The Washington times., 1910-05-19
MiSSive From George w.
Perkins, Of ]. P. Morgan
& Co., Is Missing.
LAWLER SAYS CLAWS
WAS UNTRUTHFUL
Brandeis Declares II Is Necessary
to CTiticise the Letter of
President Taft.

The Congressional investigation Of the
Secretary OF the Interior started OF
with some hez-ed tits between Attorney
Brandeis anC several members Of the
committee today.
Senator Nelson read letter from Sec
retary. Balinger declaring that a search
ot n files had not resulted in locating
any fuItEer letters 20 or from George
Y. Perkins. Of J. p Morgan & Co. nor
any correspondence Of his with the Nor
gan-Gugsenheim syndicate. except nine
letters, all Of which referred 20 the nam
ing OF certain fiorC1s and glaziers in
Alaska These letters were from Per
kins.
Brandeis asked for the dates OF the
letters
'It is extremely important put in
Senator Sutherland with deep sarcasm
did the Department OF the Interior ac-
tually acceed 10 a request BY Afr. Per-
kins as TO the naming 5f these places?'
BranCeis attempted TO explain, but
Senators Sutherland and Nelson and
Representative OIustead all objected.
Finally Brandeis demanded this, and
without waiting for permission called at
I-ntiou 20 the facts that there was one
letter mentioned among the correspond
ence already produced, which was evi-
IDENTIFY missing
At his suggestion Chairman Nelson
finally directed the department to
search again particularly for this mis-
sive-
The letter evidently contained an IN
vitati9n from PEI kins to Secretary Bal
fingers son, Edward TO go 10 Alaska
with him
oscar Lavler. assistant Attorney Gen
eral for the Interior Department was
recalled 10 the stand Tor cross-examin-
a-lon Ev 2ranCe's-
LawleT Admits Bias.
r1----r7-f- +--7- vr-fer.--
task for "evadiI-e'r his calls as TO ti1o
The witness was cool and collected to
day. IN distinct contrast to MS demesnor
upon the stand Tuesday
TIE attornev then reverted again -
Lawler-s frame OF mind when he pre-
pared the memorandum for the Presf-
dent. The witness admitted that he hal
the bias one honest man has against
prepared the draft OF the letter for the
President.
Brsnde.s asked the witness whether
r. was not so that he had not included
able and put in other facts regarding
which there was evidence in the Office
70 the contrary
Senator Sutherland objected immedi-
stely, declaring that the committee had
nothing TO do with whether the Presi-
dents letter was right or wrong Den
Tectly seeking 10 attack the President
Says Cannot Help Criticisiug Taft.
Well" answered Brandeis, u can't
help criticising the tucorrectness Of the
Presidents letter"
LawIer was next called upon by the
attorney TO explain whether or not
Attorney General WickershaTn had men
toned to him. on September II. the fact
. that H n Hoyt a. CLAWS, request, had
I o a Nd
asked for ruling upon the law OF Nay
ZS 1913 The witness said he didn't re-
member anything Of the kind
Next the attorney started on a line OF
queries with the evident idea OF dis
covering whether Lawler assisted the At
torney General IN preparing his famous
summary dated Septen Der II. 1903 At
Denby's request however. he abandoned
this lead
We'll" interjected Nelson. Y had a
suspicion that You might have attempt
ed 10 correct the Attorney General -
Brandeis, TO whom this remark vas
addressed. did not reply
Lawler anticipated another Hne OF
questioning by the attorney, and finally
protested against his Lawler's) compe-
teucy-
Didn't you. then. write that letter.
as II you were President with that
prejudice in pjnd2' asked Brandeis.
NO prejudice answered LawleT. I
knew Claws to be absolutely untrUth-
fuL
Detectives Shadow Writer.
Fred Dennet:, Commissioner Of the
Land Office. was then recalled for fur
ther cross-examination by Brandeis-
The attorney developed the fact that
in one instance at least the Land Office
had directed Government agents to do
detective work in running down a Ger
tain magazine writer who was attack
ing Secretary Eallinger-
In one letter, which bennett said he
thought H. H Schwartz. chief of the
field service, wrote. the writer says re-
garding John l. Matthews, a magazine
writer
Il want to get the skunk on record
Reference was also made to ~
NcGee. one of the members of Roose-
velts former waterways commission, as
q dirty expert of the forest service.
These comments were made in a let
ter to S J. Coulter chief Of one OF
the Land Office stations, in connection
with a request to look into a certain
stock company in which Matthews was
interested.
c. II. Harrison, chief of field division
1t Boise, was also ordered to stop OF
at St. Louis and investigate Matthews
! corporation
Nelson and Braudeis Clash.