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...Rumors got about that a $1,000,000 slush fund had been organized by oil men against the investigation. Edward B. McLean, publisher of The Washington Post, was summoned to testify on the subject...
...investigation developed that about the time of the oil leases, Mr. Fall had suddenly acquired considerable sums of money. Mr. Fall testified, not under oath, that he had borrowed '$100,000 from Edward B. McLean, Washington newspaper publisher, and that he had never received from Doheny or Sinclair "'one cent on account of any oil lease or upon any account whatsoever." Then Mr. McLean told that he had given Secretary Fall $100,000 in checks, which in a few days had been returned uncashed. This was followed immediately by Archibald Roosevelt's resignation from one of the Sinclair Oil Companies...
...point was raised in previous hearings that after being apparently none too prosperous, Mr. Fall had suddenly reached apparent affluence. Mr. Fall before the investigating committee testified that this "affluence" was the result of a loan of $100,000 from Edward B. McLean, Washington newspaper publisher, that he had taken this money to Texas and bought lands with it. Through A. Mitchell Palmer, his attorney, he let it be known that he had lent such a sum to Mr. Fall on a personal note...
Thereafter Senator Walsh of Montana went to Palm Beach and examined Mr. McLean. McLean then admitted that he had given Fall some checks but that in two or three days they were returned uncashed, Fall saying that he had obtained the necessary money elsewhere. Senator Walsh then wrote Mr. Fall about McLean's testimony, and Fall answered: "McLean told the truth." Both Fall and McLean were last week ill in the South...
...this money from the Hon. Edward B. McLean of Washington, and I took it with me in cash.' He did not do that. Why did he say that...