Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1910, Page 1

I} ( . 4 \ 3, A 14 i THE OMAHA BEE Is the most powerful business getter 1n the west, because it goes to the homes of poor and rich. — VOL. XXXIX-—NO. 170, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1910—TE: PAGES. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Falir and colder, For lowa——Falr and colder. For weather report see page 2. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. FLOOD L** SIEGE . French Capital is Gra. olated by Ris Streams. LOSS IS NOW OVER $200,00.,000 Disaster Reaches Stage of a Gre-i National Calamity. STREETS ARE Many Bridges Spanning Seine Are Threatened with Destruction. BLINDING SNOWSTORM RAGING CAVING Six Square Miles of the Historic Bois de Boulogne Sabmerged—FPalais Hourbon and Other Build- ings Inundated. PARIS, Jan throughout France have reached the di- mension of a great national caamity. An oftlcial estimate of the money losses up to today 1s §200,000,00, or one-fifth the war in- éemnity pald by France to Germany. Great sectlons of the French capital are under water, six square mres of the his- teric Bols De Boulogne being submarged, while the river Seine, swecping over its has filled the subways, Inundated the Palals Bourbon, the foreign office and scores of the historic monuments which Hlo along each side of the river. The many bridges which span the river are threat- ened with destruction, as vast accumuls tions are banhked agalnst them by the on- rushing flood. Special meetings of the cabinet were held today to ctonsider means for coping with the situation. Military forces have been summoned from al! parts or the country and the city has been divided into five military divisions for the purpose of ad- ministering the work of rescue and relief. In Parls the situation became more des- perate as theiday progressed. At 4 o'clock the Rue Royale between the Place De La Concorde and the Madeleine, the famous church edifice, began to sink and was hur- riedly roped off. Several blg fissures have oecurred in the Javel region. The boulevard adjolning the Pont De Bercy and the street in front of the Louvre museum w80’ began to cave in. Streets Threaten to Collupse. West street, at the west of the Forelgn office, is In Imminent danger of collapse, belng sustained only By the compressed alr forced from the flooded subway which runs underneath. Should this fail the en- the street must cave in. The archives of the Forelgn office in an adjoining bullding appear sa: The rate at which the Selne Is rising was increased slightly today. An additional rise of thirty-two inches is expected. The crest, it is anticipated, will be reached to- " night or_ear] Orrow. A The .m&’.’s&"imwm top of the tribune at the Long Champs race course, Six mquare miles of Du Bols de Boulogne are submerged. Because of danger to those within, For- elgn Minister Pinchon today ordered the evacuation of the wing of the Foreign of- fice bullding, which borders on the flooded Rue de Constantine. All of the active working departments of the office were closed and the routine du- tles were left temporarily in the hands of Minister Pinchon and his staff. The water has invaded the postoffice buflding and forced the employes to flee. It also reached the Chamber of Deputies, though the members continued in session. The Chamber has been cut off from tele- graphic and telephonic communication, Prefect of Police Lepine announced this afternoon that it would be possible, he thought, to save the 3,000 persons who were imprisoned in the upper stories of their homes at Alfortville. Boats, manned by soldiers, are removing the endangered n to pour into the tellars of the Hotel de Ville. Blinding Snow Storm Ragi A blinding snowstorm raged in Paris to- day and, coupled with the bitter cold, added to the general constérnation, suffering and midery of the poor and homeless. In the face of & natlona: disaster France is giving m fine exhibition of pluck and solidarity. Political divisions have been burled and the government and people | united to solve the problem of rellef. Powerless to do anything to conjure the ragé of the elements, those In authority have devoted themselves solely ta the work of rescue and of providing shelter and food for the homeless. Bvery resource of the government, In- cuding the army was employed today. Bobts were requisitioned at all ports and soldiers and firemen worked tirelessly. Novertheless Premier Briand and the other mihisters, who had not left their posts for forty-elght hours, were unable to respond to the appeals for help coming in from every diredtion. Authorities have been in- strueted