord de jure recognition to soviet | Russia. 1 The question’is sald to have been submitted to a secret session of the orthing yesterday by the foreign minister. . REED TO TOUR GEORGIA. ATLANTA, Ga,, February 13.—Sen- ator James A. Reed of Missouri, can- didute for the democratic nomination for President, begins a tour of Geor- gla during the week of February. 24, according to annougcement hete, ~ef With such powerful organizations as neutral. ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION FIGHT ON “VIG0LS”, GASTA LAUNCHED Civic and Auto Groups Here to Oppose Bill as Passed | by House. | Characterizing the gas tax reciproc- ity bill as passed by the House of Representatives as “a piece of viclous legislation,” & joint special commit- teo of the civic organizations, auto- motive dealers’ assoclations and the | American Automoblle Assoctation met today to conslder ways and means of making Washington’s united opposi- tion to the amended bill felt fn Con- gress. 28 the Washington Board of Trade, the Merchants and Manufacturers’ As- soctation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Washington Automotive Trade Assoctation, the Natienal Grange and the American Automobile Associa- tion solldly behind the movement, and | with representatives of these bodles | present at the meeting, the committee made immedfate plans for its cam- paign. To Confer With Mall, On a motion of Charles W. Darr of the Chamber of Commerce, a resolu- | tion was adopted providing that the committee as a whole confer at the! earliest possihle date with Senator L. Helsler Bali, chairman of the Senate | District committee, and with the District Commissioners. Appointments were made with Sena- tor Ball for tomorrow and Commis- sloners Bell and Oyster this afternoon. The full committee which is wait- ing on the Commissioners this after- noon is composea of E. F. Colladay, president of the Board of Trade, chairman; Paul B. Lum, president of the Washington Automotive Trade Assoclation; Mr. Darr, W. !’eurcs| Rayner, chalrman of the speclal traf- fic committec of the Board of Trade; Theodore P. Noyes, a member of the traffic committee; R. P. Andrews, president of the Merchants and Man- ufacturers’ Association; Charles J.! Columbus, secretary of the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Assocla- tion; Stanley Horner of the Auto Trade Association, Walter B. (‘)u)’l counsel; A. M. Loomis of the National ! Grange, and M. O. Eldridge and A. G.! Cruikshank of the A. A. A. Condemn House BilL Following adoption of Mr. Darr's motion the committee took unanimous action condemning the bill as passed in the House, pointing out that there | was no resemblance to the original | bill submitted, that more than i $2,000,000 & year would be ralsed by the proposed taxation, where only (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) 17 REPORTED SLAIN | Separatists Barricade Selves in Gov- ernment Building and Fire on Crowds. according to dispatches received from l Piramasens this morning. The casualties occurred. during! fighting for the possession of th government bullding, which eventual- ly was set on fire. rl?lll those killed, ‘were sepal o e accounts of the incldent as published hero are somewhat con- flicting, but it appears that forty soparatists barricaded themselves in the government bullding, from which they fired and threw bombs against the crowd. In attempting to efject them the crowd sprayed benzine on the building for the purpose of burn- ing it. When the lower part was afire the separatists ceased shooting and begged for mercy. One report says that all the sep- aratists who left the bullding, in- cluding thelr leader Schwab, govern- ment commissioner, was slain, but a later report records that but four- teen of those in the building were killed. A Latest advices sald the building was_still burn ‘The attitude of the French au ties was described By the Associated Press. BERLIN, February 13.—Fighting between separatists and inhabitants of Pirmasens, in the Bavaria Palati nate, last night resulted in seventeen persons killed. and twenty wounded, 1924 _THIRTY-SIX PAGES. AND THex _Judl CALLEDES g HIM “SILENT € W\ T Hughes Requested To Send Data on Colombia Treaty The Senate VANDERLIP ASSAILS HARDING'S HONESTY Must Explain to Oil Probers Hint at Corruption in Marion Star Sale. today adopted redolution of Senator Dill, demo- crat, Washington, calling upon the State Department for coples 1l diplomatic corresponden onnection with the Senate's tification — of the _Colombian which was urged by former Secretary Fall. A second resolution by Senator Dill, calling for similar reports from the State Department as to communications it may have had concerning oil concessions or leafes in nine other countries, also adopted. CARL CUTS OFF U.S. COMPENSATION Controller General Charges $10,207 lllegally Paid in Vocational Diseases. B the Associated Press. OSSINING, N. Y., February 13.