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...Sarderson, geologist from Minnesota, was called upon to testify in regard to Teapot Dome. He asserted that oil wells in adjoining fields might draw off most of the gas in the reserve, but could not drain away any considerable portion of the oil. C Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome, who refused to testify before the Committee when summoned for the sixth time, was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for violating Section 102, of the Revised Statutes-contempt of the Senate by refusing to testify on the grounds that the Public Lands Committee had no authority to require...
...decline to answer any question upon the ground that my answers may tend to incriminate me, because there is nothing in any of the facts or circumstances of the lease of Teapot Dome which does or can incriminate...
...really surprising features of the Teapot Dome investigation, thus far, has been the silence of Mr. Untermyer. But the New York lawyer has seemingly been laying for bigger game. No sooner had Secretary Hoover declared the need of organized purchasing in this country to offset foreign monopolies in trade than Mr. Untermyer went at him slam-bang on his attitude toward trade associations in this country, which has been with Mr. Untermyer a tender subject ever since the Lockwood Committee investigation in New York State...
...which newspaper readers are interested. But the persistent appearance of Messrs. Sinclair, Doheny and Fall in large black headlines arouses one's curiosity as to whether the dailies know after all, what the public wants. Even divorce reports become a trifle stale after the first two weeks; the Teapot Dome has occupied the center of the stage in one guise or another for two months...
...iniquity upon the public more emphatically. But for the great majority, who are merely sickened by the reappearance of the "sordid detail" after another, who have no axe to grind, and who are well aware that this is not the first instance of corruption in American politics, the "Teapot Dome" has long since lost its news value...