to act on their own Initiative without awaiting orders from the central government. Dabger in Underground Streams. “he situation In Paris was not changed appreclably from yesterday except that more sireets had been converted into yel. low canals, more districts evacuated a.few mobe pavements had caved In and traffie comimunication was completely paralized. Oné of the greatest causes of wlarm con- tined to be the constant rise of the sub- terranéan streams under the center of Parls, which flgoded cellars and under- mifed the foundations of bulldings. Whole streets have been roped off .as unsafe. All of the bridges ove ing, but tratfic over than halt of them has been closed. The report of yes- terday that a steamer had broken trom its moorings and crashed against the Alma bridge was lucorrect. Should such an ac- cldent ocour it would be necessary to in- stantly destroy the bridge with explosives. The refuse of the oity which was carried off formerly Ib barges is now being dumped into the Selne. Auother serious phase of the situation 1s that Paris Is becoming rapidly isolated, more telegraplt and telephone Wwires being “drowned g grounded.” Wire communica- tion is in sl directions. It is im- porsible today to communicate by tele- phone between the two banks of the Seine. ‘Phis greatly cripples the work of rellef and the dispatch of succor. Only two ralfoads to the north and west were op- erating directly Into Paris today. Paris {s beginaing to feel the pinch of hunger. The supply of fresh meat and Aentinied on Secoud Page.) o ™ | 2.—The floods here and | the Seine are still stand- | Senator Brown Says Senators Are for the Item Canvass of Committee of Upper Body Shows that Indian Warehouse Will Be Put Back. (From a Staft Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Jan, 2.—(Special Tele- gram.)—"Of course the Indlan warehouses at Omaha, 8t. Louts, New York, Chicago and San Francisco will be restored to the Indlan appropriation bill when It reaches the senate,” Senator Brown sald today. “The house committee has a new chair- man and a very fine gentleman, but he wants to make a reputation for himselt In writing changes in the bill. Bome of the changes he suggests are undoubtedly all right; others are open to critielsm, par- ticularly the fallure to appropriate for warehouses for 1911, “When I learned that the house commit- tee on Indian affairs had falled to make provision for the continugnce of Indian supply depots In the citles named, I began a canvass of the senate committee for the restoration of the wal Ouses unpro- vided for and I can say that Nnvass has been_satisfactory. “I recall the recommendation of the sec- retary of the Interior for the diseontinu- ance of pension disbursing offices through- out the country and centering the pay- ment of pensions at a central office In Washington. The house followed the rec- ommendation and falled to provide for thelr continuance. The senate, howeve restored the offices to thelr former statu and so it has gone. Indian supply depots occupy & like situation. Of course, _th will be put back.” | The preseident today sent to the senate the following nominations of postmaste Nebraska—David C. Thompson, Arcadl Charles W. Whitney, Republican; A. K. Olmstead, Orleans. Towa—John H. Koithoff, New Hampton; Ralph A. Dunkle, Gilman; Hanna Larson, | Palmer, Pocahontas county, vice M. A.| Hansen, resigned; Libble Ivens, Persia, Harrison county, vice J. Sedden, re- signed. South Dakota—Willlam H. Barger, Fair- fax; Willlam C. Mathison, Fort Plerre John E. Sullivan, Plankinton. T. V. Golden of O'Nelll was in Washing- ton today upon private busines Repre- sentative Kinkald introduced him to Pres- ident Taft. Rural carriers appointed are: Nebraska —Elmwood, route 2, Everett E. Horton, carrier; ‘Silas Mairs, substitute. Osceola, route 38, Joseph Scholz, carrier; Carl Scholz, substitute. Route 4, George L. Carson, carrier; Roy I. Emery, substitute. Towa—Exline route 2, Joseph W. Cas- ter, carrler; J. H. Danfels, substitute. Little Sloux, route 1, Harrison Stucker, carrier; Carrie E. Stucker, substitute. South Dakota—Chamberlain, route Jeft Ashing, carrier; Tenia Ashing, stitute. The First National bank of Omaha has been approved as reserve agent for the First National bank of Scott's Biuff, 1 - > H ‘ Ben 1, sub- kleman Editor Has Romance W. C. Israel, Publisher of News- Chronicle, Marries Nurse Who Saved Life. KANSAS CITY, Jan. 2%.