The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-12
Discusses Oil Inquiry

of the teapot dome affair. 1t began,
he said. with the transfer of leasing
powers by Secretary DENLY of the
Navy to Secretary Fall of the In
terror. an act he declared was
inimical to the safety of the nation
/ because the reserves were for ma.
tional defense.
Il do not charge Secretary DENLY
with corruption, he said. But Mr..
Denby made the first conveyance and
| that conveyance led to others and
Secretary Fall, he said. "corruptly
leased them to two millionaires.
"Denbys usefulness in the govern
ment ended when he emerged from
cabinet meeting and defended the
transfer and declared that if he had
it do over again he would transfer
the naval reserves to the Department
of the Interior, said johnson.
He declared. however, that Secre-
tary DENLY resigned under White
House pressure only after the Senate
had asked the Pres dcnt to cause him
to resign.
1T would have been we'll if he had
been required to resign without ac-
tion of the Senate" said Johnson.
1t would have been we'll if the sup
posed head Of the Republican party
in the nation had acted of his own
volitiOn.
Acknowledgement Daughertys use
fulness in the government ended, he
asserted, when we were unable to
turn to our Department of Justice
in time of emergency and crisis but
were forced to employ private coun
sci at large expense.
He asserted that Daugherty would
go when the courage of the White
White becomes sufficient under the
pressure of the senate to ask him to
go?'
Senator Johnson turned aside to
praise Senator Walsh of Montana. a
Democrat, declaring if it hadn't been
for the courage and pertinacity of
Walsh of Montana the disclosures
never would have been made.
Criticizes President
Again during discussion of adjust
cize President Coolidge, asserting
that the White House policy had
been one of 'vacillation' and that
he had frequently seen "a change of
mind
The change of mind, he said,
he had seen when it was announced
that the Mellon tax plan must not
hr 1.n Il l,,x
DENLY would not quit, that r., the
Presidents mind had changed on
Daugherty and will change further
as the days 90 by and declared
Il hope that the President has
changed his mind on adjusted COM
pensaG jon.
Senator Johnson bitterly assailed
the governments policy in selling
arms and ammunition to Mexico, as
serting the policy is UnAmcrican
and it makes us q partner in war.
Hits Mexican Policy
The policy, he asserted, contro-
verted the Monroe Doctrine with ref
ercnce to Latin American affairs and
that when we sold arms and am
munition to Mexico we announced
that our policy was that this govern
ment will maintain constituted au-
thority in every Latin-American
country. If such policy had been
in effect at the time of the Revolu-
tionary war, he asserted, we would
still be a dependency of Great Bri-
tain.
Il read in the papers only today
that Doheny says he loaned S5,OO0,OOO
to Mexico, said Senator Johnson.
Tn, wondering if the policy of the
United States government had any
thing to do with the loan Of Doheny
of s5,D00,O0O to Obregon. am only
wondcring--l don't know, because
only read it today.
Senator Johnson declared the Nc
Nary Haugcn bill offered the only
real hope for agriculture in the
Northwest. and declared that the gov
crnment bears responsibility to-
ward the agricultural northwest in
that much of the troubles of the
farmer came about through response
to the appeal to plant wheat during
the war. The industrial centers of
the nation, he said. have enjoyed un-
eXampled prosperity during the last
year, and he revived slogan of Bull
Moose days: Pass Prosperity
Around
The Mellon tax plan, he asserted,
was dead.
When the Senate Of the United
States gets through with the Mellon
tax plan it's progenitor won't know
its own infant, the California Sen
ator asserted.
He devoted considerable time to
discussion of the Mellon bill, assert
ing that it proposed greater relief
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