Show o 0 0 tOt 0 0 0 0 SINCLAIR CITED FOR CONTEMPT WALSH RAPS ATTITUDE OF OIL Senate Hope Courts Will Give Him Limit ELKINS OPPOSES He Is Only Senator Not Voting For Contempt Bill WAShINGTON WAHINGTON March 24 The law officers of oC the government i were asked today by the senate to 1 bring contempt proceedings t agala-t Harry F Sinclair whoso whose lele leise ot of I Teapot Dome started the rolling roiling snoWball of ot the oil olt Inquiry B 13 By a 0 tote lote ote of oC 72 to I 1 the senate enate adopted a resolution by It Its oh oil corn com comI com committee Ing Sinclair to the I district attorney on omi a II contempt I charge charte because of oC his refusal to test If further In lii the th I hearings An hour before beCore another witness wilnes e C C Chase customs custom collector at atTI atEl atEl TI El Paso and son oon law In-law of ot Albert AlbertB AlbertB B 11 rail had refused to an answer er the committees committee s questions question on ott the ground that It mIght Incriminate him Ills Ilia case w will III Ill be taken takemi up UI later lator S OTES NOVi NO 0 NOW W Vi hen the th sonata senate begin t noting on Walsh s resolution sena- sena tots ton answered ered a II ae e without regal d to party until Re Republican pu publican West Virginia was called lie He toted no and a was the Oni one ona oneto onoto to tot cast a t e tote ote toI I or After t reviewing review the tho resolutions under which the committee has ben been conducting It Its the ci- ci citation ci citation tation said That That on the tho Ih da of oC March 1024 a a Il witness Hal Hairy ry F Sinclair being called before the committee and being on the stand refused to answer er any questions that might be propounded to him by any member of the committee a as set act forth Corth In Inthe inthe Intile the repol repot t made by the committee to toe senile sen lie on the said ald day of ot March 1924 a a copy of oC which report Is la hereto appended and ade Ilde a part thereof S TO A I That upon such a statement so 00 being made mad by the Slid stid Id witness I Harry F Sinclair questions pel patti patti- nent II- II cent nent to the Inquiry being prosecuted prosecuted ed b the th said ero ad- ad addressed ad addressed dressed to the witness Itne as set sot forth Corth In the said report so on 5 Saturday the da dai of ot March I 1 1924 which the witness severally declined and refused to answer anwer as therein set forth And now your committee ro- ro re reports I ports to the tho th senate nate that the th said Herry 1 F Sinclair having appeared appeared appeared-aj as aI a I witness Itne before your said corn com corn I i refused to ans answer 11 questions inI I pertinent to the question under u nd r In- In In and I Is In contempt of ot the said committee and of ot I h senate I hOPES t tR kOlt R LIMITI LIMIT In urging hi his motion Senator I 1 Walsh declared tho the Itne Is tak tak- tak log all lilt the th chances for the tho ox- ox ex trenie penalty of ot tho the law and If It ho he hoIs I 1 I I found In error I shall halt hope to see 10 him treated with Ith the th utmost rigor ot of the law I I trust Mr Ir Walsh added he will be b given Riven the limit of oC penalty the law provides tor for each point Involved Inv In his case caso This This witness thu thus defied this body and has scouted Its authority then lien has haa rushed Into the tho ho ne news newspapers s- s papers to tell the lImo story tory h he declined to tell upon the stand Senator Walsh Walh had ret reference to toa toa ta a long statement ma mane maffe public Sat Sat- Saturday undO urda by Sinclair attel Sinclair had bad refused to er questions pro pro- propounded propounded propounded pounded by the committee committe Scow Sen- lor or Walsh DIh said paid that the tho had not been tiled flied with the th corn com mutes FRs AS AN SW FR FRS Sl SIN neph Ing to Sinclair s e statement that he lie had been heen called bet before ore the five times time Senator Walsh Walh said ald that was wai chiefly by byr b on r roxson ason ot of the th fact tact that the th witness failed d to disclose all lilt of ot the th materiel facts In III his knowledge during his Previous appearances It leaked out little by little I Senator said ald He He H did not tell anything more mor than ho he h a nas obliged obliged to tell under ear in- in In lent lerl In-I In Sinclair the th senator said Id hl hd hadnot n lt told the tho th committee how how ho he paid a a- million dollars dollar for take fake on Teapot Dome Dom and then th paid another million to purchase the silence of ot a newspaper add lidd- adding Ing It It w was to a old Into that matter that ho h declined to answer an- an er 5 |