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Saved from the grave by the tender bands of a woman, Will C. Israel, o news- paper man of Benkelman, Neb., lived to win her love, and make her his wife. The bride was Miss Selma Nixon and the wed- ding ceremony took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hutchings. About a year ago while visiting In Kansas Qity Mr. Israel was taken seriously ill and entered a sanitarium. After many weeks of care the nurse won the affections of her patlent and slowly brought him back to health. Israel, freed from the affliction of disease, quickly Succumbed to the little love god and pursued an ardent courtship. When he returned to his home he carried with him the promise of Miss Nixon that sho wollld be his wite. Mr. Israel 18 the editor and proprietor of the News-Chronicle at Benkelman. 'KAW RIVER BRIDGE OUT Rush of Waters Now Threatens to Take Structure at Armour- ale. KANSAS CITY, Jan. 2.—One hundred feet of the approach of the Kaw river bridge at Turner, Kan., ten miles west of | here, was carried out by an ice gorge to- |day. The mass of ice thus released rushed |towards this eity and now threatens the West Kansas avenue bridge across the Kaw river between Armourdale and Argen- tine, LAWRENCE, Kan., Jan. gorge moving down the { knocked out two spans of 'the Linwood bridge, three miles east of here shortly before noon today. ' 2.—The fce Kansas river Laymen's Meeting at Mitchell. MITCHELL, S, D, Jan. 2.—(Special.)— The preliminary meéting for the Laymen's Missionary convention of South Dakota will be held in this city Thursdsy evening, when Dr. Trimble of Sloux City will be enter- talned at a banquet at the Young Men's Crristian assoclation rooms, when he will outline something of the convention plans for March 29 and 30. ‘At that time it Is ex- pected that over 500 delegates will be here to attend the convention, which will be ad- dressed by Dr. J. Chapman Whité of New York. | | | | Anti-Meat Speclals.” In bold type this caption blazoned forth on the menu cards of two Omaha restau- rants Wednesday morning. A lst of vege- Luhh- dishes, In which the justly celebrated baked bean predominates, {8 offered to the patron who volces the price éutting slogan. “No pmeat for us," declared twelve be- | aproned and bepompadoured waitresses at the Calumet pestaurant. when they sat down to their lunch after the breakfast | rush. The girls have joined the ranks of the strikers, The mere matter that they may eac what they like without cost to them- selves makes no difference to the waitress recruits of the antl-meat crusade MEAT INQUIRY TO BE NATION-WIDE Investigation of Alleged Combination Not Confined to Four Com- panies First Named. MANY CONCERNS UNDER SCRUTINY Books and Documents from Fifteen Corporations Laid Befors Jury. SNOW IS FIRST ‘WITNESS Secretary of National Packing Com- pany Before Grand Jury. BOYCOTTING THE BOYCOTTERS Farmers nt Frankfort, Kansas, Start Movement to Refuse to Buy Union Made Articles. CHICAGO, Jan. %.—That the government investigation into the affairs of the wo- called beef trust is to be natlon-wide was shown today following the questioning be- fore the federal grand jury of Charles C. Snow, secretary and treasurer of the Na- tonal Packing company. It was learned that the books and other doouments of the following concerns have been lald be- | fore the jury: G. H. Hammond & Co. of Michigan, G. H. Hammond & Co., of Ilii- nols, Hammond Beef company of Michigan, Hammond Packing company of Colorado, Hammond Packing company of Philads phia, Hammond Packing company of To- ledo, Hammond Packing company of New York, Anglo-American Refrigerator Car company of Illinols, Fowler Packing com- pany of Kansas, Kansas City Refrigerator Car company of Kans: United Dressed Beef company of New York, St. Louls Dressed Beef and Provision company of Missouri, Hutchincon Packing company of Kansas, Netlonal Car Line company of New Jersey and the Provision Dealers Dis- patch of Illinols. 1 was also learned that subpoenas had been issued for en:ployes and officials of | Armour & Co.,, Morrls & Co. and Swift and Company. Besides Mr. Snow, those questioned today were Henry F. Moyer, department. man- ager for Armour & Co., and Everett Wil- son, superintendent of branch houses of Armour & Co. Bach witness was examined behind closed doors and no information as to the line of inquiry Into the alleged price-fixing methods was given out. District Attorney Sims declined to com- ment on the situation. It was learned he had arranged to carry on the probe for at least six weeks. Boyeott for Boycotters. FRANKFORT, Kan., Jan. 2.