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...Senate was incited to look into the oil lease matter by the terms of the Teapot Dome lease, some Senators charging that the return to the Government was inadequate. The Government gets a royalty of about 17% on the oil extracted. The oil is refined, delivered to seaboard and placed in tanks built by the Sinclair interests, but belonging to the Navy. For these services the Government yields about two-thirds of its royalty oil to the oil company, so that assuming that there are about 26,000,000 barrels of oil in Teapot Dome, the Government will receive about...
Bolivia is the only South American country without a seaboard. Saavedra, who has been overseas, is regarded by foreigners at the capital as a gracious gentleman, and his unadvanced political methods are the less easily understood...
...immediately adjoining the Canadian border.) Mr. Rea left the conference without public comment. But other railroad officials were less reticent. They declared that freight rates on wheat for export are already less than on wheat for domestic use. Rates per hundredweight on shipments from Chicago to the Atlantic seaboard are 30? for domestic consumption and 22½? for export; from St. Louis, 34? for domestic consumption, 26½? for export. It was asserted that the railroads would only lose money by a further increase, and that the farmers actually would not benefit, because there is no foreign market for more...
...course it would be rash to say that prohibition will never be enforced. Perhaps if children, as President Coolidge suggests, are educated with the camel as their ideal, the land may one day be completely dried up. But with the Atlantic seaboard states drinking openly, the South reported to be drinking secretly, and all the farmers through the great dry West brewing their own applejack, the chances of successful enforcement are decidedly meager...
...believe that the President is luke-warm in his Prohibition sentiments nor that he has abetted any relaxation in federal enforcement. The difficulty appears to be that although a majority of the population of the country favor Prohibition, a large and compact minority in one section--along the Atlantic seaboard--not only disapprove of but openly defy this law. When enforcement officers and even the judiciary in this "wet" belt are bought off, execution of the law becomes extremely difficult. In fact the propriety of having so rigid a law is seriously called in question...