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...Cheyenne, the Government's civil suit to cancel the lease of the Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve to Harry F. Sinclair (TIME, Mar. 23) wound to an ineffectual close. The Government charged conspiracy and attempted to connect up the lease with payment of alleged bribes to ex-Secretary of the Interior Fall. A payment of $25,000 in Liberty Bonds in 1923. after Mr. Fall had resigned from office and was in Mr. Sinclair's employ, was established. But the defense argued that this was a legitimate loan and had nothing to do with the Teapot Lease...
...order to admonish a few individuals. Besides, much as the President may sincerely demand small military budgets, and obedience in subordinates, as long as the government continues to use the National Guard as a substitute for increasing the regular Army and as a vital protection in time of civil disorder, he should not withhold pay appropriations and put the morale, as well as the efficiency of the organization in jeopardy...
...first scene of the Government's civil suit against Harry F. Sinclair for cancellation of the lease given him on the Naval Reserve of Teapot Dome was enacted at Cheyenne. Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special counsel for the Government, marshaled their witnesses for the attack. Harry F. Sinclair was subpoenaed. So was Albert B. Fall, ex-Secretary of the Interior, who made the lease. Both are expected to decline to testify on the grounds that they might incriminate themselves. The sons-in-law of Mr. Fall were also summoned. At least one of them, Milton T. Everhart...
...local U. S. Consul and the U. S. Legation at Peking filed protests with the Civil Governor. Apologies were in order...
...governments in which the welfare of the citizen is most intimately bound up, his yearning for the enlargement of the lungs of congested cities in parks and playgrounds, his activity in the husbanding and preservation of the National resources, his patient, persistent, consistent advocacy of the reform of the Civil Service, his earnest labor in the cause of international peace, have prompted his lay sermons and made men harken...