Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 2, 1910, Page 1

% e * wettldrs THE OMAHA BEE Is the most powerful busihess getter in the west, because it goes to the homes of poor and rich, E OMAHA DAILY BEE. VOL. XXXIX—NO 220, OMAHA, WEDNESDAY 2 < MORNING, ; MARCH SENATE PASSES HOMESTEAD BILL Burkett Measure to Give Patents to Settlérs on Reclamation Land Goes Through. | Y:VE-YEAR LIMIT STRUCK O0UT Senator Carter Substitutes Amend- | ment of Committee. T0 COMPLY WITH nom 0 \W | eral As Soon as This is Done, Absi's Water No Difference. 7 % MUCH RELIEF THROUGH THE 17 —_— v Senator Gamble Gets. Measi-, Through for More Money for Siou: Fall Bailding—] for Struc- ture at Casper. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, March 1.-(Special Tele- gram.)—~Senator Burkett's bill authorizing the government to give settlors under the athfinder ditch in west Nebraska patents thelr homesteds after five years, whether water reaches their farms or not, | passed the senate today with a committes amendment giVing the homesteader the ght to assign any portfon of his entry hen he has otherwise complfed with the | homestead laws, | Senator Burkett, who Is thoroughly famil- | far with conditions along the ditch, hav- ing spent several days Jast fall im 4 first- | hand inspogtion of the situation, opposed the committes amendment and tried to get the senato to accept his bill as originally Introduced. Senator Carter thoukht it was establishing too much of a precedent and might subject the government to unneces- | wary: litgation, and his plea for the amended | oMl prevailed. The Nebraske senator in the course of ch told the senate that he was nsicerably embarrassed in antagonizing | he ‘ommliites amendment, because it did e some reliet tyo the settlers, but it the kind of relief the settlers | 1. He sald his bill gave patents to In reglons that came under the sreclamation act after they had complied with the homestead laws, His contention wasthat the government in this particular | case had not complied with its part of the \agreément with the settler when It ‘threw ‘ands open to settiement and invited people Jo settle therson, guaranteeing them water In & specified time. Having failed in this part of the contract, it ought to give the settlers on these lands the e rights granted: other homesteaders on the public Jomain. . . Senator Burkett gave a word picture how Jottlers had gone out to western Nebraska .and taken wup. lands along the big aitch, ‘He told.of thiybarrenness: of the country, without water; how they had been prom- Ised water and how these makers of new | homes i western Nebraska had spent | thelr substance In lmprovement of their lleaders of cong { Believed There Has Been Loss of Life | | mountains since last Thursday, was bufied | by & slide this morning. Promise Strong Support for All Taft Measures Leaders of Congress Will Oppose Move by Insurgents Against Admin- istration Reform Bills, l WASHINGTON, March L—After a (\\4!-} sur conference with President Taft today, | s announcsd that the: would oppose all amendments to the sev administration bills when it becam apparent that the amendments wero of- fered in a spirit hostile to. the main pur- PoseR of the. proposed legislation | This is taken to mean that sharp lines | will be drawn against the propositions ad- vocated by ‘Unsurgents” and that adminis- tration senators would oppose particularly he ideas advocated by Senstors Cummins 3d Clapp, on the interstate commerce bill, talled Train ; Covered by Snow | Slide, is Rumor he in Accident on Great Northern, N EVERETT, Wash, March 1.—The Great Northern Spokane express, that has been stalled on the summit of the Cascade It is belleved there must have been loss of life. A rellef train has gone from Bverett, but it will not be able tp get within ten miles of the train. Brian Will Run for Congress! State Treasurer Will Make Race for Nomination in Third Ne- braska District. i (From a Staft Correspondent) LINCOLN, March L—(Special—State Treasurer Lawson G. Brian, will make the race for the republican congressional nomi- nation in the Third district. Mr.)Brian's determination to enter the contest comes as the result of numerous requests from various countfes’ of the district for him to announce his candidacy. Because of his large acquaintance in the district, his record as state treasurer and his