San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-01
POLITICS BACK
/: Of OIL PROBE,
I: REEDDECLARES
Says Republicans Not
Moved by Matter of
Public Good.
SCORES MELLON PLAN
Replies to Long and De-
tends Attack on Food
: Control Bill.
SCORES MELLON PLAN
Joplin, Mo-, March 1.--Chargin.

Joplin, Mo-, March 1.--Charging
-Republican leaders in Washington
were moved by political considera-
tons rather than the public good in
adealing with the oil lease disclosures,
United States Senator James A.
Reed, Missouri, in an address here
slast night, asserted "the trouble with
.-fhe Republican party is that its main
spring is down in the financial CEN
ter"
"In the last analysis" he said, "you
will find little group of financiers
and capitalists who dictate"
:, Attacking the Mellon tax plan as
q favoring those of large incomes, the
~ Missouri senator charged the secre-
a tary of the treasury held his position
= Illegally because of his financial in
? terests.
- when Mr.. Mellon became secre-
!, tary," he said, "he was director in
!, rs banks, trust companies and indus
= trial enterprises, the chief of which
e Is one Of the greatest trusts on earth,
:, The aluminium trust"
!, Senator Reed, who is campaigning
- in his own state for the Democratic
q presidential nomination, reiterated his
4 charges that William G. McAdoo, an
Z opponent, had received large fees
!, from the E. L. Doheny oil interests,
I and others for political influence.
"a The senator repeated his denial that
. he had known Mr.. McAdoo's name
4 would be mentioned when asking for
7 The recall of Doheny to testify before
!, the oil committee.
, McAdoO's Feet Greasy.
II - -
: he asked. You might have nominated
and elected candidate who could
, not have stood up because of grease
! had been indicted, tried and convicted !?
been embarrassed, including the Presi-
dent HIMSELF"
The speaker asserted he did not
believe Mr.. Doheny had yet told one
third of the story of the oil lease
transactions.
at does not seem probable that
Mr.. McAdoo could have been Mr..
.Doheny's attorney so long without
knowing his methods, but it is con-
ceivable that he did not and / want
. TO be fair TO him. The fact remains,
however. that he did not resign when
Mr.. Doheny testified December 4. dis
closing the conspiracy, nor on Janu-
airy "a when he told of bribing A.
b. Fall, then secretary of the inter-
ior, but only after Mr.. Doheny on
February /, disclosed his employ
Inent.
Defies His Critics.
"If that employment was honorable.
why did he resign at all? And if
it was honorable why do some COM
plain because l helped disclose it?
If dishonorable, who dares criticise
}me?n
- Replying to a statement by Breck-
enridge Long, former third assistant
secretary of state and McAdoo sup
porter, Senator Reed defended his at
tack in the Senate on the war time
food control bill, and administration
measure.
The senator said he opposed the
bill because he declared it gave power
TO Herbert Hoover to depress the
price of agricultural products, par
ticularly wheat, which resulted in a
loss to the farmers of $5,000,000,
600.
He declared Hoover had "been inn
ported from England to further a
/ scheme of the British government
whereby 1t might buy American grain
at q low price,