Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-02-25
MORE SURPRISES
SPRUNG TODAY
IN OIL SCANDAL
Officials Inform Committee
Mclean Did Not Have
$l0O,0OC in Banks on
Which Check Was Drawn

WASHINGTON. ~. The senate Oll
committee opened another bag II sur
prisrs to-day when III reaunad hearings
after u ten day recess.
Taking up the trail of the $i0D.O0O
loan made rn A ii. FIll bE Edward B.
Mclean. publisher wi the Washington
Post the committee was told by Of-
firinls uf twD Washington hanks lllnt Mr.
Mclean. checking balance III neither of
Them va, more than $lOWO in Drccm-
bnr. 1921 Ihr publisher ha- informed
the committee hr gave checks aggre-
eating SiUnnuO on thc TWO hanks during
that period blt chat thcy we're returned
unt ashed
III. Ba-rnm .Slemp. secretary to rre~i-
hrAf Coolidge. waS questioned about
visit W. made ~ Palm Beach while Mr-
Lean ann lall were there last December
ana January The -r. rrtnrr declared
~ talked With Fall several times. asked
Eim Ger the truth about the 0il fhafges
lnd advised hifn tu trl everything Mr.
Fan replied. he said. that lie had nothing
more iU trll
Testify IN 10 Bank Balances.
Edward T.. Mclean. publisher of the
Washington Post, Lad a balance 0f le~S
than $4,000 in thr Federal American
National bank during the nsDnths of
November und December 1921 Charles
III IsGdanc. yire president M that bank
testified today before the oil committee.
Mclean hus testified M wa~ during
thar period hr gave Albert ~. Fan checks
ageregafing $iWln0O an the Federal
American Ani thr Commercial National
Bank w Nashingi Yn. but ihat tile lbe NV
were returned fo him unused.
james II BADEN. Vice president uf the
Commercial National Isank. produced
rrrord. showing that AIrl.rans net bal
umrr in thai hanks wa~ So. .I.s> un No
ycmher /. 1921. and that this was re-
dured I'm checks to less than $4,000 by
thr middle Of December.
Baden said bis bank would have hon
urcd bin rycrdraff MAN M Lean bur hc
uuld not recall THAI thr Washington
publisher ever had ovcrdrawn his a.
count.
SIcmp Before Committee.
&. Hascrm Siemp. secretary to Presi-
dent Coolidge. Was called aS "A witness
to-day in rhr senate uil inquiry.
Through him the committee sought 90
Develop whether administration officials
here had any communication with Albert
II. FALL and others involved in the oil
scandal
Tie president secretary said Mr.. Nj
Lean aud Hall were af Palm Beach at
ihr iimr hr vH~ there in Dr emhrr and
january ana ihai hr hld conversations
Nifh them hnf they were not private.
confidential falF~.
SIemp testified that the VT matter was
mot discussed generally ai hi~ meet
inL. with Tnll and Mclean. hut he hd
ask The former interior secretary
shat thr facts We're
-NnunH man. ~Irnn quoted Fall aa
rcpllyug. NJ have said all have ~ say
nn thc subject"
Ihr witness sliI hr would have t0
~treat ~ confidential any reports he
made tn thr White House nn Mrlrnn'~
testimony WV Palm Iira W.
~icinp asserted also that hc had not
talked ta any member uf thr oil com
miitrr about this ease"
lie said hr had never met Harry L.
~n lair nr Vi. T nuhcny and never hind
any communication directly ur indirectly
with either of them.
Slrmr said that after senator Walsh
was M Palm Beach hc advised Fall to
t,ll the committee ~all.