"TEAPOT DOME"
OIL LEASES HELD TO BE VALID
END OF A CELEBRATED AMERICAN SCANDAL.
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW-ZEALAND CAULB ASSOCIATIOK.)
(Received 20lb June, 2 p.m.)
NEW YORK, 19th'June,
The Cheyenne (Wyoming) lease o£ tho Mammoth Oil Company on Teapot- "Dome Naval Oil Reserve has been held to be legal by Federal Judge- Kennedy, whoso decision has been given in the Government; suit to break the lease on the ground that it was obtained by H. F. Sinclair from Senator Fall, then Secretary of.the Interior, through fraud and conspiracy. The judgment is lengtliv comprising 20,000 words. Tho Judge ruled that tho Government had failed to produce, evidence sufficient to nullify the lease.
The decision ends the long political controversy and litigation arising from Senator Fall's action in leasing the naval oil lands to Sinclair's Mammoth Company, and is rendered three months after the attorneys had argued the legal and highly technical . aspects of the lease before Mr. Justice Kennedy. It is generally conceded that .Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene, the Government's counsel, were at a disadvantge during the trial through the refusal of Senator Fall and others to testify on tho grounds that it might.incriminate, themselves. There had also been an absence of other witnesses. *
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 143, 20 June 1925, Page 8
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