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g » b\ High Point Reached at Two O'clock | |NEWS SECTION PAGES1 TO a THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. /OL. XXXIX—NO. 33 OM AHA, RIVER SEINE IS SLOWLY FALLING Saturday Morning Was Thirty- One Feet One Inch. FALL OF FOUR AND HALF INCHES Drop, While Small, is Sufficient fo Bring Sense of Relief, POSSIBILITY OF EPIDEMIC Thousands of Acres to Be Cleared When Flood Subsides. PAVEMENTS TORN BY PRESSURE| Huge Flasures and Larg: Have Appear in Streets Sections of the City Been Converted Into Lakes. PARIS, Jan. 20.—Slowly, very slowly, the swollen waters of the Seine, which reached thelr high mark at 2 o'clock this morning were subsiding and at midnight the fall measured about four and one-half inghes—not much, but enough to bring a sense of relief to the desolated and dls- tracted eity. The danger of some great calamity, such a8 has been predicted, now seems over, although the situation continues to be oritical, particularly in the neighborhood of the St. Lazare station, where the entire streets and solld blocks of bulldings threaten to sink through the crust into the waters beneath. The effect of the removal of the water pressure has been to weaken foundations gonerally and this causes the greatest mnxiety. Besidos there will be thousands of acres to be cieared or repaired when the water has rcceded, and there |s also the possibility of an epldemic breaking out. It is generally belleved that the break- 1ng of the dan at Gennevilliers appreciably hastened the climax by reelasing an im- mense volume of weter, but the conse- quences below are appaling. Gennevilliers and Colombes have 30,000 inhabitants; they are completely submerged, the water reaching the tops of the houses in the lower section, while the flood Is backing up into the very center of Asnleres. Flgures to the number of persons af- focted by the flood In the valley of the Silne are pure guesswork, but certanly 40,000 have been driven from their homes to the hospitals ard other buildings whica have been placed at the disposition of the refugees. Such dispatehes as have reacied here from the provinces Indicate a general im- provement In conditions except in the lower valley of the Seine, High Polnt Reach: The high mark reached by the River Helne at ont Royal wrn thirty-oné Teet A& inch. This is the highest known record. The flood of 1616 is sald to have attalned its crest at thirty feet six inches. The - situation throughout the city ocon- tinues grave and there is fear that the receding waters will cause the collapse of many building whose foundations have been weakened. The crest of Iate midnight. the flood was reached at The waters remained sta- tlonary until 2 o'clock, airter which they fell slowly. At 8 o'clock there had been a drop’of two inches, according to an offi- clal statement lssued this forenoon. During the night the storm clouds dis- appeared and the weather cleared. This morning the sun shone brightly. The delay in telegraphic communication throughout France and to Italy and Swita- erland continues today. Despite the fact that the waters subsided during the forencon the situation within the city was not improved. On the con- trary the surface water further, invaded the streets, while the pressure from the choking torrents underground opened new crevices in some places and at other points forced up the pavements into great ob- structing hummocks, tliting and sometimes tearing up trees and lamp posts. This was especlally noticeable in the Flace de Laconcorde, the Rue Royale and the Place de L'Opera. The greatest dam- age has been done at the Place de 'Opera and at the St. Lazare station. Equitable Bullding Damaged. At the former four bad cave-ins occurred, one in front of the new building of the Equitable Life Assurance soclety, where the water has poured Into the basement. Workmen have succeeded in erecting tem- porary walls to protect the furnaces. The situation, however, is not as critieal in the Place de 'Opera as in the region id front of the St. Lazare statlon, where the waters racing through the Due de La Grange-Bateliere subway, joining the flood of overflowed sewers, has turned the Place du Havre Into a lake and some sections of the Rue de L'Arcade, the Rue de L'Isly and the Boulevard Haussmann, in front of the Expitort chapel, erected to the memory of the decapitated Bourbons, into veritable rivers. All of the bulldings within this quadratorial have been evacuated and are surrounded by a cordon of soldiers. The blg department stores, Including the Printamps and the galleries Lafayette have been closed. Firemen and sappers were engaged In constructing dams in this vicin- Ity. There was great danger in the streets as some of the bulldings appeared likely to collapse. People Disappear i Sewers. There have been a dozen Instandes where persons have disappeared in crevices sud- denly opened under their feet or been swept away In the sewer flood. Many pitiful stories are told of tne rescue of half starved persons who had been jm- prisoned In their houses. Two families with nine children, who bad been drifting about oh a raft all night were discovered in the Cavel district at daylight and res- cued. A number of persons have become insane through fear and suffering. 