Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 15, 1910, Page 1

| THE OMAHA BEE Is the most powerfnl business gotter in the west, because it goes te the homes of poor and rich. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE VOL. XXXIX-NO. 186 OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1910—~TEN PAGES. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Partly eloudy. For lowa-—Ungettled; rain or snow For weather report see page 2. QT.\}GLE (‘OI‘;\' TWO CENTS. CANNON FOR , WATERWAYS “Uncle Joe” Makes Address in Favor | of Appropriation from Floor | of the House. | LONG LOOK AHEAD NEEDED| Broad View of Welfare of Whole Na- * tion Should Prevail. TOO, MUCH MISINFOE™ N (‘ Some Newspapers and Magazi A Misleading Readers. ©5 { P . HOUSE RULES ARE DEFEI 1t Majority n«::a Find Wa)\ Ennct Its Will Into Laws Peox Wil Choose Other Servants, WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—"If we lose sight of our own Importance and our posi- tion for the time being, there will come in our places better and wiser men, who will not lose sight of the necessity to provide for an orderly procedure under which a majority can work its will; where respon- sibility rests there must be power with the majority to move on, belng responsible.” “Uncle Joe” 'Cannon, laying aside his gavel and speaking today from the floor of the house merely as “The Gentleman from Tlinols,” sounded this warning to his col- league: “Representative” Cannon arose for the purposs of lending his approval to the pending rivers and harbors appropriation bill, but during his speech, which was of about twenty minutes' duration, he took occasion to refer lightly to magazine and newspaper criticlsm and to remind the minority members that the power of the majority was futlle unless enforced by a well olled machine. It was while Repre- sentative Fitzgerald (dem., N. Y.) had the floor that members were surprised to sée the speaker rise from a seat in their midst and inquire: “Will the gentleman from New York yleld to me Cannon for Rivers BilL “I will yleld to the gentleman, I believe rom Illinols,” sald Mr. Fitzgerald, smil- gly. Mr. Cannon told the house how he ad voted for & rivers and harbors bill during President Arthur's administration and explained that he had voted to pass the measure over the president’'s veto, He sald he had had some trouble in justifying that vote before his constituents, but sald he did so. “I thanked God then as I thank God now,” eald Mr. Cannon, “that that con- stituency, agricultural district as it is to- day, had the | patriotism crodsed' with breadth and intdlligence to stand by me at the polis.” As the speaker was enlarging upon the need of breadth of view to obtain approval a?} over {he_country. for appropriations for river-and harbor Improvements, Reprosent- ative Dalzell of Pennsylvania, who occupied the chalr, began hammering the desk be- fore him with the speaker's gavel Call of Time. 'The fime of the gentleman has expired!” he cxe'almed, In mock severity. ‘May 1 have a minute more?’ the speaker. Mr. Fitzgerald then obtained unanimous content to have his time extended five minutes, and Mr. Cannon proceeded. With the eye of prophesy he saw the nation's population growing from 90,000,000 to 500,- 000,000 “Already we have almost one-half thc rallroad mileage of this earth he said, ‘‘carrying one-third of the products of the eivilized world hack and forth to market. Long before the 100,000,000 are here, if we are to depend on rallvoad transporta- ticn alone, we will have the rallway mile- age multiplied by two, multiplied by three, multiplied by four. It is a long work to add to nature sufficlent depth of water to cirry the great and ccnstantly increasing commerce.,"" pleaded Too Much Misinformation, Referring to his trip down the Mississippi with President Taft, in connection with nev spaper attacks et that time, Mr. Cannon sald: “When I turned to come back from New Orleans, from the criticlsms I re- colved, and that many others received, not founded on correct information. it made me wonder whether 1 was afoot or horseback, | whether I was I or somebody else. I ex-| pect we will continue to recelve all kinds of correct and fake information that is ¥ fished for here and there,” continued the speaker. “In order that our great metro- | politan journals may continue some of them to make thelr papers from day to day, ltke the Yankee made his rasors, to