OIL LEASE UPHELD.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18414, 22 June 1925, Page 6

OIL LEASE UPHELD.

END OF TEAPOT DOME CASE. (BY CABLE—I'RESS ASSOCIATION —COrYRIGHT.) (AUSTBALIAN AND N.2. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) XEW YORK, June 19. The Cheyenne (Wyoming) lease .of tho Mammoth. Oil Company on tlie Teapot Dome Xaval Oil Reserve has been held to ho legal by Federal Judge Kennedy, whose decision lias been given in the Government suit to break tho leaso on the ground that it was obtained by H. F.. Sinclair from Senator Fall, then Secretary of the Interior, through fraud and conspiracy. Tho judgment is lengthy, comprising 20,000 words. Tho Judge ruled thai tho Government had failed to produce evidence sufficient, to nullify the lease. Tho decision ends tho 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, tho Government's counsel, were at a disadvantage during the trial through the refusal of Senator Fall and others to testify on the grounds that it might incriminate themselves.