4 One sailor, who had engaged In the work or resoue untll he reached the limit of physical and mental endurance, became crazed, jumped into the Seine and was drowned. Two hundred additional canvas boats with crews arrived at points on the water front above and below the city this morn- ing. They have undertaken to aid the resl dents of the suburbs. The government has requisitioned very boat obtalnable and posted notices everywhere warning flood sufferers not to pay the boatmen anything Haskell Accused by Member of thie Legislature Charged with Misapplying Funds that Belonged to the State of Oklahoma. GUTHRIE, Okl., Jan. %.—Charging Gov- ernor Haskell and other state officers with & violation of the state constitution and the laws of the state in the manner in which public moneys have been expended, Representative Lester A. Maris, represent- ing the republican minority, filed an affi- davit In the lower house of the legislature today. In general the charges against Governor Haskell are that he ““mismanaged the pub- part and has wiltully and designedly au- thorized the misappropriation of sald funds,” The last legislature appropriated $,00 to be expended under the direction of the governor in the auditing of territorfal @ccounts. In his affidavit Representative Marls charges that Governor Haskell paid nearly $2100 of this fund to a private de- tective, who, Mr. Maris charges, Is not an accountant. The legislature also appro- priated $3,000 to be used by the governor in paying for Investigating committees and the traveling expenses of delegates to various national conventions. The gover- private detective, also, Representative Maris charges that Gov- crnor Haskell pald to O. T. Smith, his law clerk, public moncy in addition to the latter's regular salary, which Mr. Maris says was not for state purposes, but in the Interest of the governor. The affidavit also calls attention to an alleged similar ! payment of $00 to W. T. Hutehings, a | Muskogee law, indicted with Governor Haskell in the town lot fraud cases. W. B. Anthony, the governor's private secretary, is alsoa member of the legisla- ture and Representative Maris in his affi- Cavit asserts that it Is contrary to the state constitution for Anthony to hold the two positions. Representative Marls, in his charges, tal up the question of the payment of a siacy to Lieutenant Governor George W. Bellamy as president of the State Banking board in addition to his regular salary. Wyoming Lands Worth Million to Be Cancelled Coal Property in Lander District i TFound to Be Involved in Con- spiracy by Officials. WABHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Official dis- closures made today are that more than $1,000,000 is the estimated value of. the coal lands In the Lander, Wyo., district, Wwhich .the Interier department is making Aan effort {4 have eancelled on the ground as it dlleges, that the lands were entered pursuant to a conspiracy, whereby title was to vest in a corporation. In addition 800 tons of coal a day, it is asserted will be saved iIf a temporarily restraining the Owl Creek Coal company the transferee of the various entrymen, fom opeating its mine upon cetain of the lands involved In the case is made perma- nent. Hearing was set for February 1. All the entrymen in these cases resided in New York, while the principal movers in the alleged conspiracy have been in- dicted by the grand jury in Wyoming. The criminal cases, If convictions are secured, in the opinion of the Interior department officlals will have a salutary effect In checking similar operations. { Man y Changes on Burlington Promotion for E. P. Bracken Makes Much Shifting in Operating Department. ALLIANCE, Neb,, Jan, 20.—(Special Tele- gram.)—E. P. Bracken, general superin- tendent of the Wyoming'dlstrict of the Burlington, with headquarters at Alliance, has been transferred to the lines east as assistant general manager, with headquar- ters at Chicago. He will be succeeded here by E. E. Youns, &t present superintendent of the Sheridan division, with headquarters at Bheridan, Wyo. . G. Robbins, superintendent of the Sterling division, will take charge at Sheri- dan and C. D. Peckenpaugh, at present trainmaster on the Sheridan division, will succeed Mr. Robbins at Sterling, Colo. This will make a complete change in the head operating officlals of the Wyoming district In the last two months, for on De- cember 1 W. M. Weidenhamer, the present superintepdent of the Alllance division, succeeded J. C. Birdsell, who resigned to enter private busine: | {DEDUCT INCOME ON STOCK Attorney General Wickersham De- cldes Point in Application of Corporation Tax. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Attorney Gen- eral Wickersham has decided that the dividenids received by a corporation as a | stockholder of any other corporation of |the character to which the act imposing la tax of 1 per cent on net income 'npnllafl should be deducted from its gross income, regardless of the amount of the | net Income of such dividend paying cor- | poration. lic funds under his control in whole or in | nor s charged with paying thls sum to the | injunction | NO MEAT FEAST IN NEW YORK 8ix Hundred Members of Machinery Club at Banquet of Vegetables and Fruit, MEN OF | Protest Against Highness Not Con- fined to Laborers, OF WORDS CONTINUES MOSTLY WEALTH WAR Packers, Wholesalers and Retailers Are Blaming Each Other. |MORE TALK ABOUT TARIFF Wholesalers Say Canadian Beef is Sold Cheaper in London Than Western Beef New York. NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—8ix hundred repre- sentative manufacturers, mostly men of club of nothing but vegetables and fruit. There were no speeches, but an informal discussion of the advanced cost of lving indicated that the universal protest of the nation has the support of businessmen as wel! as laboring men. There were further slight recessions in price today in the butcher shops, but quo- tations on the whole seem to indicate that demand and supply are beginning to ap- proach an adjustment. The war of words among the packers, the wholesale dealers and the smail re- tallers continues with the injection today of a new Issue. Wholsalers are agitating for a repeal of the duty on Canadian, Ar- gentine and Mexican beef. “Look at the London market,” sald one of them. *‘Free competition with beet from Canada, the Argentine and even from Russla rules there, with the result that an | Englishman can eat Canadian beef, grown just across the border from us, cheaper than Americans can eat their own western stecrs.” i A mass meeting at Madison Square, at which a movement in imitation of the “Boston tea party” wWas to have been launched against meats by the National | Pregressive Woman's Suffrage union, was postponed owing t othe weather. At the next meeting of the union a reolution will be presented calling upon the legisia- ture to limit the period during which meat may be kept in cold storage. at no meat” in large letters, was pasted all over the West Side today, on shop windows and in many private houses. Twelve of the posters are in butcher shops. PITTSBURG, Jan, 20,—The price on pork has dyopped 8 cents in the last twenty-tour hours, according to stock yards quota- tions. Meat dealers fow admit they are teeling the anti-meat boyeott. Reichstag Scene of Disorder Statement that King Could Close Body in Ten Minutes Causes Uproar, BERLIN, Jan. 20.—The Reichstag was the scene of an angry demonstration of protest {today, when In the course of a speech, |Herr von Oldenburg, a conservative agrarian, declared “the German emperor, as king of Prussia, must have the right at any moment to order a Prussian lieutenant to come here and within ten minutes close the Relchstag.” At the words all the members on the left side of the house rose to their feet, protest- Ing with shouts of “scandal,” “impudence’ and “'breach of the constitution.” Herr Sechrader, liberal, made a formal pretest against Oldenburg's remarks, which, he said, constituted a grave insult to the Relchstag and to the emperor and army. The conservatives words with thundering applause. Prince von Hohenlohe, who was presiding, sald he understood Oldenburg as meaning only to indicate the degree to which mili- tary discipline must be carried. Oldenburg immediately confirmed interpretation of his statement. Herr Basserman, national-liberal leader, sald he regretted the sentiment had been applauded from the conservative benches. | FLOODS IN COSTA RICA ARE BLOCKING BANANA HARVEST Bridges Are Washed Out and Miles of Track Inundated by Heavy Rains. PORT LIMON, Costa Rica, Jan. 29.—In- cessant and heavy rains are stil! falling throughout the republic. - The Northern rallway s practically out of commission. There has been no train service with the interior since the latter part of Decem- ber. The entire district as well as the banana zone of the upper lands near Reventtazon river Is under water and the cutting of fruit for shipment is difficult and dangerous, Three slides are reported from Las Lomas Sunday, endering the chances of communieation with the capi- tal more remote. The Baltimore bridge, bullt in 1908, dis- appeared & week ago. This iron struc- ture over the ChiFftipo rive connected the Zent distict with some valuable banana plantations and no fruit can be brought in for shipment until the rain ceases, this | Attorneys for the helrs of Count Crelgh- ton were defeated in district court when they led a fight to have modified the re- cent ruling of the court with respect to the | amount of the residue of the estate to go Ilo the working girls' home. The three judges of the district court figure it out that the proportion due would come to §34376. (This besides the $:0,000 in specific bequest). The attorneys for the heirs contended that the amount should be §32.282. The their services. Nany private Individuals. including the hschilds