The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-07
DECLARES CLAWS
IS MEGAL0MAN|AC.
Wickersllam Denounces Man
Who Filed Charges Against
Ballinger.
TEARS HIM TO TATTER+s.
Says He Caused Trouble Through
Exaggerated Sense Of His
Own Importance.
TEARS HIM TO TATTERs

Washington, D. c., January Ode
nouncing l.. r. Claws as a megalonla-
MAC and Analysing various corresponds
ence and many Of his acts in relation
to the charges of misconduct against
Secretary Ballinger and other officials
of the Department of the Interior in
dealing with the so-called Cunning ham
group OF coal land claims in Alaska
in a report to the President sumbitted
Wickersham declares that Mr.. Galvis's
statements are entirely disproved. Ii
was upon this report that President
Taft dismissed Mr.. CLAWS from the
public service.
"Gaviss actions Attorney General
Wickersham says, appear to have been
founded upon wholly exaggerated
sense of his own Importance and u
desire for personal advancement rather
than on any genuine desire to protect
the interests of the government. and
this species Of ,negalomaria has finally
led him to submit to you charges OF
improper motives and conduct against
his official superiors, which. In my opin-
Ion, are so .unjust and unfounded as TO
merit his immediate separation from
the service.
In his conclusions Mr.. wickersham
says: so far from taking action to
favor. the Cunningham CLAIMANTS, the
record clearly shows that Secretary
In any respect to act upon these claims.
for the reason that during the summer
of 1908. while he was, In no manner
connected with the government. he had
ants with respect to the issuance. of
patents, and had called upon Sccre-
tary Garfield for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the attitude Of his department.
thereon. Neither his action nor any
Of his written or spoken expressions
were favorable to these claimants. The
utmost he did was to instruct the Land
Office to promptly investigate and dis
pose Of all pending cases"
Suggestion UnsOund.
Mr.. Wickersham characterizes as I'M
sound the suggestion that 1t was un-
lawful for Mr.. Rallinger to have any
relation with these claim
ants because OF his previous incum-
bency Of the Office of Commissioner of
the General Land Office.
The statute making it unlawful for
any officer of the government to pros
ecute any claim" against the United
states which was pending while he
was in Office within two years after
applies to a claim for money against
the United states, which view he up
holds by citations of court decisions.
Mr.. Glavis's claim that he prevented
the government from being defrauded
by procuring q reference to the Attor-
involved and the overruling by him of
an opinion written by Assistant Sec
Ietary Pierce. which would have en-
abled the Cunningham claimants TO
procure patents on their claims, is. he
says, absolutely disproyed by the re-
cord
Mr.. Glavis's report and summary he
insists abound in contradictions and
misstatements.' He adds that they,
omit to degree that amounts to abso-
lue suppression, letters, kilograms and
in his possession AMI others which
We're available to him and which COM
pletely rebut differences he seeks to
have drawn from those which he does
submit"