The Archive · 1928

THE" RECALCITRANT COLONEL

Senate Warrant Issued for Refusal to Answer Questions Washington, Mar, 6.

'A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Colonel Robert W, Stewart, Chairman of the Board "of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, for refusing to answer questions of the Senate Committee of Inquiry {into the Teapot Dome Oil Case.

It will be recalled that Colonel Stewart was arrested a month ago for the same reason, but on that occasion his arrest' was merely technical, he being required to remain in his Rotel in the company of a Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms, who had to take him before the bar of tne Senate to state what he knew with regard to the disposition of Liberty bonds by the Continental Trading Company of Canada, which hho helped to organize in 1922 and which, according to the Government, supplied the money Harry Sinclair gave to Secretary of the Interior, Fall.—Reuter.

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