The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-12
HIGH OFFICIALS
 PLAYED DURING
 SENATE DEBATE
Hiram Johnson And Other
 Republicans Blame Own Party
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After the talk had gone for four hours, the minute limitation on debate was invoked under agreement reached last Saturday. This enabled many senators to speak. Besides, Senators Robinson, Johnson and LaFollette those arguing the resolution were Reed, democrat :; Swanson, democrat, Virginia; Stan ley, democrat, Kentucky; Trammell, democrat, Florida, and Heflin, demo- crat, Alabama. Opposing the resolu tion were Senators Spencer of Mis- Michigan; Howell, Nebraska; Brande- gee, Connecticut; Reed, Pennsylvania :; Hale, Minnesota, all republican.
 Amendments Voted Down
 Starting at o'clock the Senate voted first on amendments to the re- publican, rejecting the two that were !, pressed. First it refused. 70 to II, to add to the request the qualifying phrase, eff guilty of misfeasance or mal-feasance in office," and then it voted down, 75 to 6, an amendment which would have made no request of the President, but merely have de- clared that the public interest would be served by the resignation of Mir. Denby.
 A dramatic incident of the day was tuC dpDtdEdHCt Ol N1Ci1uOO DeIOEe the oil committee. Appearing at his own request, the former treasury secre- tary at the outset read prepared statement and then submitted to ques- tioning by members of the committee. He was on the stand exactly 40 min utes.
 McAdoo Is Applauded
 Before Mir. McAdoo appeared the big hearing room was filled to overflOwing. When he entered the room there was applause and other outbursts came as he left the witness stand. He bowed and smiled to the crowds and waved his hand as he left the committee room with his campaign manager, David Rockwell, of Ohio, and Senator Har- rison, demorrat, Mississippi.
 Mr. McAdc1 ieclared that had he not been pom ently mentioned in connection M lgh office, his name never would haHe been brought into in goed faitt n accepting retainer iroul 2, J.. D"Aeuy after he left the cabihef and told he committee he re- gafjed the Ua44ct as wholly irrele- ysnr" 10 he subject matter of the inquiry, "Nryir'heless,' he said, II am perfectly N ilI.- 3a have the committee laaire int f ! it will aiG the com mttee in metrt4in ing the people who hare been s,ih5 If wrongdoing I am sa1 tn ti 1e ii arpught out
 T'e,S Ut Resolution
 th upnpy resi-naipn resolution fol. lows
 Nhere,s, the United States Senate did, pa January 3l, 1924, by an una niu1ole vote, adopt Senate joint zef lH'i NJ. S4, to procure the an- nulmrllt # certain leases in the naval oil reserves tf the United States, and.
 " hA.pds. il appears from evidence other a;s, declared as follows:
 Whcreas. 1t appears from evidence taken y in committee on public lands snd srvc2s of the United States Senate that ertain lease of naval re- ser 9 uuJn5eI d .;, in the state of Wy nCning ariI g date April z, 1922, male iA form b7 the government of the United States, through Albert B. Fla |, secreta of the interior, and Ed win Ienb secretary of the navy, as lessor of the Mammoth Oil com pa y as less .e ind that certain con ] tract betwee te government of the United State and the Pan-American Pe troleum a Il Transport company, dA led April p 1922, signed by Ed ward C. Fiji ney, acting secretary of tha interior. and Edwin Denby, secre- tsry of the avy, relating among other | ints to tn construction of oil tanks q; naarl H. rhor. territory of Hawaii, aud lhat cer aia lease of naval reserve nun ered l, in f e state of California, I bearing date De mber 1, 1922, made in form by he 9 'ernment of the Uni tod States ttrougi Albert B. Fall, sec retafy O. the inte'ior, and Edwin Den by, secretary of the navy, as lessor to the Pan-AmericG Petroleum oil as lessee were executed under circum- stances indicating fraud and corrup- ! tion ant
 Leases Not Authorized
 EEl.sas, the said leases and con- tract were | eied into without au- thoritN ON tDn lrt of the off; .ers pur- portins to q t gn the execution of the san fur the United States and in viol ( 9 lie laws of Congress and
 "- Et 9 $ lch leases and contract wer, . in def lncem of the settled policr- ?, lle go. rnment, adhered to thro1 lreH lccessive administra- irons Ip air T the ground great reservt ,plg oil adequate to the needs of be nay in any emergency threatening the Hational security:
 IAeteIOre be ',
 Resolved that it is the sense of { the. United States Senate that the !. President of the United States inn mediataly reques the resignation of Edwin Derby as ,retary of the navy" This measure Na a substitute for the originul resolution offered by Demo- cfatic Lea1e | binson before the Senate pdop te Walsh resolution for the aanu J-ait of the oil leases.
 While the was concluding its de5ate on ,- esolution requesting bis resignation, >ccretary Denly sent out word to .r, ireers at his office that he woud {! ve nothing to say oa the subject ther tonight or at any s,rb in immediate future.
 S1erc@r Opposes It
 Opening the q Idy of debate, Sen, ator Spencer, publican, MissouA opposed tue Rob- pn resolution on ths ground that 1T ,a "a quasi judicial dA. cision upon , completed inquiry and gross v ut T the Secretary. eI'he whole pa ter still is in the bantls of our~c' Ir., ttee," he said, "and no formal Ter Oi any sort has been had from it. 1T her, there has not been the shghtes evidence of corrup- tion on the que I of Mir. Denby or, in fact. and eyi, e that he had any know ledge of an legal action. The whole basis to. , resolution is that he misinterDreled . law which we our selves enacted"
 Analyzing the act of June 4, 1920, which gave the navy authority over the oil reserves, Senator Spencer said it might easily be interpreted as giving