Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-10
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Secretary Fall and the Doheny and
Sinclair oil interests aided in further
ing the present Mexican revolution
through the shipment of arms and
ammunition to the revolutionsts
Special attention is to be given to
the reports that department of JUS
tice agents engaged in preventing
neutrality violations on the Mexican
border were called off by Washing
ten"
The Mexican revolutionary angle,
Chairman Brookhart and Senator
Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, said to-
day. probably will be given preced-
ence because of it's present import
ance and be substituted for the origi-
nal plan to open the inquiry on the
charges of alleged failure of the De-
partment of Justice to prosecute an
THRUST cases recommended by the
federal trade commission.
Members of the committee who
have been concerned that names of
some of the witnesses summoned in
connection with the Mexican revolu-
ton angle have become public are
seeking to learn whether the sub
poenas went through the office of
United States Marshal Walker, at
San Antonio. Chairman Brookhart
announced today that he had receiv-
ed confirmation of reports that Mr..
Walker is brother-in-law of the at
tcrney general.
Plans for the hearings still are in
the formative stage and because of
the preliminary work required and
the receipt Of documents and other
information which must be examined,
/ the day for opening the inquiry has
not yet been definitely fixed. Senator
Rrookhart said tonight it might be
on Tuesday but more likely a day or
two later. Some Of the witnesses al
ready are in Washington and others
are due here tomorrow.
Examination into political angles in
connection with the 1920 Republican
pr &c vention campaign were
preached by the reports of an offer
to General Leonard Wood, Of the
presidential nomination contingent
upon his selection of the late Jake
Hamon, Oklahoma oil millionaire, as
secretary of the interior, Is to be left
to the oil investigators. 1t was indi-
Gated by Chairman Brookhart, who
Ttade 1t clear the committee expects
to confine it's efforts to subjects in
WIlCH MT. DduSieTly OF his principal
aides or associates have been actively
concerned.
J. NJ. Alvarez del Castillo, represent
alive here of the De La Huerta revolu-
tionists of Mexico, issued statement
tonight declaring any assertion that
the revolution sought or received aid
from petroleum companies with inter-
ests in Mexico was untrue.
'Our only contact with the oil inter-
ests." he said. has consisted merely
in affording them full protection and
advising those concerns operating in
territory under our control that they
would be required to pay the legitimate
taxes fixed by law to the de facto au-
thorities instead of to the Obregon
government.
"No arms or ammunition intended for
the revolution have, to my knowledge,
been shipped from the United States
across the border into Mexico
The statement said revolutionary
forces operating in the northern states
were armed for the most part with
United States riffs capturd in action
after they had been delivered to the
Obregon forces at Eagle Pass and Ell
Paso. No effort was being made to
purchase arms in the United States, it
added. @