National Affairs: More Oil

For a week the Senate Committee on Public Lands did most of its oil scandal investigation in closed session, examining brokers and others as to what men in public life had been speculating in oil stocks. The events of the week included:

The return of Harry .F. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome, from Europe. To only two questions of reporters did he return positive answers. He said that politics had entered into the investigation and that he had put $45,000,000 into the development of Teapot Dome. Asked about the rumor that there was a...

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