The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
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 dress last night, criticised the sale of "a certain Marion newspaper"
 "A certain Marion newspaper sold for $55O,000 when it was we'll known to everyone that it was not worth half that sum-" he said.
 1.-Two young men of no financial standing purchased it. Everybody in Washington, including the newspaper correspondents, knows this, but no one wants to look under the edge of a shroud.
 Where did the money come from Where did it go: The last administra- tion stands challenged. We cannot wait for congress or the courts. especially when we remember that Mir. Daugh- erty is attorney general.
 Then the banker whirled into the Teapot Dome scandal. He attacked Sem ator Walsh's associates on the Senate Investigating committee, saying several of them were undesirable investigators of any moral question.
 ''McAdoo testified" he went on, ''that he was only acting as a reputa- ble attorney for a reputable client in the oil matter, but like any boy with stolen jam, he dropped that client im- mediately after the client had testified before the investigating committee.
 'The Senate did not go further in in- vestigating Secretary Fall because Fall was ready to peach and what he would have said would have gone into high places. They didn't dare."
 More Fragrant Scandal
 There were other national scandals even more fragrant than Teapot Dome, Mir. Vanderlip added, declaring the et- erans' bureau had spent over $9,0O0,- GOO belonging to wounded veterans and that the shipping board had spent mil lions in-, the, previous administration (which if not dishonest was incredibly stupid" He called upon President Coolidge to demand the resignations of Secretary Denby "and every other official besmirched in the public mind"
 "All of these things are floating in the scum of Washington" Mir. Wander lip continued. What is the truth? We are entitled to know. It will demand courage in high places to find out. The President has got to say something. Si- lence will not answer. We must say something to make us continue to be- lieve in his great integrity and moral courage. which we all think he has,
 MT. Vanderlip said today, discussing his speech of last night, that he had no proof of the rumors that were current for months regarding the Marion news papers.
 My purpose" said MT. Vanderlip, "in bringing it to public notice is to encourage an investigation of gossip concerning a dead President, gossip which is outrageous, if untrue.
 II have made no formal request to President Coolidge for such an investi- gation. He might say that it is not his business and it may not be, but it seems to me that newspaper could best conduct the inquiry-if the pub fishers abandon their policy of silence toward gossip which they have heard. l have no unusual sources of news.
 But I have profound faith in the honesty and courage of President Cool idge and his ability to clean a very dirty house. We should give him our sympathy and patience and not criti- else him yet. He probably felt that he came to his office by an accident of death and that he should continue the l pOliCJ lO WHICH leII nelr.
 "The committee failed to call Fall to testify not because they were afraid he would not talk, but because they were afraid he would talk too much. I don't think Senator Walsh was party to this, and do not include him in my statement that several of his associates were undesirable investigators of any moral question. I think he is extreme ly acute and almost fanatically high minded"
 RumOrs of designations
 Some senators professed to have def mite information that both Secretary Denby and Attorney General Daugh- crty soon would retire from the cabi- net, but there was no- outward devel- opments either at the White House or the navy or justice departments to in- dicate that the resignation of either was impending.
 The injection of President Harding S name into the oil muddle created a sensation of scarcely less magnitude than did E. l.. Dohenys unexpected testimony of two weeks ago that he lad made an unpaid loan of SI0O,0OO to Albert B. Fall.
 News of the speech delivered by Mir Vanderlip last night at Ossining, N Y., asking for investigation of the source of the $550,Q00 paid to MT Harding for The Star just before his death, travelled like wildfire through the Senate cloak rooms and throughout official Washington. There were hur ried conferences between Chairman Lenroot and other members of the oil committee with an apparently unani. nous agreement that Mir. Vanderlip should be summoned immediately and air of almost feverish tension pervaded the Senate chamber and spread throughout the administration
 Senators Excited
 Senators gathered in groups on the floor, in the cloak rooms ld the mar ble room discussing the latest shift in the storm of charges and suspicious on velOping the capital, until they saw the actual dispatches on the VanderliE speech they were too astounded to comprehend man of Mir. Vnnderlip's recognized standing bad publicly chal- ! lenged an investigation into the finan' cial affairs of Warren Harding.
 On all sides it was agreed that tue publication of such grave charges mace it more imperative than ever that the oil investigation should be pursued tG the fullest possible limit, irrespective of where it might lead. Some senators pointed out that speculation hal be come so widespread that no one could nnY l.