The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-25
ELEMP TO |IEST'IFY IN OIL PROBE
Public Hearings Are To
 Reopen With Appear s ance Of Secretary
'ELEGRAMS TO BE < < < PUT IN EVIDENCE
Committee Wants Any Inforriia- ton Of Messages From Capi- tol To New Orleans

R,.g,s NVA5i 4V ANOW Y OkAS0A1S fa !
 BANKERS BPONAED TO
 . REVEAL MILAN CHECKS
 Senator Wheeler Also To De
 nland Early Action On Resolu-
 tion To Investigate Daugherty
 swAsHINGTON, Feb. 24.-By Asso-
 Eiated Press Public hearings in the
 bil scandal will be reopened tomorrow
 by the Senate committee coincideHt with
 renewed efforts in the Senate to force
 full investigation of the administra-
 ion Of Attorney General 'Daugherty.
 While the chief law officer. of tie ad-
 ninistration is again under fire at one end of the capitol, 0. Bascom Slemp,
 ecfetary to President Coolidge, will bssbefore the oil committee as the chief
 Eitness in new line of inquiry.
 The purpose in calling MT. Slemp
 ' to establish whether administration
 officers have had any communication
 with Albert B. Fall or others involved |p.. the oil scandal since just prior to Ehe trip of Senator Walsh, democrat,
 11ntana, to Palm Bench to take the
 Sstimony of Edward B. Mclean, pub
 isher of the Washington Post, regard
 ng. his statement that he loaned Fall ef0O, 900. @
 r TeIegrams Called For
 taT fnE kheX etaxs
 Dnion and Postal Telegraph companies
 have been subpoenaed for tomorrow ||xith instructions to bring to the com
 nittee copies of any telegrams that may
 hAfe been sent by individual members 05f the oil committee, or by any govern
 |nent official to Fall, or to Mclean at
 Palm Beach, or to the former Interior Secretary while he was at New Orleans. K Specifically, the committee will re- |{Iuire the production of copies of any |3nessages sent to Fall or Mclean at khe Florida resort between December |2D, 1923, and January 20, 1924. It |Alsu desires to know whether there was |hny. communication by senators or |.brhers in official place with Fall while |'1s was at New Orleans. It was said |Dbheny informed the former secretary That it was his purpose to tell the oil 4ummittee of the loan of $100, 900 which ||rer made to Fall before the lease of |&aasal reserve No. in California.
 Bankers Subpoenaed N Officials of the Federal American and zsommerciai National hanks of Wash. < 7neton are subpoenaed for appearance ||bcfore the committee tomorrow for |iuestiening as to the records of Me Leans accounts in those banks. The |Washington publisher told Senator |.Wash at Palm Beach that he had |'irawn cheeks for $100, GOO on one or the other of these banks payable to the |brier of Fall. but that they had been Returned to him uncashed.
 M After the examination of these wit ||hesses, the committee hopes to hear
 Erom its expert accountants who have been examining the books Of Harry Payne Whitney, New York financier. |And ]. P. Benkard & Co.,, New York z,fock brokers. in an effort to run down report that the Attorney General and |S,ther administration officers have had transactions in Sinclair Consolidated E1ii stock. Further procedure of the |5committee will be dependent upon the
 Reports which are received from these |heeountanfs.
 E Wants Action Of Daugherty
 Without awaiting the results of the Accountants examination, Senator |IyNheeler said. tonight he would ask Tor adoption by the Senate of his reso. Tuition calling for an investigation ot |khe administration of the Attorney |IGeneral.
 The resolution proposing. this inquiry Twill be reported tomorrow by the Sen |56te audit committee, and Senator |&Wheelr said tonight he would ask consent for it's immediate |Ironsideration. An objection by sa sin |(gie senator would force it's. considera' |Ition over until Tuesday. ,t e. H Senator Wheeler will modify his reso Eltfion so as to leave to the Senate the |5clection of special committee which is |sto conduct the inquiry. He still is de |5termined to make a fight to have Sena, |ator Brookhart of Iowa, one of the re |9pNblicans indentified with the LaFol |jlette insurgent group, named as char ].man. -e,r e
 The. selection of the Iowa senator ||ia opposed by Senator Lodge of Massa |Echusetts and other administrators |Ileaders, but there is no serious obJec |ition to the other investigators pro '1pused by senator WneeleE: 0SHaeVis |IJohes of Washington, and Mclean oi |.Cennecticut, republicans, and Ashurst |'Ar:zona, and Wheeler, democrats.
 x After the election of the committed ||some days must elspse before the in 3quiry can be put under way. Senator |iWheeler has not had the. time to as |'sifnilate all the reports that have come ||tos him since he proposed the investi 'eation. His side of the case will bt |jSresented first and then the Attorney ||{;eneral will be given full opportunity ''to reply in. detail to uh of the charges '5thAt have been made.
 M y- Senator Wheeler will insist that Mir ||lhugherty appear in person for ques |Itioning.
 There has been some speculation
 saong senators as to whether the in 'yestigation of the Attorney Genera Mill conflict with the oil inquiry. Sev ;;eral other inquiries which the Senate ';E6s authorized have been postponed < since the sensational disclosures before the oil committee. These include al < Investigation of propaganda designed z.e ansx