The Teapot Dome and Will Hayes

In 19 20 congress gave the secretary of the navy power to determine handling of oil reserves at three sights, including t pot dome, wyoming. Once harding became president his appointed secretary of the interior, albert b fall, who was a friend of the oil industry, manoeuvred to benefit his friends. He convinced harding to sign an executive order changing the control over the oil sites from the office of the navy to theOffice of the Interior. And then fall arranged to lease the lands to private oil companies for drilling. These drilling leases went to sinclair oil and pan american company without any s of competitive bidding process. Later it emerged that henry sintclair of s