Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1924, Page 5

.t - B.0.P. O RUN DOWN GUILTY, SAYS JONES Restriction on Ex-Officials Taking Jobs With Big Firms Urged by Senator. ! Speciai Dispatch to The Star. i PORTLAND, Me., Februury 13— The republlean party will “run down and punish relentlessly” the gullty in the Teapot Dome scandal, and President Coolidge will warrant the confidence felt in him by the Amer- ican people, Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington, republican, @eclared in an address delivered here last night at o Lincoln birthday meeting. “This mun,” suid Senator Jones ol Abraham Lincoln, “whom we Jove and dellght to honor, wis no warlike leader, but at his nod greater armies marehed to battle than had ever; trod the earth before. With an edu- catlon secured by the flickering glare 'of the fireplace, fmmortal utterances fell from his lips; with little ex- werfence in aft he gulded the safely darkest hour s period; ungaindy, nced as a tyrant and @ buffoon L toucl ts of men as no one sinc Son of Man trod the wal Galllee. ¥inds Voters Indifterent. “We boast that the majority rules in this country. This is no This Is a government of the minority.” This he eaid was because only a minority of the people entitled to vote exercised that right. 1= said as_estimated that two out of every four citizens are entitled to Yote, but thal out of 55,000,000 poten, tial ters in this country in 1920 ,000,000, or less than half, took ough' intercst in the welfarc of the country to vot In such indifference, nator Jones sald, v far more dunger to the republic thau in any cther source. Sonator Jones suld that after eight yeaps of rule by the democrats the peoble “Iterally kicked them out and put the rcpublicans in”” He added at in the teying times of recon- | struction since thu republicans came it power their record had been worthy of the traditions of thelr party, enumerating the reductions in axe the protective tariff bill and the economy in government expendi- tures initiated by them. Turning to the Teapot Dome scan- ), Senator Jones said: Teapot Dome scandal! A bad ‘Wil it Injure the repub- ¥2 No Not if we run down and punish relentle the gullty. This will be done. No one will be silelded. Thus far but one public officlal {s shown to have been cor- rupt. T hope there are no others, but, if there are, they must be exposed and punished. “I did not rejoice over the knowl- «dge that four members of the cab- inet of the preceding administration along with others prominently identi tled with it, had been hired by the same oil {nterests that had corrupted Secretary Fall to help them attain their ends, Such employment wa technically legal, but was ethlcall bad. “It_has become u very common prac ‘tice for men to serve the government | for awhil, id th such serv- ice and connect themselves wit) business employment in wh he friendships formed to or themselves to whom they sell their This should be etopped. It xhould be made a crime for & man to prose- within a reason my judgment w he quits its service. ble perfod of time, in | = SUTTORALTOL | LEASE RECALLED ‘New York Taxpayer Attack-| ed Legality of Move Here considered further today the nomina- | former S inquisitor in the oil scandal, it b came known yesterday, 13 opposed 10| Dome in 19 | Coolldge nominations at two executwe stons vesterday, but without reach- heard six witnesses at public ses- [number of slons in efforts to obtain more light|man and on the circumstan: the leasing of the serve to Harry F. Sinclair and the |terested Mr. Creel in the proposition 1ence, but several si attitude of the Executive or the Sen- h | jon,” Senator Joh use of the knowledge | roeplution W 3 that. The President et pinfon, - The question was not[¢y o ore of uphulding the Constitution: alliyegyy, belfes terference by oue department of the | much more than that. 2 Foverninent with another department; | “Being without adequate funds, cute claims against the government |none desire that. leader of the republican insurgents,|theraby re said b and t i nomination, took the view of Senator | Johnson, that a final verdict would be | poor cantract and he wanted o know had In the November elections, add- |{f the Ploneer people were not in ing that THE EV Fight on Strawn and Pomerene Continues Before Committee ——— The Senate