Show OIL LEASE BILL t I BEFORE SENATE Three Proposed Amendments Amend ments Beaten Protest From Los Angeles Angeles' Washington Aug 23 The 2 The Senate loda today resumed consi consideration of the thc I bill for or leasing and development of owned government oil gas sas coal and phosphate lands hands monuments Amendments b by Senator Walsh of Massachusetts t to eliminate the maximum maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum royalty provisions under time the oil and coal sections and to red reduce ce the period for which oil and ga gas leases would be granted ranted were defeated defeated as was an amendment b by Senator Walsh designed to prevent the tho watering of oC mining stocks After Arter considerable debate the Senate rejected without a record vote an amendment by Senator Phelan which would have authorized the time President to place an embargo o on the exportation it r oil produced under this bill Aimed at iii I Inner on-Inner Tho The object 3 ci VI 1 ti II I. I he lie said Va was to deter foreigners from I.- I. taming int c. c oil lands The amendment was vas opposed by Senator Sen Sen- ator l Fall aU who asked wh why not amend amond It 10 W H is aS to permit the time to place an api embargo against as everything e pro pro- in peace times adding If it were welo done he lie supposed every senator then vote ote for It ft Senator charged that British interests are getting control of the California oil fields and that the Dutch Shell Oil company has haa interests In Call Cali fornia fields This company compan he al alle al- al le e Is controlled b by the Per Anglo sian ian Oil company compan which he ho said ald the British government owns In reply Senator Fall read rend a tele ole gram grain from n officials of the Dutch Shell company denying that the British gov gov- controlled It LOM luH Angelo A 1 t telegram I signed lJ by a number of oC Lo LO-J LO Angeles citizens was as read protestIng protesting protest protest- in Ing against the lie pending bill and asking the he conn connection between the thc bill bin and und the purchase of ot Immense areas areas' In California Califor Califor- nia ala an s well velt as elsewhere b by En English lIsh Co corporations rp o ra t o n s. s The telegram said Id the tho effects of the bill If passed would be lc to drive AmerIcan Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean prospectors out of or bu business |