OIL SCANDAL.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1924, Page 3

OIL SCANDAL.

SOME ASTOUNDING EVIDENCE. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION (Received this day at 10 a.m. I WASHINGTON, March fi (living evidence belore the Senate Committee inquiring into the relations of the oil magnates, Sinclair and Dohetiy, with past and present- members of the Government in connection with the Teapot Dome losses, Senator lleflin said that Zov won at least one good race for the Attorney-General, Air Daugherty, according to information from the racing stables. Senator -Hellin asserted the Attor-ney-General attended Hie races in the* com pa ii v of Sinclair and made a number of bets for various members ot the Cabinet-, but lost. Later Sinclair, who owns Zov, took several thousands. in bets on his horse and Zov "'on and Sinclair remitted his winnings to Air ’Daugherty to he divided among the officials who had lost- previously. 'The Senate Committee learned from William J. Burns, head of the Government’s Secret Service, that Edward McLean, the millionaire publisher of the “'Washington Post” is tiie special agent of Hu* Department of Justice. 'This astounding admission was made, so why did the Secretary of the Just ice Department communicate with McLean when the latter was in Florida, using a secret Government code. Evidently McLean’s connection with lliis work was being investigated bv some outside source and certain warning messages relating to the Teapot Dome affair were' sent him at Palm Beach. There is no explanation so far, as to how he came to give Senator Full, a former Secretary ol the Interior, a hundred thousand dollar cheque and then took it hack.