have placed their automobiles (Continued b Second Page) estate,” as used in the will, means. The attorneys assorted that this meant the estete after the charges for administration lmd debts against it had been deducted. | question turned on what the phrase “whole Creighton Heirs Defeated | in Ano_thcr Court Ruling ,The judges sald the whole estate meant all Count Creighton had when he died. If the charges are deducted from thoe jtotal then, of course, the proportionate part of the residue which goes to the working girls' home 1s smaller and the amount left for the heirs is larger. The dispute came In the fixing up of the formal decree following a declsion of a few days ago, and Judge Estells, who sat with Judges Redick and Troup, was moved to remark: “It seems sometimes as if it took longer to fix up a decree than to hear the law- sult.” The significant announcement was made by attorneys for the heirs that they Intend 1o fight the whole case Lo the last ditch. wealth, ate dinner today at the Machinery | greeted Oldenburg's | |imprisonment. “If T Could Only From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. W\ oY \\\\\ \ Q“& \ BLACK HANDERS TO PRISON Eleven Members of Toledo Gang Are Given Stiff Sentences. CASE AN IMPORTANT ONE Believed to Be Beginning of End of Itallan Blackhand Socleties in This Country. TOLEDO, Jan, 20.—Heavy penalties were tmposed by Judge R. W. Tayler in the federal court today on the principal mem- ber of the Ohlo band of black hands found gullty of conspiracy to use the malls to extort money from Italians living in Ohlo and Inidana. The jury reported this morn- | ing. Salvatore Lima of Marion, the chief of the bapd, was sentenced to sixteen years' Sebastian Lima, his brother, and Gluseppe Ignoffo, his brother-in-law, were sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment each. All of these lived in Marion, where the headquarters were maintained. All of the defendants were found gullty, but the court granted new trials to Agostini Marfisi of Dennison, Vincenszo Arrigo of Cincinnatl, both fruit dealers, and Salvatore Rivzo, & section hand living In Marion. The others were sentenced as follow Sevario Ventola of Coiumbus, two years. Salvatore Demma of Bellefontaine, iwo e Antonio Vicariv of Dennison, two years. Cologaro Vicarlo of Bellefontaine, two years. Orazio Runtpla of Plttsburg, six years. Rippino Galbo of Meadville, four Years, g Salvatore Arrigo of Cincinnati four years, Francesco Spadare of Cincinnati, two years. Prisoners Start for Leavenworth, All the sentenced prisoners except An- tonlo Vicario started early this afternoon for Leavenworth prison in charge of elght deputles. Vicarto will be taken to Elmira. In sentencing Lima, Judge Taylor sald: “You seem to have been the moving spirit in this nefarfous business. Sebastian Lima seems to have borne a somewhat less part than his brother and Ignotfo has been w part of the heart and center.” The court sald that while suspiclous circumstances pointed toward Marfilsi, he could hardly let the conviction stand In ac- cord wtih his sense of justice, He sald the | evidence was similarly weak as to Rizzo | on Second Page.) (Continue With the Automo- bile Show nearly here, interest in automiles is at its height. Besides pushing their 1910 mod- els, dealers are making some at- tractive offerings in used machines to move them quickly. On the first want ad page today, under the classification “AUTOMOBILES" is a large list of bargains offered by Omaha and Council Bluffs dealers. Have you read the waat ads to- day? ’Sy'ndicatc May “Take Southern if Suit 1s Lost Rumor if Harriman Merger is Dis- solved Rockefeller and Morgan Will Buy Road. NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Mr. Lovett and other representatives of the Harriman lines declined’ today to comment on the decision of the federal government to pro- ceed with the suit against the Union Pa- cific and Southern Pacifie system. H The defendants will open the case in this city on February 2. A Wall street today heard a report that it the government wins Its sult to dls- solve the merger a syndicate composed of John D. Rockefeller, through the National City bank; J..P. Morgan, through the First National bank, and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. will take over the Unlon Pacifid's holdings of Southern Pacific bonds and stock. These are sald to amount to $125,000,000, The report could not be verified, Woman Dead on Gas Stove Evidence that Mrs. Alice Van Seandt Was Murdered is Found by Police, | ! CINCINNATI, 0., Jan. 2.