Evening star., 1924-03-10
OIL PROBE TO TAKE.
NEW TURN; WOODS
CHARGE TO Be AIRED
Special Counsel Leave for
West to Argue Injunction
Plan Against Operators.
MCLEAN MAY TAKE STAND
IN INQUIRY TOMORROW
Mass of Evidence, Including Stock
Deals of Officials, to Be
Developed Soon.

The now. week of the Oil inquiry
found the Senate Investigating COM
mittee still digging into the pile Of
kilograms it has Subpoenaed, but
planning soon to broach new supplies
OF evidence. These include the find
ings of auditors assigned to study
the books of brokerage firms to de-
termine the extent of dealings by Of
ficials in oil stocks before and after
the leasing of the naval reserves, and
the reports that oil interests sought
to influence the republican presi-
dential nomination in 1920.
In addition, the new week marks
the initiation of court proceedings
growing out of the inquiry-a pre-
liminary hearing Thursday in the
federal district court of Cheyenne,
Wyo., on an application by the gov
ernment's special counsel for a tenn
porary injunction to restrain the
Mammoth Oil Company from further
extraction of oil in the Teapot Dome
reserve.
= This company was formed by Harry
gotiated with him by Albert B. Fall
as Secretary of the Interior. and
signed by Edwin DENLY as Secretary
of the Navy. Like action is to fol-
low in Southern California against
tke Pan-American Petroleum Com
pany, for which Z. l.. Doheny obs
tanned the lease on naval reserve No.
!. in that state.
Consider Special Counsel.
The oil committee also has before it
the nomination of Samuel knight OF
San Francisco to act as special coun-
sci for the government in proceedings
TO recover two sections of the Elk
Hills reserve, which are being oper-
ated by the Standard Oil Company of
California, having been granted to
that state as non-mineral school
lands upon it's admission to statehood.
Mr. knights nomination was con-
Sidered by the committee last week,
out no action was taken. Some OBJ
lection to his appointment has been
raised because Of his employment as
counsel in California, by the Equita-
BILE Trust Company Of New YORK,
which has been ,- described as "a
Rockefeller bank"
The public hearings will not be
resumed until tomorrow but Z the
committees orders to telegraph COM
pany officials here and at Palm
Beach, New Orleans and Three Rip-
ers, n. NJ, Falls home, are producing
a steady stream of kilograms sent to
or by Edward B. Mclean. Fall, Sin
clair, Doheny, H. f. Blackmer OF the
Midwest Refining Company. Robert
pany Of Indiana and j. w. Zevely,
personal counsel for Sinclair.
Mclean May Testify Tomorrow.
McLean's presence at the hearing
is expected to be required tomorrow
but the committee plans to question
several more of his employees before
calling him to the stand.
Afterward the committee plans to
go into the reports of its auditors,
and then take up the Chicago con-
ventfon matter. which was brought
to Its attention last week through
a published Statement by Leonard
Wood, jr., that his father. Maj. Gen.
critical time for the nomination in
1920 on condition that he agree to
appoint Jake Hamoh, millionaire oil
man and, until his death some time
afterwaru republican national COM
nitteeman from Oklahoma, Secretary
Of the Interior if he should be elected
President.
Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pome-
rene, special counsel for the govern
ment in the prosecution of the oil
suits, will leave Washington late to-
day for Wyoming to put before the
temporary restraining order against
the Mammoth Company. j., They will
go to California afterward to bring
similar action against the Pan-Amer-
lean Petroleum Company.
In both cases the attorneys ex-
pect the court to- grant the applica-
tion and hold the leases in abeyance
while the government continues its
efforts to cancel them entirely.
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