The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-03-31
Lower House 10 Consider Probe
Committees Recommendation
for Robertson's Impeaeh.
ment on Tomorrow
GOVERNOR HAS LITTLE
COMMENT AS TO CHARGE
Declares Movement Coneoeted at
Close OF Session for Political
Reasons; Friends Say
Is Unwarranted
By United Press.

By United Press.
Oklahoma City. Mar. 3l.-Tae
house OF representatives today voted
10 take up for consideration the re.
port OF the investigating committee
IN which II was recommended that
Governor J. Il. A. Robertson be I'M
peached for alledged corruption in
office at 10 o'clock Friday morning.
The vote on this movement was
taken on motion of Representative
Mathews, chairman OF the committee
and the delay till Friday was urged
30 that the members OF the house
may acquaint themselves with t.e
contents OF the report.
The house is also scheduled to
take up the report of the commi,tee,
involving the state banking depart
mcnt Friday
The governor today refused t)
comment further on the report of
the committee, other than to charge
that the report was concocted for
political purposes.
Reports were current at the capital
today that the committee had no in
tenton OF urging the adoption of lis
report
When advised of these reports,
Representative Mathews, head Of
the committee replied: 1--WE are
going straight through with it,
Indications today were that the
report would be acted upon by di-
rect party vote, in which event it
would be overwhelmingly adopted.
The committee declared that no re.
ports would be returned at this ses-
sion.
When the legislature convened to.
day, all reports of committees which
had not yet been acted upon by the
house. were on The desks of the leg |
isators. These included the reports
involving the governor, the banking |
department, the board of affairs and |
the Creekmore pardon.
There was a possibility that the
reports dealing with the Creekmore
pardon and the board Of affairs |
would be taken up al the session of |
the house this afternoon.
Friends of the governor, afteg
hasty examination of tsa charges, de
clarcd they were, for the most part
mere political attacks which would
not be sustained by critical examina
ton either on the floor of the house
or in the court of impeachment.
Among the instances of alleged
fraud on the part of the governor
included in the report is an account
of alleged dealings with John H.
Rebold of Oklrulgee in the fall of
1920.
At that tine, according to the re-
port, tie Guaranty State bank of Ok
nlu,gee was in a condition approach
ing insolvency, and Fred G. Dennis,
bank commissioner. in an attempt to
save the bank, made deposit Of
$4,000 of state money in the bank, |
On the same day, according to the
report, Rebold gave Dennis check
for $4,000, of which Dennis later
gave one-third to Governor Robert
son.
Rehold was vice-president and one
of the largest stockholders Of the Ok
nlulgee bank. The money paid Den
mis- by Reho!d was explained as pay
ments TO ran oil lease, said to have
been purchased from Rehold and the
Governor.
Commenting upon the transaction
the report said, "Your committee is
convinced that the lease sold by Den
mis- to Rehold was at that time, as
both Rehold and Dennis knew, in
condemned territory and not worth
81 an acre, and that the sale of this
lease totRebold, if any such sale wos
made, was a pretext to cover up a