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LEASE OF OIL LANDS. SENATE INVESTIGATION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, January 22. The appearance of Archibald Roosevelt. son of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, before the Senatorial Committee which is investigating the lease of Government owned oil lands to private interests, promises to precipitate a widespread scandal involving two Cabinet Departments. Mr Roosevelt, who is an employee of the oil company which secured the leases, testified that upon the advice of his brother, Theodore, who is Assist-ant-Secretary to the Navy Department, he (Archibald) resigned his position in order to protect the family name. Hie intimates that he is dissatisfied with the manner wherein the leases were secured. Mr Roosevelt’s evidence has added further complications Which involve a case wherein intimations of bribery have been freely made and much damaging testimony adduced. The facta briefly are that ex-Secreta,ry Fall, of the Department of the Interior, having obtained jurisdiction over these oil lands from the Navy Department, which held them as a naval oil reserve, leased them to the Sinclair Oil Company. Experts estimated that the lands contained 22,000,000 barrels of oil, and the Navy Department had received as payment only 1,600,000 barrels
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11735, 24 January 1924, Page 6
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193WIDESPREAD SCANDAL New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11735, 24 January 1924, Page 6
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