—In the course of an arraignment of pub- llc officlals, past and present, Frank JA. Vanderllp, financler, in a Rotary ) Club address last night, eriticized the i sale of “a certain Marfon newspaper.” | certain Marion newspaper sold for $550,000, when it was well known to every one that it was not worth half that sum,” he said. : “Two.young men of no financlal standing purchased it: Everybody in Waghington, including the newspa- per correspondents, ‘knows this, but no one wants 10 look under the edge of a shroud. Where did the money come from? Where did it go? These are matters of public interest. The last adminis- tration stands challenged. We can. not wait for Congress or the courts, | especlally when we remember that Mr. Daugherty {s Attorney General.” Teapot Dome Scandal. Then the banker whirled into the Teapot Dome scandal. He attacked | Senator Walsh's associates on the today when it was learned that Con- | SeNate investigating committee, say- troller Géneral McCarl has disallowed | D€ several of them were undesirable more than $10,000 pald by the dis- | 1YeStigators of any moral question, bursing officer of the commission, and “m:ic':g‘” tastifiod.t : he went on, has cut him off from drawing any b n'm‘:: 0;!& acting as a repu- further money from ths “employes’ | ;o8 @K m);ug:‘ tu{e’x’fl(':m;nf’fl'; compensation fund” in the Treasury.| with stolen Jjam. he dropped thas The controller gencral, in a letter client imm to the disbursing officer, A. H. Gardes, had testifie set forth the reason for such action, | “OTiittes. as follows: “The Senate did not go further in investigating Secretary Fall, because Chiraea) Obstinaie) Conte: Fall wvas ready 1o peach and what he “Your persistent refusal to furnish | high places. They dlame g Eone into fact to establish the legality of the payment made by you and questioned high places. They didn't dare.” by this office, as aforesaid, leaves no Veterans’ Bureau Case. There were other national scandals other alternative than to disallow, in the settlement of your account, sald even more flagrant than Teapot Dome, suspended item, aggregating the sum Mr. Vanderlip added, declaring the Veterans’ Bureau had spent more of $10,207.56, Which action has been | than $900,000,000 belonging to wound. directéd. A’ charge will be ralsed | oq veterans, and that the on against you accordingly and collec- P at the Shipping tion proceeded with uader youroffi. Board had spent millions in the previ- cial bond in the sum of $10,000, dated ous administration, “which if not dis- January 3, 1922, with the New Am- honest, was_incredibly stupld. He Sterdam Casuaity Company, Balti- | g Upon President Coolldge to de- more, Md., as surety.” mand the resignations of Secretary The disbursing_ofiicer, Denby and every other official bew it was re-: gmi vealed today, had refused to furnish | “41 ¢ (heas thiome MRS ing § certain evidence concerning the sta- | the scum of Washington" Mr an® tus of the vocational diseases of per- | derlip continued. “What s the tren? tons o whom the payments were:We are entitied to know. Tt will 3 demand courage in This disputed point over the ques-!find out. ne‘m.mfifi"h:’:'z‘a’l o tion of payments to those suffering|say something. Silenco will not arc with vocational diseases had pre-|swer. He must say something. to viously drawn from the acting At-;make us contlnue to belleve in hig torney General, upon the request of ' great integrity and moral courage former President Harding, an opin-|Which we all think he has.” i fon which held that the commissio: dis- could pay compensation for such di Mr. Vanderlip sald today, cussing his speech of last night, that eases. The controller general hold: that under the law such payments he had no proof of the rumors that Wwere current for months regarding cannot be made. Not Bound By Opinion. the Marfon newspaper. “My purpose sald Mr. Vanderlip, Tho controller general holds that he {8 not bound by the “advisory “in bringing it to public notice, is to encourage an Investigation of gos- opinion of the acting Attorney Gen- eral.” sip concerning a dead President, gos- sip, which is outrageous, if untrue. The point at issue involved vouch- ers paid by the disbursing officer ‘Would Have Inquiry, “I have made no formal request to since February 1, 1923, and which the controller general said were not President Coolidge for such an In- igation. iRty xpIsIned be ihe Ao N0t | vestigation. Ho might sey that it 1s ing officer to make it clear the pay- not his businees, and it may not be, ment was legal. but it seems to me that a newspaper !