sell. Tut| #) desire to say to ‘the gentlemen on both | sides Of the house that in the last analysis, out of the two great organizations, the minoHty from time to time putting the majority on its behavior, secking to become the majority, will come correct leglslation ana correct appropriations for the greatest #00d of the people of the republic.” Ten Dollar Hogs Are Predicted New High Records for Season Are Made at Nearly All Markets. CHICAGO, Feb, WM. ~The widespread agitation against the high price of meat has falled to check the advance in hog prices, Nve hogs at the stock yards he: selling at the highest mark with one ox- | ception .0f the last forty years. The new | high polnt recorded today was $9.27% per | 100 pounds, and predictions were made that Within a few weeks level will have been passed. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 14~A new hog ree- ord was established at the local market hero today when heavy hogs brought the top price of $8.%0 per 100 pounds. One car- 10ad of hogs from Kansas sold at this price. Several carloads sold at $8.55, which is also & high record price. The shortage of hog shipments 1§ glven as the cause for high prices whigh have steadily risen since the treely | the 310 ffect of the boycoit on meats & short ‘\lmr ago caused' @ marked drdp in meat prices. ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Feb. l.—Al e ords at the South St. Joseph live stoek market were broken today when S or hundred was paid. SIOUX QITY, Ia, Feb. M.—Hogs made record on the ux City marke. touching 8.8 { | requiring the census enumerators to include Grand Army Bill Saves Veterans From Wily Women| | New York Court Rules that Secretary Pension Measure Before Senate Re- quires Widow to Live with Hus- | band Three Years. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The young widows are coming in for their share of | Uncle Sam's gemerosity in the shape of pensions. The present pension law grants annuities only to the widows of soldlers of the civil war who were married before | June 27, 15%0. As is well known many of the old soldiers took helpmates unto themselves under that date and for the last twenty years congress has been be- | sleged in the interest of this multitude. | There are between 20,000 and 2,00 of | them, and the pressure has come to be nn: strong that It looks as If it would not| e withstood for a great while. Indeed, | 10 senate committee on pensions has de- | ded to meet for the purpose of taking | the question and it is considered prob- | ‘o that a favorable report will be made | within a comparatively short, time. The house committee also has agreed to con- | sider the subject, and the Intimations are | that the report from that committee will | be favorable. 1t the bill should become a law it would add from $2,000,000 to $4,000,000 to the pension 1oll. There is a speclal provision in the bill requiring that in order to become a beneficlary widow under its terms any widow must have lived with her soldier husband at least three years. . This requirement is Inserted to protect the veterans from the wiles of any woman who might seek to ally. themselves with them only for the purpose of putting | themselves in the way of becoming subjects | of Uncle Sam's charitable ministrations. The LIl has the sanciion of the Grand Army of the Republic. ‘Ncbraska Terms of Federal Court Fixed by Bill Senate Committee on Judiciary Makes Favorable Report on Burkett Measure. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 14.—(Special Telegram.)—The senate committee on judic- fary today made a favorable report on the Burkett bill, amending the existing statute to provide that regular @yrms of ‘circuit and district courts of the United States for the District of Nebtaska shall be held at the following times and places: Omaha, beginning on the fourth Monday in September and ‘the first Monday in April; Norfolk, beginning on the third Mon- day In September; Grand Island, beginning on the second Monday in January; North Platte, beginning on the first Monday in January; Chadron, beginning on the second. Monday in. September; luincoln, sbeginning | on the first Monday in October and the second Monday in May; Hastings, beginning on the second Monday In March, and Mc- Cpok, beginning on the first Monday in March. All civil actions not of local nature agalnst a single defendant, must be brought | in the division where sald defendant re- sides, the bill provides, but if there are two or more defendants residing in differ- | ent divisions of the district the plaintiff | may sue in another division In which the | defendant resides. All, issues of fact arls- | ing in such a suit shall be tried in such division unless by consent of the partles, with the approval of the court, tho case shall be removed to some other dlvision. George La Plant of Wagner, 8. D, is in Washington on business before the Indian bureau. Roosevelt Pa;ty on Upper Nile Expedition Will Move \Down the| River to Cairo Early in March, GONDOKORO, Soudan, of the Upper Nile, Feb. 14.