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OIL CONSERVATION A FACTOR
THERE seems to be widespread im
pression at Washington, according to
opinions expressed by some of the
leading special correspondents at the
capital, that it will be impossible to
prove criminal culpability in connec
tion with the granting of government
oil leases to private concerns by the
department of the interior under the
administration of ex-Secretary Albert
B. Fall.
Probably that is an outstanding rea
son why President Coolidge did not
1 u easy to find two lawyers of
outstanding ability, representing the
two political parties, to take the gov
ernment's case.
Fall has denied that he received any
money consideration whatever in con
nection with the leases .The heads
of the two huge oil companies who
were granted leases, likewise have as
serted that no consideration was in
volved. As Mr. Lawrence says, there
is an important legal distinction be
tween a “loan” and a “bribe,” and
while a loan may be advanced, even
on an unsecured note, as a matter of
friendship, or as an acknowledgement
of a favor, to establish a criminal
connection between the two incidents
in a court of law is more difficult than
it is to bring down the wrath of pub
lic opinion upon the transaction.
Vet there is no question that such
a practice should find ready popular
condemnation, for r.n official holding
a high public trust should be above
Ibe taint of suspicion, whatever his
motive mav be if. any matter involv
ing a relation between a public and
private transaction.
It long has been well known that
Fall was an anti-conservationist while
he was in the senate and while he
in the Harding cabinet. He believed
the public would derive more benefit
from the development of the nation’s
resources than by locking them up.
He clashed with the present secre
tary of agriculture repeatedly and
sought to have the national forests
removed from the department of the
interior. While President Harding,
who was a friend of his in the senate,
appears to have defended him up to
the time of his resignation and later,
there is circumstantial evidence that
he upheld Secretary Wallace in his
stand for the conservation of forests.
On returning from Alaska, the late
president made an unusual address at
Seattle in which he recommended a
continuance of the present conserva
tion policy with respect to Alaska,
thus indirectly going on record
against the proposal which Fall had
consistently pressed before he resign
ed.
While no serious fault may be found
with an advocate of either policy, con
servation or exploitation, that is not
the only issue in the present contro
versy. Fall’s eagerness in taking over
the naval oil reserves and then in
granting concessions to private inte
rests, all of which was surrounded
with considerable secrecy, bring his
acts into question, and the revelations
regarding the loan made to him by the
beneficiaries or the leases even tho
it can be proved that the government
benefited by the leases—are the basis
of suspicions in which the public nat
urally is more than casually interest
ed, and incidentally provide excellent
campaign material .tor an opposition
party which is constantly searching
for a campaign issue.
The upshot of the investigation pro
bably will be to raise again the old is
sue of conservation, with the proba
ble result that there will be a tight
ening of lines according to the policy
initiated by President Roosevelt. Con
servation of oil reserves really began
under the Taft administration, for oil
was less a factor in Roosevelt’s pol
icy than the forests for the teason
that the value of petroleum was not
then realized. Save for the fact that
oil now is considered an indispensable
asset the public interest in the Fall
affair would be far less than it is to
day .
Vt present more than 70 per cent
of the available world oil supply is in
foreign hands—principally the British
and Dutch monopoly—while the Unit
ed States controls only about 18 per
cent. That major fact is outstanding:
in the current strafing at Washing
ton.
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>■ PATHE NEWS
SELECT THE BEST MEN
Ability to read the weather, use a
single jack, or tell a good story does
not always prove that a man is com
petent to represent a community in
the Territorial legislature. It scarce
ly gives him the correct insight as to
the merits of the fisheries reserves,
the Pioneer pension bill, the tax on
natural resources, etc. It does not
even enable him to judge rationally
the needs of his own community—the
question of schools, parks, play
grounds, sewerage .community build
ing and the rate of taxation whether
the fire department and schools are
competent or incompetent.
A man may on the other hand be able
to read and write fourteen languages
and still be a civic incompetent. His
ignorance about his own locality and
its needs may be so appalling as to
be a positive menace to his holding
office. The Territory’s development
depends upon the selection of the
best possible men to represent the
people at Juneau. The man who is
open to conviction, who will obey the
wishes of the people who elected him,
and who is free of the taint of graft
and petty quarrels, is generally a safe
man to vote for.
JUNEAU, Ala., Feb. 16.—Suit to
restrain the City of Juneau and B. M.
Behrends as Treasurer for the munici
pality from paying to R. E. Robert
son, $2,000 to defray his expenses on
a mission to Washington, and to en-!
join Mr. Robertson from receiving The
money, were filed today iu the name I
of Emery Valentine by his counsel,j
Grover C. Winn and Wickersham &
Kehoe. Judge Reed, on an affidavit
signed by the plaintiff alleging that
an order had been drawn lor SI,500
against the City funds in favor of Mr.
Robertson .issued a temporary re
straining order and a hearing will be
held at 10 a. m. Wednesday at which
time the defendants will have an op
portunity to show why the order
should be disoslved.
Mayor Says Is Politics.
“Dirty politics,” was th commnt of
Mayor I. Goldstein, when he was in
formed of the suit. He gave it as his
conviction that Delegate Sutherland
instigated the move in order to keep
down the questiou of division of the
Territory, one of the things included
in Mr. Robertson's proposed mission
to the national capital. “Sutherland
doesn’t want Mr. Robertson to come
to Washington and isn’t in favor of
division,” he declared. He pointed out
that Sutherland supporters alone are {
apparently interested in the effort to
block the mission as a confirmation of
his view on the matter.
Mayor Goldstein said tnat tne cuj
would fight the suit, the City Council
being unanimous in a stand to rhat
effect. Hellenthai & Helienthan have
been retained to look after the inter
ests of the defendants named in the
suit.
Complaint Is Filed.
The complaint was filed today by
Mr. Valentine’s counsel in the name
of Emery Valentine “for himself and
all other taxpayers of the City of Ju
neau.” It alleges that the City Coun
cil was without power to vote funds
to defray the expenses of sending a
special representative to Washington
to work for the projects mentioned in
the resolution passed by the Council
January 18, when it selected Mr. Ro
bertson to undertake the mission.
These projects were set forth in the
complaint as follows: division of the
Teritory; dredging of Gastineau Chan
nel, digging of Oliver Inlet and Hawk
Inlet canals; dredging of Wrangell
Narrows; retention of the Army Post
at Chilkoot Barracks, and ‘other sim
ilar lobby work for other interested
persons, corporations and communi
ties ' in the Territory. If the City
Council is permitted to appropriate
the $2,000 for a delegate to go to
Washington and work to get things
through Congress, according to the
complaint the plaintiff, Mr. Valentine
and all other taxpayers will receive
“irreparable injury and damage from
this unlawful appropriation.”
Hearing Set For Ttoday.
At the time Judge Reed granted a
temporary injunction, he fixed 2 p. m.
today as the time tor a hearing on the
order. At the request of counsel for
th e City, made this afternoon, he con
tinued the hearing until 10 a. m. on
Wednesday.
It is understood that the suit will
not cause any delay in the departure
of Mr. Robertson. He had not plan
ned to leave for several days, proba
bly not before next week. It is ex
pected that the matter will be def
initely settled by that time. If the in
junction is made permanent, it was
intimated that iunds might be forth
coming from some other source.
IF WOMAN WEDS, DOES
HER JOB FOLLOW FOR
BETTER OR FOR WORSE?
OLYMPIA, Feb. 16.—There’s ar
Eastern Washington woman who pro
poses to do all the swearing that is
done in her family.
She was a notary public before she
was wedded a few days ago. She stil
wishes to be a notary, but,—
The old commission, the old sea]
and the old title do not fit new condl
tions. So she wrote a letter to Sec
retary of State J. Grant Hinkle enclos
ing her marriage certificate, and ask
ing him to reissue her notarial com
mission; using her new name as h€
found it on the marrigae certificate.
Secretary Hinkle frankly admits ht
does not know how marriage affects
a notary public; that is a spinster
notary public. There does not seem
to be either law or precedent to gov
ern the situation.
And that brings up other interest
ing questions. Suppose some other la
dy newly elected to or actually induct
ed into office should wed | d change
her name. Does the job follow for
better or worse? If a member-elect of
the legislature say,were a miss or a
widowed lady when elected, but a
Mrs. Somebody Else when she appear
ed to be sworn in, what would J.
Grant Hinkle do then.
The secretary of state will need le
gal advice.
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