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Show i ifil OFFICE "jIBJIRGES Recused of Discriminating in Favor of British Oil Interests. sfILVGTOX, Aug. 2T. Charges that interior department ivas dlscrimlnat-.' dlscrimlnat-.' (he west against American oil in-:i in-:i 'is in favor of English oil and potash :iK'-sts were made in a telegram read in Si -nate today by Senator La Follette MVisconsIn, Kepublican, during an at-' at-' .. on th0 oil, gas and coal land leasing The telegram was dated Los An-y An-y (jji., and was signed by D. J. ieS' F N Rutne' EdRar Temple, 0l8"S epage and Ben .McLendon, desig-feS desig-feS themselves as a "committee on 't'. mi would make "peons and ten-1 ten-1 ' westerners for the English gov-t:lst gov-t:lst now establishing a commercial cr!?,p in the United States." the tele-L tele-L alle-ed. "We demand," the tele-1 tele-1 added "that investigation be made ii50 000 alleged to have been paid k.r the interior department clear list i mtent millions of dollars of oil land , I' h'ect to patent which has recently b,me , the property of the English gov- 'S"want shown," the message con-d con-d "why out of 13,000,000 acres 'f 1 land withdrawn by presidential rlamailon from entry, excluding Amer-; Amer-; n ritlzens, only 160 acres affected lish holdings in California. We want innw why the interior department ' American locators off oT potash i, ion technicalities and patented 40,- irres to an English corporation." anther telegram read by the sena-from sena-from Fred W. Parks of Denver said bill was a "Standard Oil measure Z menaces western oil interests." S.nator La 'Follette in presenting the ,.iVmms asserted that the government Mid protect itself to insure an ample -!irr,lv of coal and oil for the American t"v He warned against monopolistic " 'fr'ol of the natural resources of the Sry and said the pending bill would :'rmit very closely an approach to such "Sol Senator La Follette is expected continue his speech in the senate to- 3Suor King of Utah, Democrat, de-fclide'tt de-fclide'tt Secretary Lane and the interior Lartment. Senator La Follette, while j-iclalming any knowledge of the identity the signers of the telegrams, replied &it before completing his speech he wild "show some things that might re-!3lt re-!3lt in the Utah senator changing his "senator Smoot of Utah, Republican, who is In charge of the bill, asked that senators sena-tors devote their entire attention to the Mil tomorrow in an effort to expedite action. |