‘Zhhe“dlfl:‘\::d to elxpl;‘ln the nature { could best conduct the inquiry—if the Dhied “that. the commission acs ks [ ublishers abandon their poltcy of on the opinion of the Attorney Gener. | Silence toward gossip which they ul; "'ic’:l‘l!‘:;e“ no reason for changing | have heard. I have no unusual sources . £ news. The action of the disbursing officer; | °%.} the controller general said in his let- ,.,,,,‘?,‘;{,’.‘,‘.}""cu"-.'f “:ndocf “glr h}am ter notifying that furgher funds from | roniia, his o $aident the Treasury will be denled, “must be | SO01'9EE, Snd bie abliity to clean a taken as evidence of a final determi- | JOTV . CTtY. HOWSE WS should glve nation to you and the commission to | 1'R! OUF, SYIPEIAY And patlence and digregard the declsion of this office.” | ROt criticlse Jet. . He probably Later the compensation commission | felt that he came to his office by an issued the following statement: accident of death and that he should “The demand of the controller gen- | Sohtlnue the cabinet and policy to eral upon the compensation commis- | Which ] 3 sion for the evidence upon which the | “The committee failed to call Fall awards of the commission had .been|to testify, not because they were made was for the purpose of review- lns the commission’s finding of facts and its. award. “Because the right of the controller to make such review was denled, the commission refused to furnish the in- formation demanded, not, however, denying the controller general access to anv of the commission’s records. This action was taken 'in accordance with the opinion of the Attorney Gen- eral of May 16, 1923, in which the At- torney General said, ‘It is; therefore, my opinion that the employes’ com- ensation commission has the power, gy virtue of the act under which it was created, to construe the terms of sald act, and that ahy construction 80 rendered is final and boyond if- terference by other governmental of- The long disputed question of pay- ing compensation to government em- ployes for vocational diseases, which has already involved the compensa- tion commisision, the Department of Justice and the President of the United States, rose to another climax fately after the client before the investigating much. I don’t think Senator Walsh was a_ party to this, and do not in- clude him in my statement that sev- eral of his oclates were undes! able investigators of any moral ques- tion. I think he is extremely acute and almost fanatically high-minded." SUBPOENA ISSUED. Senators Call Vanderlip to Tell of Charges. By the Associated Press. afraid he would not talk, but because | they were afraid he would talk too ' i ! | every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as tl L 4 he papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,529 TWO CENTS. SPECIAL OIL COUNSEL CHANGE APPARENT AS CONFIRMATION LAGS Knew Sinclair Was To Get Teapot, Stack Says. TOLD WEEK BEFORE LEASE, HE ASSERTS ! Attorney, Asking Hearing Promises Valuable Information. The Senate public lands commit- tee, investigating oil leases, heard further statements today regarding payments made by Harry F. Sinclair to a group in Denver, Col, which had asserted conflicting claims to! portions of Teapot Dome. Karl C. Schuyler, a Denver attor- ney, telegraphed the committee that he had correspondence in his posses- sion that would be of value in the| inquiry, and he was asked to bring it to Washington. John Leo Stack, the Colorado oll op- erator, who was a member of the Den- ver group, was cross-questioned at length about the motives behind the ne- | gotlations with Sinclair. He also con- tributed an assertion that officlals of the Plonecr company, one of the Stand- rd Ofl subsidiaries, had told him a week before Teapot was leased that Sinelair was to get the contract. MeKellar Remews Deman President Coolidge's New York speech, In which he referred to the oil disclosures, led Senator McKellar, democrat, Tennessee, to make a re- newed demand in the Senate for fm- mediate court action. The senator saild Mr. Coolidge’s promise of prose- cutlons would be approved by every one, and then added: “Everybody knows that Doheny and Sinelair bribed Fall, and that Fall accepted the bribes, and yet no in- dictment has been found against any of the three. Why the delay? The district attorney should move at once. ery one knows thers is ample ground for indictment.” Leo