Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-29
LONG F[AYS FOES
IN BITTER ATTACK
Impeachment Is Preferable
to Submitting to Oil Com
pany Rule, He Declares.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BATON ROUGE. La, March 20
The Standard Oil Co. today had been
brought into impeachment proceedings
by Gov. Huey p Long. who charged its
agents inStigated the accusations from
official misdemeanors TO plot to muir
der against which he must defend him.
self Monday night before the House OF
Representatives sitting as q supreme
grand jury.
In a signed statement, Gov. Long
charged the oil company was attempt
ing ito tear the State wide open and
to remove the governor from Office who
dares to mention that anything can be
done with them"
Charges "SIuSh" Fund.
He accused the company with spend
ing $4,000 in opposing his proposed
tax on Oil, saying money was turned
loose in sluices in Baton Rouge" He
denounced the newspapers as Standard
Oil publications with their pages GOV,
cred with every imaginable lie and
villification"
They STANDARD Oil Coz have
stormed the State house to where the
weak hearted feared even for the life
and safety of my supporters and my
self" he asserted. by some process.
known only to them, they have been
able to either tale over. to beat over
or to buy over some in whom l reposed
respect and confidence and for whom /
yet indulge a charity.
This is the third time in my yet
young life in which this nefarious cor
poration has been able to drag me be-
fore the bar to fight for my own liberty
and political preservation, all just be-
cause fought down the line until they
were compelled to submit to right" de-
clared the governor What I proposed
was a tax on the business of the Stand
ard Oil Co. to make and sell lubricating
oil and gasoline in Louisiana. That
form of tax has been and is now paid
by nearly every merchant, doctor and
lawyer and by nearly every business in
this State. So I proposed that out OF
the same one hundred millions of dol
lars made by the oil trust in this State
that they pay the State a wee bit SO
that We might help these unfortunate
human beings who are suffering and
dying because we cannot help them and
in order that we might give relief to
schools that cannot run without some
help.
Prefers Impeachment to Defeat.
"But no sooner had this bill hit the
Legislature than the oil trust woke up
and shook this State from one end to
the other like a toy. This nefarious
criminal element and its newspapers
began Immediately to say that if ! did
not draw down this proposition that I
should be impeached. 'Impeach him
was their cry. Hell is not hot enough
for the man who tackles u.s. is the
warning this nefarious corporation
gives to public officials.
II had rather go down to thousand
1mpeachments than to admit that am
governor of the State that does not
dare to call the Standard Oil Co. to ac-
count so that we can educate our chill
dren and care for destitute, sick and
affiicted. Rather than be governor of
this State with these conditions, when
I am pledged to correct 1t, I will give
myself over to the impeaching authority
any time"
Friends of the accused governor cir
cularized the capital with printed dodg-
ers calling on the legislators to stand
by the governor and crush the money
ring" Supporters of the impeachment
move urged their followers to hold to
their lines and rid the State Of its
youthful governor, who attracted ma
tional notoriety by his spectacular raids
on gambling houses with the State
militia, by his refusal to commute the
death sentences of Ada Bonner lie
Bouef and nr. Thomas E. Dreher,
hanged for murder. and later by his
controversy with Col Robert Ewing,
Democratic national committeeman from
Louisiana.
The committee Of IL Representatives
named by the House agreed to meet