—Farmers in this vicinity have started a counter boy- cott against labor unions that have re- fused to eat meat and they expect to make | it state-wide. The farmers iplan 'to--quit - udng the products of the labor of boycotting unions. for one year. In addition to this they pur- pose to advocate free trade. Organizers of the movement aver that the packers are back of the meat boycott. WABHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Wade H. Ellis, assistant to the attorney general, left to- day for Chicago, where he will assist local officlals in the proceedings before the fed- eral grand jury in the beef packers' cases. lGencral Industrial Strike Advocated Mine Workers’ Officials Would Ex- tend Threatened Coal Field War to Other Lines. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 26.—A general strike of the miners of the bituminous coal fields of the United States and Can- ada will be called {f the mine operators of all or any of the districts refuse to sign contracts granting an increase of wages, according to the declarations of many leaders in. the convention of the United Mine Workers of America today. President Lewis in discussing the prop- osition of some of the leaders that the entire delegate body should go to Toledo next week for the wage conference with the operators of Ohio, Indiana and west- ern Pennsylvania, urged that wage con- tracts should not be signed by any dis-' tricts of the union until all should have obtalned from the mine operators a uni- form increase of wages. RUMOR JEFF-JOHNSON FIGHT MAY YET BE CANCELED Principals Said to Be Taking Sides [ the Gleason-Rickard Controversy. NEW YORK, Jan. %.—A report that the Jetfries-Johnson fight will shortly be de- clared off on account of the dispute be- tween Rickard and Gleason as to the place where it 18 to be held was current in New York toda: Many sporting men sald that if a elash between the promoters occurred the rival pugllists would be likely to take sides. It was pointed out that Jeffries had been re- ported as in league with Gleason many weeks ago, while Rickard was supposed at the same time to have secured aseurance of Johnson's support. Neither of the pugllists is in the city at this time and Rickard and Gleason are on the Pacific slope. Anti-Meat Menu Cards Are Now Offered at Restaurants At this restaurant there is a special sec- tion of the lunch counter side devoted to the meat strikers. Morning, noon and night they line up for their vegetable and cereal meals. ““There has been a large increase In the demand for vegetable dishes,” sald J, G. Dennis of the Chesapeake restaurant, an- other of the eating houses to offer the “Anti-Meat Specials.” “It seems to be In- creasing every day—guess they are in real earnest about | While the restaurants are feeling the ef- fect of the movement, the hotel men say that there is nothing to indleate that they need reduce their meat orders. From the Washington Star. /1] W\ nm Squash Center Gets Hold of the Hyphenated Controversy. Judge Hough Quashes Indictments Against New. York World. OUTCOME OF ROOSEVELT MESSAGE Court Holds Circulation of Stery om ‘Went Point Reservation Doés Not Give Federal Authorities Jurisdicti NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—The federal gov- ernment's prosecution of the publishers of the New York World wes stopped by the federal court here todsy, Judge Hough in the United States oircult sourt ‘quashing the indictment against thq ‘Press Publish- ing company, publishers yf the World, for alleged libel in conneetion. with publica- tions concerning the Panania canal ‘pur- chase. The Indictment: was throwm out on the ground of lack of jurisdiction of the court and for other raasons which Judge Hough ‘announced would be stated in & memoran- dum to be filed later. The decision of Judge Hough is of inter- national interest, the now famous libel ease having at its inception invelved former President Roosevelt and his brother- in-law, Douglas Robinson, and President Tatt and his brother, Charles P. Taft. The publication in the New York World close of the last- presidential campaign of an article in which it was asserted 'that relatives of former President Roosevelt and President Taft were members of a syndi- cate to purchase the stook of the French Paname Canal eompany from the French stockholders when it was certsin the United States would buy the stock, created a sensation. The American syndicate was sajd to have made millions. President Roosevelt sent a special mes- sage to congress and made public cor- respondence in which he characterized the publication of the Panama story as false and asserted that Delavan Smith, one of the owners of the Indianapolls News, was “a conspicuous offender against the laws of honesty and truthfulness.” Joseph Pllitzer, owner of the World, came in for a scoring by President Roose- velt. ¥ Closing Chapter in