J. Stack, a Denver oll man, testified today before the Senate ofl committee that Ploneer Ol Company officials had told him confidentially a week before Teapot Dome was leased that Harry F. Sinclair was to get the lease. Karl C. Schuyler, a Denver attor- ney, telegraphed Senator Walsh, dem- ocrat, Montana, today that he has in his possession correspondence which | he thought the Senate oil committee should have. Senator Walsh said he would be summoned. AL the same time the Montana senator recelved a telegram from D. F. Stackelback of the Denver Post, saying he had good reason to be- | in | 1teve that Schuyler's tional.” Stackelback's telegram follows: “Have good reason to believe that Karl C. Schuyler, Denver attorney, has sensational correspondence in his possession regarding Teapot mat- tor. 1 belleve he should be sub- poenaed and asked to bring any cor- respondence had by him with news- paper publishers” Was Stack’s Counsel. Schuyler’'s telegram sald: “I acted as personal counsel to John Leo Stack in connection with his contract with Ploneer Ofl Com- pany and his claims arising there- from. Charges have been made in the local newspapers which, by im- plication, involved me in wrong- doing in connection with the sub- Ject matter. gesslon certain correspondence which I believe your committee should see and hereby request opportunity to appear before you at earliest con- venient time. Please wire.” When the ofl committee resumed its hearings this morning Stack, who tes- tifled_yesterday, was cross-examined by Chairman Lenroot. Stack em- the ~ correspondence possession was ‘'sensa- phasized the danger of drainage of' Teapot Dome by wells which would | be opened on the land surrounding ! the naval reserve under the action which the Interior Department had taken in 1920 when the rights to op- | erate on such land had been sold at public auction. “In 1920 it was common talk among the ofl men that the reserve was being drained,” he said. ‘Wanted Offsct Well He declared that he had never thought of seeking to obtain a lease to the entire reserve, but was only trylng to arrange for the privilege of driving offset wells to prevent drainage to the entire reserve. His advances to obtaln an arrangement had been rejected in 1917 by Admiral Grifin and Commanders Stewart, Wright and Shafroth. Taking issue with George Creel, who also testified yesterday, Stack said the former chairman of the com- mittee on public information did know that E. L. Dobeny was asso- clated with him in the efforts to get 2 lease to drill offset wells in Tea- pot Dome. “] may not have told him the money 1 pald him came from Do- heny,” said Stack, “but he knew I had none and that Mr. Doheny was back- ing me.” Stack sald the $5,000 he paid to Creel was the amount named by the latter, and was the “grub stake” he would need. Creel was employed, he sald, beca: he knew the officials in Washington and was to represent the syndicate in the National Capital. Stack sald he had shown Secretary Daniels where Teapot Dome was being drained every day, but that the Secretary replied that if the fleld was belng drained the government was getting its royalty ofl just the same from the nearby wells. He had conferred also with several naval officers regarding the matter, Stack sald, but became convinced that he was making no headway. It was after this he entered into a contract with Doheny to try to get the Teapot Dome. lease. This was In January, 1921 aw Leasing Possible. “What did you tell Mr. Doheny?” asked Chairman Lenroot. “T told him that it was my belief A subpgena for Frank A. Vanderlip to lvv'li before the Senate oil com- ficlals,™ Gontim i on Page 3, Column b.) ' (Continued on P-nmuyn 1) 1 also have in my pos- | ,Both Pomerene and | Strawn May Be Withdrawn. GARFIELD MAY GET POST AS ATTORNEY Denby and All Others in Lease Case Must Go, ! Senator Declares. i e President Coolidge apparently is ! preparing to withdraw from the i Senate the nomination of Silas H. | Strawn of Illinois as special govern- {ment counsel in the oil lease cases. It is possible that the name of { Atlee Pomerene, Mr. Strawn's col- !league, also will be withdrawn. While further developments along { these lines were being awaited, de- bate started in the Senate with an |attack on President Coolidge’s re- | fusal to request Secretary Denby to resign, Senator Robinson, Arkan- sas, democratic leader, predicting that public opinion will force the ) President to remove every official | connected with the oil reserve leases. Senator Robinson read a prepared atement on the Senate floor after Senator Lodge, the republican lead- er, had