The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17
CARAWAYSAYS
 FALL CORRUPT
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FALL UkkUPI tCsztinzed Ffs1 Page One.l <sH he was preparing to buy ranch 5swn i'm New Mexico and that the banking facilities were limited and He wound up with q burst of indigna- natisn by sayinS: !
 Names MeLean
 --The gentleman from whom I ob- Ezined it--referring to the $100, ,OO0- and who furnished me the cash was the Hsn- Eward B. Mclean of Wash EgtQn. D. C.
 -Immedfatefy after that the Hon. Edward B. Mclean hired himself two hwTerx and made q statement- He hIresa the Hon A. Mitchell Palmer, with whom he had been on very un- friendly terms, but this was an inves- rEratisa that was being pushed re BsarbesSlr by the distinguished Senator frunn Montana tNr. Walshl and it was rhsugkH- | presume. that if a former dssmaeratic Attorney General wuold esuce forward as the representative of Mir Mclean in his effort to remember where he got the $100,000 that he let Fal have. that would end that con- rrNrsrsy. and Mir. A. Mitchell Palmer Sas8 thE<s
 NsLeanrs Telegram
 Mir Mclean Is now III Florida for the wIateF- and Is expected to re maEn there owing to the condition of hrs SWu health and that of his wife
 have known more robut constitu- u5Nus ts be ruined by criminal acts than all other plasues put together, agvwaE-
 Mir Mclean Is now in Florida for the winter and Is obliged to remain uAere owing ta the condition of his @wn health and that of his wife He Aa< requested me to say that If you isszre a complete statement from him, be wiH be glad to give it. He has just Eesegrapaed me as follows.
 -En 1921 I loaned Fall $100.O00 on AFs Perssaaal note I have never met Harry SSnefzlr. nor have I ever met DNAsmy CT any of the so-ealled oil er~wd'
 That Is the substance of the tele- sram from the investigating commit ree sent daWn to Florida by the sena- zsr- from Nsntana tNr. Walsh) who took Srst-hand statement from Mir. Mclean Incidentally, MT. McLean's real lawyer Mr. Lambert. went along za advise his elfent- to enable him to rvnzemaer just exactly what did occur, and when he got with his real lawyer, he rsmembeFed that he never loaned Fall dollar m his life. but he said uks1r Fall came to him and wanted to a.errNw some meuey- and he gave him <~une checks and that afterwards Mr. Fan gave hum his note. and that these cAtx&s were m q day CT two returned t@ ham unwaShed- with the statement by Mir Fall that he had gotten the an@Dey fFwm some other source, and aherVfere dbk not require It.
 The senator from Montana then went t@ Mir. Fall who Is now also SNwn m FIaFsia for his health. putting up at the same hotel with that other InVaEl NeLean- He wrote q letter in whsch he said.
 Mclean told the truth I fever -Se aHE money from him
 -E wVGEd like to include in ehts ealso thaE Mir Fall Is not registered under hRS own name in Florida He has in vented another and puts opposite it a nsse charge to account of Mir. Me LeAn-
 Lease STmzple Nisaemer
 If tke former Secretary of the In- teFHer EzdR wanted to enter a plea of gWlRry @f having entered into corrupt xeus1&eEaeBsu for the sale of every gal aR1 ct Amerlca reserve naval fuel, he e~g& maG have more effectively done it AE S@dng before q proper officer and subscribing t8 an affidavit that he re sSfEw1 money from Sinclair and others fer the sale and not the lease of Ameri- cam eel End because to call it lease is cS apply mfSn9ueF to it.
 For 1jO years America has held uu as a man hegsnd whose place of degra- &zERa1 n@ other, could travel. q man known as Benedict Arnold. who, in Tlnne 0f war. he undertook to sell and es0veE the htthe rocky fortress oyer on the Hudson river to the British army, He was a traitor because he undertook ER sell nm American fertifeatiou to Britain If the people in charge of the -AmeFnEaR Rzvy are to be believed when they ts1d us that we would be lost WlrA@Gr the navy, and then sell every sarwsR ef AmeFieaTs reserve fuel for the EAvE. I ask how much more infamous II Is tS have sold every gallon of OuI rVs%rve ell than it was for Benedict ArR&& who wanted ts sell only the uaeky fNEtress on the Hudson river? Navy Heai1s Criticised
 That Is not all The present Sec, resaEE of the Navy, Mir. Denby, signed k thst eNutraet- His assistant secretary Mir Roosevelt admitted that he .was <~mewAaE active in the natter They