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Davis quickly began setting the record straight. The Interior Department, he explained, is required by law to make grants on claims with reasonably good ore-producing prospects. On first considering the Al Sarena case, said Davis, he ordered that new assays be taken. They showed sufficient ore content to warrant the grants. Timber rights naturally were included in the grants...
Neuberger's other face-fall came in the hearing room of a House-Senate committee investigating Oregon's Al Sarena Mines, Inc. and land grants that it received in 1954 in the Rogue River National Forest. Neuberger had long wanted such an investigation, charging that the Al Sarena claims were worthless as mining property, and that the grants were made only because Al Sarena's owners wanted to strip the claims of valuable timber. This, Neuberger insisted, was part of a deep Republican giveaway plot. Cried he: "If this Al Sarena case were allowed to stand...
...committee's hearings dragged on and on, getting headlines in the Northwest; the press play elsewhere left an impression of Administration wrongdoing. Not until last week was Interior Department Under Secretary Clarence Davis, who had handled the Al Sarena claims for the Administration, called to testify...
Columnist Drew Pearson last week tried to revive the Al Sarena investigation. He wrote that President Eisenhower had personally intervened with Interior Secretary Douglas McKay on behalf of the mine's owners. In the Senate Interior Committee files, Pearson claimed, was a letter with a marginal notation in the President's handwriting, asking McKay "to see what he could do about granting" Al Sarena's request. That day the committee scurried through its files in search of the letter. It was not located for the reason that it did not exist. White House Press Secretary James Hagerty...