obtained permission to have the President’s reply to the Senate | printed in the Record. James R. Garfleld of Ohio, Secretury jof thie Interior under Roosevelt, may 1 fchosen as counsel in place of Mr Strawn, Opposition has developed to both of the men who had been sefected by the President. Senators have declared that at least one of the lawyers should be a man tralned in litigation over land leasing laws, Mr. Gurfleld, who was called to the White House today by M Coolidge, is regarded by the Presiden advisers’ us having the qualification: desired. Would Protect Attorneys. The President does not desire to sub- Ject Mr. Strawn and Mr. Pomerene embarrassment through fallure of Sen- ote confirmation. He had considered i the possibility of appointing them as special assistant attorneys general, for which no Senate confirmation would be necessary, but has declded not to do =o. The President is convinced that ti country, desiring a full and impartial tinvestigation and prosecution of the oil cases, would not be satisfied to have the inquiry and legul proceed- ings conducted solely by those con- nected with the Department of Justice. Chairman Lenroot of the oil com- mittee is understood to have informed Mr. Coolidge immediately after he re- turned from New York this morning that there was slight possibility of the confirmation of Mr. Strawn, and some doubt also whether Mr. Pom- erene would be approved. Mr. Garfield, who has been serving fon the Department of Interior's com- jmission to determine a policy with respect to reclamation, said after his iconference with the President that any information regarding his visit would have to come from the Presi- dent. ) Voluntary Change Seen. Meantime some of those intimately ! acquainted with the trend of develop- ! ments belleve that voluntary changes may be made in the President's sel tions, precluding the necessity of ad- verse Senate action. Senator Robinson read this state- ment on the Senate floor after Sen- ator Lodge of Massachusetts, the r | publican leader, had obtained permis- sion to print the President’s reply to the Senate in the Record, “The President was in accord with the advice of the Senate in the Walsh substitute resolution that the De- partment of Justice be not relied upon to protect the goverament's inter- ests, but that special counsel be em- ployed to direct both the civil and criminal litigation growing out of the oil lease disclosures. His statement makes it clear that he does not regard the facts and cir- cumstances _established before tho Senate committee sufficient, and that ihe has no_ intention of dismissing Socretary Denby, or any one eise re- sponsible for the transaction, until by additional evidence or advice from other sources he reaches the con- clusion that the protection of the public interest requires such actlon on his part. Power Undoubted. “His power to reject advice from | the Senate or from any other source is undoubted, but his responsibility i emphasized if he retains officers whose public declarations justify the conclusion that they will throw every possible obstacie in the way of the government's success in re- covering and safeguarding the prop- crty which they have improvidently and recklassly conveyed. Retention n office of Secretary Denby means that the President for all pract.cal purposes supports the Secretary's policles and approves or acquiesces in his actions. “The Congress made Secretary Den- by its akent to admister the naval oil reserves, and when the Senate unanimously found the aggent had been incompetent and derelict in the performance of his duty, it could not e construed as an unwarranted in- terference with the Executive's pre- rogative to so advise the President and to ask him to dismiss the recal- citrant agent so as to fill his place with another who would respect and perform his duty. “Mr. Denby has repeatedly declared that if retained in office he will con- tinue the same policy, and if oppor- tunity arises will repeat the acts complained of regardless of the cir- cumstances. “The Senate has unanimously con- demned his action In & resolution, and by a majority of 47 to 34 passed another asking the President for hls removal. Is there the slightest doubt that the opinion of the Senate re- flects the will of a large majority of the people? - “The President, of e, can carry the issue to the gemntry, but will he dare do 50? Notwithstanding his deflant statement, it is respect- tully suggested the President soon may be forced by public opinion to turn out of office every one, including Secretary Denby, who encouraged or pflicipated in 'making the Becret