AMERICAN OIL SENSATION.
WASHINGTON, January 27.—With the oil lands investigation develop, ing into the gravest scandal in the history of American politics, an announcement by Air Coolidgo that he will form a Legal Committee from the Republican and Democratic Parties, who will take over the Senate Committee’s evidence and .begin trio prosecution of all persons concerned in malfeasance, reveals the existence of an unusual situation The evidence developed before the Senate Committee now involves the former Secretary of the Interior (Mr A. B. Fall), with Air E. Dcnby (Secretary to the Navy), Air 11. Al. DaiHieriv (Altoiue-v-Gcueral',. and Air Theodore Roosevelt (who Assistant Secretary' tn the Navy). .Mr Coolidge hints that serious corruption exists, and that the testhnoirv given by At. - Fall conflicts with that of the others, especially concerning ewlahi. large loans granted by various individuals who obtained oil land leases. The Democrats are openly gleeful over the situation. < ind it is widely assumed that the scandal spoils death for Republican aspirations at the coming Presidential ©lection. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18543, 28 January 1924, Page 10
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