—Colonel Roosevelt and the others of the Smithsonfan African Scien- tific expedition are expected here on Wed- nesday. The launch of General Sir Geginald Win- gate, scldar of the Egyptian army, Is in waiting to convey the party to Khartoum. The trip down the Bar-El-Jabel and the White Nile will be begun Thursday or Friday, and Khartoum should be reached about March 6. Three days later the voy- age down the river Nile to Cairo will begin. LACK OF LIGHT CAUSED WRECK | French Steamship Compan General Chansy Did Not Unmanageable. PARIS, Feb. 14.—The French Trans- Atlantic Steamship company asserts that there is nothing to confirm the theory that | the General Chanzy became unmanageable, and attributes its disaster solely to the fact that there is but one fecble light on the north coast of Minorea island, in the lee of which Captain Cayole sought shelter in the terrible storm. Slaughtered Cattle ingCensus. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Tne house bill | secretary of the American Sugar Refining |in the court's opinion the defendant was j| river and after being rescued asked that in their report the cattle slaughtered in the United States passed the senate today. HEIKE IS DENIED IMMUNITY BATH! of Sugar Trust Must Stand Trial for Conspiracy. | APPEARED BEFORE GRAND mYl Judge Holds that He Was Not Re- | quired to Testify Against Himself. | AT FIRST ADMITTED GUILT When Court Ruled He Changed Plea to “Not Guilty.” | WILL LOOK INTO “DRAWBACKS" Allegation that Duty Has Been Re- fanded on Sugar that Was Not Exported to be Investi- gated, NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Charles R. Helke, company, the so-called Sugar trust, is not “immupe.” He must stand trial, beginning March 1 next, on indietments charging him with other employes of the company of conspiring ‘to defraud the government by underwelghing imports of sugar. 1 For weeks past counsel for Heike have attempted to prove before a jury in the United States clroult court that Helke could not be prosecuted in view of testimony h gave before the grand jury which returned the Indictments. But In this they failed, for Judge Martin ruled this afterncon that not entitled to immunity, and accordingly he instructed the jury to bring in a formal verdict dismissing the plea Interposed In the secretary's bebalf. Helke Admits G In arguing for Immunity counsel for Helke admitted his guilt, but maintained that though guilty his grand jury testi- mony was a bar to prosecution. This led the government lawyers to make the an- nouncement that it the plea was not sus- | tatned the government would move for Im- mediate sentence on the ground of admis- sion of gullt. No such action was taken today, however. Helke's lawyers changed the plea to “not gullty” and time for trial was fixed. In ruling againet Helke today Judge Mar- tin, referred to the danger that would fol- low 1f indiscriminate pleas at bar were en- tertained or allowed, and the opportunity it would give rich men to avoid the adminis- tration of justice. There had been no evi- dence, he sald, to show that the govern- ment was animsted by bad falth in bring- ing the defendant before the grand jury or that any effort was made to extract testimony from the defendant that might be used against him. Will Look Into Drawbacks. After the Hetke matter I disposed of, Federal Prosecutor Wise will take up an- other important phase. The Mauiry is to be @irected at drawbacks which sugar re- fining companies have received on imports when the refined product has afterward been exported. The Inquiry will be to determine whether these drawbacks were always collected on bona fide exports of sugar made from im- ported raw materfal. Tf the contrary proves to be the case the federal authori- tles say there may be further collections from the companies by the government, possibly to the extent of $1.000,000. | WOMAN AND BABIES BURNED Lighting Fire with Kerosene Proves Fatal to Mrs. Showalter of Lovell, Wyo, BASIN, Wyo, Feb. 14.