The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-14
Prosecution Declares
Case Against Him
Is Clear.
DEFENSE SAYS
HE'S A MARTYR
Claims Secretary Is Victim oi
Plot concocted by Pincllot,
Garfield and Others-B6h
Sides File Their Briefs in
Famous Government
Row.

Washington, D. c.. June is.-Briefs
were filed by the attorneys for the
prosecution" and defense. with the
Ballinger-P -Pinchot investigating COM
mittee to-day.
The committee did not meet to-day,
but will assemble next Saturday to
prepare for its deliberations.
Attorney Brandels. counsel for for
mer Special Agent CLAWS. and At
torney Pepper. counsel for former
Forester Pinchot, contended In their
briefs that the evidence adduced dur
Ing the Investigation has shown Sec
retary Ballinger to be unfit TO admin
lister the AFFAIRS Of the public domain
because of an obvious leaning toward
policy OF distribution. instead OF
conservation, of the peoples land. They
condemn his attitude toward the
champions OF conservation and charge
MIN with causing embarrassment 10
the Presiden; and loss to the people.
Equally insistent that Mr.. Ballin-
gers actions in and out of the Interior
Department have not been open 10
criticism, Attorney Vertrees. counsel
Tor the secretary. declares that none
OF the accusations made against him
mas been sustained by presentation OF
facts. -
Conspiracy .Afoot.
Mr.. Vertrees attempts 10 snow oy
conspiracy afoot to secure Mr.. Bal
lingers removal from office because
he dIsapproved OF the so-calied Gar
Held policies"
Pinchot, Jones, kerby, Hoyt. Newell or
Davis, has told the truth, the secre,
tarv OF the Interior is dishonored and
unfit for Office" declares l'.e httorhey
record their detinite conviction that tho
immediate care of the pubic domain Is
now in unsafe hands, says , !. At,ormey 1o sy
George W. Pepper, counsel for 1orner
Forester Clifford Plnchet-
The Brandeis brief contains scath-
ing denunciatfon of Mr. 9alllnger Tor
the course he has pursued IN deahnS
with tfe Cunningham .Alasisan coal
claims and for his treatment OF CLAWS,
whom he insists was sacrlheed because US,
he sought TO protect the peoples lands
from falling into the hands of mo-
sIr. Plnchot and his conservationists
are strongly defended by Mr.. Pepper,
who proceeds on the assumption, ne
tion OF the failure of the attempt 10
make any case against the forest SER
vice. On the other hand, he attacks
Mr. Ballinger's administration or the
Interior Department, and says it has
been shown that the course pursued
has been characterized by a tck or
fidelity to the public interest, that Mr..
SQlIlnSef Is dCludilS usPcAiSAbtS
"the entire series of unhappy events,
and that the President never would
have found himself irrevocably COM
mitted 10 an Endorsement Of the sec. s.s :
retary had he not at critical points
been successfully deceived" as to-
what was happening within the depart
ment.
Denounces Bnllinger.
Mr.. Brandeis criticizes Mr.. BallinEer
as commissioner for .'clear-listinS the
Cunningham claims in the face OF re-
ports by Special Agent Jones, indieat- slsmd
ulent, as private citizen, because
he appeared before the department IN
behalf of the claimants, at whose dis
posal he had placed knowledge he haa
acquired in the governments service,
notwithstanding the existence of a law
which forbade his practicing before
the departments; as secretary, because
he delegates responsibility Of deciding
those important cases to subordinatea.
who. he says, knew Mr.. Ballinger IA
vored the granting OF patents,
1.-THE fact that he had acted as at
torney for the Cunningham claimants
might we'll have kept Mr.. Ballinger
from accepting the office of secretary"
says Mr.. Brandeis.