The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
NEWS FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What Our Lawmakers Are Do.
ina and Other Items OF
Importance.

WASHINGTON taxing VI ees
timony in the Ballinger-Pinchot inves-
tigation has ended and the committee
Friday and Saturday will hear oral
arguments by counsel.
Two days will be devoted to speech
making. The so-called prosecution
will open and for five hours Friday
the committee will listen to the adj
dresses of Louis D. Brandeis, counsel
for L. r. CLAWS, and George w. Pep,
per. counsel for Clifford Pinchot
The defense" will sum its case on
Saturday, May %. John j. Vertrees.
counsel for Secretary Ballinger, will
have five hours in which to answer
the attorneys for the other side
Both sides will be given until Mon
day, June 10. in which to file briefs
with the committee to assist it In
passing on the great mass Of evidence
which has been presented.
Taft Stands by 6alIinser.
President Taft has intimated to
callers that he intends to stand by
secretary Ballinger, for he is con-
yinced OF Mr.. Ballinger's innocence
either of wrongdoing or Of improper
motives. The President says he does
not consider that Ballinger's accusers
have made out any case against him.
On top OF this announcement from
the White House comes the reitera-
ton OF Secretary Ballingers purpose
to hold on to his position. notwith-
standing a renewal OF the reports that
he is soon to resign.
Exposition Fight Warm.
The battle of the cities for the big
show in the matter Of celebrating the
completion OF the Panama Canal is on
in earnest with San Francisco and
New Orleans in the lead
New Orleans bases her claim for
Government recognition on the fact,
that she is the natural canal port and
besides the Pacific Coast has just
been recognized in the exposition line,
while it has been long time since
the south has had slice of this par
ticular kind OF pie.
San Francisco on the other hand
comes with something like 100000
subscribed for the exposition, and the
claim that it's further from Frisco to
Seattle than from New Orleans to
St. Louis so the sectional claim is
without merit
Country Wild on Batteships.
That the United States has gone
wild on the matter of armament and
especially in the construction Of bat.
tleships was asserted by Hale, Clay
and Gallinger in the Senate during
the consideration of the naval appro-
priation bill The bill carried $780,
100000 and Hale predicted that with
In five years the annual naval ap-
preparation would not be less than
s175 900, 900.
The opinion was expressed that the
promised reduction of expenditures
would not take place in the present.
session OF Congress, and Hale and
Gallinger, both members of the COM
mittee on appropriations, agreed that
the expenditures would exceed the
revenues the next fiscal year
Borah Talks on Conservation.
The Vests view of conservation of
natural resources was explained to
the Senate for the first time by Sen
ator Rorah, of Idaho. in a recent
speech in which he dwelt particularly
upon the right and power of the Presi-
dent to make withdrawals of public
lands in the absence of constitutional
or congressional authority.
In his speech, the Idaho Senator
maintained that the Executive has no
authority to make wholesale with
drawals such as have been made re-
Gently at the behest of Pinchot and
his band of theorists.
Minor News Items.
Oregon, Idaho and Washington ap-
pie growers will be interested to
learn that the New York Orchards
Company. Inc, has been formed here
In the National capital, for the pur-
pose, first, OF buying and operating