The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1924-02-11
Probe Will
Tell Future
ofTwo Men
McAdoo and DENLY Face Re.
tirement at Senate Com
mittee Hearings
Today.
Navy Head Won't Quit
BY Universal Service.


of at least two men in American pub
lie life will be determined in tomor-
rows proceedings in the naval oil
scandal.
William G.. McAdoo, ex-secretary of
the treasury and democratic candidate
for the presidency of the United
States, before the senate Investigating
committee will take the stand volun-
tarily and make what explanation he
can of accepting s150,000 fees to rep
resent before the State department
Edward L.. Doheny's interests in Mex
leo.
In the senate the Robinson resolu-
tion advising President Coolidge to
remove from the cabinet Secretary of
the Navy Edwin DENLY. In repudia-
ton Of his official partnership with
Secretary OF Interior Fall in leasing
away the navy's oil reserves to Do
heny and Harry +. Sinclair will come
to a final vote. The resolution is ex-
pected to pass.
DENLY Stands Firm.
Secretary DENLY today character
lzed as premature a statement that he
will resign IL the Robinson resolu-
ton goes through. But his friends
point out that he will have no other
course than to submit his resignation
and rest his case in the hands OF the
president. They feel that the situa-
ton applies equally to Assistant Sec
retary of the Navy Theodore Roose-
Welt.
Upon the success or failure OF Mr..
McAdoo's explanation to the investi.
eating committee depends shis rein
statement In the confidence of the
country or the death of his ambition
to occupy its highest office.
A poll of the senate indicates more
than enough votes to pass the Robin
son resolution. Desperate last hour
efforts to soften 1t by amendments
will be made. 1t Is believed all Of
them will fall.
The senate will not be surprised II
its investigating committee calls to
the stand Edward C. Flnney. assistant
secretary of tho interior. He occu
pied the same post under Secretary
Fall.
ArnOld's Acts Questioned.
Finney may be asked, among other
things. to testify to the truth or fal
sity of charge that Ralph Arnold
of Los Angeles. who is preconvention
campaign manager for President Cool.
idge in southern California, was a
beneficiary Of Secretary Falls official
generosity. 1t Is stated in this con-
nection that Fall granted a lease OF
]. .4S8 oil land acres In the Coalingd
district of California under one con-
sclidated permit which required that
only development wells be drilled, and
that the lessee then sold out for
1000.
1t is not expected that the commit
tee will again call Fall to the stand.
nor Doheny. The investigating body
fears that testimony given by him
now. after he has refused to testify
on the ground that he might incrim-
mate himself, might entitle him to
immunity from prosecution for ac.
cepting bribes.
Pressure TO Halt Probe.
Pressure of the heaviest kind has
been and is being brought on the
senate committee to ease up now" in
the investigation. Political pleas,
financial consideration and social per-
suasion all have been called into play
in huge secret lobby against turn
ing up any more mire with Its conse.
o(
IT is known that some of these dis
cretion'' arguments have come to
members of the committee from with
In it's committee.
AS body. it has displayed no in
tention of stopping until the whole
uiess has been cleaned up.
The big sensation of the week in
the committee hearings promises to
freak when the three expert accoun-
fants from the federal trade commits
sion finish their work on the broker
age books Of w. II. Hibbs g. Co. and
rngerleider & Co., and report to the
.~nate Investigators.
The accountants have been con-
santly af work week to uncover
aiding operation in behalf Of high
government officials In Sinclair and
i3oheny oil stocks-chlefly Sinclair
g'ansoldated. The committee intends
r. find out what senator's cabinet
.,,ar,bers and other officers OF the
Washington government, If any, prof.
t.si by an inside tip" that Secretary
fall was about to give Sinclair the
Teapot Dome lease.
These favored officials are said TO
hive quietly bought, through Wash
inyton brokerage houses. Sinclair
Consolidated. and to have sold 1t
when announcement OF the lease sent
the stock slxyrocketing on the New
York stock exchange. Many mil
lions are said to have been the profit
In these speculations.
Ct pou1 Rusiueee Co1Iaoa Wins