OIL SCANDALS.
REPORT OF SENATE INQUIRY.
Received 7.35 p.m., June 6 Reuter’s Telegrams.
WASHINGTON, June 5
Flagrant disregard of the law in the negotiation of the (Hnclair and Daugherty oil 'leases, is ijharged in a. report to the Senate, jjtrepared for the Oil Committee, by its prosecutor, Senator Walsh, of Montana. The executive order by which Mr Harding transferred the naval oil reserves to the Interior Department is held to be illegal. The manner in which the leases were negotiated secretly by Mr Fall (a former secretary), is described as disregarding the Statutes. The leases are declared as indefensibly wasteful, and based on a policy which Congress alone had authority to determine. Mr Fall’s acceptance of 100,000 dollars from Daugherty is characterised: “In last degree reprehensible.” Mr Denby (Navy Department), and his assistant secretary (Mr Roosevelt), are exonerated from any part whatever in the leases negotiations.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 7 June 1924, Page 9
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