| Show i rt DOU WIL ILL ELL PART HE HEW OOK W IN DEAL DEALt t n t r Secretary of Ini In- In fjor i jar r Will Appear Betel Be Be- tel Senate Oil Commit Commit- Next ext Monday JT T T PUBLISHER TELLS OF pEALS DEALS fils jIs is Explains How the Paid by Sini Sin- Sin i ir Was Divided Been Be- Be ee een en Him and Partners I I IcA SI Feb 8 WIlliam S. William cA will JU be heard beard by the theall all II 1 committee Monday ea eng ng at own request explain fully hI his ofes s with the Doheny oil s. s lson Islon to hear the former sec sec- ot- ot t. t the treasury In the WIl- WIl E adm was reached Ht y y the committee after atter man Lenroot had read Into cc r ra a letter sent to him last aIDt b Mr McAdoo asking for hearing The chair- chair La t read the letter of ot E. E L. L lI ny his testimony tiit Jibe the total fees paid to Mr and Attorney General herty's tf's telegram of ot February ry that the department of ot never was called upon to the oil leases All of ot the these e previously h have e eP P published GiST OGiST PROTESTS oes O O. O Lewis one of ot the geol ol m loyed by by- bythe the committee committee- y conditions at Tea- Tea Jome lorne protested In a a. memo- memo Imi read to the committee suggestions which he said sold been ma made by iy Senator Walsh Kirat emt Montana He Ha Insisted when he accepted employment I committee his mind was regard to matters under and that he was tree free Ju would ha have dis- dis Is- Is 1 edli from undertaking 4 e rick G. G publisher r of oZ eiver ver Colo Cob Post appeared voluntary witness to tell of ot tt to assist Leo Stack to cela contract Stack had bad with Midwest and other oil COmI com com- I to own acreage In teapot dome reserve before It eased ased Sed to Harry F. F Sinclair by Fall jOVER HIS HEAD lOVER Stack claimed they hadi had hadj i lover lover- his hla head 1 said Mr Is f I entered 1 Into a contract to help belp him to enforce I g gri gh g. s. s The agreement was that St Stack ck was to get the first O nd the remainder was to Prided 46 4 per cent to Mr 2 i per cent ent to me 23 per t to tomy my partner and 7 per p my attorney H. H H. H ard r vere rumors about the Sin Sin- lease IMse the witness continued 1 d him to send a reporter Continued on page 9 J Continued from page 1 Mr l to New Mexico to Investigate Ho brought back a shocking and astounding story Mr Bonfils said It was one we hesitated to believe He le was sent back to make further inquiries and was cautioned not to reveal his identity because there might t be great danger of ot bodily harm to him LEASE WAS ATTACKED The witness said that after atter returned it was decided to 10 o publish a series of articles In the Post ost The first appeared on August 15 1922 and copies were sent to members of ot congress The lease was attacked by analysis analysis' and theory he continued and later I Senator La Tua Follette Republican Wisconsin Introduced his resolution resolution resolution tion calling for an inquiry Mr 11 Bonfils said J J. J W W. Zevely personal counsel to Mr Sinclair called on him In Denver to discuss the matter and finally Invited the witness his partner Stac and andS Schwartz S to go to New York Toik to see Sinclair s When wo we arrived there there he ho said Sinclair sal said rather Mr brusquely that he did not know why we cameto came cameto cameto to see him that our suit was against the Midwest and allied companies companies com com- filed suit Bult then You have Z asked Senator Walsh Oh yes suit has been been- started against the tho Midwest was was th the re reply re- re ply ply IY Mr Bonfils told the committee that subsequently there was a meetIng meet- meet meeting meeting Ing at Kansas City at which a con contract contract con con- tract was drawn Under this the Sinclair Interests were to pay for the Stack rights and give those Interested In the Stack contract contract con con- tract acres in the Teapot Dome oil reserve This money actually was 1 paid over by the Sinclair people peo peo- Mr Bonfils said I BOUND BY CONTRACT Under the agreement ment the witness said the Sinclair Oil company was bound within eighteen months which will wUl expire March 15 next to repurchase the acres at a cost of If it the holders desired to sell Doheny had been much Interested in Stacks Stack's efforts to obtain the Teapot Teapot Teapot Tea Tea- pot Dome lease Mr Bonfils said but had suddenly for some unknown unknown unknown un un- un- un known reason withdrawn Mr Bonfils explained how the paid by Sinclair had been divided between him and his partners The suits he We and Stack had in instituted instituted instituted in- in he said to assert rights they claim In the Salt Creek field were settled by the agreement which Sinclair had made with them in the name of the Mammoth Oil corporation The Sinclair inter interests wanted to clE clear ar up all dispute of title he said in connection with the granting g to them by Fall Fail of the Teapot Dome lease Sinclair had testified th that t he expended in In this I connection about 1 Mr Bonfils said that E E. I L L. L Doheny Doheny Do Do- heny while interested In the Stack I claims estimated that Mr Stacks Stack's leases with the Midwest and other companies at lowest value was worth from to NEVER SAW FALL Mr Doheny had based his estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate Mr Bonfils said upon the report report reports re re- port ports of ot the geologists who had examined examined examined ex ex- I Teapot Dome reserve The witness told the committee that he had never seen Mr Fall you go to Alaska with him in 1923 asked Senator Walsh No I went to Alaska with President President President dent Harding Secretary Work wason was wason wason on the tho that trip as were Secretaries Wallace and Hoover The publisher explained In reply reply- to further questions that at the In Invitation in- in of ot Secreta Secretary r Denby he now was on his way to board the naval transport Henderson at Charleston S. S C C. C to witness naval maneuvers I off Panama |