Case. The decision of Judge Hough today is regarded as a closing chapter In the Panama libel case. Judge Hough in his decision held that libel was punishable by state laws and ' was not one of the crimes referred to in the federal statutes passed from 1825 to 1598, making state penal codes applicable to of- fenses on federal territory. It was contended by the government that because of the ocirculation of the alleged libelous publications on the West Point government reservation and other federal territory punishment for the libel could, under the statutes quoted, be ad- ministered according to the state code by the federal courts. “I am clear,” sald Judge Hough, “that | the construction of the act of 188 proposed by the prosecution In this case is contrary %0 the spirit which actuated the members of congress in passing this law. As this very (Continued on Second Page.) Realestate presents a safer investment, payingahigher rate than money invest- ed in any other way In buying Omaha real estate, at present prices, you can make five, ten and even fifteen per cent on your investment by holding it for two or three years. The increase may bring your rate on the invest- ment up to twenty or twenty-five per cent. Moverover, you know every minute just how your invest- ment stands. If you have a few thousand dollars to invest, put itin Omaba real estate. Nearly a page of choice realty bargains and investments in the real es- tate columns of The Bee today. PANAMA LIBEL CASE ENDS|G ermany Does Not Seek Delay in Tariff Matter Reply to United States Said to Be Re- fusal to Stay Application of General Duties, BERLIN, Jan, 2.—The reply of the For- elght office 10 the request of the Unitcd States that the application of Germany's general tariff to American imports be de- ferred until March 51 is understood to be a nomacceptance of the suggestion for delay. The reply which will be dispatched to ‘Washington immediately will, Jhowevaer, repregent..that: the . German. government feels that no obstacles to a complete agreement exist that cannot be overcome by February 7, the date on which the gén- eral schedules would apply automatically. The note, the tone of which is described as being most friendly, points out how highly desirable it is from the German standpoint, that the tariff question be- tween the two countries be settled at once. Increase Tax on High Rate Bonds Secretary MacVeagh Would Favor Two Per Cent for Circulation Deposits. WABHINGTON, Jan. 26. — Secretary MacVeagh today submitted to the house drafts of proposed acts providing’ that the tax rate on national bank circulation secured by United States bonds hereafter deposited bearing over 2 per cent a year shall be increased over the fax on circu- lation wecured by 2 per cent bonds, one- quarter of 1 per cent each half year for every one-half of 1 per cent excess over 4 per cent in the rate of interest borne by such bonds, and directing that any bonds and certificates of indebtedness hereafter {ssued shall be payable, princi- pal and interest, in gold coin and exempt from taxation ENGINEER KILLED JUST AS DAUGHTER WAS 2 YEARS AGO Willlam Koll, Formerly of Repub- lican Gity, Suceumbs to Injury in Wreck at Salt Lake City. REPUBLICAN CITY, Neb, Jan. (Special.)~Word was recelved here 20— this morning of the death of Willlam Koll of | He was in a hospital at Salt | this city. Lake City, Utah. Mr. Koll was an en- gineer on the Oregon Short Line. About four weeks ago he was in a wreck, where he was badly scalded and injured other- wise. Mr. Koll was 46 years old and has been in'the employ of different raiiroads for the last eighteen years. Two years ago ‘his run was on the Oberiin branch from this city. An excursion was on his train one trip and his ‘18-year-old daughter was on the engine with him, and through some defect In the track the engine toppled over, His daughter was killed instantly and Mi. Koll escaped with slight injury. ASQUITH INCREASI‘{S HISVOTE Prime Minister's Majority is Greater by 615 Than Last Year. i MOBBED BY SUFFRAGETTES Police Hard Time Holding Women Back Until Premier Can Find Place of Safety. Have | LONDON, Jan. 26.—The election to parlia- ment of eighteen liberals, seventeen union- ists, two natfons.'sts and one laborite, with gne seat for Sutherlandshire still to be heard from, makes up the thirtv-nine re- Outawf ithesg, and the liberals With but wventy-one pollings remaining to complete the membership of the House of Commons the parties stand thus: Government coalition— Liberals Irish-nationalists . m‘fl‘ unfonists gain five Laborites . | Opposition— | Unjonlets . 