The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-02-01

eminent anu lis agents anu TIC 4ulIu
Internationale. The reality of such
propaganda was further established by
quantities Of documents submitted by
the State department last week to the
senate subcommittee. According to
some Of these papers. the aim was
an armed uprising" in this country
designed to destroy the bourgeois
/ government"
T>EAPOT DOME was the center of
i great excitement all last week.
The senate investigation into the lease
of the naval oil reserve there by AL
bert B. Fall, then secretary Of the
interior, to Harry Sinclair brought out
sensational testimony; and the end is
not yet, for President Coolidge direct
ed the Department of Justice to watch
the proceedings and to take such ac-
tion as seemed desirable. Archie
Roosevelt, son Of the late president.
started the week out well by telling the
committee Of the suspicious circum-
stances that caused him to resign from
the Sinclair company. He said GIL
Wahlberg, Sinclair's private secretary.
told him $68,000 had been paid to the
foreman of Falls ranch in New Mexi-
CO.,. Wahlberg said Roosevelt misun-
dersto0d him, but he gave other dam
aging testimony. The committee sum-
moned Fall from the South and also
cabled to Sinclair, now In Europe. to
come back and produce his private
books and papers. This the oil man
said he would do when his business
abroad was finished. Meanwhile Ed
ward Doheny, another oil magnate.
who is the lessee Of naval oil reserve
Fin California, volunteered to tell the
committee all he could about the
transactions. He said that he was the
man who loaned FAN the 100000
which he used in enlarging and Inn
proving his, ranch, that he did 1t be-
cause he and Fall were old friends. and
that he was innocent Of wrongdoing.
In December Fall told the committee
he had not received money from either
Doheny or Sinclair.
Senator Walsh informed the senate
that he would propose resolution au-
thorizing the President to institute
suit to annul the leases and to Sc
cure an accounting Of all oil taken
| from the reserves. He declared that
| he would seek to have such proceed
ings conducted independent OF Attor-
ney General Daugherty. he asserted
that there were some features of the
Teapot Dome affair Sin connection
with which the attorney general him
self is under some degree of suspicion
and criticism"
interviewed in Paris, Harry Sinclair
said the whole affair was bunk and
politics, that he got the Teapot Dome
lease honestly and squarely and that
the government received more than
its full due for it
| IN THE list Of congressional investi-
4 cations we now come to that con-
Quoted by the senate committee on
propaganda which is trying to find out
(, whether or not the Box peace plan
/ contest was designed to influence the
senate to vote in favor of American
participation in the League of Nations
or in the world court. Edward Box
himself was the weeks chief witness,
and he fatty refused to disclose the
amount Of money he had contributed
to further the contest, holding that the
financing of his plan. was wholly
personal matter. He did say that ne
alone had paid the expenses of the
contest, that Elihu Root was the only
member of the jury Of award whom he
nominated, and that he had left all
the details of the affair to Miss Esther
Lape. That lady also was a witness
but gave the committed little satisfac-
ton. 1t is feared the american pub
lie attaches small Importance TO this
tnarficular Investigation