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...carried even as far as the Chairman of the present Committee William M. Butler. The only hope the G. O. P. heads can have is to prove that no men now of rank in the party as it now stands were involved in any of the ramifications of the Teapot Dome affair, and if this fails, their prospects of a third successive period of office will be damaged almost beyond repair...
...Committee wanted to ask Mr. Hays more about Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contributions to the G. O. P. made in 1923 a few months after Mr. Hays' fellow Cabinet member, Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall, had bestowed on Sinclair the crooked Teapot Dome oil lease...
...Albert Bacon Fall, Harding Cabinet man who gave the Teapot Dome lease to Sinclair, as "payment" by Sinclair for a one-third interest in the Fall's New Mexico ranch, which was to have been turned into a country club but still remains a ranch...
...strange transactions of three oil companies remotely connected with the Oil Scandals. The ultimate object of reviewing these transactions is to expose the supposed source of the Liberty Bonds which Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair is known to have given Albert Bacon Fall, defamed Secretary of the Interior who leased Teapot Dome to Sinclair. But the immediate motive, when Inquistor Walsh renewed his inquiries last week, seemed compounded as much of professional pique as of public conscience...
Passed, reconsidered, sent to Committee on Expenses a resolution for another Senate inquiry on Teapot Dome...