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1 Investigation of Editorial Charges against Senator Underwood 1924

handle is hein.beal/ecus0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 68TH CONGRESS SENATE oT 2d Session ) INTESTIGATION OF EDITORIAL CHA GAINST SENATOR UNDERWOOD % IV/ YO 4' DECEMBER 16 (calendar day, DECEMBER 19), 1924.-Ordered to be printed Mr. SPENCER, from the Committ'ee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred certain charges against Senator Underwood contained in an editorial published in the Washington Herald on the 13th instant in connection with the Muscle Shoals bill, submitted the following REPORT On Saturday, December 13, the Senate by unanimous consent, at the request of the senior Senator from Alabama, Mr. Underwood, referred to the Judiciary Committee of the Senate an editorial printed in the Washington Herald on that morning, with instruc- tions to report concerning the facts involved, to call this editor before them, to ascertain the truth. or falsity of the charges against me, and as to whether any man in all this broad land can be found to substantiate a single one of the charges that have been uttered in this newspaper. The editorial referred to reads as follows: ANOTHER TEAPOT DOME IS THRUST UPON MR. COOLIDGE President Coolidge is a wise, courageous, and patriotic leader. Once he has gone to the bottom of a subject he is likely to decide rightly about it. Therefore, the country can have confidence that President Coolidge will disregard those advisers who seek his support of the Underwood bill, now in the Senate, authoriz- ing the Secretary of War to lease Muscle Shoals for 50 years to the Alabama Power Co. President Coolidge can not afford and does not want a Teapot Dome scandal in his administration. He is being offered a greater scandal in this proposal of Senator Oscar Underwood. * Who is Oscar Underwood? He is an able man, capable of high statesmanship, but since his entrance into Congress his ability and his statemanship have often been at the service of the railroads and the other great corporations seeking public privileges without paying for them. Just now his talents and ability are working in the interest of the central figure in the electric power trust-the General Electric Co. It owns the Electric Bond & Share Co., which has stock ownership and its own directors in Mr. Underwood's. Alabama Power Co., to which the Senate of the United States is asked to give away the second most valuable property of the Nation, second only to the Panama Canal. Digitized from Best Copy Available

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