New Britain herald., 1928-03-30
SENATE WILL NOT
 YIELD SPOTLIGHT
Insists of Being Center Of
 Interest Always

Washington. Mar. Sh tFl T'acllu- ng to yiold the spotlight on the oil scandals to Fl Puso where Albert E. Fall is relating behind closed doors ,he details leading up to th" lease ot Teapot pon2t, the senate continues to show signs Of political upheayals as result of attempts now to link the Wilson aluinistra- ton with questionable oil land lras- ing.
 NeanN hlle. thc s@nut, lnNc>tlsat- ing ctnuitte. now engaged ut at tempt.s lc trace the fourth hencft- ciary Of the liberty bonds profits of .~the Continental Trading Company and all Of these securities received by Harry r Stnrialr. Is running down further lcaJs bcf"r" -r&nm- ine its lngulry.
 Third Offensive.
 The third offensive in fen days launched yesterday by Senator Rob lnscn, Indiana republican. in an ef- fort to show that democrats were equally 10 blanc with the republic can. for the whole oil trouble. brought ] heated denial from Jose phus Daniels, secretary Of the navy under President Wilson, at Raleigh. W. C., that the lo13-20 democratic administration had anything what ever to d, with oil reserve leasing except in q very minor way.
 The Indianan previously had at tempted to show that Governor Smith Of New York, had received large donations from Sinclair 10 ad- vance his campaign years ago and this developed a sharp denial from the candidate for thp democratic presidential nomination.
 Quitting reference to Smith N"s terday, Robinson charged that the wholesale influences of federal of ficials, including cabinet officers and their important assistants by private oil interests was in full bloom under the Wilson administrator and that the exhaustion Of the nations and navy's supply of oil was already well under way due 10 the democratic act, of both legislation and admins ration
 Senators Walsh. dem ocrat Mon tana. and Glass, democrat. Virginia, strongly defended the Wilson cabinet from what they described as in sinuations'' on the part of Robinson, and Mr. Daniels, in his Raleigh statement. declared there Hae not
 trp,o st,$ that the Wilson administration ever contemplated leasing or did lease single acre of the naval oil reserve except a few acres which experts reported must be leased or operated to prevent serious loss or drainage.
 To Protect Reserve.
 "1he few acres leased by the secretary of the interior he added, were all for tha protection Of the biz naval reserve as a statement by Judge Barton Payne, the secretary, sbundantly proved when the Fall trils of the nation.
 If the Wilson administration had suggested legislation in order to lease Teapot Dome a.s the Indiana senator falsely charges it would have leased them. The fact that il did not lease them; declined 10 consider any applications to do so, is com plete repudiation Of the wild and absurd statement of the Indiana senator
 Robinson named William G. Me Adoo. former treasury secretary; Franklin k. Lane, former secretary of the interior. and T. W. Gregory, former attorney general, as having left official life for lucrative employ ment under Edward l.. Doheny. wealthy California oil operator. and Daniels, Lane and John Barton Payne, who succeeded Lane .as hay ing been responsible for initiating the naval oil easing program,
 Denounced as >lanhercr
 Walsh vigorously denied that any Of these cabinet officers had any thing to do with the leases which the senate investigated, while Glass vas especially emphatic in defense of Lane. Robinson denied he was suggesting that Lane might have been brihcJ but Glass said he was ''see king to 80 insinuate.' Aiding.
 And if you say that Franklin k, Lane was bribed. l denounce you here and now a.s slauderer."
 Robinson countered by saying that It apparently was all right fol the democrats 10 assail dead r"puhll- cans, but that when the republican, undertook 70 talk about democratic officials of the past there vas great uproar.