—Her clothes saturated with ofl, pleces of a lace curtain tied tightly about her neck, another plece binding her feet, the scorched body of Mrs. Alice Van Seandt was found lying across a gas stove in tho kitchen at her home, 634 Richmond street, today. Every indlcation points to murder, the police s ENGINEERS AFTER MORE PAY Brotherhood Threatens to Join De- mand of Other Bodles for Increase. NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Colncident with the negotiations, now In progress, between the Brotherhoods of Conductors and Rall- way Trainmén and the thirty-two controll- ing raflroad companies east of the Mis- | \ A\ Remember Where I Burried That Bone!”’ sissippl and north of the Ohlo and Chesa- peake, it was sald here today that the grand lodge of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers Is preparing demands to be made upon some roads. Heretofore the engineers, who form one of the strongest unions in the country, have refused to join the other raliway unions In demands for more pay. AR AN (\\ § MORE FUNDS FOR INDIANS Secretary Ballinger Asks Money for| Their Instruction, OMAHAS HAVE LONG SESSION, Dr. Piccotte Says for White Men's Treatment— Special Duty for Cap- tain Buchan. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Secretary Ballinger today submitted a request to congress for an increase in | thy appropriation alloted to pay salarles of formers to instruct Indians in the practice of agriculture from $125,000 to $230,000. “The department has come to the con- clusion,” says Secretary Ballinger, “that| the practice of agriculture among Indians | should be encouraged. Need of increasing | funds s apparent. With a territory of 59,000,000 acres of land, most of It agricul- For Nebraska For lowa For weather report see page ? tural in character, the estimated worth $265,000,000, with $60,000,000 in trust funds held for Indians, available for improvement | of their allottments and 'with the possibility | of beneficial use of these million of acres | of allotted lands, there is great necessity for an increase In the force of Indlan farmers and stockmen.' WEATHER FORECAST. Colder. Snow. "IVE GLAVIS NAMES CONGRESSMEN Witness Says kep;elenht(ven Kin- kaid and McLachlan Held Coal Claims in Alaska, CENT BALLINGER CALLED HIM OFF Secretary Told Him Kot to Look Into Holding of Californian. LATTER ATTORNEY FOR KINKAID Service Was Between Time He Was Commissioner and Secretary. READ Day's Attack Centers Larwely Land Commisyloher Dennett— Unfriendly to the Forestry. WASHINGTON, Jan, 2.—Louls R. Glavis concluded his testimony before the Bal- linger-Pinchot eongressional investigation committe late today. He will be recalled at the reusumption of the hearing Monday afternoon for cross examination by any of the persons agalnst whom he has made charges. Glavis' last day on the stand was full of Interest. It developed the animus which long has existed between the land office and the forestry bureau and the resent- ment the land office people feit wher Glavis called in ‘“the forestry,” as they termed it. lared that Represeptative MecLachlan of California and Representa- tive Kinkaid of Nebraska were interested in Alaskan claims, and that Mr. Ballinger, after becomming commissioner of the land office, had acted as attorney for Mr. Kin- kald. Glavis asserted that Mr. Bellinger had suggested to him not to pursue an investi- gation against Congressman McLachlan, saying there had “been too much of that sort of thing in the past.” When, towards the end of his testimony, Glavis was asked the direct question, If he thought Secretary Ballinger and Commis- sloner of the Land Office Dennett were In league to do wrong in the Alaskan cases, he replied: “Well; 1 thought the cases would be better protected with them out of the way. Attack! Centers on Dennett. Glavis' attack seemed to center more to- day on Commissioner Dennett. He sald he became convinced In the summer of 190) that “‘Dennett was ‘crooked,’ " and 20k steps to secure carbon coples of let- ters Dennett was writing back to Wash- Ington. Several of these letters were in: troduced . in evidence. One was from Commissioner Dennett te H H. Schwartz, chief of the field service. It was dated July 20, 1909, at Seattle and said among other things: “My Dear Schwartz: The worst sltuation on the line Is the one I find here. Ow friend Glavis * * * regarded me with sus picion. and after talking a while showet ime your telegram assigning the coal caser to Sheridan. * * * Now I figure tha Glavis is preparing to make a cushion for {nimself to fall back on and also putting They Ask Only|himself In shape to have a great story ir case Sheridan does not make good and sue ce:d in cancelling the Cunningham cases * ¢ * While he looks innocently at me yet I can sec that his heart is bad, thougt why it should be I cannot tell except thal he wanted to drag the cases out. He may be sincere, of course, In his idea that he has not been glven time and opportunity, He asserts that he will help Sheridan al' he can, but it 1s not human nature, or a: least his human nature. The atmosphers Is not good at all. ‘““That he s playing the forestry there i1 no question, the innocent look he gave mu when 1 told him he was dragging In Shaw, etc., when there was no necessity, was beautitul. * * ¢ He has also talked con- servation very strongly. Glavis talking conservation! All round he is ugly and he is preparing to be as unpleasant as he can, at least that is my solution of the situa- tlon. Glavis professes the greatest friend- ship to you and