public lands committee | gotiations with Josephus Daniels, retury of the Navy. to get a lease for offset wells in the Salt 4 and how he had con- tions of Silus If. Strawn and Atlee Pomerene us speclal government | tinued the negotiations after the counsel in the naval oil reserves leasing case. flce. Renewed Efforts fn 1920, The witness said he concelved the ldea of obtaining a lease to Teapot but found the Navy vithout authoerity to “even put ground of the reserve” the matter. There avas of efforts. however after Navy authority or lease the oll Senator Walsh of Montana, leading these lawyers, gelec d by President The oil committec considered the ing a decislon. Between times it Sl Crest ot rs. both 8 & newspaper police Cl\nl;nhixl\(l)}l 0; ! | my home city, Denver,” he said. “and ces surrounding | oo win, that Mr. Creel was & warm apot Dome re- | personal friend of Mr. Daniels, T in- Having B mills Teauiv 2. 1, land asked him to make It posstble tornia Elle Hills reserve to 1. Loy @00, TXEE jeet Mr. Daniels and pre- Doheny. matter to him personally. arranged for the interview mpanied me to Secretary Creel Explainy Duty. | George Creel, former chairman of the committee on publie informatio told the ofl committee he had bee employed Doheny as “publicity <ol at” five months after he S eeinment: bervice, but had re- argue the point that the re- nod after three months becauss of | serve was being drained and he stat- a disagreement with his chief. His ed that If it was being drained, the At the rate of $10,000 wiland adjoining the reserve was a0 disclosed that he had | government land und the government Interested himself in obtaining @ |was zetting the royalty just the lease for offset wells in Teapot Dom d had taken tjhe matter up unsu ssfully with Secretary Daniels nd exe session late | the committee ealled Mr. awn before 1L for a second time il and was reported to have questioned | ;:{:m Nim further as to his directorship in & tho First National Bank and its aflil-} fated First Savings and Trust Ban both of Chicago, which x: : scribad in the public hearings w: ane man with the responsibility “Stundard Oll bunk 2 fof the government's interests re- ftor the session Senator DL iy e SUGEMOTE proposition to demucrat, Washington, who initiated | prodiCy (he wovernment's interests by The Hht agatnst Mr. Strawn and Mr | Ariiinge ofiset well on the reserve. omarene. declared that ho did notf1 sugkested, knowing that Mr. Fall think Mr. Strawn woule ever be con-| had been a lifelong friend of Mr. firmed. Doheny and knowing Mr. Fall was " | now the new Secretary of the Interior, l":“,"ll‘;?:"‘:‘l’:”"l“‘ ":"“:‘"mm) | e hould take up with Mr. Fall the - hink Mr. Stra 8 a gh- o contract for Teapot. ik A T, et e tion of a contract for Teap ary was firm in his - would not consider any spen up the reserve. I Made Maps of Fleld: onferring with naval officers 1 which cquently ut oflicials and found to be cor- i presented the n Tie said, “He w i that he could not 1 2 “Mr. Doheny refused to do s enator Dill sald, “but T think | srating to me, *Mr. Fall and 1 have rporate connections are Suchijeen lifelong friends: we propspected that the public would not have full| {ogethier fu vour state hefore it was confidence in him u8 a prosecutor.”” in the old territorial days; ‘Senator Dill said ho would make a} of that friendship, T would fight to 1 the nominations of Mr. Fall anything in refer- the Senato inj 'so the prople | fe acts that we for and in these ence to Teapot Dome matter, ng that, on account of my friend- might be influenced to his policy, if he had one established, in my favor, and 1 would not ask him to do it. There is known to be a growiug Called™wn Den feeling in the commitlee that at le one of the two counsel to prosecute igng the cases shou!d be a erim 11 ver of outstunding prominence : 1 other counsel should he awyer with full knowledge Such a kr ome committ - ssential in yrosccution of the annulment suits, With the Senate in recess yeste day and Presid Coolidge in New | grijled. York, (h-a‘(;v s 2;;\[3:;‘:(1;)&1. cussion | "r;“‘“'\“;”m the ].'Im;c”r qom- of the Denby Zn | phny haa cis el Secretary Denby mai t;nr;(—d“ h‘l\m;h i Dot ,,‘_m] 8 e it TS issued PUL- f1g get the %46 Toin T statements regarding it d Doheny in endeavor- Johnwon Statement. to Ect & contract {rom