The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-22
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investigator 1nQlcatlng that tHe Attor- ney General had dealt in Sinclair stock had been laid by him before members of the oil committee.
 Information came to me from New York through social investigator, said Mir. Wheeler. indicating that Mir. Daugherty had dealt in Sinclair oil stock and I understand that those facts were laid before the President"
 Visit To White House
 Chairman Lenroot said that was on information furnished by Senator Wheeler that he and Atlee Pomerene, special government counsel in the oil cases, had presented to the President last Sunday night. Their visit to the, White House followed discussions with Senators Wheeler and Walsh, demo- crats, Montana.
 As the story has reached senators, the investments made by Mir. Daugherty were comparatively small and were without profit, since the stock was sold at a lower price than that paid for it. Mir. Daugherty, tonight, declined to discuss the subject in any way.
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 of this story htt An examlnatiou of. the books of Hsrry Payne Whitney. New York ei,lancier, and J. P Benkard and Com pany. a New York stock brokerage firm. is being made Arrangements for such an exapinttiou were made with Mir. Witney and the Henkard officials early in the week.
 May Have Dealt In Another Oil Stock
 A similar examination of the books of Ungerleider and Company, a Cleve- lan hrn hain iY, an effort to establish the truth re- garding another report of transactions by MT. Daugherty in stock of the Pure Oil company. Some members of the committee said that as this story reach ed them, Charles G. Dawes, first di- rector of the budget Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior; MT. Daugherty and other high officials of the government made heavy purchases in the stock of this company.
 These transactions are not question ed by the committee, since the Pure OH company is in no way involved in naval oil leasing program. It was ex- plained that the report relating to these purchases was being inquired into in connection with another phase of the investigation which was not disclosed
 The committee experts have complet- ed their examination of the books of the Washington branch formerly main- tained by Ungerleider and Company under the management of James Sloane, Jr., a former White House attache. The results have not been laid before the committee and may not be until the accountants havet finished their work on the records in the Cleveland headquarters.
 Sinclair Not Subpoenaed
 Chairman Lenroot said today that no subpoena had been issued for Harry K. Sinclair who returned to New York yesterday from Europe and he could not indicate when MT. Sinclair would be heard. He added that he knew of no impending development which would make 1t necessary for the committee to meet in advance of next Monday when public hearings are to be resumed.
 Edward B. Mclean, publisher of the Washington Post, was subpoenaed as the first witness Monday, Senator Len root said, but added that it was not certain that would be called at that time. Until the return from Pinehurst, N. C., of Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, decision as to what witness will be called, will be withheld. Special
 
 expected to communicate to the com mittee, some times next week, their conclusions, as to the inquiry of one witness, if immunity would be granted, should he disclose to the Senate in vestigators all of the information in his possession.
 May Find Way To Give Immunity
 Members of the committee pointed Gut today that the committee itself was without power to make any promise of immunity, nor could counsel do so under any existing statute. A way around the difficulty could be found, however, through an agreement by counsel not to bring prosecution in case of such witness.
 It was developed in the case of for mer Secretary Fall that a witness could not be compelled to testify in the event he claimed constitutional immunity against giving evidence that might tend to incriminate himself and that the committee was without power to have punishment inflicted by such refusal.
 Chairman Lenroot called on Presi- dent Coolidge late today at the invita- tion of the President who desired to obtain knowledge as to the latest devel- opnehts oeIore the committee In the oil scandal.
 The statement issued hy Senator Pepper after he had received Mir. Daugherty's letter follows:
 'On my return to the capital yes terday after having been at the White House with Senator Lodge it just oc- cured to me that perhaps I had been in the position of saying something about a man behind his back had no thought to do that. So I sat down in the Senate and wrote short note to the attorney general in my own