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—Mrs. L. A. Showalter of Lovell, Wyo., and two children, were burned to death in thelr home early Monday morning from flames caused by the explosion of coal ofl in lighting a fire. Mrs. Showalter arose early to prepare breakfast, and wish- | Ing to hasten the fire used coal ol from a large can. The kindling not responding as rapidly as desired, more ofl was poured, wlich was followed by theé can exploding. Before her husband, who was some dls- tarce from the house, or neighbors, eould reach the panic stricken woman the flames had grown to such proportions that rescue of the wife and babies was jmpossible. \BURLINGTON BRIDGE BURNS Workmen Leave Shavings Near New Span of Structure Over Sho- shone at Lovell, Wyo. { BASIN, Wyo., Feb. 14.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—The Burlington raflroad bridge over the Shoshone river at Lovell, Wyo., was burned Sunday night. All traffic is inter- rupted. Passengers were transferred la‘e tofay by means of wagons over the frozen river. It is supposed that shavings left by bridge carpenters working on the new | span recently completed caught fire from live coals from the fire box of an engine and burned the structure. ' —_— i Wealthy Man Hangs Himself, DAVENPORT, I Feb. 14—(Speclal Telegram.)—Hero Hulsmann of Brooklyn, Ia., hanged himself with a towel in jull here today. He attempted sulclde last Saturday by jumping Into the Mississippl he bg detained untll he ecould be sent to 4 hospital for the insane for treatment. He was an old employe of the Rock Island railroad and left property valued at $10,000 ~St. Valentine’s Beheading Bulls tlle_y_iolet Market Because the late St. Valentine got in bad with the administration at Rome some centuries ago and got his head chopped off for his lack of diplomacy, the price of violets has gone up from $L.0 to §2.00 In Omaha for the one day of February 4, Hon. Emperor Claudius, who always had | been whimsical anyway, ot peevish over some things that Signer Valentine, the Wresbyter, had to say, so he had that worthy decapitated without Geremony or process of law. However, this little ffair dldn't hapgen on February 14, and the historlans with o lofty air pass over the origin of the present significance of the day. The fact that St. Valentine got killed as a speeial favor to Claudius seems to have made him important. thouwh dmad. Some way the abrupt demise of St. Val- entine got mixed up among the traditions with & now nameless pagan feast day, so the on® best guess s that we are now re- membeMng a Christian saint with a heathen Boliday. On the fifteenth day of February the little Roman giFls and boys used to trace each other's name scratched on bits of parchment. Now, behold the paper lace and gilt creations. Omahe remembers St. Valentine with soclal affairs, mostly for the young folks. The practice of giving flowers as Valentine day gifts has grown so general that on this day the florists boost thelr prices regularly. The confectioners do very nicely, too. But it's all because Emperor Claudius got sore, From the $t. Liodls Globe-Demol RACE FOR SINKING LINA Five Boats Are Making Strenuous Effort to Save Passengers. THRILLING STORY OF RESCUE Two Hundred and Five®ersons Talken Off Vessel Durigig Storm When Lite Boat is ° Lost. ANCUD, Chile, Feb. 14—The Chilean cruiser Ministro Zenteno and five steamers of the Pacific Navigation company are racing south today in the desperate hope that they may save the elghty-eight per- sons who, when last reported, were clinging to the stern of the British steamer Lima as the vessel was pounding Itself to pieces on a reet in the Huamblin passage In the strait of Magellan. Two hundred and five persons were taken from the wreck by the British steamer Hatumet, under difficulties which finally compelied the Hatumet to abandon the rescue work. Four of the Hatumet's crew sacrificed thelr lives before thelr captain commanded his orew to cease thelr efforts. The Hatumet has arrived here and today its captain told the story of the wreck and rescue. He sald: “When we sighted the wreck we put out our small boats, which closely approached the stern of the Lima, where passengers and crew had gathered. We made & con- nection between the two vessels with 500 