PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Grey River Argus, 13 February 1928, Page 5

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

A “Whispering Campaign” TEAPOT DOME OIL DEFICIT. ALLEGED I'SE BY REPUBLICANS. i Received February 12 at 5 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 11. John Adams, a former Chairman of th ( . Republication National Committee, emphatically denied the sensational charges at present being circulated throughout the I'nited Slates in the ‘‘whispering campaign’’ that funds involved in the Teapot Dome oil lease helped to pay the Committee's deficit in 1921 22. Mr Adams was Committee Chairman , 1 Tom l!'21 to 1921. LA FOLLETTE’S RESOLUTION. PASSED BY SENATE. WASHINGTON. February 11. The Senate adopted th • La Follette resolution b\ a vote of 56 to 26. The resold ion has no binding effect,

but merely expresses the view of the majority of tin* Senate. An amendment com mc’id ing President Coolidge for his observance of the two-term precedent, was struck out. The Senate also defeated an amendment expressing the opinion that unexpired presi d'lilial terms tilled out by Vice-Presi-dents should not count, as a full term in considering the third term tradition. Four Democrats joined with twentytwo Republicans against the resolution, while eighteen Republicans and one former Labour Senator joined with 37 Democrats in voting for the atlirmaTh<* Senate’s action not only ends the hopes of drafting Mr Coolidge, but more importantly indicates that the Rcpu Id it ans have definitely lost control of the Senate in the present session, which will probably seriously hinder Mr Coolidge’s legislation programme, and shows the extensive latent power in the hands of La Follette, and his insurgent follower-. It is not likely that the*. can display th ■ same strength at the Republican National Convention, but they can prove an even more powerful irritant than La Follette’s father ami his group proved in 1924. The resolution now gives the Presidential campaign a definite trend tow.irds new figures in .the Republican THE PROHIBITION ISSUE. WASHINGTON, February 10. Senator Willis has replied to Senator Borah, declaring that he is corupl'tely for Prohibition, and the enforced inclusion of the plank on the Republican National platform, specifically favouring the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and Volsted Ac'.