Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-02-12
SPOTLIGHT OF
SENATE TURNED
ON FALL DEALS
Committee Delves Deeper In
to Financial Transactions
OF Fall in New Mexico Dur
ing Tenure Of Office

WASHINGTON. Feb. u. Having
placed on file at the White House its
unavaiinE demand for the immediate
resignation Of Secretary Denby, the
senate today turned its inuuisitorial
spotlight on thc affairs 0f former Sec
retary Fall.
Before the oil committee success
Sion of witnesses were questioned about
financial transactions in The southwest
in an effort by committee members to
dclvc further into Mr Falls connections
and associations during that period NJ
MS career which recently has come 20
prominently under public scrutiny.
An Indian affairs uh-committee VIZ
thc house also took hand in the con-
trovcrsy revolving about the former in
terror sccrctary's leasing policies hv
questioning the legality WI hiz action in
leasing unailotted Indian lands for the
the mining of coal and other minerals.
wi hr subcommittee reported adversely
bin which would have carried for
ward thc leasing arrangement by ai-
lotnE royalties among The Indian bene-
ficiarcs.
Much Of the testimony before ths
senate committee today dealt with fin
anrial transactions relating t0 the AT
buquerque. =. NJ. Morning Journal.
One nj the Witnesses was Carl n. Magee.
who purchased the paper from Fall IVA
1929 and sold " ~ Sidney w. We'll IN
1922. IL was Magec's testimony some
weeks aE0 that first started the COM
mittnr in its inquiry into Falls finan-
cial affairs
Today Maree told of his efforts 20
scIl thc Journal particularly of offers
from the Los Angeles Herald. which he
asserted represented Dohcny money"
IIe WAS told. hc said, that the Hearst
interests also wanted ~ buy the paper
but that he did not want to have any
thing to do with Hearst
THE witness said thc Denver fColo.l
Post sent a man down 10 see about the
same hut hc told thc committee he did
rot want to have anything to do with
Frederick n. Bonfils. and VI. II. Tam
men. publishers Of that paper.
was told 7 was N damned fool ~
said. that I would make more than I
ever had Made before in my life"
Magcc said We'll came to him later
AND asked about THE purchase w the
paper III testified ~ that time he was
making nm investigation regarding
some hIoodcd stock which had been
shipped w Fall at Three Rivers.
II wired the Denver Post but got no
answer hc said Then ! wired the
Chicago Tribune. and they said Falls
old friend, Edward b. Mclean. had
shipped it Then rumors reached mo
about 100000 in suitcase running
around New Mexico"
When he sold the paper 70 We'll. Ma
Gee said hc wanted to close The deal
Ivy Albuquerque, but III was agreed to
deposit the sale agreement in the First
Trust and Savings bank NJ Chicago in-
stead. Melvin A. Traylor, president of
this bank previously had testified that
his institution in really the Chicago
bank of the Standard Oil company or
Indiana and that both X and the Ma
tional Bank Of Chicago did business
with that company.
Magcc said that We'll wanted the
transaction closed in Chicago. 50 that
word would not come ont i'm advance Of
the SALE as that might harm both sides
II the sale was not consummated.
Asked who woned tho Journal with
Fall in 1920, MaEcc said the Chino Cop
per company. the El Paso and South
western Railroad company. John w.
Weeks present secretary of war. che
firm of ColIidgc and somebody in Bos-
ton. not the presidents layout" and
Price Kinney company Of Cleveland.