Show I 1 WINS TEAPOT NON U S government YB MENT WILL APPEAL DECISION HANDED DOWN 4 N CHEYENNE allric All allegation tic of fraud not Sma sustained C court ft C CW veto stock market et T to jump zd and onlea am ar pouring in choy wyo wro the leasing ithie at teapot dome to 0 harrr o r y F r sinclair a MR mammoth moth oil coneva company n y was upheld by federal budget judge T risks kenned 0 wh who rendered his bis decision in the an suit brought by the severe remd th the allegations ot at fraud 1 in the bill he have not at be been sustained judge ran ken nedy ruled th the defendant Muna mammoth peth oil corn in P phy pany hy was the creature ot of sinclair and should hould be b held responsible for all 12 his acts acab the th decision said asid th the Isa executive order it of at president pm abat harding transferring jurim chetion ot at the 1 re serve a aa held to be legal the government a content contention an that sinclair was guilty of fr fraud seail because the bonds ot of the cubit continental hand trading company were war I 1 found d I 1 in the p posses as at afon of a alit relative of fall fail s mm can not at be upheld IDIOM from the evidence offered the tha decision asserted the th decision assumed ib that the oil transactions involving the trading company dc A K B humphries tessa tern oil ad operator operate the sinclair interests and the midwest oil company have been bee b bonavide bona ft tide the secretary of the nay mey was waa fully within his rights right jn in acting As a be did having been authorized by the act of june 4 1920 0 t to 0 develop 1 0 conserve oo ame lope alev lerv use an and d operate ra t e the e n naval a 1 oil re barres judge kennedy said me he r ruled OW that the phrase in his de discretion deretic embodied in the law no re on t the he man manner 0 er in which the reserves were e to be handled bandied he further had I 1 full authority to a use acre are exchange han 9 and at aall the of crude oil it my royalties R lee iea judge mag kennedy held denying dealing the government B con can that the secretary century a action off I 1 in dealing in commodities for the tha gov eminent was a usurpation of at congles bignal authority to or appropriating money tor ter uch auch dealings the tha act of f J juaa 4 1120 was a act and authorized author lied the build 1 ing 19 9 of storage long tanks at pearl pasal herb harbor portsmouth and oth other places place dig descg noted under supplemental p 1 contracts the a and ad sinclair and aad dodam doheny the me ruling said judge kennedy struck from frocia the r record ad all exhibits and records rm of 1 fall fail s bank banh accounts and a dea dealing dines with tile continental trad ins ing company in sustaining a defense motion if the governments government a bill ol of complaint complain was dismissed d la missed every major con cent ten tion in it ft having bee been denied in 1 the decision we have no quarrel with the theory that the congress should have rod and has the constitutional power to in regulate the manner 1 in which the 1 property agaty of 1 the united states shall be handled by the executive branch said aid the conclusion of the decision but we do maintain that in the e ealise a 0 power it may by ap prop to legislative authority dele date kate gate officer 0 bleers of that department to handle government property properly in an on restricted way and in accordance with a vested bcd discretion |