The St. Joseph observer., 1922-09-30
WILL BARE THE SECRET
OF TEAPOT DOME DEAL


Progressive Republicans, are expected
to second and support Senator La
Follette's attack on the deal"
In a recent speech Senator Ken
drick showed that the secret leases
were executed by Secretary Fall fol-
lowing inquiries from constituents of
western senators regarding the inten-
tions of the Department of the In
terror with respect to these oil lands
The Mammoth Oil Company, char
Harry f. Sinclair and others, is gem
orally regarded as another name for
the Standard Oil Company.
Was II at Falls Ranch?
1t is expected that the investigation,
when IT comes, will question whether
the secret lease of these naval oil re-
clair was a guest at Secretary Falls
ranch near Three Rivers, New Mexico,
at time when the negotiations be-
tween the Mammoth Oil Company and
the head Of the Interior department
were in progress.
Independent oil interests, which are
complaining against what they allege
is unfair competition, especially since
the Mammoth Oil Company acquired
control of the Teapot Dome deposits,
are pressing for an investigation. SEN
ator Kendrick has shown that the
royalties which the Mammoth Com
pany is paying under the terms of its
paid by independent concerns tn ada
cent fields.
In his latest speech on this deal"
Senator Kendrick said:
There is every reason to believe
that the government threw away from
$4,000, 900 20 S2O,OOO,O0O in leasing
the Wyoming naval reserve in the
manner it did. Five per cent of this
amount in royalty to the state, as
provided by my bill, would have
amounted to at least several hundred
thousand dollars to the school children
of Wyoming"
VIII Hit the Farmers
The Fordney- McCumber Profiteers'
Tariff bill, which is estimated to dou-
BILE the taxation of the American. peo-
Pile; that is to say, to add another
$4,000, 900 in the way of taxes, but
of which. only a few hundred millions
will go into the treasury the balance
into the pockets of the special privi-
lege class, is now a law.
This tariff bill aptly termed 1.-The
coffin for the corpse OF prosperity"
will fall heaviest upon farmers and
working men, by reason of the fact
that it will still further curtail the
farmers foreign markets. and by de-
stroying what little is left of our for
elgn trade will greatly reduce produc-
tion in manufacturing lines as well as
in natural industries.
In a speech iust prior to the pas
sage of the bill Senator Underwood,
the Democratic leader of the senate,
called attention to some OF the out
rageous rates of the bill particularly
to the wool schedule, in which he
showed that the tax levied on raw
wool would collect out of the pockets
Of the American people 100000, 900,
only $2O,OOO.OOO of which would go
into the treasury of the United States
and the balance into the pockets of
the special interests.
! Senator Underwood excoriated that
feature of the bill which transfers the
! taxing power from Congress to the
President, and said:
IT do not think it will last long as a
| law. II IT should last long, if the
terms of the bill were to stay on the
statute books for two decades, would
predict the rottenest filth and corrup-
! tion that could grow out of such n
bureaucracy. that would be a stencil
In the nostrils OF all good people. But
I do not think II will last. / think
before that day comes the American
people will take the size of what this
Congress has done, will realize that the
Congress has laid down a great re-
sponsibility that was given to them,
which the constitution of the United
States has placed in their hands, that
they have surrendered a great trust,
and the American people will rebuke
any party and any set of men who
have been guilty OF abandoning a
trust like this given TO their safe
keeping"
Democratic Bonus Proposal Rejected
by Cops
Democratic members of the Ways
and Means committee Of the House OF
Representatives, in a minority report
made on March 20, 1922, recommend
ed that whatever kind or sort OF
bonus or adjusted compensation Con-
gress shall deem justly due the World
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