“TEA POT DOME” SCANDAL

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1925, Page 8

“TEA POT DOME” SCANDAL

LOXG CONTROVERSY ENDED. By Telegra.jjh.~-Press Assn. —Copyright. New York, June 19. A message from Cheyenne, Wyoming, states that the lease of the Mammoth Oil Company on the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve was held to be legal by Federal Judge Kennedy in giving a decision in the Government suit seeking cancellation of the lease on the ground that it was obtained by Air. Sinclair from Air. Fall, then Secretary for the Interior, through fraud and conspiracy. In a lengthy decision, comprising two thousand worth, the judge ruled that the Government had failed to produce evidence sufficient to nullify the lease. The decision ends a long political controversy on litigation arising from Mr. Fall's action in leasing the oil lands to Sinclair’s Mammoth Oil Company and is rendered three months after the attorneys had argued the legal and highly technical aspects of the lease before Judge Kennedy. It was generally conceded Air. Roberts and Air. Pomerene the Government counsel, were at a disadvantage during the trial through the refusal of Mr. Fall and others to testify on the grounds that they might incriminate themselves, also through the absense of other witnesses.