the Navy Senutor Johnson of Califoruia counsel co open executive may know all know; just what i ainst them as coun tary Den 3 3 of the s {oplnlon a . Di . that i g reserve’ pre- rved Nuvy. 1 exhibited to the results of the Investigation ich disclosed drainage t. rogress, and u Hngon of Calitoml iy finally tired of the nexotiations | is opposing Mr. Coolidg tand” withdrew, he sald, requiring the publican presidential nomination. i piyneer company to take over Stuck's Voiced largely the sentiments of th republican insurgents in his ment that the forthel Wouta ' huve. todecide whether acts. Later Sinclalr obtained the lense, tack continued, and he was advised {hy the Plonccr company that “they had sold out their titles and what i | they_thought also waus my interest ate has expressed for $1,000,000 v offered me a id, check ‘for $50, 5 per cent of s corre NING _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C;, WEDNESDAY,' ' FEBRUARY DENBY RESIGNATION LATER SEEN HERE Expected to Quit if Lease | Secretary Denby?" asked Chairman “I walked right in.” “You felt you couldn't do that with ting my money. {the unsuccesswul visit to Sinclair in “But you wanted Bonfils fo assist “No, sir,” responded the witness. “Why? “Because Aitken said to hold off a DIid you dis- |while, and then Zevely was coming ut to see us.” | “But nfanwhile this scorching arti iclo of August 15 appeared in the Denver Post?” Tn any honorable way, yes. You saw the reeated attacks on this lease in the Post, cuss them with Bontils? prove of them?" “I did not give it much thought.’ wouldn't say that.” Stack said Denby told him “Nothing doing; Teapot Dome is to remain as it_has been.” He convinced the Secretary, he sald, that the drainage was taking plaee. This was-in June, he sald, and the re merves had been ‘trunsferred to the terior Department in Ma: “Didn’t the Secretary tel Did you ap- [0 attacks might heip you to get your i “Did that help to convince Sinclair? Harding administration came into of- | | 1t might have spilt! “I didn’t kilow. e ce about that. its policy. T was mterested In get-}proposed suit after he returned Yrom‘ “You will have to ask Mr. Sinclair i |offset well r. reserve was under the Interior De-| partment?’ askd Senator Lenroot. “He did not.” Doheny sought to get the titles of e mpany In the Sult Stack said he @ not go to Kansas | as he regarded ‘himself as per- with Sinclair. contract whereby Sinclair paid and agrecd Fight Is Taken to U. S. From_L pay $750,000 they “dilly ‘dallied” with Doheny sought to get the title: | later was went to Denver for his sig- | the witness sald. it Bonfils had any ulterior motive in attacking the | was not a party to BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Ldwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, is expected to reslgn just as soon as government counsel decides to ask the {for a 5 per cent right in the offset federal courts to vacate the leases given to the Sinclair and Doheny oll interests. | President Coolldge's speech York, together with his previous state- ments asking for a suspension of Judg- ment, merely mean that he does not be- lleve the expression of an opinion by the Senate on anybody else that the ! Ploneer company were valld, as they Secretary of the Navy acted unwisely is sufficlent basis for permitting the resig- nation of Mr. Denby, * The President feels that questions of policy involved in the leases will have to be studied by special counsel, and If they should decide to ask for the annulment of the leases b would be & judgment upon the wisdom of the orlginal acts. of the President Finally he tired of the negotlations tack ineisted and sold out to the Pion then gave Stack a 2 ny, |2 O et | Sinclair lease he wells and & 5 per cent right in the Ish wanted to know Teapot Dome pany got the lease. which also had claims in became a party The Belgo com- Salt Creek field, the contract. Argued Claims Valid, Stack argued that the c .Upholstering Chair Caneing Furniture Repairing "Nuff Said! The Best Place and Lowest Prices, After All Ask my 20,000 cus- tomers. I-give the serv- ice you have a right to had been located under an original ! of Congresm. agked why the compan ply for patents , and S able to say. Chalrman Lenroot pointed out that company asked compramise of their claims with the government