In American history, scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. After President Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921, Fall secretly granted to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome (Wyoming) reserves on April 7th, 1922. He granted similar rights to Edward L. Doheny of Pan American Petroleum Company for the Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills reserves in California. In return for the leases, Fall received large cash gifts and no-interest “loans.”

 

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- When the affair became known, Congress directed President Harding to cancel the leases

The Supreme Court declared the leases fraudulent and ruled illegal Harding’s transfer of authority to Fall.

Executive

Teapot Dome Scandal, a political scandal of President Harding's administration. Teapot Dome was an area near Casper, Wyoming, set aside as a naval oil reserve (an oil field reserved for future use). In 1921 Harding's secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall, arranged to have control over all naval oil reserves transferred from the Department of the Navy to the Department of the Interior. Shortly thereafter he leased the Teapot Dome reserve to Harry F. Sinclair and the Elk Hills reserve in California to E. L. Doheny. The leases were given without competitive bidding and each oilman loaned Fall large sums of money.

— the president himself was not implicated in the transactions that had followed the transfer, the revelations of his associates’ misconduct took a severe toll on his health; disillusioned and exhausted, he died before the full extent of the wrongdoing had been determined.

Tea Pot Dome

This political cartoon shows how the Teapot Dome Scandal started the downwards spiral of the Harding Administration.

It shows two men running down a hill, with a sign saying "White House highway", and a steamroller labeled "Oil Scandal". The two men running down the hill represents the government officials involved in the scandal going downhill, and the steamroller going down "White House Highway" shows how the White House crashed after the scandal.

The Outcome?What checks and balances?

This scandal had proved that the Constitution's system of checks and balances could function to force an abusive or tyrannical president out of power.

Fall was convicted of accepting a bribe in the Elk Hills negotiations and imprisoned. Doheny and Sinclair were acquitted of charges of bribery and criminal conspiracy, but Sinclair spent 6 1/2 months in prison for contempt of court and contempt of the U.S. Senate. While “Teapot Dome” entered the American political vocabulary as a synonym for governmental corruption, the scandal had little long-term effect on the Republican Party. Calvin Coolidge, a Republican, was elected president in 1924.

How does this affect the US today?

It affected America because the interior took illegal bribes from oil and effect on the Republic Party. Today, most citizens don't want to pay their taxes for a corrupted government.

 

Effectivness of the Constitution

They would have over ruled us and we could have been a part of British by this moment, but since we took what belong to us, meaning the country, then we end up in a good, but yet not so good, country since we are currently struggling with economic problems.

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