fathoms of cable and were successful in lowering 206 persons into our small boats and in getting them upon the Hatumet. “Heavy seas were rolling, which made the work of rescue perilous and finally the Lima's end of the cable slipped from its stern and became entangled In the rocks. Without the aid of the cable we could not reach the wreck and but for this accident all would have been rescued. “In the Increasing seas our boats made futile efforts to reach the wreck. The Lima threw out ancther line, which our chief mate made a daring attempt to pick up. The second connection was eventually made, but the line, suddenly tightening upset one of our small boats and our chiet mate, ship's carpenter, the fourth engineer and a steward were drowned. My boat rescued the others of the small boat's crew. “I signalled the captain of the Lima that we had but one small boat left and that as this was badly strained we had better pro- ceed to Ancud for further assistance. “The Lima had a strong st to star- board and its port quarter s under water. It had seventeen feet of water in its.engine room. When we last saw it it lay in a dangerous position and was striking hard. “It struck during a heavy fog and in a stormy sea and will be a total lo; The rapid growth of Bee Want Ads is an evidence of the value of adver- tising. Since The Bee began to tell the people what treasures these little things are, everybody is using them. Bee Want Ads will sell any- thing in the round world, If you can't come down town, and are paylug rent on & 'phone, it will be all right to call Douglas 238 for whatever you wish Situation Wanted 3'\\\\\\\ == SN SO ANE if { crat. Seven Burned in Explosion on Torpedo Boat [Bofler Tube Bn!::l Vessel is Pre- paring_for_Speed. Test—Two May Die. SAN DIEGO, Cal, Feb. i4,—Seven men were badly burned, two possibly fatally, by the explosion of a bofler tube in the forward tire room of the torpedo. boat de- stroyer Hopkins at 7:30 o'clock this morn- Ing. ANl of the injured now are in a hos- pital in this eity. Three of the men were burned in a he- rolc effort to rescue thelr screaming com- panions in'the fire room. The injured: 'R. E. Taylor, first class fireman. J. F. Hunt, chief water tender. E. A. Clary, water tender. 5 W. A. Neabe, first class fireman. J. B. McNeerlin, firet class_fireman. T. J. Brown, coal passer. B. A. Carletillo, second class fireman, Taylor and Carletillo may not survive. The explosion took place half an hour before the torpedo fleet was to put to sea on a speed trip to San Pedro. ‘Ncw Wealth in Alaska Placers \ i Recent Investigations by Government Survey Promise Very Heavy Yield in Gold. WABHINGTON, Feb. l4.—Alaska, which Seccretary Ballinger has frequently said is America's prize package, may be a greater prize than man has ever dreamed. Recent investigations in the Inncko district, the Central Kuskokwim valley and the new Haiditarod aistrict, row partially finished by the United States geological survey, disclose new placer gold districts which promise very heavy returns. The territory bought frein Russla for $7,000,000 in 1867 has to the present time paid $160,000,000 in gold alone since 1880, when placer mining there began, and what the resources of its copper, coal and other minerals will be is beyond the estimation of man. DEMOCRATS FEAST AND TALK Dollar Dinner Draws Many of Them to Lincoln. GOVERNOR FOR DAYLIGHT LAW| Declares Putty Should Stand Firm on this Act, Admittedly Most Rad! ecal Since Slocumb Act. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Feb. 14.—(Special.)—The demo- cratic dollar banquet was held tonight at the Lincoln hotel, the dining room of which was comfortably filled with members of the party from varlous section of the state. G. M. Hitchcock, who was to be one of the speakers was not present, having sent a letter instead of coming. This was read. The speakers were Governor Shallenberger, Mayor Dahlman, W. H. Thompson, R. L. Metcalfe, James A. Reed of Kansas City. In his speech Governor ‘Shallenberger sald in part on the subject, ‘“Nebraska Democrac; “I come to you tonight as a messenger of glad tidings and great joy. Never in a generation has the outlook for democratic victory either in the state or nation been as ‘bright as at the present time. The country-at-large Is ripe for democratic tri- | umph because it has come to see that the party in power is either unwilling or un- able to accomplishithe reforms demanded by