The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19
BIG STORM in
OILY TEAPOT
STIRSSENATE
Probe Sends CRATER To Bed;
Fall Gets III


dal in years turks among the hidden
facts about the teapot dome naval oil
reserve lease.
There is no longer any doubt Of
this in the minds of Senator Walsh
and others who have been trying tc
break thru a wall of secrecy and
transformation given the Senate
Committee about the leasing and
other transactions which occurred
about the same time.
But how to bring out fully the
facts which constitute what many
Senators declare is "a national dis
grace" is battling the Investigators
who believe the American people, for
their own future protection, are en-
titled to the whole truth, no matter
who is hurt.
Will Erect Graft Barriers.
Walsh has enough to satisfy him
that the strongest possible barriers
must be erected to prevent anything
like the teapot dome lease ever oc-
curing again.
Walsh will try to accomplish two
things:
Break the teapot dome lease
2.-Get legislation preventing fu-
ture leases of naval oil reserves with
out the specific approval of Congress
The Senate investigation has
already provided adequate legal
grounds to break the lease which AL
bert B. Fall, former Secretary of the
ta~,4x <rox-1 - Az C;~o1o;,. ,r&o,.
ksts, Walsh said.
=, 'oaSre was nc authority ff0I
I he transfer by President Harding OF
The naval oil reserves to the interior
Department" said Walsh.
Second, the Teapot Dome con
tract, provided the Government
should build oil tanks in return fol-
royalty oil. This called for an ex-
penditure of money without con
gressional appropriations and wa:
| illegal"
The people involved in the oil
leases are: Fall, Edward DENLY, sec.
rotary of the navy; Theodore Roose-
welt, assistant secretary Of the navy
Harry Daugherty, attorney-general
Sinclair and Doheny.
Fall brought about the transfer Of
the oil lands from the navy to the
interior department of which he was
head. Then he leased them.
DENLY Takes a Hand.
Edward DENLY, secretary of the
navy, recommended the transfer OF
the oil lands over the protest of the
men in his department who were
supposed to be in charge of the lands.
DENLY was one of the signers Of the
leases together with Fall.
Theodore Roosevelt raised no pro.
test to the leasing of the oil lands.
He was formerly a director of the
Sinclair company and his brother
Archie is an officer in the Sinclair
company now.
Harry Daugherty is a personal
friend of Sinclair. He held up the
legal action which would have stopped
/ the Standard Oil from pumping out
navy oil which Fall used as an ex-
cuse for the leasing of the oil lands.
Daugherty also approved, informally,
the leases.
Harry Sinclair made Fall his at
torney after Fall resigned as secre-
tary of the interior.
Edward L. Doheny is one of the
biggest oil operators in the world
and he has extensive holdings in
Mexico.
! Shortly after Fall leased the oil
lands he resigned and left Washing
ton with 100000, in cash in a suit
case. He said that he wanted to at
tend to his private business.
The Suit Case Mystery.
Much is being made Of the use of
suit case to haul around the money
in. That. expert politicians point
out, is the correct way TO carry cor
rupt funds.
Now the whole matter is in the
hands Of God and the president. Will
Coolidge demand some designations?
Or will be make Fall an ambassador
to Mexico?
Doheny, who denied that he had
added Fall to his staff, would not be
sore IL Fall was sent to Mexico. Do
heny owns a lot Of oil lands there.
He could do with more.
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