casions, but its applications had been Ploneer as are authority for| . HES 1€ OO were not entitled the statement that it would be In- computible for the Secretary i ¢ to retain office while.the judi- government d Doheny had figured that his interest in the contract with the| Ploneer and Belgo was worth $1.500,- 000, “if they got the When they had b come convine h tiie Interior Mr. Fall, who was ¢ of the Interior. must face the ! oj; ment of his claim und: he had with the Pioneer, but h ment In conjunction w Dopartment. Drop postal to: 1233 10th St. N.W. Franklin 7483 fluenced by the $100,000 “loan” mude before the him to accept, but he regarded Sci ler as prejudiced because he had been and officer of, r company. Asked what he regarded spiracy charged in his bill of Stack sald i Pioneer und the Midwest h; leases were consummated. must answer the question why he signed the leases In conjunction ‘with 1. Renignation Seen Inevitable. The Secretary of the Navy has said he would do it all over again if he had another opportunity crnment counsel decide that all that |Denver Post, he said, then offered to he did should be undone, the Sccre- s resignation Is de- In fact, even quarters the hould gov- finance the negotiations b “And_you were willing to give Bon- tary of the N fils* $2,500,000 clared to be inevitab wdministration diction is made that Secretary Denby nator Lentoot. was the answe prepared, with Sinelatr and publican national convention meets in | the Mammoth OIl Company Joined as Cleveland next June. The democrats in the Senute are all much pleased with the President’s re- the Senate s resignation. that the reso- ory and that | hin his rights cublnet of- “Was the complaint ever served?” ed Chairman Lenroo “The summonses Wer suggesting Mr. Denb concede private was not man Mr. Coolldge is well in refusing to dismiss & ficer at the behest of the they belleve Mr. Coolidg himself with Mr. extent that the Issue of the next cam- | paign may be Mr. Coolldge's defense | of Mr. Denby. | moment the Coolldge sup- porters feel confident that the Presi- dent's course has gained prestige for 4 ' Withheld Complaint. ! cauce 1 Qid not want them to| know what 1 had in my complaint” “Why did you not file it later “Because they had started negotia- tions for @ settlement.” “You wanted to hold the summons club to_force gether with Mr. Bouflls’ Denver Post A MOTHER'S PRIDE A mother’s swells with pride as has aligned | to guch an table and watches shem enjoy the food a settiement, Instinctively she un- L. Aitken of the Pi- e derstands the wishes suspending judgment. Stack said L. questionably’ Whether the west agrees or whether it will speak an adverse opinfon at theé polls next autumn i important political query out of the That is un- | regotiations and said Si conference was Sinclalr in New September, the witness said and the Ploneer company wanted to meet us in ones and strives to tisfy them. loves to serve the that has arisen Dome controversy. (Copsright, 1924.) STACK SAYS HE KNEW Did you and Mr. Bonfils consider the easlest way to.get money to continue pounding Sinclair's lcases th the Den- your grocer or write us direct THE LEVERING more | the 31,000,000, expressed money and decided to : . «s Mr. Doheny had rep- in that. It is not one of in-lrecented his contract as being worth . |Stuck said, he went to Frederick G. w1t je a question of opinion as to| Bonfils, publisher of the Denver, Col. hin five vears after | the futuro usefulness and even fit-| Post, Who agreed to back him. Sin: toa horrible situation. olubly connect-|olair and the Mammoth Oil Company of the present |\car 400 iq he Senate Vot inst the future usefulness and fit- of that one. The President dis- s of the one indi h the gene s defendants, he sald, but before the ten days for filing the bill of complaint in court “the e Ploneer people startcd negotiations ag! The people. at the bap l'l“f for a compromise.” whosa opinion all ofiicluls must fully Conferred With Sisclals, stand, will decide. e i hey maintained they had sold their interest to Mr. Sinclair,” he N} went on, “and that Mr. Sinclair was La Follette Siient. Senator La Follette of Wiscon he saw “no reason for comment’ Lat at this time he anticiputed |his counsel, Mr. Bonils, Mr. Schwartz fio further action by the Senate in!ung‘l went to New York for a