255 | Premier Asquith, for the east Aivision | of Fife, and Richard B. Haldane, for Had- dingtonshire, werp. re-elected. but while the prime minister returns to Parllament with a substantial Increase of 615 over his former majority the secretary of state for war must be satisfied with a mafority less by 415 than that vobtained in 1906, Following the election of Premier As- quith the premier was mobbed by militant suffragettes. The women In a body charged time after time In their attempts to reach the minlster and there were several lively skirmishes with the police before Mr. As- ‘quith was conveyed to a place of safety. OMAHA BOY SAID T0 HAVE l BEEN IN COLLEGE RIOT Kendall Phillips, Student at Dart- mouth, Mentioned Iin Report to Superintendent. HANOVER, N. H., Jan. %.—(Special Tele- gram,)—Dartmouth college circles are aroused over the arrest of Leland Powers, young eon of millionaire and ex-Congress- man Powers of Massachusetts the result of an alleged fracus among the students and townspeople in this aristocratic college town. The trouble took place during a snowball .rally at Hanover college. The superintendent, In glving the names of those who were present and who particl- pated in the affalr, mentions Kendall Phillips of Omaha, He has not been ar- rested and is not In any way held ac- countable for the trouble. In fact, there Is some doubt a# to whether he was really | present at the time of the trouble. He la‘ a very popular student at Dartmouth. The Boston Journal's version of the riot is that it was a schoolboy affair. It deplores the |arrest of Powers. ' MINE WORKERS PUT UP BAR Convention, on Roll Call, Refuses to Admit Loeals from C tral Pennsylvania, INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 25.—Roll call of the convention of the United Mine Workery ot Amesica on whether or not the delegates from nine local unions of central Pennsyl- vania shall be seated resulted: Against, a21; for, 1,000, Al Charge of Alas Stirs Members of Committee! WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.--Charges by Judge Wickersham that President Taft and former P'resident Roosevelt had main- tained In Washington an Alaskan lobby in the persons of former Governor W. B. Hog- gatt and Major W. P. Richardson, an army officer, who 1s head of the Alaskan road commission, are revealed by proofs made public today of an executive hearing before the senate committee on territories in re- lation to the Alaskan executive counecil bill, Counter charges by Mr. Hoggatt that Judge Wickersham “is humbugging’’' fur- ther enlivens the situation. The senate committee took seriously the aspersions which seemed to have been cast upon the kan 7Lobby motives of the president and ex-president by Judge Wickersham's testimony. Before an officlal stenographer was ad- mitted to the hearing, Judge Wickersham was called to order by Senator Beveridge, chairman of the committee and warned to guard his utterances with more care. After the Alaskan delegate had retired from the room a portion of his testimony was considered and it was decided it should not appear in the printed record. Chairman Beveridge sald to the committee: “A witness would not be permitted to make such a reflection upon motives of the president of the United States ir any committee where I was chairman, even If that office were filled by Willlam Jennings ults, left aver from: yesterday's balloting.. | LOUIS R.GLAVIS FIRST WITNESS Joint Congressional Committee Be- gins Inquiry Into Ballinger- Pinchot Controversy. CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION Louis D. Brandeis, Attorney for Glavis, Outlines Charges. IMPROPER CONDUCT ALLEGED Ballinger Said to Be Atforney in Wilson Coal Case. BEFORE HE ENTERS LAND OFFICE Allegation that Deal Was Irregular and that He Knew It—Alaska Lands Saved by Interven- tion of Witness. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 ,x'he Ballinger- Pinshow congressional comimittes of in- quiry began its public sessiohs today with Louls R. Glavis, the chief ackuser of Sec- retary Ballinger, on the wilness stand. Due to many Interruptions ang the final decision of the committee to Ynsist that Glavis' counsel should make ah opening statement of what specific charges wero made against Mr. Balllnger, the witness a1d not get very far along in his narrative, There was opportunity, however, to draw some conclusions as to the preliminary lineup of the committee. In his enthuslasm over the actual be- ginning of the Inguiry and as the result of a tendency to argue his view of the testimony to be ndduced, the special counsel for Glavis, Louis D, Brandels of Boston, had some difficulty in reducing his statements to a brief recital