OIL SCANDAL
INFORMATION REFUSED SENATE. CHAIRMAN OF DIRECTORS ARRESTED. Washington, February 4. Mr Robert Stewart, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Standard Oil Company Indiana, was arrested to-nigut, following upon his second refusal to tell the Senate Oil Committee the disposition of 3.000,000 dollars re-sale profits of the extinct Continental Trading Company of Canada, of which the Government alleges Fall received over 200,000 dollars. The procedings for “contempt” will be in order if, following his arraignment before Vice-President Dawes in the Senate, he still declines to answer questions. There have been but a few occasions in American history when the Senate has taken the aspect of a Court of Law, meting out punishment to private citizens. Stewart later obtained a temporary write of habeas corpus util February 7, under a bond of 1000 dollars.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 46, 6 February 1928, Page 8
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136OIL SCANDAL Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 46, 6 February 1928, Page 8
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