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REPUBLICAN SENATOR
LAUDS DEMOCRATIC STAND
senator IaFollette Says KepupIlcaii
Administration Cannot Ahord 10
Parallel The Notorious BalhhSer
Record In Dealing With Nation :
Natural Resources.

WASHINGTON, May 2-Discussins
his amended resolution for an lhNes-
tigation of the naval Oil reserves
leasing scandal, which suosequehliS
was adopted, Senator Lar olle''e
(Rep. Wis., paid tributes to Sena-
tor Kendrick Dem. Wyo) VINO
brought the secret lease OIL the
Wyoming reserves to light; 10 Ioi-
mer Secretary Of the Navy Danleis
for resisting the efforts OF the OH
monopolistS to obtain control OF THESE
naval oil reserves and to the aohln-
istrations of Presidents RooSeNel''
Taft and Wilson in upholdlnS the
policy of national conservation anu
for preventing the natural resources
belonging to the people from falllns
into the hands Of private interests
and privileged classes:
OF Senator Kendrick he said:
Ever watchful of the public inter
est, the junior Senator from Wyom-
ing, Mr.. Kendrick, was the first mem
Der of this body to call attention in
public way to what had been done
The Junior Senator from Wyoming
introduced a resolution calling the
attention of the Senate and the coun-
try to the leasing of naval reserve
No 3. located in Wyoming, the rich
est of all the naval reserves. He
first informed the public that this
lease had been made without open
competitive bidding to some favored
party. That brought the matter to
my attention.
"Tbe able Senator from Wyoming
took the initiative in this matter ana
by his resolution focused upon 1t the
attention of the public. For that ac-
ton he deserves the gratitude OF the
country l propose 10 support ana
sustain him in the stand he had
taken
OF the former Secretary of"the
Navy Daniels. he said;
The truth compels me to say that
when Josephus Daniels was secretary
of the Navy he did not supinely sur
render to these oil grabbing corpora
tions. / have read from the testl-
monv of the Secretary of the Navy
Daniels, who du1ing his entire ten
ure of office resisted the efforts OF the
oil monopolists Of this country t.
take within their control the last
remnants of the public domain re
served for the use of the Navy OF the
United States.
Of the three preceding administra-
tons he said:
ct is true that over an unhroke
period of more than a decade three
presiden Taft and Will
son-maintained the policy of con
servation in respect to the natural
resources of he public domain
which has now been repudiated ant
reversed during the first year of the
administration of President Harding
~tSome time after the present ad
ministration came into control of the
government the public informed tina
a movement on fjot to transfer from
the Navy Department to the interior
Department the control of the nava
oil reserves. The change of polio!
under the Harding administration
goes mTcn further than that. 1t in
wolves the forest and it involves thu
coal lands.
4 say now. and 1 sound it as ;
note of warning to my Republican
colleagu CUES that YOU had better hal
this administration upon this course
We cannot afford to permit RECORD
to be made here which will parable
the record of Mr. Ballinger, secre
tary of the Interior under the Tai
administration"
The unanimity with which Senate
LaFollette's resolution for an inves
tigation of the oil leases was adopted
indicates that the Western Progress
sive Republican Senator'S will stani
by him and Senator Kendrick in up
holding the policy of conservation
and that the reartionary Republican
Senators do not dare to openly op
oppose it