OIL SCANDAL REPORT.
“FLAGRANT DISREGARD OF LAW.” (Per Press Association—-Copyright) WASHINGTON, June 5. Flagrant disregard of the law in the negotiation of the Sinclair and Dolieny oil leases is charged in a report to Senate prepared for the Oil Committee by its prosecutor, Senator Walsh, of Montana. The executive order by which the late/President Harding transferred the nava.l oil reserves to the Department of the Interior is held to have been illegal, and the manner in which the leases were negotiated secretly by the former Secretary of the Department (Mr Falil is described as being in disregard of statutes. The leases are declared “indefensibly wasteful,’’ and based on a policy which Congress alone had the authority to determine. Mr Fall’s acceptance of 100,000 dollars from Doheny is characterised as “in the last degree reprehensible.” Mr Edwin Denbv (Secretary of the Navy Department) and the Assistant Secreta/py (Mr Posevelt) are exonerated from any part whatever in the lease negotia Lions.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 10131, 7 June 1924, Page 6
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