Show J I Colby Decline To Be Quoted NEW Y YORK Feb b. b 16 Bain bridge Colby Colb former secretary of at state declined to comment today on a Washington despatch to The Evening World which asserted that Harry F. F Sinclair the oil magnate magnate mag mag- nate mate had approached Mr Colby as asa asa a law partner of the late Woodrow I Wilson in the of 1922 with witha a proposal that his firm represent Sinclair In any am litigation that might result from the Teapot Dome lease Mr Colby re read d the dispatch carefully carefully carefully care care- care care- fully and said r I have no comment to make the on report The story declared that when the proposal as vas made made- Mr Ir Colby re referred referred re- re it to Mr Wilson Vilson who Immediately Im im- im- im mediately decided that It could not bo ue accepted Tn In this decision Mr Colby acquiesced the tho dispatch added Mr Ir Sinclair's offer the dispatch declared was as made after Senator Kendrick and Senator LaFollette I had o offered resolutions for an In in- In Investigation Into the tho oil lease |