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Show SEN. LAFOLLETTE MAKES CHARGES i Claims Discrimination by Department De-partment in West Against American Oil Interests. WASHINGTON, Aug 27. Charges j that the Interior department was discriminating dis-criminating in the west against American Amer-ican oil interests in favor of English oil and potash interests were made in a telegram read in the senate today by I Senator LaFolIetie, Republican. Y';-i Y';-i consln. during an attack on the oil. gaa and coal land basing bill The I telegram was dated Los Angeles, Cab, and was signed b D ,T. Craurnan. F. " Kouthe, Edgar Temple, George Lepage Le-page ;nd Ben McLen'dOn, designating themselves as "committee on legislation legisla-tion " The bill would make "peons and tenant- of westerners for ih F.n-h h government now establishing a commercial com-mercial empire in the United States," ithe telegram alleged "We demand." the- telegram added, 'ti.at investigation investiga-tion be made of the $150,000 allege-1 to have been paid to ha" interior d -'paitment clear list for patent millions I of dollars of oil land not subject to .patent which has recently become the I property of the English government." I "We want shoun," the message con jdnued "why that out of 13,000,000 'acres of oil land withdrawn by presidential presi-dential proclamation from entrv, excluding ex-cluding American citizens, that onlv 1 160 acres affected English holdings in j California We want to know why the interior department drove American locators Of! of potar.h lands on tech nlcalltles and patented 40.000 acres to an English corporation " Another telegram read by the senator sen-ator trom Fred W. Parks of Denver, said the bill was a ' standard oil measure meas-ure and menaces western oil interests." inter-ests." 'Senator LaFolIetie In presenting the telegrams asserted that the government gov-ernment should protect Itself to Insure an ample supply of coal and oil for the American navy. He warned against again-st monopolistic control of Ihe natural resources Ot iho country and said impending im-pending bill would permit very do ly an approach to such control. Sena tor LaFolIetie Is expected bo continue his speech in the senate tomorrow. Senator Klpg, Democrat, Utah, defended de-fended Spcretary Lane and the in1'-rior in1'-rior department Senator LaFolIetie while disclaiming anv knowledge ot Ihe idtmty of the signers of the tele gram rep'ied that before completing his speech he would "shoyy .some things that might result, in the t'tah senator hanging his mind. Spnator Smoot, Republican. Utah, who is in charge of the bill, 'asked that senators devote their entire .; tention to the bill tomorrow in an ei fort to expedite action. |
