A TRAIL OF BLACK OIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 317, 30 March 1928, Page 1

A TRAIL OF BLACK OIL

AMERICAN POLITICAL SCANDALS SENATOR ASSAILS WILSON ADMINISTRATION By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Rpcu. 1 p.m. NEW YORK, Thursday. SENATOR A. R. ROBINSON, of Indiana, before the Senate stated that a “conspiracy” to get control of the naval oil reserves was formed in the City of Washington during the Wilson Administration.

HE said: “It was participated in by high officials of that administration, and aided and abetted still by other Democrats of high standing. The record shows that wholesale influencing ot Federal officials, including Cabinet members and their important assistants, by private oil interests, was in full blcom under the Wilson Administration, and the exhaustion of the navy supply oil was already under way because of Democratic acts of legislation and administration.” He centred an attack upon a for-

mer Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Josephus Daniels, and an ex-Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Lane, whom he named as the originator of the proposal to leave the naval reserves for private exploitation. He also said: “McAdoo crammed a cool quarter of a million dollars of Doheny’s money into his pockets, and has never yet made restitution.” He asked if it was possible that Mr. McAdoo was using this money to finance the campaign of Senator Walsh ot Montana. —A. and N.Z.