reputation at home, many republicans | have agreed that he would make a strong candidate against Congressman Latta and have pledged him théir support. Mr. Baln will run as he Aid, when n candidate for the office of state treasurer— as a republican, promising to. give to each subject that comes up serious considera- tion and to, represent his constituents to the best of his ability. Mr. Bain is serving his second term as CROSS TIES NOT ROUGH LUMBER General Freight Agent of Southern Pacific Makes This Explana- tion of Higher Rate. ABLE TO STAND THE CHARGE| | Fact that New Competitor Was Chief | Shipper Not Considered. | KNOWS OF NO SIMILAR CASE Harriman Merger Inquiry Réveals Un- | usual Conditions, COMPETITOR IS SUBSIDIZED Traffic Manager Objects to Term, but Admits Arrangement with Rival that Keeps Up Ratés. NEW YORK, March 1.—Why the South- ern Pacific should maintain a $ rate of raflroad ties and reduce that rate to $810 | on other rough lumber from Wiilamette valley. to San Francisco bay pointg was a pertinent subject of infquiry today by the | government attorneys in the suit to dis- | solve the Unlon Pacifie-Southern Paelfic merger. Counsel for the government wanted to | know from the witness, George W. Luce, | general frelght agent of the Southern Pa- cifle, If the high rate on ties was not due to the fact that the Western Pacific rail- road was bullding a line Into San Francsco and was getting its ties from ‘the Willam- ette valley. 4 1 Mr. Luce denled that his road had any | intention of hindering the new road in| getting the ties. Heo sald that the rate| on all rough lumber had first been raised to $5 and then lowered to $3.10 on complaint of the mill men. The only reason the ad- vanced rate was maintained for ties, he added, was because they were considered a finished commodity able to stand the rate, He admitted, however, that he had néver heard of another instance where this distinction was made. Mr. Luce testified that the Southern Pa- cific had never solicited Portland freight traffic in San Francisco, but he admitted that it might have been dome in a small way in Portland. “The Southern Pacific did make one effort to secure the Portland business dur- | ing the rate war,’ he satd, “but gave up the attempt in disgust.” General Traffic Manager R. B. Miller of the Oregon Ralirond and Navigation company, did w.ot like the use of the word “subsidized” today when General Counsel Severance, in the Unfon Pacifcl merger hearing, aeked the witness if it was not a fact that the Oregon Rallroad and Navigation ecompany Imd subsidized & competing steamship compapy to Induce it to maintain the water rate between the two coast ports. After objecting to the word “subsidized” the witness replied: From the New_ York World. A Privileged Game. SINGLE | | WILL WATCH RATES KEENLY Omaha Commercial Club to Keep Congressmen Posted. INTERSTATE LAW NOW INVOLVED Special Attention to Be Pald to the Commodity HRates to Omaha and Other Rates from This Cliyi Representatives in.congress of Nebraska and Iowa will be kept Informed by the Commercial club as to the action of the Strong Efforts to End Strike in Philadelphia ) Prominent Business Firms Bringing Pressure to Bear on Traoc- tion Company, PIILADELPHIA, Pa., March on the Philadelphla Rapld Transit company to bring an end to the strike. The big de- partment stores, Which have suffered from | —power- | ful influences are being brought to bear FIREMEN VOTE T0 STRIKE| Union Pacific Men Will Quit Unless Given Concessions. MORE PAY IS ONE DEMAND| Have Completed Their Vote, hut Do Not Give 1t Out TiIl Others o Are Announced from | Chicago. Mot Vi 7, £ cory WEATHER FORECAST. For Nobraska fi,.-.r For lowa—Partly clondy I'or weather report sce page 2. TWO CEN PINCHOT AND WILSON CLASH Former Forester Says He Had Con- sent of Secretary to Write Dolliver Letter, HE IS FLATLY CONTRADICTED Head of Departjent Says He Never Saw the Note. RONALD'S LETTER BROVGHT IN Communication from Ballinger’s Part. ner Basis of Falsehood Charge. SENT IT TO PRESIDENT TAFT Admits Had Proviously Written President Trae Statement of Case—Conversation with Prestdent Barred, Secretary WASHINGTON chot and § Mareh 1.