The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27
D0HENY OFFERS
 LEASES RETURN
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not been signed by Mir. Doheny, but by his counsel. Some senators expressed doubt of the wisdom of passing upon the proposal in that form.
 Independent of the Doheny offer. democratic leaders reached an agree ment today whereby substitute for the Caraway Teapot Dome lease cancella- tion resolution Twill be offered in the Senate Monday with view to its speedy adoption, probably on that day. It will be ill the same general form as a resolution offered in the House today by Representative Garrett of Tennes- see, the democratic leader. after con- ference with Senators Walsh, democrat, Montana, who has had the lead nj the prosecution of the oil inquiry, and Caraway. #& ts <
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 The resolution would .'authorise ans request" the President to institute i'm mediate legal proceedings looking to annulment of the Teapot Dome, | Wyoming, reserve lease to the Sinclair interests; to enjoin further extraction of oil from the reserve, and to, '..employ special counsel who shall have charge of the prosecution of such litigation, anything in the statutes touching the powers of the Attorney General or the department of justic to the contrary notwithstanding.
 A similar resolution respecting the California naval reserve lease to the Doheny interests was offered by Rep resentative Garrett, but some members of the Senate committee said such a resolution would be withheld by the Senate until there had been discussion of the Doheny offer. There was inti- nation, however, that unless the Do- heny proposal was submitted in writ ing oyer the signature Of Mir. Dohehy himself the resolution might be pressed at a later time,
 r While the Senate committee was re- examining Archie Roosevelt, son of the former President, and G. D. Wahlberg former secretary to Harry F. Sinclair, in an effort to get more light on the relations between Sinclair and Fall, President Coolidge called on the in terior department for expert advice as to the wisdom of the policy under which the Doheny and Sinclair interests ob- tained leases from Mir. Fall for the California and Wyoming oil reserves. A public statement of the govern ments intentions. both as to criminal and civil proceedings, may be made by President Coolidge after the interior department and the department of jus tice have concluded their investigations and Alr. Fall has had opportunity to explain to the Senate committee his financial transactions with Mir. Do. Leny and Mir. Sinclair.
 i The former secretary was to have been heard Monday, but Chairman Len | nieht thaf h mi. nation had been deferred until Tuesday, both because of his physical condition and the impending Senate debate on the Teapot Dome cancellation. Mir. Fall remained confined to his bed today at the home of J.:W. Zevely, Mir. Sinclair's personal attorney, who disclosed yes terday that Sinclair had loaned Mir. Fall $25,000 in Liberty bonds after Mir. Fall left the cabinet. The note, which it is claimed evidences this debt, was presented to the committee today on behalf of Mir. Zevely.
 Views On Political Effect
 The developments in the oil investi gatiOn were the subject of conference today between President Coolidge and John Adams, chairman of the republi- can national committee. Mir. Adams in- dicatet afterwards that his views on the subject were set forth in an edi- torial in the National Republican, which concluded with the statement that every betrayal of trust by whom Soever committed, should be prosecuted with view of punishment of the guilty"
 Chairman Hull of the democratic national committed, issued a statement | dpclurinr that ''tha Tpanot DOma naval oil scandal. standing out as the greatest political scandal of this or any other , generation, has created an additional political issue for the 1924 campaign" :" He said the issue "bluntly stated. is whether the United States shall ''haYe corrupt government or clean govern ment."
 About the only new development in him. Defendant felt that the. state nentS were made out of il Sni.it of