I think you know him better than any one else, and this is cer- tainly the worst situation we have. He will make about forty favorable and 500 un- | tav " com- “The delegation of Omaha Indlans now |fAVOrable reports; the way things will com in mence to drop will be amusing."” Washington 1s not here to protest against wise regulations of the Interlor Second Letter from Dennett. department, as laid down In the Indian| In a second letter from Dennett to offic, but against its administrative | Schwartz dated Seattle, July 22, 109, oo- features,” was the way Dr. Susan Piccotte | curs thils paragraph: of the delegation voiced the mission of the | “Glavis has these coal cases on the Indians today. | brain and cannot sce anything but just one “What the Indian wants Is to enjoy that | line, which s his. I have yet to hear an In- dlan protest against paying taxes for the improvement of his farm, but he does ob- Ject to having the government pay taxes out of moneys which the Indian ought to be permitted to handle, “The Omahas are a progressive tribe and | the government should permit them to take their paces in the world. We don't object to educational features surrounding experimental farms. to, is the everlasting red tape and Involved | propositions growing out of administrative | regulations. “Wo are fit to look after ourselves and | we want the government to give us what belongs to us. If there is any money to pay we want to pay it. If things are to be | done, looking to our better condition, we want to participate in doing It and not| have some petty clerk do it for us. “All we ask Is for white men's ment, to be permitted to handle erty in our own way—to lease ~to pay taXes and generally (Continued on Second Page.) treat- our prop- it or sell it to live like LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 2.—~With J J. Keen and Timothy O'Leary under bonds $6,000 each and Patrick J. Neelham still in Jall, all under charge of having defrauded @ hglf dozen or more insurance companies, additional Interest has been injected into the case by the question as to whether, even though it be proved that they have wilitully robbed these insurance concern: they can be held criminally Mable. | So far as named all of the companles which have been hit by the operations of the “grave yard swindle"” are ineligible to do business in the state of Kentueky. It it can be proved the policies in question ~ \Companies May Be Barred | from Prosecuting Frauds were written in Loulsville and not in New Albany, Ind., as agents of the insurance companies claim, it is thought the com- panies. cannot prosecute. 1t is weported that several large eastcrn | Insurance companies have paid out large | sums of money on falsely drawn applica tions here. President Charles D. Renick of the In. diana National Life Insurance company told of Investigating the pollcy written for Mrs, Lyon of Louisville, un aged woman. He showed & policy bearing what purported to be her autograph. £he told him she had never written & line In her life | agent at Denver. 1 have told him how it looks to us and have reminded him of everything that we have done for him and that it looks as If he were returning our favors by not standing by us, as he ought to. He has not acted as you or I' wonld have acted under similar condition. It xoks a. little treacherous to me, this calling In the for- estry.” There was also introduced in this con- nectlon a telegram from Schwartz to Den- What we do object | nett, dated Washington, July 21: “Department has letter from secretary of agriculture originating in forest service asking postponement of the Cunningham hearings untl November. Shaw says Glavis wrote or wired him recently in mat- ter. Require Glavis to show you copy of his letter to Shaw, it being necessary to determine motive behind agriculture's re= quest for such lo Glavis explained that he had asked Shaw by telegram to come to Seatt'e to co- operate with him .on the Cunningham claims as weveral of them were In forest reserves. This was how the forestry burcau & delay tirst came into the controversy officlally. Another letter was one from Secretary Ballinger to Mr. Schwartz, dated Holse, 1daho, July 25, 1909, in which the secrotary of the interlor sald among other things: “My- Dear Mr. Schwartz: 1 am just ad- | vised by Commissioner Dennett of your telegram In reference to the Increase in the number of special agents In the exs cepted class. 1 desire that you In making any of these appointments in adaition to the president being consuited, Postmaster | General Hitehcock be also consulted, pro- vided the appointees are not directly sugs gested by the president.” Letter Causes a Laugh, The last document read while Glavis was on the stand called out a great deal of laughter. It was a telegram from Mr, | Sehwartz dated Waeshington, August 12, 11900, at the time attacks were being made upon Secretary Ballinger and others, and was addressed to M. B, Mclnerney,” special It read: ot scareheads into Denver papers to- | ight and Amsoclated Press, It possible,