eon- matte Senator Reed of Missquri, & candi-{ counsel; he stated that he knew of ate for the democratic pr pniract and that in his opinion Pioncer company had made a will take more than 2}the habit of keeping their contracts, {certificate of counfidence from Calvin i Two Years Ago. | Cootidse to restore public confidence | “*¥F Legality of the L e of naval pe- troleum reserve No. | to the Pan- American Petroleum and Transport Company was contested in the Dis- trict Supreme Couft here two years ugo, it Was recalled today, in the case | _of Francis J. Carnianfi a mineral op-| erator of New York city, who sought an injunction as u taxpayer to re- strain former Secretary Fall of the Interfor Department and Secretary Denby of the Navy Department from performing the terms of the agree- ment between them and the ofl com- pany—now become famous through disclosures in the Teapot Dome in- vestigation. Chlef Justice MeCoy at that time held his court was without jurisdic- tion in the matter and sustained mo- tion of counsel for the government to dismiss. Carmun noted an appeal, but it was never perfected. + Carman’s blll alleged that the two secretaries entered into the lease ugreement in excess of their jurisdic- tons, contending there was ‘no thorization for their orovisions of a “rider” to the act of june 4, 1920, which he claimed was unconstitutional. He claimed that they went outside of this act in that the law did not Yermit them to build, maintain and uperate naval utilities in conjune- zion with the leases, or to contract for the same without specific direc- ns from Congress. The bill al- loged further that the Secretary had leaged these lands to Doheny's com- Oun¥ upon an average basis of 21 per cent royalty, and that the com- vany had obligated {tself to do things ' rcspecting the operation contemplated | which amounted to a “legal and finan- «ial impossibility.” \ Another contention of the plaintii was that the agreement provided for e erection and operation of navy ructures for the use of the Navy costing over $50,000,000, to be pay- uble out of royalties ylelded under the lease, “all of which was and is a legislative function reserved by law 1o the Congress of the United States. LINCOLN MURDER CASE . INVESTIGATION ENDED Aurora Police Chief Ready for Trial of Eccentric Horti- culturist. By the Assoclated Press. AURORA, Ill, February 13.— Sat- isfled that Warren J. Lincoln, eccen- tric lawyer-hortlculturist, killed his wife and Byron Shoup, her brother; soaled their heads in a concrete block 1d burned their bodies, Chiet of olfce Frank Michels announced last night that his investigation of the aase was ended. Lincoln was indicted for murder and will be arraigned next MMonday. il John Lincoln, son of the accused man, who was arrested after ife had ade a statement that he, and not Juis father, wus the slayer, was re- teased when confronted by the elder Lincoln, who @enied the story. “°If 1 made that contract, I would in Edwin Den keep it’ and suggested that the Temocratic Leader Robinson, author | regponsibility was on the Ploneer of the Denby resolution, said the|company. Senate having expressed emphatically “The conference came to an end its own advice the Inatter, “the|without agreement, but evidently President can, of course. take such ac- Jater the Ploneer people convinced tion ay he sces fit,” He added that|Mr. Sinclair that the responsibility the full responsibility was on the |was on him or the Mammoth OI1 Exccutive. - Company, for Mr. Sinclalr later start- Lodge Backs Coolidge. sd_negotiations which ripened into & Administration leaders were out- |Séttlement between the Mammoth Ol spoken in their approval of thejCompany and Mr. Bonfils and me.’ President's position. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the majority floor Jeader, visited the White House be- I g i o) pry fore Mr. Coolidge departed for New i o York and was said to have gone Graduste there to present personally his con- Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONES gratulations. Chairman L(—nruot. of the oil committee declared Mr. Cgol-( ~ 1 3 Eyesight Specialist exclusively an executive func- o ‘undoubtedly was right in hold- 409410 McLachlen Bldg. 10th and G Bts. N.W, he President’s stand will be ap- all right-thinking people,’ said Senator Pepper, republican, Pennsylvania, who was among those making a vigorous fight against the Robinson resolutfon. Stack Takes Stand. J. Leo Stack, Denver ofl man. who . o e has contractual rights in_claimg in| Superlor Pmtmx Teapot Dome, told the Senate ofl committee yesterday that he hecame Small Work Exclusively convinced soon_ after Harry F. Sin clair got the lease that there had' 909 12th St. N.