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Show MffiTlM BILL CONSIDERED Senate Defeats Amend-, ments Offered by Walsh and Phelaru WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. The senate today resumed consideration of the bill ! for leasing and development of govern-! govern-! ment-owned oil, gas, coal and phosphate ; lands. ! Amendments by Senator Walsh of Mas-j Mas-j sachusetts to eliminate the maximum roy-j roy-j alty provisions under the oil and coal , sections and to reduce the period for j which oil and gas leases would be granted ; were defeated, as was an amendment by ! Senator Walsh designed to prevent the ! "watering" of mining stocks. I After considerable debate the senate rejected re-jected without a record vote an amendment amend-ment by Senator Phelan which would have authorized the president to place an embargo em-bargo on the exportation of oil produced pro-duced under the bill. The object of the : amendment, he said, was to deter foreigners for-eigners from obtaining possession of , American oil lands. The amendment was opposed by Senator Sena-tor Fall, who asked why not amend it so as to permit the president to place an embargo against everything produced in. peace times, adding If it were done he supposed every senator would then vote for It. Senator Phelan charged that British interests in-terests were getting control of the California Cali-fornia oil fields and that the Dutch Shell Oil company has interests in California fields. This company, he alleged, is controlled con-trolled by the Anglo-Persian Oil company, which, he said, the British government owns. In reply Senator Fall read a telegram tele-gram from officials of the Dutch Shell company denying that the British government govern-ment controlled it. A telegram signed by a number of Los Angeles citizens protested against the pending bill and asked the connection between the bill and the purchase of immense im-mense areas in California, as well as elsewhere, else-where, by English corporations. The telegram said the effects of the bill If passed would be to drive American prospectors out of business. |