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Show DEMOCRAT ATTACKS TEAPOT DOME LEASE CHEYENNE. Wyo.. Oct. 31. United Unit-ed States Senator Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas In an address here Monday urging re-election of Senator John B. Kendlick, Of Wyoming, crltlclzod lman of Ihe accomplishments of the present administration, Including the leasing of the Teapot Dome oil field to a private company. influential members of the farm 'bloc in congress, Senator Robinson jsald, condemned t lie Teapot Pome lease, the secrecy of tho transaction and the use of marines In making tho lease effective. "This administration." ho said, "would not permit the courts of tho United States to determine tho rights of the people of the Teapot Dome, but sent armed guards Into the Teapol Dome to deprive Wyoming citizens of what they believed to be their rights " The sincerity of the excuBeo of Secretary Sec-retary Fall of th interior, for not coming to Wyoming to defend the leasing of tho Dome was questioned bi Senator Robinson, He also challenged chal-lenged the accuracy of the figures of the production of the field, ancj estimated esti-mated benefit to the government as announced by Secretary Fall In a recent re-cent speech. Senator Robinson was compelled to curtail his address In order to catch a train. |