Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-06
WALSH HOLDS Up
CONF |R|NAT|ON Of
NEW OIL ATTORNE:Y


the oil committee was obtaining
more important information in a
private examination of kilograms
today, opposition developed to the
confirmation Of Samuel Knight, of
San Francisco, to be special govern
rlent counsel in the litigation for
the recovery Of California oil land
from the Standard Oil company OF
California
Senator Walsh, of Montana, pr, s
ecutor of the Gil inquiry, announced
that he had been "reliahIy inform
ed that Mr.. Knight is counsel for
the Equitable Trust company, OF
New York, which is a Rockefeller
bank.
According to this information,
Senator Walsh said, Mr.. knight
now is engaged in litigation for that
bank IN California, He added that
il the story proves correct, it would
be a basis for opposing confirma'
ton by the senate.
Mr.. knight was selected by Presi.
dent Coolidge to bring actions under
a resolution offered by Senator
Walsh and unanimously adopted by
both the house and senate. Senator
Walsh was not consulted in the Sc
lection.
Long Executive Session
After a two hour executive SEES
sion, adjournment was taken for the
day. Additional employees of E. B.
Mclean, publisher of the Washing
ton Post, who had been summoned
to testify, were notified they prob
ably would be heard tomorrow.
The kilograms examined today in
clude messages found in the records
of the telegraph companies at Palm
Beach relating to the affairs Of Nc
Lean and of Albert B. Fall, who
spent a part of January in Florida.
Details will be held in confidence I'M
til the committee places in the pub
lie record those of the messages it
decides are pertinent to the oil in
quiry.
A delay in preparation of the
necessary papers prevented the IN
initiation of court action today by
the special government counsel des-
ignated to bring proceedings In the
Sinclair-Doheny annulment cases.
Civil actions probably will be started
tomorrow or Friday.
All of the message from the Palm
Beach offices of the Western Union
and Postal Telegraph companies call
ed for under the "dragnet' subpoena
issued last week have been delivered
to the committee, It was stated today
by officials of the telegraph com
panies. These messages include those
exchanged between Mclean and his
employees as wei las those received
or sent by Albert p. Fall between
December /, 1928, and last February
~. The committee began its eXami
nation of these telegramp5 today.
"Dragnet" for Wires
The messages examined today
more than half a hundred Cf which
will be read into the record at a pub
lie hearing tomorrow, were received
under a general "dragnet" subpoena
issued for all messages received at
Palm Beach by Mclean, Albert B
Fall, and McLean's employees. Some
of the kilograms were sent from
I'Chicago and other cities.
Members of the committee saic
I
matches of kilograms had been filled
| in and that interesting additional in
! formation had been obtained. SOme
mention was made in the message
/ of c. Bascom SIemp, secretary tc
! President Coolidge, and also of Viii
liam ]. Burns, director of the bu
reau of investigation in the depart
ment of justice.
/ Senators declared the reference:
/ to Slemp were about his trip to Flor
/ ida. where, he has testified, he urged
/ both Mclean and Fall to tell the
committee all they knew about the
/ oil matter and the 100000 loar
which Fall obtained While interior
| secretary.
/ In the Palm Beach sheaf of mes
/ sages was the one to Francis h
/ McAdoo, of New York. son of VII
/ liam c.. McAdoo, about which ht
/ testified yesterday. Senators said the
message, sent by Mclean, stated the
publisher did not know at the time
/ he engaged A. Mitchell Palmer Il
represent him before the oil com
/ mittee that the former Democrats
/ attorney general was counsel foI
/ Fall and Harry F. Sinclair. Mr.
Palmer denied there was any sucf
! relationship when he was before the
/ committee last week and some mem
bers said he probably would not be
/ recalled for questioning as apparent
( " Mclean had been misinformed.