| Show ROOSEVELT AS DEEP IN MIRE SENI SEN DILL SAYS Resolution Demanding Resignation of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Is Introduced in in Senate W WASHINGTON March h 31 De De Demand mand for removal from office of 11 Theodore Roosevelt assistant secretary secretary secre secre- tary tar of the navy was renewed In Inthe Inthe inthe the senate today by Senator Dill Democrat of Washington Declaring the assistant secretary was tar far ar more culpable than was his superior Secretary Denby Denb in Ia the leasing of the naval oil reserve the Washington senator introduced a resolution declaring It to be the sense senSA of the senate that President Coolidge should call for his resignation tion I The resolution charges Mr Roosevelt with having been a di director director director di- di rector of the Sinclair Oil company previous to entering the government e t i service and stresses that tg he ordered J marines to remove remo oil claimants from the Teapot Dome reserve TEXT OF RESOLUTION The text of the resolution follows Whereas Theodore Roosevelt the assistant secretary of the navy y was a director of or the Sinclair Oil company previous to his entrance into the government service ser Whereas as assistant secretary of or the navy he personally carried the executive order to the White Vh WhiteHouse Whitehouse I House for the president to sign which order transferred the control I of ot the naval oil reserves from the secretary of the navy to the secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary of the interior and I Whereas on July 29 1922 Mr 11 I Roosevelt then acting secretary of I the nav navy in the absence of Secretary Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary Denby ordered the United States marines to remove all oil claimants from the naval reserve m I No 3 and thereby made an an outrageous outrageous outrageous out out- use of or the armed forces of the United States States- government to perform acts which should have been performed only by civilian officers officers of ot- on the order of a court after due hearing of all the facts in the I case Now therefore re bo be It resolved Itis it itis itis is the sense sene of ot the senate that the pr president presidE nt should be and he is' is l' l ere ere- by requested to toa to Continued on page 4 4 ROOSEVELT WAS DEEP IN MIRE SEN DILL SAYS Continued from page 1 1 1 I tion of Mr Theodore Roosevelt as assistant secretary of ot the navy I Recently Mr Roosevelt was se severely so- so I verely criticised before the oil com com- corn i I I Senator Walsh Democrat by t of Montana the committee prosecutor prose prose- and several Democratic prose I senators senators sen sea have declared on the senate floor that the assistant secretary's I close relationship with former Secretary Secretary Sec See Denby should have impelled him to follow his chief into retire retire- ment meat MELLON ATTACK RESISTED The attack in the senate on Secretary Secretary Sec See Mellon opened Friday when Senator McKehar Democrat of I Tennessee Tennesee introduced a resolution I calling for an investigation of Mr I Mellons Mellon's legal rights to hold office met resistance today from organization tion Republicans or I Senator Reed Republican of Pennsylvania Informed the senate that the legal questions raised b bythe by I the resolution had been considered I fully before Mr Mellon accepted the 1 I cabinet post I Mr Mellon had been advised of ot the old statute prohibiting a treasury treasury treasury treas treas- I ury secretary from front engaging in I trade oi or commerce Senator Reed Reeds I Isaid s said aid and had en endeavored to evade cabinet service on the strength of of these restrictions The late Senator Knox of Pennsylvania a former lormer attorney attorney attorney at- at torney General and secretary of I statte was consulted and had bad the law examined by a firm of WashIngton Washington Washington Wash Wash- I ington lawyers who on January 25 1921 gave an opinion that there thero was wasl i nothing tin the ownership of stock I in various corporations to disqualify fy Mr l Mellon from holding I the tho of- of tice of ot secretary of or the the treasury This opinion at th the request of j i I Senator Overman Democrat of I North Carolina was read to the senate senat I THOMPSON NOT FOUND t I Failure of subpoena servers to I II II I locate William Joyce Boyce Thompson I 1 1 former chairman of the Republican j I I national committees committee's finance comI committee com com- I was reported to the senate I 1 oil committee today by the senate sergeant at arms I Thompson was among the witnesses wit I nesses listed to appear this week in I regard to stories of ot campaign contributions contributions con con- by oil interests His home I II I Is in New York George White of Ohio former I chairman of the Democratic naI national national na na- na- na I committee who also is under II subpoena was granted a weeks week's deI delay dolay de- de I lay on his plea of Important bus business busi- busi iI i- i I ness engagements The subpoena for Fred Upham of I Chicago treasurer of ot the j I lican Scan national committee may be cancelled Committee members are arc I disposed to accept his public statement statement state state- ment meat that he has no information on onI I the tho subjects under investigation The committee will wiil resume Its hearings healings tomorrow with R R. H. H WilI Wilson Wil Wil- wu- wu son SOli once candidate for the Democratic Demo Demo- cratic cratie nomination for governor of ot I Oklahoma on the stand With W. W L. L Kistler an oil promoter of ot TulI Tul- Tul sa Mr Wilson Vilson Is to t be e questioned I regarding the connection prominent oil on men inert had with state and national politics I |