ef the harges, but finally he suruned up the case for the prosecution” in this way: ‘That prior to entering the government service in any capacity R. A. Ballinger Acted as attorney In drawing up pn agree- ment in escrow and deds in the Wilson Coal company cases in Lewis county, Washington, theso cases being an alleged fraud on the land laws. Mr. Ballinger's name did not appear in the court records of the case. Cunningham Coal Claims. “That Mr. Ballinger, as commissioner of the land office in 1907, did not show due diligence in investigating the alleged frauds connected with the Cunningham coal land claims in Alaska, that he had knowledge of all the circumstances sur- rounding these claims and in spite of this entered the employ of one of the claim- ants after leaving the land office and be- fore becoming secretary of the Interior; that he ordered these claims to be “clear Iisted’ for patent without due investiga- tion, and they would have gone to paten if Glavis and others had not intervened.” It is not any one act, but & series of acts and| clrcumstances,”’ lared Mr, Brandels, adding that it wad g’nfi fifimm to determine whother o fiot the larids which would be held for the bemetit of the peopls and of posterity “‘are In safe hand Senators Nelson, Root and Sutherland and Representatives Olmstead and Madison were the more actlve of the committeemen in plying the witness and his attorney with questions, and many times they referred to Secretary Ballinger's denlals and sought explanation of what they considered dls- crepancies In statements. The democratic members of the commit- tee were not much in evidence today. Rep- resentative James asked only & question or two and in each Instance only to clarify some point at issue. Representative Gra- lam, the other democrat, took issue with Senator Nelson during the final minutes of the hearing and declared in a certain in- stance the burden of proof was upon the secretary of the Interior rather than upon the accusing witness. The Inquiry will be resumed Rriday morn- Ing and thereafter thers will be morning and afternoon sittings every Friday and Saturday. Attorneys for Glavis and Pinchot. Mr, Glavis announced that he would be represented throughout the hearing by two altorneys, Louls D. Brandels of Boston, and Joseph B. Colton of New York. Messts. Pinchot, Price and Shaw are col- lectively represented by George W. Pepper, an attorney of Philadelphla. Mr, Pepper and the Glavis attorneys will co-operate regarding the conduct of investigation, Secretary Ballinger and Commissioner Dennett of the land office have both stated that they have no desire to be represented by counsel, asking only that the inquiry be “thrown wide open.” Glavis requested that his testimony be | taken through an examination by his coun- sel. He then was sworn and Senator Ned- son asked a few preliminary questlons, “What, if anything, do you claim to have been amiss in the administration of the public lands?’ was the poser the chalrman shot at the witness. Glavis said he could not answer the ques- tign brietly. “Go ahead and tell it all In your own way," sald Senator Nelson. Glavis was a trifle nervous as he began. He talked with quite a lisp. He commenced by going back to the time when he began work as a field agent of the land office on the Wilson Coal company cases In Lewls county, Washington, in 1901 and 1902, Mr. Ballinger, he said, was attorney for the Wiison company. Glavis declared that Ballinger's name did not appear in the courc redords of the Washington coal clalms and that he did not appear In court at hny time. The wit- ness sald that Mr. Ballinger, however, drew up an escrow agreement and prepared the deeds for the claimants in the Wilson cases, Ballinger had no government connection at the time of this appearance. Glavis sald that the information came to him second handed, that a stipulation had been entered into by the government counsel in the Wilson cases and the at- torneys for the c’mants, whereby the m==m of Mr. Balliuger was not to appear, The witness sald the records would bear him out, The counsel for the government con- sisted of P. C. Sullivan and Henry M. Hoyt. The proceedings against the Wilson eclaimants are still pending, Glavis claimed that Hallinger's participation amounted to a conspiracy in a fraudulent claim agalnst the government Aluska Flelds, Glayis next turned to the Alaska coal flelds and described in detall the location and extent of the Cunningham claims, Glavis prodeeded to tell of his converda- tlon with young Charles D. Davis of Corl Bryan, or & prohibitionist or a soclalist.” Seattle, In which Davis sald he would neh