The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-01
Talk Holds Up Action.

WASHTNGTON.-Action in the
naval oil leasing scandal today was
being held UP by an apparently in
surmcuntable barrier Of senate talk.
Tho tho votes 10 pass the Walsh
resolution ordering court action to
cancel the Doheny and Sinclair
leases are available, the senate
seemed unable to get to the point
Of voting.
Mr.. Coolidge is a little annoyed
at the senate's delay. He has APP
pointed counsel, but the senate in
sists on the right to approve his
selections before they can actually
60 to work. Indications are that it
may be several days before the reso-
lutions authorizing employment of
these special counsel and providing
funds to pay them and their STATS
will emerge from the weller Of talk
and political wrangling in congress.
Meantime three impartial medical ex-
perts of Northumberland by
the. senate investigating committee,
undertook today to determine just
how sick Albert B. Fall is.
The physicians reported they be-
lieve Fall too i'll to appear, but be-
lieved it would be advisable for the
committee to 60 to his bedside.
Naval Inquiry Continues.
The house naval affairs committee
continued its inquiry into the naval
policy Of exchanging oil drawn from
the reserves for storage and the
spending Of money derived from the
oil - hV,{IJ doolr~ v,.,~.,,fxn, e@ak{nxe
and other equipment at Pearl Har-
Dor.
Silas H. Strawn, Chicago, Repub-
lican member Of the special counsel
appointed by the president, was
studying today the evidence disclosed
by the senate committee. He will
confer with Thomas w. Gregory, the
Democrats counsel, as soon as Greg
cry gets here from Texas.
The senate went on debating, hop
ing to adopt the Walsh resolution
before night.
Especial to The Daily worksr)
WASHINGTON, d. C.-With the
growing demand for the dumping Of
Secretary Of the Navy DENLY and At
torney-General Daugherty in both
houses, the senate today is preparing
to pass the joint resolution canceling
the oil leases secured by Fall and
Doheny and demanding the prosecu-
ton of everyone found criminally
connected with the scandal that has
set the nation by the ears.
The administration now, advised by
its pilots that the Teapot Dome ex-
posures have aroused a storm Of anti
administration sentiment. is trying
to allay public resentment by
promises of prosecution.
If this does not have the desired
effect. and indications are that it will
not, DENLY and Daugherty will be
forced out of Office in the eleventh
hour effort to save the face of the
Coolidge administration.
Coolidge will have to make quick
decision on this vital tactical qucs-
ton for the three roll calls taken on
republican amendments to the re-
stitukion resolution show that the
administration enemies have enough
strength to pass the resolutions of
Senators Wheeler, Mont, and Robin
son, Ark, demanding the designations
Of Daugherty and DENLY.
There is every reason to believe
that in the event of DENLY and
Daugherty refusing to resign move
will be made to impeach them and
many senators are known to favor
this method of removing them from
Office holding that this procedure
would establish definitely their guilt
In the public mind.
"Resigning is to easy way out for
men against whom there is much
evidence tending to show guilty
knowledge of crooked transaction"
is the way one senator put 1t.