AMERICAN OIL CASES
COMPANY CHAIRMAN ARRESTED REFUSAL TO SUPPLY INFORMATION. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, February 4Robert Stewart, chairman of the board of directors of the Standard Oil Company, Indiana, was arrested tonight following bis second refusal to tel* the Senate Oil Committee about the disposition of 3,000,000_ dollars, the re sale profits of the extinct Continental Trading Company, of Canada, of which the Government alleges that A. B. Fan received over 230,000 dollars. P.rocedings for “ contempt ” will be in order if, following his arraignment to-morrow before Vice-president Dawes in the Senate, he still declines to answer questions. . There have been but lew occasions m American history where the Senate has taken on the aspect of a court of Jaw, meting out punishment to private citizens.
Mr Stewart has obtained a temporary writ of habeas corpus until the 7th inst. under a bond of 10,000 dollars.
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Evening Star, Issue 19783, 6 February 1928, Page 5
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146AMERICAN OIL CASES Evening Star, Issue 19783, 6 February 1928, Page 5
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