the people and the promise of which have given the republican party so long a lease of power. “I have every respect, conslderation and admiration for an insurgent republican, for I see in him a long-lost brother who has finally dlscovered the light of democratic truth rising above the natlonal and who has the honesty and courage to say that it is the sun of righteousness that appears, though its shining shafts of light, | but serve to glorlfy and make plain the eternal truth and justice of democratic principles and its shadows to make more dark and dismal the fallure of the party in power to carry out its pledges to the people. “The only thing our insurgent friends fail to do Is to proclaim the real remedy. Hours may be spent in preaching political nostrums as remedial agents, but the only radical cure Is to vote the democratic (Continued on Second Page.) Miss Jullet Stuart Points, en girl, has been awarded a scholarship of- fered by the General Women's Clubs. She won this honor in competition with a large group of candi- dates that included representatives every state in the unign. This scholar- ship is supported by a fund to which the Nebraska club womgp contribute. Miss Polnts was reared In Omaha. Her parents were married here and for a time her mother was an instructor at Central sehool. Miss Points has been a tutor to children in the Harriman family, The young woman Is now an tutor which she is a graduate, having been a member of the class of 1907, This winning of the prige is regarded as a high honor, as those who take part in the competitive examination come from all parts of the country. One candidate is chosen as a representative of each state. Miss Points was selected’as the represen- tative of New York and also stood to up- asslstant from | | Englisi in history at Barnard college, of | General Federation of Wome | | | | Omaha Girl Wins First Federation Scholarship Omaha | condition imposed upon the candidates to make them eligible was that each must be Federation of |a student or a graduate of some Ameri- can college. Only women are permitted to try for the prize. The examinations were conducted along the lines of those held for $he Rhodes scholarships. The scholarship Is for the universities. The rivals of Miss Points for first honors represented the flower of higher education among women throughout the country, and the New York girl had her work cut out to win the award., She 18 the first American girl to win been the prize, inaugurated the scholarship last November having by the clubs, Miss Polnts says that she intends spend- ing the next two years of her scholarship in Investigating soclal and economic con- ditions In European cities. Bhe has al- ready conslderable experience in this work, havng been a member of the immigration commission in 1908 and having made & tour of inspection through the big American cities. She lives at Brook Hall, the Bar- bald her alma mater, Barnard. The only | nard dormitory horizon, | GLAVIS UNDER A MILD CROSSFIRE Prosecuting Witness in Ballinger In- quiry Questioned by Attorney for the Secretary. ' STORY OF MISSING LETTERS |Documents from Land Office Files Found in Glavis' Effects, SAYS STORY IS A ‘‘FRAME-UP.” Denunciation of Alleged Trick Brings Applause from Spectators. CHARGES AGAINST BALLINGER Witness Makes Specific Statement of Alleged Acts of Wrongdoing on Part of the Sec- retary. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The Ballinger- iPincvun cougressional Inquiry lLegan to bristle with interest todsy, when John J. Vertrees, counsel for Secretary Ballinger, undertook the cross examination of Louls | R. Glavis, principal witness for the “‘prose- cutfon." The climax of the day was reached late In the afternoon session, when Mr. Ver- trees announced that a box belonging to Mr. Glavis and left in the grand jury room at Seattle had becn broken open a few days ago and that a number of letters missing from the files of the land office In Seattle, coples of which have recently been published in a weekly paper, were found therein. Glavis angrily declared that if any let- ters had been found In his belongings a “frameup” had been prepared against him. His denunclation of federal offi- clals who would stoop to such a trick to secure the favor of their superior called out a demonstration of applause from the spectators, which ¢rused Chairman Nelson to announce that a repétition of the out- burst would result in the