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The Butler County Press
Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio
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In Washington, the $100,000 congressional fund for oil lease prosecutions has been depleted, leaving special prosecutors Owen J. Roberts and former Sen. Pomerene unpaid. Another appropriation is needed for the legal work stemming from the Senate investigation.
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Washington.—The $100,000 congressional oil prosecution fund has been exhausted and the special prosecutors—Owen J. Roberts and former Senator Pomerene, of Ohio. and their assistants—have not been paid for their services. Another appropriation is necessary.
The $100,000 was intended to defray expenses of legal work in connection with prosecutions growing out of the senate oil lease investigation. Objectors to the senate probe insisted that the matter is one for judicial determination. The president appointed the two prosecutors and congress voted $100,000.
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the $100,000 fund has been exhausted; special prosecutors and assistants have not been paid; another appropriation is necessary.
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The congressional oil prosecution fund of $100,000, intended for legal work related to prosecutions from the senate oil lease investigation, has been exhausted. The president appointed the special prosecutors Owen J. Roberts and former Senator Pomerene of Ohio, and congress voted the funds. Objectors insisted on judicial determination.