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Show REED SWOT j WILL DIRECT OIL INQUIRY Senate Unanimous in Voting For Investigation of Naval Leases. LA FOLLETTE BITTER Another Spectacular Conservation Con-servation Controversy j Now Is Looming. WASHINGTON, April 29 Attack ' upon the larovornment lease of Wyom-i Wyom-i ing naval oil reserves to the Sinclair ! interests today culminated in th-3 I senate ordering an Investigation. I Under a resolution presentod ly Senator L.iFollctte, Republican. Wis-i Wis-i f onsln. and adopted 58 to 0, all private pri-vate leases In the two Caliform. r -i oil reserves, as well as th Bait ! Creek, or Teapot dome district, to ih" I Sinclair interests, also aro" to Ik- in-1 in-1 - located. The- inquiry" premises t" cor acts of the last adminietration ! and furnish another spectacular coti-! coti-! Bervatlop controversy. Secretary Dcnby said so far as the navy department was concerned the investigation was welcome. I s i ssifv p IRTISAN To put through the Lal-'olletto reso-' reso-' lnii. .ii. ihe senate laid aside tho tariff I hill by unanimous consent The reso-; reso-; lution was adopted with brief debate 1'iit for more than two hours afterward after-ward discussion. With a partisan tinge, i ensued. Uuring this Secretaries Fall and Denby were attacked and defended for having made the Sinclair lease. Prior to action on the LaFolletto resolution the interior department i sent to the senate a copy of the Wyoming reserve lease made Apill j 7 to the Mammoth Oil company, a Delaware corporation of which llur- ry L. Sinclair, is president, giving ! the corporation exclusive development right?. J. - years, or during pro ductivity of the wells, on a royalty j basis ranging from 12 1-2 to GO per cent T5ie lease was signed by 8e -retarlea Fall and Denby and Mr Sln- lair It gives the Sim lair interests the privilege of buying all oil and gas developed In the lease district, of over 9000 -acVes. requires them to BXi h inge and deliver oil to the navy, roq.uirea them to provide permanent sto: and ajs.i to innstruct pipe line fa illtlcs to Chicago. SMOOI .' PRESIDl 'The senate Investigation Is to be made bj th public land.-, committee "I w im h Senator Smool Is chairman Although an Immediate inquiry was urged by Senator IiFidlette. a stair must be deferred, Senator Smoot said tonight, until information called for I " me ijuruiiium resolution irnm tno inferior and navy departments is prepared pre-pared and transmitted This Includes all leases and other documents and information. The resolution also requests re-quests tho committee to report on tho drilling of private wells near the naval reserves and tc make recom-mendatlohj recom-mendatlohj "with reference to the protection of the rights of the gOV-l crnmont and the preservation of its natural resources." Submission of I the information called for will take considerable time. Senator Smoot ! said. He said tho public lands com-i com-i mitteC would determine upon hear-l ings. Secretaries Fall and Denby and! j former Secretary Daniels are expect-1 ' c-d to be hading witnesses. DTAHN IN i)l i. VI I Senator- Hitchcock, King, Demo-' Demo-' rat of Utah, and Borah. Republican of Idaho, declared the oil land leaning lean-ing law should bo modified to pr-- v private exploitation of public 1 resource's, Mr. Borah said the all should be conserved not especially fur the navy but for the general pub- , Hi Similar Instances lo this case I Wers predicted by .Mr Borah if the law should not he modified and he' a,.i iho present results were pre- dieted when it was enacted, j Senator LaFollette again reviewed land condemned the oil leasing legls-1 J latlon and declared the ''oil Iprates ' had not been able to defeat the law , "as long as' wc had a secretary of the navy who was loyal to. tho governments gov-ernments interests." The law has! boon used, he said, not to protect the! government's oil but to give leases to private Interests |