—Gifford Pin- reretary of Agriculture Wilson | clasiied dramatically before the Ballinge Pinchot Investigation committee this aft- ernoon.. Mr. Pincliot asserted that he ses cured Secretary Wilson's permission to write to Senator Dolliver, Secretary Walson, taking the stand, de- clared with great emphasis he never did and never would have consented to the writing of such a letter. Me never saw the letter or heard of It until read in the senate. There was a surprising development in the Investigation when Gifford Pinchot announced to the committee that he | based his charge that Secretary Ballinger had been guilty of making statements to the president that were absolutely false in three esentlal particulars, not upon a 18t~ ter from Mr. Balllnger himself, but upon a letter written by J. T. Ronald, a former law partner of Mr. Ballinger, to Dr. Lyman Abbbit. Mr. Pinchot sald a copy of this letter, with annotations, was forwarded by Mr. Ballinger to the president. Pinchot admitted when questioned by the committee that the three statements in the Ronald letter which he claimed to be false had previously been covered by a letter written by Mr. Balllnger himself to the president, In which Mr. Ballinger had stated what the witness admitted was o true statement of the facts, Mr. Pinchot sald he did not attempt to reconcile these two facts. Before this development the interest of the morning sesslon had centered in the announcement by Mr. Pinchot that he would not prees for a decislon as to whether or not he should be allowed to give his version of the conversations with President Taft and the Introduction in evi- dence by Pinchot of a long letter written to _him by President 'I’An.\n_l-nlemlver s b+ vopriioy ke In this letter the president denounces Union Pacific firemen have completed the strike question, and, their vote on Glavis as dlsingenious, warned Mr. Pinchot agalnst making Glavis' cause his own, de- clared he was sorry Mr. Pinchot did not landiggin’ anticipation of water, to railroads ‘in attempting to Increase the|tho strike along with the thousands of | */thOUBh the result is still a secret, it|nave the same confidence and trust in Mr. state treasurer, his time belng. out next b which up this time, {s yét to come, s ¢ “The government owes these people gome conslderation and I hope the senate will_set the ball rolling by passing my bill,” sald Mr. Burkett in conclusion/ The senate, however, thought the amendment should be adopted, and the bill was passed in that shape. As It I8, It Is a great concession to the settlers and will go fer' toward relleving the situation. Willlam Di Jamieson, representing the Bighth Towa, district, today announced def- initely he would not be a candidate for re- nomination. It was Jamleson who de- feated fowa's vetetan congressman, Colo- nel W. P. Hepburn. Jamieson put over Colonel “Pete” by a scant plurality of 310 votes. Senator Gamble today secured the pas- sage through the senate of his bill increas- in gthe limit of cost of the public bullding “at Sloux Falls from $100,000 to $190,000. Segtor Warren today introduced a bill appropriating $15,000- for construction of a public bullding at Casper, Wyo., on a site already owned by the government. Representatives Townsend of Michigan ay Introduced the Burkett bill to pro- mla the.safety of employes and travelers Upon railfonds by compelling rallroads to equip thelr locomotives with safe and suft- January. Previous to that time he wad several times elected county treasurer of Boone county, where he has lived for many years. Before that he was a member of the board of county comrhissioners of that county. Mr. Bain is a farmer and owns many hundreds of acres of Boone county land. Raining Hard Along the Ohio People in Lowlying Districts Flee from Threatened Floods— Hudson Also Up. COLUMBUE, 0., March 1.—Reports fromn Marletta tcday state that it s raining hard along the Ohio river and that people in the low-lying districts are leaving their homes. The, Ohlo registered 20.6 feet and was rising three-tenths of a foot per hour, NEW YORK, March 1.—Floods along the rivers today with raln still falling. The Hudson at Albagy was only five feet below its twenty-one-foot record nise. PITTSBURG, Pa., March 1.—Danger from able hollers and appurtenances thereto, The secretary of the interlor has af- firmed the decislon of the commissioner of the general land office In the case of the appeal of Johyn A. Nugent in holding for cancellgtion his homestead entry upon tha) contest of Willam 1. Hall, located in th¥XNorth Platte land district, Rural earriers appointed are lows: Nebraska—Howell, route Olsen, earrier; no substitute; route 1, Walter E. Clarke, Peter, substitute, . lowa—Castana, route 4, Charles B. Nutt, carrier, Henry Carlson, substitute; Irwin, route Henry H. Buthmann, carrier, . Loule Buthmann, substitute; Monticello, route §, L. E. Seaton, carrier, no substi- tute; Spragueville, route 1, Hiram G. Gib- son, cartler, no substitute; Stockport, .Toute 1, By Wheatley, carrler, Caleb W. Wheatley, substitute, Sputh Dakota—Altamoht, route 1, Henry J. Pring, barrier, no substitute; Parkston, route 3, W. Benson, carrler, no sub- stitute. The First National bank og Hecla, 8. D., has ‘been authorized to begin business with $85,00 capital. ¥ B. Gannon is pres- identi John Yunker, vice president; D, . T, Lane, cashler, as fol- 1, Ole C. Walworth, carrier, Fred \ — Y ROMANCE OF LONG STANDING : ENDS IN A DOUBLE CRIME Ohio M. 00tn Swweetheart of Youth Decause She Refuses to Marey Him, CHICAGO, M, Mareh ,1.—A romance which beghn years ago in the little town of Dillonvale, ©. ended bere today In a sulcide. amd probable murder. Frank Marsh, 8 years old, who is #aid to be a member of a prominent Ohlo famlily, after probably fatally wounding Grace Hiil, shot hiwselt and fi. found dead in the apart- nig of the Joung woman at 2222 Wabash ave: e, The gouple are sald to have been sweet- hegrts in Dillonyale, The young woman left tho town and &fter a long search Marsh 1s 2a1d to have found her in Chi last evening. In her perfods of oon.cm ness at A hospitdl the woman sald Marsh entreated her to marry him and return to their former home. On her refusal she de- clares, hé shot her aud himselt. The woman sald she had married since leaving Dulonr and that sie Bad & ohlld seversl years ® {extreme Migh water In Greater Plttsburg |ana environs at this time is now. past. | Shipping and’water-front interests aro safe. | TIFFIN, O, March 1.—The big ice gorge |above the water works dam broke ut 1 o'clock this moming and Mechanicsburg, | the factory dlstrict, I8 inundated. The pbo- ple fled from thelr homes. IPETER \TO VISIT _ RUSSIA First Reception by Other Monarch « Tendered to the King of | Servin. ST. PETERSBUR, March. 1.—The Novoe Viremya announces authoritatively that King Peter of Servia will visit St. Poters- burg this spring. This will be his first re- ception by a forelgn soverelgn since his ac- | cesslon and probably will lead to a general | litting of the ban by European courts from which King Peter has been excluded be- elevation to the throne, valleys of the Mohawk and upper Hudson | “We did have an arrangement to put traffic into this line.’ KILLS WOMAN, BEATS FRIENDS ' AND THEN SHOOTS HIMSELF Jealousy in Prompts Store at City. Double K Crim . KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 1.—Mfs. Grace Gayou, aded 19, was shot and killed at a store at 3019 Eaét Eighteenth street in this city last night by Louls Hillson, who then killed himself after he had as- saulted and sevesely beaten Jack Doyle, a rival for Mrs. Gayou's affections. Mrs. Gayou was employed in the store, which s closed for the night. She was entertainlng Doyle In. the store. Hillson gained an entrance by breaking a window. He had seen Doyle Inside and this aroused his jealousy. He clubbed Dgyle with his revolver, then he shot the girl. He then walked to the sidewalx and killed himself, DRIVEN ACROSS GULF ON BARGE WITH TWO DAYS’ FOOD | Peter Nelwon of Galveston Survives Eight-Day Crulse , Before High Wind, GALVESTON, Tex., March. 1—Alone on an empty barge, Peter Nelson was carried across the Gulf of Mexico and landed on the coast of Tamaulipas. It took elght days for the trip, a storm driving the barge rapidly, Nelson had two days rations when he started. He arrived here last night by rail. PANAMA PRESIDENT IS DEAD Heart Disease Takes Jose De Obaldia After a Brief iness. PANAMA, March 1—Jose Domingo De Obaldia, president of Panama, died from | heart disease at. 2:30 o'clogk this after- noon. He had been sick only since last Friday. The new president of Panama will be Dr, cause of the circumstances attending his,C, A. Mendoza, who was elected vice pres- ident in 1508. Why is Officer Out investigating on their own hook went, members of the grand Jury. They came In front of the Jewel theater, a moving pic- turo show on Douglas street near Six- teenth. A flaring sign read “On Tr Lgfe, or Lifting the Mortgage. “Guess we'd better Investigate this,” sald | one member of the grand jury to whom the title appealed. The grand Jury marched up to the doars “Tickets!” demanded a youth attired in a natty uniform. * “‘Why, we"are the grand jury,” cried the investigators in ‘chorus. “‘We are investi- gating ang we don't have to pay." | “You can't get in here It you aln't got| no ticket,” sald the doorman, ungram- matically, but foreibly. 'S:. attacking party withdrew to hold a 1 for ‘His codnell of war. Then what seemed 1o them heavy reinforcements drew up on the scene. Officer Michael McCarthy of the Omaha police force hove in slght, his club swing- Ing by his side, and & burnished shield pro- clalming the majesty of, the law/ McCarthy . Before the Grand Jury?| “Hey, officer!" cried a juryman, Want you to pass us Into this theate “Who might you be?’ inquired the pa- trolman, “We might be the Interstate Commerce commission,” replied one of the jurors, “but we wre the grand jury, or part of it, anyhow. “Well, what do’ you wan oftider. You tell the theater to’let us in.” ish down in your pockets for a dime and pay your way,” retorted the polige- man. ‘“That's the only way for yes to get inside I know of." This was Saturday night. Sunday the grand jury rested from its labors and burned with Its wrongs. ' Monday, reporters were notified that at noon the grand jury would make a state- ment as to “how It was handled by the police.”” But at noon it was deeided to &ive out no statement. Tuesday, Officer McCarthy was sum- moned to gy‘c‘nr before the awgust body. ‘What fate ts him ls unguesaable. 'we Inquired the commodity ratus ‘to Omaha and the ether rates from this city. This 1s'to be done because the Inter- state Comnferce law is now in thé lime- light and because President Taft wants its scope enlarged) By the present law the | ratiroads are able to make a basing point or a gateway Wherever they choose. The information will also be used in the Investigation into the increase of the cost of living. If $10 a car is added to all the dressed meat products which are sent éast from Omaha, it will add materfally to the cost of edibles during the year 'in the cast, If the eastern price fs Increased It will naturally increase the cost of these products at home. Considerable Interest attaches to the rate war because this Is the firat time the Great Western has had an opportunity to show its hand under its new ownership. When President Stickney was at the heim he could be relied upon to protect the western markétd and proved’ himself a friend of these markets on several occasions. It seems to be' different since J. P. Morgan '! bought the road under the hammer for $13,000,000, or about $9,000 a mile. When the |trial came Morgan was found lned up | with the other big roads and not sticking {0 the western markets, as did President Stickney. South Omaha in Lime. The South Omaha Commercial club, at a special meeting held Tuesday, declared for co-operation with the Commercial club of Omaha and the committee named by the Live Stock exchange, In action to be taken in regard to Omaha's shipping rates. A committee composed of T. W. Sears, T. J. O'Nell and F. A. Broadwell was named to work with the committee of these two organizations. Resolutions endorsing the stand taken by | the Omaba Commercial club and the Live | Stock exchange, were passed, A. F. | Stryker, secretary of the National Live | Stock exchange, appeared before the club to present the shipping situation and ite rolation to the business and industries of | South Omaha. \ 'AGREEMENT ON B. & 0. ROAD Confterence with Telegraphers Resuits | in Compromise for Ralse in Pay. BALTIMORE, March 1.—Conferences be- tween officlals of the Baltimore & Ohio rafiroad and representatives of telegraphers of the system culminated today in an agree- ment, The operators were granted from § 10 9 per cent increase in pay and valuable concessions. About 1,50 operators are af- fected. Easter is in sight. It is not too early to begin to prepare for it. There will be hundreds of things necessary. Hundreds of dealers have received Easter finery and are ready to'display it. In the ‘‘For Easter Column’’ in the Want Ad Page, will be found their announcements. About everything required is listed there. Have you looked them over? ! | today. | some time ago. other business houscs, are known to have demanded that the transit company shall not involve the city in a ‘great general Tabor struggle. A conference is being held in the offices of the company at which are present Charles O. Kruger, president of the com- pany; State Senator Clarence Wolf, vic president; George H. Earle, jr., the city's representative on the board of directors, and Richard Y. Cook, a prominent inancier. There is a general appeal for arbitration today. Newspapers: demand It; various or- ganizations are clamoring for it, and citi- zons generally are calling for an end of the trouble at once. Important developments are looked for during the day. [ Garven Demands Beef Trust Beoks New Jersey Prosecutor Asks Court to Order Production of the Minutes. TRENTON, N. J., March 1—Prosecutor Garven of Hudson county has asked the state supreme court to compel the blg beef companies to bring thelr minutes of directors' meetings within the jurisdiction of New Jersey. WASHINGTON, March 1.—Representa- tive Henry of Texas introduced a bill in the house today the effect of which, If passed, would make the officers of the “Beef trust" fugitives from justice unless they responded to the summons of the New Jersey court in which they were in- dlcted, FOR INCOME TAX IN ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE Lower Body of Legislature Passes Resolution for Amendment Al- ready Endorsed by Senate, SPRINGFIELD, Ii., March 1.—Senate Jjoint resolution No. 7, ratifying the pro- posed corgressional amendment of the fed- eral constittion to provide for a national income tax, was adopted in the house The senate passed the resolution the house passed the senate bill providing for fire fighting apparatus In Illinols coal mines. is the general feeling among rallroad employes that the engine men voted al- Ballinger as he did and lastly declared that controversies between the departments in By an overwhelming vote | most hence. C. V. MeLaughlin of Omaha, general chalrman of the grievance committes of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firomen and Englnemen, left for Chicago with the ballots of the Unlon Pacific men packed | in his vallse. They will be canvassed in Chicago with the votes of the men of fifty-seven other roads operating west of Chlcago, and the result made known March 7. Committees of the Brotherhood of Rall- way [Trainmen and the Order of Rallway | Conductors are still in session at the Mil- Jard hotel. It is the_opinfon of the train- |men ana conductors that the firemer have voted, almost to the man, to walk out un- less the rallroads comply with thelr de- mands for increased pay. The original request for senfority rights and better wages was made November 1, and, after a long session of the rallway managers and superintendents, which lasted almost to February, the men wers turned d6wn with the answer that the radlroads “would be willlng to submit the proposition to arbitration. W. L. Park of |Omaha, superintendent of the Union Pa- cific, was a member of the committee of railway managers, The firemen asked for a ralse of 10 per cent In wages for men in the passenger service and 12 ‘per cent in frelght and switching. They also asked that they be ®given jurisdiction over engineers who re- tained Membership in the firemen's order. The exceutive committee of the trainmen clected these officers at sthelr meeting Monday afternoon; Chairman, Charles Bogue of North Platte; vice chalrman, F. E. Hueston of Jupction City, Kan.; secre- tary, Edward Gregory of Laramle, Wyo. Mr. Bogue succeeds himself as general chalrman, His salary will be $2,500 _per ?fim "THREE-CENT FARES AR| Out from Under Cleveland Car L Recelvership unanimously to strike one week CLEVELAND, O., March 1-+Three-cent railway for with municlpal supervision of | the car lines became a reality here today. | The receivership of the local traction lines, | whieh has existed since November 12, 105, was Jifted, and’ thé Cleveland Rallway company took over the property under an ordinance recently approved at a refer- endum, Ten-Dollar Hogs and Then Some--In the Big Markets CHICAGO, March 1.—Hogs maintained their rocord of yesterday, selling on the local market for $10 per hundred welght today. INDIANAPOLIS, March 1.—Another new record was made In the hog market today when the high mark of §10.25 per hundred was reached. PITTSBURG, March 1.