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...Rumors: Postmaster Harry S. New to go into a business venture; Labor Secretary James J. Davis to build up Moosehart, school of the Order of Moose, Illinois, or to run for Governor of Pennsylvania; Interior Secretary Hubert Work (described by Carter Field, New York Herald- Tribune correspondent, as "reluctantly persuaded to remain") to private affairs in Colorado; War Secretary John W. Weeks to enjoy life...
...Wheeler goes on trial in Montana on Apr. 16, under an indictment returned a year ago charging that, while Senator, he accepted a fee to represent his client before the Department of the Interior (TIME, May 26, June 2, THE CONGRESS). The new indictment for conspiracy reveals no new evidence. As far as the public has yet learned, Mr. Wheeler's connection with the land-grabbing is so tenuous as to be invisible to the naked eye. But then, full facts are not usually made public before the trial-in this case, two trials. Senator Wheeler, who drove Harry...
...also indicted. So was one Edwin S. Booth, former Solicitor of the Department of the Interior. Apparently the suit is directed chiefly against them...
Only a general strike of all trades could seriously retard the work in the interior of Massachusetts Hall. The completed exterior has been restored to its original appearance and two chimneys, lacking in the building which burned, have been erected on foundations provided in the original building...
...Government's civil suit to cancel the lease of the Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve to Harry F. Sinclair (TIME, Mar. 23) wound to an ineffectual close. The Government charged conspiracy and attempted to connect up the lease with payment of alleged bribes to ex-Secretary of the Interior Fall. A payment of $25,000 in Liberty Bonds in 1923. after Mr. Fall had resigned from office and was in Mr. Sinclair's employ, was established. But the defense argued that this was a legitimate loan and had nothing to do with the Teapot Lease. The main part...