The Alaska daily empire., 1924-02-19
Senator Walsh Stated Case
For Ousting of Secretary of
Navy Denby; Facts Laid Bare

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-NOW thdt
Secretary of Navy Denby has re-
signed and the resignation has been
accepted by President Coolidge prob
ably effective on March 10, there
are many who believe that the case
as presented on February s, by Sen
ator r. j. Walsh was real cause
for one of the climaxes expected as
a result of the oil scandal.
On February 8, Senator Walsh,
demanding that in the interests of
the public, Mr.. DENLY should not re-
main longer at the head of the navy
department, said:
"In doing so. | shall not extenu
ate nor set down aught in malice.
I bear no malice toward Mr.. DENLY
born either of personal animosity
or of political differences. I re-
mind the senate. however, that
when the great properties which he
allowed so lightly and so improvi-
IDENTIFY to slip ont of his hands
are recovered-and Mr.. Doheny 10
offering to surrender Immediately
the whole of Naval Reserve No. |.
exrcpt such portions as he holds
under his original contract-when
these great properties are thus re-
covered. they go back under the law
into the care and custody of Mr..
DENLY.
Opposed to Congress.
HE who administers them, he
who is committed to the policy of
taking the oil out of the ground and
storing 1t in tanks at the seaboard,
instead of allowing it to remain to
the limit in the ground as congress
evidently desired it should
''He who has sanctioned and, for
aught anybody knows, still sane
tions the use of two-thirds the
amount of oil the government gets
under the leasing system for the
construction of storage tanks.
"He who made and continues as
his personal representative in re-
lation to the naval reserves Ad-
miral Robson, who was tutored in
everything he knew upon the sub
ject when he took charge of these
naval reserves, by Edward L. Do
heny.
He who permitted these great
properties to be filched from the
public, though the leases from their
very inception became objects Of
suspicion to large number of SEN
ators and to the wide-awake press.
81 say l bear no malice toward
Mr.. DENLY He tells us that the
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he hopes to escape by that infantile
excuse the just retribution that
is due him for his faithlessness to
the great trust that he assumed
His testimony discloses that it was
not much of a trick; that he is
one of those, who, having eyes, see
not, and having ears. hear not the
things that concern their temporal,
however it may be with the spir-
itual salvation.
Not to Be Deferred.
ST am not to be deferred from
what conceive it to be my duty
in the premises to the people of
the country and the good people
of the state who sent me here by
any such banal appeal as that
made by Mr.. DENLY and echoed
upon the floor here by the senior
senator from Massachusetts (Mr.
Lodge,) the leader upon the Re-
publican side, and repeated here
in the debates to the effect that Mr.
DENLY Is to be tried and convicted
without a hearing.
"Out of his own mouth he is con-
demned. 1t is not essential for the
purpose of sustaining and charge
shall bring against him to go be-
yond his own testimony, except to
refer to related evidence that 1t
past disputation.
"Mr. DENLY was called before the
committee several times, and was
given every opportunity to defend,
explain, excuse or extenuate his
acts or his failure to act. How
many more opportunities does he
want and how many more oppor-
tunities in justice should be ac-
corded him?
II have not seen any senator