CITY OF SCANDALS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1924, Page 7

CITY OF SCANDALS

OIL STIRS WASHINGTON

TO INVESTIGATE FURTHER

DEMOCRATS MAKE MOST OF IT.

(UXrrlD FRtSi ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)

(Al/STEAtIAN-NSW ZiAIAND CAHUI ASSOCIATES.) WASHINGTON, 30th January.

Not being satisfied with the oil investigation alone, Democratic members of Congresß promise a progressive investigation into the various activities of the Republican Administration, including the Shipping Board and aircraft. The Capital has become a city of investigations and rumoured scandals. The nation's legislative business has stopped completely. The Republican party chieftains hold midnight councils in an attempt to stem the tide of public disapproval over the oil scandal, while Democrats hold secret conclaves in an attempt to secure the greatest possible political advantage from the situation. An interesting incident in connection with the investigations of the scandals occurred to-day, when the Court dismissed the indictments against Crowell. Crowell successfully maintained that he merely obeyed the orders of Baker, then Secretary of War. Thus the scandal which had been promised a" year ago never materialised.