Show i VOTE PACT ON Oil LEASING BILL RE Senator La Follette Objects to Limi Limiting tin Discussion ion King K ng Says Measure Is Bureaucratic Oppression ASIn Aug Aug- 23 Efforts 23 Efforts to t toy WASHINGTON W I y y obtain a a. unanimous agreement for or a a. final vote Monday on the billor bill for or leasing government ow owned oil gas coal and phosphate lands hands failed tailed In the Senate today after a long dis dis- During the date charges were made that the tho le legislation would b be in inthe inthe n the thc Interest of ot the Standard Oil on Co and the conservation policies of r Gifford Gif GU- ford Cord Pinchot as chief of or the forestry or service were were attacked Objection to fixing a definite time titus timeto to vote ote was made by Senator La Follette Follette Fol Fol- lette Republican of or Wisconsin who said ald he wa was was- opposed to limiting dis die cussio a. a Senator Kenyon Kenon Republican of ot Iowa Iova said there was an Impression In the country that if It the bill were passed the Standard Oil Co would get got control o of the country's oil oU supply Smoot Behind Measure Senator Smoot Republican of t Utah in charge of the bill bUl and Senator AshUrst Ashurst Ashurst Ash- Ash Democrat Demo rat of oC Arizona declared such was was not the case adding that if it the Senate wanted anted to pIa play Int Into the hands of ot the Standard Oil Co It had hall only to contInue the present domain po policy II C Senator Ashurst said Gifford Pinchot I had sought to preserve the public domain domain domaIn do do- main as a bl big hunting preserve and that the tho Pr President s seemed med to have 1 hat n. n fallen under the same Iame baneful InOue Influences e ces which h believe bellove that tIme tho wa way to conserve the natural resources of oC tho the country is to keep them from the pee peo- CO COpic pic pie Standard rd Against A Development If It anybody is IJ Interested in keeping oil off oft the tho market it is the Standard Oil Co he continued adding that whit while he and other western senators were wor s opposed to a a. leasing system the time Urn had come comae when tho the country must either cither play pIa Into the hands of or th the Standard Oil on Co or have a a. leasing sy system tem The Standard OH Oil Co he deel declared rolt urged the passage passage of ot the tho leasing bill for for- oil lands in 1011 knowing that b by urging a leasing bill It could brin brinan bringan bring an Impasse In the Senate so it could charge whatever it d desired for Cor or oil After Arter an exhaustive criticism of oC the principle of oC the bill Senator Thomas Democrat Colorado said he ho was m In favor lavor of ot It because it was the best that could be had He assailed the tho practice of oC a government lea leasing inG Us s lands ands but explained that under the tho circumstances s there appeared no other way of ot meeting the present for development Senator for Din Dill The Colorado senator asserted that th this government entered Into the leasing lens leas cas ing log system many years cars ago on both loth sides sides of oC the Mississippi Ii sl adding and an anit It was abandoned as this will be I l am for or this bill Senator Thomas added because e I cant can't help myself It is the tho only thing that stands be between between between be- be tween a good man many men and bank bank- The senator prophesied that It would burden the administration with a large Item of ot expense and t that at before It became operative It would be bound In countless yards of red tape of which there theres there's is much left lett J King iCing Introduces Introduce Substitute A substitute for or the pending pending- bill providing for the turning over of ot th the public domain to tho various states In la which It Is located was Introduced by Senator King D Democrat of or Utah who said ho was opposed to the leasIng leas lens Ing lug system and that the pending bill link In tho the chain was on only I another of oC bureaucratic oppression lon of oC tho w west cc When hn h n the Senate recessed until Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day without a final vote otc Senator Smoot announced h he would attempt to keep the measure continually before the tle Senate |