room being cleared. Gallery with Glav. Throughout the hearing the sympathies of the spectators, a great majority of { whom are women, have clearly been with Glavis and they have laughed with satis- faction as he has made points against his questioners, who in the past were members of the cmmittee and today were counsel for Mr. Ballinger. Mr. Vertrees announced that C. A. Christiansen, Glavis' successor as chief of field division, would be called to testify to the finding of the letters. He offered in evidence a letter from Christiansen glving the detalls of the alleged discovery and the committee got into a long wrangle as to whether or not it should be recsived In evidence at this time. The matter was put over for consideration tomorrow, in . executive. session. AN e i No Charges of Corruption. At the morning session Mr. Vertrees drew from the witness the fact that he made no charges of corruption against anyone in the land office or the Department of the In- terfor. Glavls deolared that if He had found evidence of corruption he would have taken the matter to a grand jury Instead of to the president. He said he thought the facts warranted the opnion that Mr. | Ballinger and Mr, Dennett had acted im- properly and he had charged them with officlal misconduct. Through a process of elimination the wit- ness cleared all of the other officials of any willful wrongdoing. He asserted he | was fully convinced that the facts he had offered In evidence' had warranted the judgment that neither Secrotary Ballinger or Land Commissioner Dennett was fit to hold an office of public trust. As to Assistant Secretary of the Interior | Plerce, Glavis declared he had rendered an erroneous Interpretation of the coal land law of May, 108, and that this decision, while not an act of wrongdoing, indicated | that he was not fit to fill the office he | now holds. Dennett, Glavls deglared, was | nothing more than a “tool” for Ballinger {and “would do anything Ballinger sald.” Charges Against Ballinger. | At the afternoon session Glavis, in re- | sponse to a question by Mr. Vertrees, |summed up the pecific acts of wrong- | doing, which he charges agaihst Secretary | Ballinger. His statement was a long one, but was listened to with intense interest land really for the first time gave a defi- | nite statement of the prosecution’s case. e sald: The first action I would ecite Ig the ap- i pearance of Mr. Ballinger In thé Wilson coal cases. While that was & long timne ago and people may have looked at things | differently, his action or partieipation in | the drawing up of an escrow agreement to turn over clalms that should not have been | proved up and have not been proved up, as a matter of fact was criminal. But the statute of limitations have run and the | evidence is not quite cle “Another thing was Mr. Ballinger's ex- | pressions In the summer of 1907 to Special Agent Jones, when he knew there had been violatons of tho coal land laws; his state- ment that he was going to Washington to see what congress could do to help the clalmant’s get patents. “His next action was this: After giving me the full right and instructions to make a complete Investigation of afl the coal cases, he personally took up an old report by Special Agent Love a few days after and deliberately ordered the Cunningham claims to proceed to patent. Secretary as Lobbyist, “Another evidence that Mr. Ballinger was not trying to protect the people's righte was hi® appearance before the public lands committee of the house In favor of the Cale bill, which carried out the state ment Ballinge made (o Jones that he | would do what he could to obtain legts- lation which would have enabled thess fraudulent claimants to get patents. It the Cale law had passed jt would have validated the claims. “Phe next step Mr. Ballinger took was his unprofessional action in deliberately going around and representig the othe i.m. after having been commissioner of the land office and having full knowledge of the character of the investigation wi had made “His next action consisted In asking, in the fall of 1905 when he was in politics arranging for campaign contributions te hold off any investigation of the coal cases. “In July, 1900, when I saw Mr. Ballinger at his office in Seattle, and told him we had been ordered to proceed to an imme dlate hearing, he knew the weakness of our case. The greatest weakness was the affidavits he had himself prepared for Cun: