The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 9, 1909, Page 7

7 such claim, within two yoars next after he shall have i APP c 1) PEOPLE to be such officer, clerk, or employe THE PRESIDENT WHITEWASHES BALLINGE A Of that employment, President TAtt has sald In the interval, when you were not holding such office, one (Concluded) Mees 6 b of the Cunningham coal clatmants consulted you tn regard to the ~calme were not bonafide, My report of thie matter! PSPect of wecuring a patent upon the claims, and invited your at | e < tention to the character of certain evidence which was being used to Impeach the validity of the claims by Special Agent Glavin You accepted the employment; visited & f wine ie ee stated that on want had refused me an affidavit! we that Me, Ballinger himself had told some of the claimants F tement until the charges were made, IN ORDER THAT retary Garfield and Com | aer THE STAR—TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, allowed bona-fide entries to consolidate, and that | 1909 they could get around that On the following day Mr. Dennett, reports in conformity to was sent to me on May 24, lavis then tells of the make lott my d referenc tary Pierce of the department of the tons were technical and sh®uld be to Allow the claims to be taken by | Warranted.) L,was then In a very ant my |no hope of recovery | were fraudulent supertors were against me and were gol his decision, diffieult pos did not see how in @ conversation, told me to and at my sequest a irecting me go to report « of the Ann interior, who ruled that the garded, He Cunningbam canes to instant Secre objec ale the pe was un law was 100,000 I knew what the If I accepted their ruling, of Alaska coal lands were slipping from the United States with ng to claimants, many of whom The chance for the wise regulation of Alaska coal lands urged by President Roosevelt would be gone. WICKERSHAM OVERRULES BALLINGER. Without consulting with my supertors, I Wickersham and stated the Mr. Ballinger to withdraw my report, which showed that if the Pierce to the eter matter to matter to him went to Attorney General I understand that be Mr. Ballinger requested me decision wa asked him correct the government had no ground to object to any of the Alaska claime. | Ten days question withdrew it is long, that the later no sta T KNOW WHAT THEY HAD TO MEET, but that | missioner Dennett; presented the question to them in reapect to which — | > ca thie statement. Mr, Ballinger mever commented to| YO" had been consulted; found that there was no probability of , x amie of my report securing @ patent of the claims without presenting them under = ea yoo?, 1 wa Washington, and Mr. Ballinger recent remedial legtwlation imposing conditions which the claim ares gifriend of of the claimants, but that I was| ®8t# were either unwilling or unable to meet, You so advised your to go ahead and all these claims, no matter} CHents. To pay your traveling expenses and for your services esut, He then put mo in charge of the Investigation of] YO" Teeelved $250 and no more xa coal claims The inference which Mr. Glavis seeks to have drawn to 7, 1908, ten days afterwards, Mr. Dennett, assistant your discredit tn this connection ts that you, while commissioner rpatitied me, 4s investigator of the whole field, that] of the general land office, came into possession of facts concerning | claims had been approved for patent on the Love| the socalled Cunningham group of coal land claims, which made it Improper for you to use such facts after your resignation in GLAVIS IS IN DILEMMA, the course of securing the patents, 1 find the fact to be that, as pe Conningdam claims had then gone to patent, 5,000 acres of| commissioner, you acquired no knowledge in respect to the claims 7 limos. accor Mr. Cunningham's expert, 91,000,000} C@Pt that of the most formal character, and nothing which wae ne to the Cunningham group without! [8 Properly known to your clients when they consulted you Cenataghém @itins were gahesabl T do not quite understand the president's statement that Mr.| saved the Alaska coal cases. tants must have known the sus-| [’ager had only the most “formal knowledge” of the Cunningham | Mr. Ballinger and hi ame 0 : | case ® Mr, Ballinger had al) the knowledge anybody in the department ey frat dilemma. I did not wish to protest to Secretary | had, because Special Agent Jones and | told him all we knew. Mr. | was | Ballinger knew that he had revoked the order to patent Mr. Cunning gainst the action of the commissioner, and 1} Ipterior Garfield axe a ham’s claims on account of O00 acr 4 1 lands go to the Cunningham | i of my protest that | believed they were not tke to vee 5,000 4 bd bona-fide entries. er he « wlent when | believed ¢ ' | I understand why the pute so eiately to imm: the fact that Mr. Ballinger’ received only $250 for servicea Ballinger, agalns( The ce " , the Cunningham claims to patent was almost tmmediately | xpenses of a trip from Seattle to Ohio and Washington do not president much stress on the letter, of the patents and direct am Com and WANC order Ma oe March 1, 1908, I again took up the work on ‘thease ven if that be credit Mr. Ballinger waa then attorney for other Alaska coal claimants, and according to sworn information made to porder of Mr. Dennet clogram and letter, I wae taken | '" the course of my investigation, for at least one congressman | Gsks cares In May, 1908, and ordered on other work Tha; Teremed Wn Altea: sect lands, x fee'this action was lack of tunds. I reported by telegram | In October, 1908, I waa directed to continue tnvestigations of the} the investigation would greatly lessen the government's} Anche coal end canes, watt March, 1008. cen In March, 1909, Mr. Ballinger became secretary of the tntertor wecure m succeeding Hon. James R. Garfield. On March 10 on. H (six days after Mr. R URGES ee isola gra March, | Ballinger took office) 1 received @ telegram from Mr, Dennett, then | retired as report ner ot o ; ssa “4 5 : more commissioner of the general land office, directing me to submit at eg ooh gelatine scttb mubiie tanag | once, SOmplete reports upon the statue of my investigation of the appea fore the house committee on ic lands jal " * SUMED sah, Gaon geccing. te (oe eeren of bin eintoment, jaska coal cases, On April 21, 1909, | received a telegram from| | the general land office, saying that the Alaska coal investigation must | be comple within 60 days. The chiof of field service and I had agreed that a field examination of the Alaska coal lands in question was necessary to show whether the | a the last section of the bill provides for a consolidation and does not call for the proof of good faith of the ee location. ‘There are & great many charges pending i.ims in the various groups were being devel loped separately or to-| 3 See oratcan yore o baron on at sey gether. If worked together, that would be highly Indicative that the | . 7 , ‘s entries were made with that intent. Such Investigation could take) fer taking edvantage of these coal measures. It resulted) o09 only in summer. 1 therefore protested repeatedly to the land Involved in conditions which, upon the records of the ‘are a technical violation of the statute, and it is a situation be cleared up. In my estimation it has not been the ‘of the people in the field nor In Alaska to put themselves in office that the cases should be postponed until fall, BAD LEGAL POINT COMES UP. In May, 1909, I came on to Washington their own interest. Mr, Schwarts and I conten would bé treated as primary entries. rds, it would mB shandonment of the old conditions which have made a great @ifficnity tm the matter of the disposition of the land in many ed that this act did not have the effect lof validating fraudulent entries previously made, and pointed out that if it did, the government must lose all the Alaska coal cases Mr. Dennett expressed the contrary view. When Mr. Ballinger made this statement (before the committee Jands) he was urging a change in the law by which fraudulent would be made valié—by which the Cunningham group and eka claims would have received patents to practically 100,000 coal fields. BALLINGER BECOMES ATTORNEY. short time after he resigned, Mr. Ballinger became at Cunningham group of claims. at that time, aad now is, im force, a statute of the which says: Bet be lawful for any person appointed after the first 1872, as an officer, clerk, or employe in any of the | to act as counsel, attorney, er agent for prosecuting Pagainst the United States which was pending in either ments while he was such an officer, clerk, or employe, Manner, nor by any means, to aid in the proseeation attorney-gene This letter summarized the evidence | had secured | In these cases of conspiracies te defraud the government. the Interior department. Mr, Pierce informed me that Mr. Ballinger | of his employment as attorney for the Cunningham | of law was not to be submitted to the attorney general; that the opinion | me to the legal department of the interior department. E. C. Finney, who had been made aseistant to the secretary by Mr | Ballinger, and F. W. Clements of the legal department of the interior de | partment, were drawing up a deciston conforming to Mr. Dennett's view | that under the new law the former frandulent entries could be made good | and consolidated. My opinion was asked, and | said that the law only Nov. 9.—Thow-| tor Otter 490-foot lay discov- this week. Re- good at Jenared. { ever may happen, your home, your wife, your will be cared for. at half price; assurance that there will be the Life Insurance left to your family, if you should not live. the application and thus Natural of Painless ition. rely intende until the fe and the lady « not a nd a ort nm nature je mune $y sp pWrinkies line st physique acing an erect movements Nature has no 5 Mo fil ‘Material, ing in with Rbacese Ordinary and Industrial policies. Ages 1 to 70. Incorporated JOHN F. DRYDEN, President. 7 Fie will @ valu Well as a great Both Sexes. Amounts, $15 to $100,000. ts, vein chem G. M. Swartzbaugh, Supt., | GATION, and you will feel that you are a better man than before. You can look the world in the face, knowing that what- Demonstrate to Your Family that Your Love for Them is Sincere attorney-general and I shall not quote ruled the Pierce decision on every point, upheld my contention, and | delivered the Suffice it to say it over an opinion on it BALLINGER AGAINST INVESTIGATION OF CONGRESSMAN. One I have no going to other documentary In my conference with Mr, @ one of the congre the Alaska coal cases | had sworn testimony. THERE HAD BEEN TOO MUCH OF THIS SORT OF THING, AND | THAT THAT WAS A MATTER FOR CONGRESSIONAL In consequence, after consultation with other government | officials, | decided not to see any congr: fact arose on my evidence) men, visit Ballinger, to Washington 1 stated to him that | was regarding whose age ge zB “ HE REPLIED but | afterward found man; out—from sworn testimony obtained by me and now in the land office— THAT MR. BALLINGER HAD, ABOUT A YEAR BEFORE, REPRE SENTED A CONGRESSMAN IN ALASKA COAL MATTERS, (Glavin here continues his story of his fight to get the cases con that the hearings must go-ahead at once; of the ridan to assist him, and th 8h and, of his final appe brought the desired postponement of the hearings. from Commissioner Dennett to the chief of the field servete, | tinued till he could get a field examination; | to the H, ae he still protested, department of agriculture, of the flat order from above appointment of Agent to supersede which finally Galvis then quotes “Sheridan has gone over the cases thoroughly and thinks that the evidence which it is Moped to gain from Kennedy's visit be very material, I have concurred, anticipating your acquiescence by The forestry can be blamed for the action jot in me | bring against is very much enthused on the proposition of canceling them ali Glavi your telegram to me. the matter, “Sheridan has taken charge of the Cunningham case, and imp: very favorably. I think he can handle it against any rival th and therefore ft 1 “ee him. The rest of the Alaska will until the character 8 best to postpone October y may Alaska cases are in a bad mess and getting the land back in cold storage, and this is just what will happén uniess congress helps out.” of everything we have done for him, and it looks as if he were degen our favors by not standing by us as he ought.” It was at this time that I laid the facts in my possession the Cunningham cases be Mr. Schwartz and |, by direc-\to treat my report as a charge of criminality. tion of Mr. Ballinger, drew up a letter submitting this question to the! nak do I make it now ‘The president's letter is a defense of Mr. Ballinger and Mr. Dennett | | from-charges not made in my report to him On May 18 or 19 I was sent for by Assistant Secretary Pierce of | either Mr. Ballinger or Mr, Dennett, but the Alaska coal cases. cause | knew that these cases were to come before Mr. Dennett | did not wish to have anything more to do with the cases on account |and that there was no appeal from his decision save to Secretary Ballin- i that the question | ger, because Secretary Ballinger had stated he would not act in th efore the president The president has chosen I made no such charge I was not investigating (canes and because the next ranking officer of the department was Assist- | was going to be written by the Interior department, and he referred ant Secretary Pierc who had signed the decision which Mr. Wicker-|and end with the following sham had overruled, | believed the Alaska coal cases were in danger. The president has seen in this nothing but overzeal and Ineubordination | on my part, and an opportunity I have not been informed what answer the department of the to praise the secretary of the interior has made to my statement, but the public will judge whether I am right in thinking the Alaska coal claims are still in danger. family, When you are insured—if you have capital, and want to invest it in your business—you can do it with the money When you see a Prudential Agent, hear his story, sign a Stock Co CES IN SEATTLE. PRU a refusal | (and of this} INVESTI.) him; | as follows:) | regarding | intertor } “YOU'RE A NIGE LITTLE BOY BUT IT WON'T DO YOU KNOW” Billie Burke to Stricken Freshman. (By United Prows,) here he BERKELEY, Cal ov, 9.—Leo exhibit bi frat brothers proudly juests to hi enviow | Westcott of ©. freshman, t* | and he buys wine sad flowers and back bucking into his neglected | jewels—and when the show moves | philosophy and his history north—-why 80 does Leo He is not going to marry pretty! And Leo meant it all the time Billie Burke, the getr But Billie and Mildred He not going to marry prett Why, it’s foolish, Httle boy. Mildred Bartlett, Bille nie You're a nice kid, and we like you, | He isn't going to marry anybody. and hope you do well, and some He denies it, Billie Burke denies it. day you'll find some nice girl you'll Mildred denies it marry and be very happy with, and | other case of “the man who! you mustn't feel badly now because thought she meant {t”—that ts the | it won't do at all, and after awhile inside story of the case, according | you'll realize it yourself—" and all to the people who are closest to that kind of stuff. the three-cornered drama And Leo Westcott goes home Billie Burke smiled, and Mildred| Billie Burke bas had noblemen smiled——and Leo Westcott, fresh-|and men of long lineage and long man, foolish, as all freshman are— | purses follow her tratn—she has | thought he had made a conquest been a relgnnig beauty in London or two conquests, It would simply she knows the game of hearts—she jbe a case of looking over the field {x sorry for this poor kid, but it carefully and deciding which would never do, you know So he orders out his big touring) So that’s all—except Leo West car and he waite nightly smiling at |cott, with a wet towel over his head, the stage entrance, and he plans hunting for forgetfulness in bis jlittle suppers at his frat house,’ Mietsche and his Macauley. Mexico, a journalistic-financetal-le gal adventurer, in two bank fail ures, briefly in one penitentiary, a srHsrerd little longer in a f al house of (Concluded. ) | de tention, marriages, children, com ~~~ | mon law wives. George gave him ps come forth with a clean bill of | co1f a reputation that no man could a ter, The father, Dr. Janson,| be proud of, and as a result will ta pen shown unclean in words | lose his present wi Mrs. Janson }and thonght, obscene in {nclina- | George, and his law partner, Attor- |tion and rebellious to the general | 2¢Y Garretson, who 1s attorney for Mra orge. George's own testi | laws of society in matters of matrl- | mony has brought loss to him on all mony. He has soffe ly | sides, and yet he did it that his at the hands of witn wife might have her desire—her 1 son. The mother of the boy has had raked over, a marriage to that with Dr. Janson! brought out, the fact that she left, husband and a five-year-old son for Dr. Janson, and not the least of her triale has been the opening of her eyes to the career of her pres- ent husband, Charles &. George Laid Bare Her P. The present Mrs. Janson, former actress-affinity, came into court in | George Will Give Up Much. George even went farther. Yes- afternoon he addressed the and announced his willing- fo relinquish Mrs. George, should the court desire to make that a condition of Mrs. George hav- ing her child. | Both parties to the case ha laid their naked reputations befor Judge Frater, to his evident dis- taste and quite possible conviction her past previous | that he will decide that neither alt of her d laid bare as As of pe geet he Ecol ‘the father nor mother is a fit person pest B " ’ to have the boy. The case will afftalty of & married man, to whom bore a son, She has heard |Probably be concluded today. hereif denounced as all that is a FE » In womankind, and did it that WORST STORM SINCE her husband should gain possession and consulted with Seere j of bis son by another woman. | 1900 RA’ ip the laws, Dut they have been in a position where they tary Ballinger, Land Commissioner Dennett, and the chief of the field THE LAND OFFICE TELLS THE TRUTH. P ves “ae ‘ak gooey 1 : ES 5S by Virtue of the circumstances, accommodate themselves to service. A question came up of a statute of 1908, allowing consolida j In another letter to the chief of the field service, Mr. Dennett wrote: | out a devious trail from Canada to| Nomen, ‘Alain Nov 9.—The ‘ané with this jast provision they could transmute their tion of Alaska coal entries to the amount of 2,560 acres where the | “Gigyie hae these coal cases on the brain and can not see ANYthiNg DU | i | Worst storm since 1900 is raging suggested by this bill, and th n inal entries wer de b e * fl here today. The water front is ettries Into the form sux x a git nd those new original entries were made by the “entrymen in good faith” and in| just one line. 1 have told him how it looks to us, and have reminded him’ ASK FOR LIBERAL wrecked. "A numbet of small boats ALASKA LAND LAWS *= sna York ts wrecked at Unalak- lke; the Mary Sachs is aground in & resolution memorializing the}... ota and the Wilkes in United States congress and the |/,'° Sicnow weak secretary of the interior for more |“ 5! liberal laws and restrictions in the patenting of coal ‘ands in Alaska was presented to the Seattle Cham- ber of Commerce at its meeting) |this afternoon. The plutions were originally | Your Nerves . . Your nerves must be fed with pure, jopted by the Chamber of Com- u ee The resolutions tell of the ‘ich blood, or there will be trouble. need for and the possibilities of the Poorly fed nerves are weak nerve: development of Alaskan coal lands, and weak nerves mean-nervousness, the Cordova euralgia, headaches, debility. Weak Chamber of Commerce, that we re- 9¢fves need good food, fresh air, spectfully ask congress to pass and Ayer’s non-alcoholic Sarsaparilla. ‘euch laws, and the department of Make no mistake about this. “Be it resolved, by the interior to make such rules, as! | will encourage the development Siatwy desta hen gin serve and patenting of the coal lands of | pet disastrous when do,nereous Alaska.” fe will tell you THE DENTIAL HAS THE STR GIB THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE CO. OF AMERICA ay by the State of New Jersey HOME OFFICE, NEWARK, N. J. Agents Wanted to write Industrial and Ordinary Life Insurance Good Income—Promotion—Best Opportunities—Now! BRANCH OFFIC INDUSTRIAL ORDINARY DEPT. Northern Bank & Trust Co, Bldg. E, J. Rohrbach, Supt., Lumber Exchange Bldg. ORDINARY DEPT. M, E. Avitt, Mgr., Central ENGTHO RALTAR Prudential Agents are now canvassing in this vicin- ity. 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