\W. heen “bad faith, fraud and secret} dealings” in the matter. Telephone Howard S. Fisk Main 1816 Manager Stack sald information had come to' him that Sinclair, Robert W. Stewart of the Standard Ol Company of In- lana and H. M. Blackmar of the Midwest Refining Company, a Stand- ard Ofl Ellb!llfllll‘)'.t‘:lid_r KOlttel’Il’ to- ether at Mexia on e Teapo! ome bl sother, ot dexla, o the e Incomparable Ui intormation fad cme to me: Staek added, “that nclair had sal fi to Stewart ‘that he would like to Bo“qllet CO ee have a chance to handle Teapot, and following that event the Midwest in- A : terests had, through Stewart's influ- May still be bought for gne=, encouraged Sinclair to go zsc Per Po“nd The witness declared to his mind the real consideration that the Stand-| We may be forced shortly to ard and Mldwest interests recefved advance our price. from Sinéluir rather than the million dollars pald for thelf rights in Tea- c BURC pot Dome was thatythe Standard was . W to have a 50 per cent interest In the pipe_line which was provided for in| 817-19 l"oll_r_hamll St. N.W. }the lease obtained by Sinclair. ! i Says Momoply Provided. Asserting that the pipe line would have capacity for carrying more than the requirements of oil from the Tea- pot and Salt Creek fields in Wyoming, Stack sald that the pipe line “really provided a continuing monopoly to the Standard interests and Sinclair, and was of great value.” Stack testified that the Ploneer Ol Company, a Midwest subsidiary with" whom he had & contract to under- take to obtain a lease for Teapot | Dome. had offered to pay him $50,000 | ['J in cash for his claims., whereas it was to recelve ofl from Sinclair when and as obtained from the new field. This, he sald, was, to his mind, a sus- picious clrcumstance. Stack, whose name was brought into the inquiry by E. L. Doheny, California oll magnate, read a long prepared statemeat concerning his efforts to obtain the lease of Teapot Dome, hiy suit against the Standard 01l Company- of Indiana, the Midw and Ploneer companies to enforce his contract, and the eventual gettlement with Sinclair. " Also he told of unsucewesful na COFFEE CO. BALTIMORE. MD. asked Chairman Lenroot. “I'm not managing editor of the I know nothinz about The witness added that he refused i SINCLAIR WAS TO GET TEAPOT DOME LEASE (Continued from First Page.) Denver Post. e Office Space The Star Building Large ell room, fourth floor — four windows. North and south ex- posure— $50.00 Room with ante room, Nos. 606 and 607. Sixth floor, 11th St. front— that the new administration would lease the reserves. Stack sald that Schuyler of Denver, his attorney, had drawn up the con- ~— e Ro GaayesT STEEL CuT COFFEE "WeRring corrEE O In the spring of 1921, Stack sald, he went to Teapot Dome with consulting geologists of Denver and found that 2,800 acres of the reserve were sub- ject to dralnage. Making a map of the whole Teapot Dome, he =aid, he sent geologlats to Washington with it. He was told that geological survey officlals agreed that the map was correct ce with Mr. Sine p was taking place. | feren: with Mr. Sinclair and his{ W28 Ehowed’ Dolieny the maps and told him what the geological survey and he became enthused,” “I came here and took it up with Secretary Denby.” “How did you get your entree to ponsible for my interest. | At the invitation of Mr. Sinclair, or | and drainage % ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares ;vithdl.'awu be- fore maturity. Assets More Than $9,000,000 Surplus More Than $900,000 Corer 11th and E Sts. N.W. JAMES. BERRY......President JOSHUA W. CARR...Secretary helped — by ful and penetratin warmth of Ben-Gay. stops congestion and the AVENUE o NIN 350 Pairs Men’s Odd T'rousers 54 ’ Save a suit—match up that odd coat and vest. Don't let them be idle for want of a pair of good trousers made of fine fabrics. Another lot of 300 pairs of Men’s Odd Trousers. 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