Arizona republican., 1910-05-29
Conclusion of Arguments in
 Ba|IlngeP- -PiRchot Case THE scAPE-GOAT CLAWS
Whom, Says MT. Brandeis, It Was Necessary to Load With Official Sins and Send Into Wilderness of Private Life

Washington, May 2S.-The Ballinger- Pinchot investigation ended today In blaze of verbal fireworks. The oratorlc- al efforts closed the open hearing and the attorneys who have been engaged in the case now will prepare briefs for submission to the committee which will meet June II to receive them.
 When I came into this case. stranger to Mir. Ballinger." exclaimed Attorney Vertrees in closing his ad- dress, these were my instructions: So far as I am concerned there is no bot tom to this said MT. MT Ballinger. As to my subordinates, it is not a matter of knowledge, but I believe those about me are honest, but whether they are or not let this investigation proceed in every direction in which it may
 "Whatever the results may be realize fully that you cannot save him from the injury that has been done, but at the same time I know the re- port must be in accordance with the evidence and the facts in this case, and that his official career is without spot or stain"
 T am afraid MT. Vertrees has been
 
 southwest" was Attorney Peppers parting shot in defense of Mir. Pin chot "Unsophisticated as he was, he came in contact with a spirit of sus- picion, and think he scented con spiracy when there was none but when there was a crisis of successive blows dealt by MT. Ballinger against inter- ests which were vital to a group of men who had dedicated their lives to cause. I shall take the responsibility of showing that the conception of a man of great capacity and independent resources, devOting himself to the in- terests of the people with no hope of reward and no hope of ambition, is so far beyond the ken of some people when they come into his presence that appreciation is impossible and un- intentional detraction is inevitable"
 Glavis' attorney, MT Brandeis, had the last word. Here was a man dis graced. condemned without a hearing, without seeing the hundreds and hund- reds of pages of evidence which was collected by Assistant Attorney General Lawler and without knowing that there was charge against him. Why, why was he sacrificed? It rests deep in the conception which actuated Mir Ballinger and the men who stood with him, and it is the conception of a class of privilege that men high in exalted station must be protected at all costs, but that man, merely a humble serv- ant of the government has no rights. For the protection of Ballinger it was necessary to condemn an innocent man. He was nothing but an inferior off cial This was a question of privilege whether political or financial. and it is absolutely connected with the same idea that pertains to Guggenheim, Mor- gan and other great resOurceful men of the country"
 The hearing room was crowded and l at the conclusion of each speech, demonstration interrupted the proceed ing. Women crowded about the attor- neys after the hearing to converse with | them.
 Attorney Vertrees consumed the | greater portion of the day in conclud- l ing his argument He vas most bit | ter in his denunciation of former Sec retary Garfield and former Chief For ester Pinchot. who he said conspired l to accomplish the removal of MT. Bal | finger from public life because his | was an administration of law and not | of man. He said Pinchot had been | credited with "loftiness of purpose that he does not deserve ." and that | he would not stop at anything to car | ry out his purposes and plans"
 He referred to the twenty-s six miss. ing letters found in Glavis box at Se- 1 attle as evidence of the tactics pursued | by Ballingers enemies. asserting that l they intended to charge Ballinger with | concealing them if they were called | for. and not produced.
 Mir. Vertrees said the stir that had | been raised over the Lawler memo | randum was merely an indirect attack | on the president and that the presi- | dent had fully and frankly explained i all the circumstances.
 At the beginning of his reply MT | Pepper declared that it was a wholly | baseless charge. that Garfield's oppo- | sition to Ballinger had not been in- by any feeling of disappointment at | not having been retained in the Taft | cabinet. He said if that were so MT | Garfield's antagonism would have been 1 directed toward Ballinger
 Saying that he suspected Mir. Yer | trees of caricaturing conservation | when he depicted Pinchot and his | friends as standing between private |