The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-28
TESTIMONY
 LODGED BY
 PUBLISHER
ELean Made Efforts To Avoid Examination In
 Teapot Scandal
RESSURE BROUGHT )N SENATOR WALSH
|cnt Asked That NewspapeF s Owner Be Not Forced
 On Stand
NDERWOOD REFUSED
 10 AID HIM IN MATTER

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 legrams Disclose Int Me kdoo Or Son Had Acted Az
 His Legal Adviser
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 27s--(By As lated Press. )--Another pandera's s was opened today in the oil scan- ks a result new fields for explora- k were discovered and the list of com tee witnesses was appreciably aug chief development was the reading 9b the rocerd of sheaf of telegrams Nc to Edward B. Mclean, publisher the Washington Post, at Palm kch last December and January by | aeents and others in Washington. These disclosed that persistent eff. Is were made on behalf of Mclean keep him off the witness stand in
 oil inquiry and that in. this connec- h attempts were made to bring pres 1 te on Senator Walsh, chief prosecu- .I in the investigation.
 There also was evidence that Mo kn was kept constantly advised as developments in the inquiry and as lthe movements and opinions respect
 the investigation of Albert B. Fall, Ewhpm ttse p95isher ak0 time said Ikai loaned $100, GOO.
 EmplMed White House officer
 Eri0ni tEe telegrams the committee fnesi also that E. w. Smithers, chief
 innHnications bfficer-eat the White kusp. had been employed to man the bshinrton end of private telegraph fe which was installed between this and McLean's Palm Beach cottage. One of the arguments advanced to } publisher in favor of the private fe was '.easy and quick access to the bite House" and another was "the kgressional situation" sf@.,s' Tn this same message, sent by John ljor, one of McLean's secretaries, un- ' date of December 22, the publisher Is advised that c. Bascom Slemp, sec hfy to President Coolidge, was leav-
 that night for Palm Beach.
 Mr. Slemp has testified that he talk l about the oil matter with Mclean Palm Beach and advised him to .get Pll out in his testimony before Sen ir Walsh at the Florida resort, II Walsh Clears Underwood
 Additional tclegrhlns to Mclean will liSad into the racoysl tomorfosy Sep- tt{rs said that one would show t1sIt Aii knt reported to the publisher that A, Echell Palmer, attorney general in
 yyilsons administration and acting
 AfcI.ean, would try to have Under Iodp use his influence with Senator hlsh in McLean's behalf.
 Eenator Walsh declared that Senator kierwood of Alabama, who Is a can ff te for the democratic presidential eknation, never had interceded with ]; in McTlean's behalf.
 q efnother telegram sent to Mclean nt disclose, senators said. "that those i6rting to the publisher had given up 'Ie of keeping him off the witness Ind, explaining that Senator Walsh s determined to gall him. A telegram to be read tomorrow and he'd by the publisher, says, accord | to committeeman, that Francis Mo Do, New York lawyer, or his fa- r, William G. McAdoo, another can hte for the democratic presidential hination, had been his attorney for len years.
 |noot Adyisel Of Doheny's Coming Before the committee went into ses- "a, Senator Shoot, republican, Utah, lmer chairman of the committee, dis Ised publicly that he was advised in kance by J. w. Zeveley, personal .hnsel for Harry F. Sinclair, that E, II Doheny was coming to Washington fclear up the matter of the $100, GOO ln. Mt the same time, Senator Shoot h of visit he and Chairman Lenroot Ide to Falls apartment at hotel te during the Christmas holidays for ' purpose, they said, of urging him to -a the committee where he got the bds to improve and enlarge his New kxico ranch holdings. Both declared Ire was nothing secret about their lit and they told some other members the committee about it.
 Ut was a few days after this visit ht Fall, who was described by both hatofs as i'll at the time, sent his now mous statement to the committee that Twas Mclean who had loaned him D0,000. This was on December 27. Advised Matter Would Be Dropped Two days later, Major sent a tele. am to Mclean quoting Fall as say E.: The entire matter would be ppped after Sinclair was again ques- med in perfunctory manner;;" that ' Washington publisher would not be He'd and that the filing of a letter by kI,ean with the committee would ike your end perfectly clear"
 IA new charge in connection with oil ktters is contained in a statement is- kd tonight by the National Repub- Mn, the official organ of the repub- An national committee.
 rsScores of millions of dollars" the ktemebt said, "were wrongfully divert. Efrom the federal treasury to the cof- Is of private oil companies through kerpretations of the discovery act by
 special treasury department board hstituted by Secretary McAdoo, all Fee members of which, upon theiI kirement, secured lucrative employ. bnt with oil interests.; one in New brk. one in Los Angeles and one in lashington, as did the two legal ad- Bers of this board, one in New York Id one in Washington, not to men bn Secretary McAdOo himself"
 StarecIk To Be Summoned
 How many of the various persons kntioned in the Mclean telegrams read day will be Mimmoned as witnesses ir le oil inquiry had not been determined might. Senator Walsh said, however lat Fred Stareek, director of the ,e.,,,,,,.a ., p.,. r.. n.,s.. rw.,