—Another high record was hung up at the stock yards today when prime heavywelght hogs brought $10.15 per hundred. BIQUX CITY, March 1.—Hogs went up 10 cents today, selling. at §9.60. 8T. JOSEPH, Mo., March 1.—Hogs sold at the South St. Joseph stock yards to- day for $9.75 per hundred pounds, higher than the record made Monday by 10 cents. ST. LOUIS, Mo, March 1-Hogs were #old atsthe stock yards here today for 10 & hundred welght, 16 cents higher than the {record. established yestorday. ] KANSAS CITY, March 1—Hoy here to- day sold at $975, an advance of 10 cents | over yesterday. CINCINNATI, O., March 1.—The price of | hogs went to $10.06 per 100 pounds today. This s an advance of 15 cents over the | price recorded yesterday and is the highest since the eivil war, Hogs reached $9.65 at the South Omaha market Tuesday, an adv, e of 10 cents leged former assistant and labor, in which Mr. McHarg was rey the Interference of the forest Pinchot rea Roosevelt ol secretary of the Interlor to co-operate with the forestry service as to lands in forest reserves and to adopt the service's finding: as far as possible, Glavis once before, Glavis Mr. Pinchot sald, and spoke of publishing Washington must cease. He referred In this particular to an al- Interview with Ormsby McHarg, secretary of commerce ported to have sald that Theodore Rooses velt, “must have thought himself the lora.” Approved Glavis’ Course. When the public hearing opened Attorney Pepper began to question Mr. Pinchot as to the sequence of events following July 1, 1909, when the former forester sald he first heard of the Cunningham clalms through torest heard what his subordinates in Washing- | ton had done at Glavis' request looking to & postponen.ent of the hearings of the Cun- ningham claims he approved thoroughly. officials in the west. When he Asked If there was anything unusual in ice Mr. a letter signed by President May 17, 1805, directing the The witness next told of his Interviews with Glavis at Spokane on August 9, 1909, The meeting was not by appointment and Mr. Pinchot sald he possibly had met he was not sure. lald all his evidence before him, the whole story. Sent Glavis to President. “I was deeply Impressed by what Glavis #ald and urged him to go to the president. 1 did this because I thought & scandal would arise, as it since has arisen, and I thought the \president ought to hi an opportunity to protect himself and his ad- minstration.” After being In Spokane, Mr. Findhot sald he went for a vacation off the southern coast of California with Senator Fling, The witness here read Into the evidence the full toxt of a letter written to him oy President Taft from Beverly, September 13, 1909, at the same time he wrote to Secre- tary Ballinger, exonerating him from the Glavis charges. Mr. Pinchot also read his reply to the president, dated November 4, 199, in which he renewed his criticlsm of Secretary Bal- linger. Text of President's Letter, The president's letter to Mr. Plnchot in full was as follows: \ “BEVERLY, Mass., Sept. 13, 100.—My Dear Gifford: I enclose herewith a letter which 1 am about to send to Secretary Ballinger for such use as he sees fit, in reference to the charges made by Glavis against Secretary Balllnger, Plerce, Den- nett and Schwarts. I have reached this conclusion only after a full consideration of Glavls' statement and thelr answers to It; but I never reached a couclusion based on a stronger conviction than this one i “Glavis seems to be & man who has ac- quired but one idea and who has allowed his suspicion to grow to such & polnt us to be altogether disingenious in the statement of evidence which he adduces to sustain his attack upon his superiors, I huve made no reference to you in this letter, which will probably be made publio, because I do not wish to bring you intg the controversy at all. I have advised Mr, Ballinger and his subordinates that I wish your name left out of the matter in thelr answers and references, should it become neceszary, as is pot unlikely, to send the whole record to congroess. “I am aware from the tone of your letter and from your eonversation with me that over all previous high records. The sheep market also broke previous records, lambs selling for § l you aid not give to Mr. Balliuger the con- fidence and trust which L do, and which 1n this respect I think youlde Mr, Bullingey