The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-27
BEGINNING OF END
IN BALLINGER CASE
Attorneys Brandes and Pepper Make Their Closing
Arguments Before the Investigating Committee.
Claim Their Case Has Been Proved

zones, Spauiding, and Bowman-Were
Icy really snakes In the public service?
Inc CrlIlclsm OF kerby's act IN max
j;.s pubic lacts about the LAWYER draft
rs OF The letter FOR the President rests
either upon strange mlsapprehansion
o. the facts or ike misa pprehens ION
or ethical ideas Kerbv refused 10 re-
I ilaln silent when IN this Investigation
ueoicaIed oy the law TO the unrestricted
s5scertainment OF truth, his superior OF
llCeIs WllIully suppressed important in
FORMATION concerning papers persist
80, "a celeo Tor. and grossly misrepre-
seHled the facts concerning them The
demand OF personal loyalty TO Railing
or. as distinguished from LOYALTY 10 Ire
american people rests upon a miscOn-
cepton Of democracy. ii is re1ic ~
the slave status.
Claws Efforts Discussed
ITO bennett Claws i1donitabIe e.
forts e. prevent the fIchinr of the ,ao-
pies vast Alaskan heritage can he a,,-
piained only IN his having The coal
cases on the brain To Derrett f. eAsr,s
Ike 'treachery' when CLAWS seeks ala
from a coordinate branch OF The Gov
ernnent-the Forestry he no
Ileves the public domain IS in danger a.
being sacrificed by his own friends and
associates
To Secretary BaIIinFer, CLAWS, an
peal 10 the Attorney General in The
nope Of securing Z reversal Of Piarca,e
erroneous decisios. is fnsubordinatio-
,uSutyinE dismissal; and 10 the At
torney General. tie overzesI Of C1a,.is
which induced him TO appeal. is bUt
evidence of mosalomania.'
And, alas-sO insidious. 50 perver.
ms so potent was the influence Of
Jhese men that when in the sinrIe
ana courageous performance 90 80
nuty Claws laid before tho PresTdenf
Ine tacts which made him and Gifford
tlhchot rear all was not well. CLAWS
was met with neglect where bs
should have had attention, with CON
oeInhdtion when he should have had
appreciation as a good and faithful
servant Of the people.
Struggle of Special Interests.
This investig CATION" the attorney con-
unued moment later, has been con
stanuy referred to as a struggle for
conservation, struggle against the spe-
clal interests. 1t - that. but IL is far
more than that. In its essence II IS the
struggle for Democracy, the struggle Of
the small man agairs 1t overwhelming IN
nuence Of the bia-politicallv as we'll as
nnancially-the struggle to establish that
every American IS entitled 10 eo,ra1
@NNN'etEN AAl AAAN DuullC service well \ (
~ the couTts-tIat no official fc 81
hlghiy stationed tIat he may traupIe
ruthlessly and UnjUstly upon even fbe
numplest American citizen. The causf
OF Claws IS the cause Of the common
CLAWS. the competent. faithful zasl-
GUS was the attorneys tribute to the
dismissed chief OF field division.
ha.rples waiting 70 pounce" was his
o ,,',.IiI OF the MorEan-GUggenheim
syndlcate and the influential s'Senator
makers, such as Charles Sweeney Z.
smith. and others interested IN TIE
Alaskan coal lands
strangely Unethical.D
Brandeis scored BaIHnger as strange
" pnethical for the attitude he took
Wnen he came into office as Secretary
with regard to the Cunningham coaI
cases. He declared that under the
potent influence of the claimants whom
ne resisned the Commissionership he for
81 me rules or professional ethics and
Iorgot the rules OF the Interior ne
partne'-t over which he had nreeided0
pH Whlch rules iIs was debarred from
prScticinE before il in two vears .,
SUI, when he became Secretary. after
Wig me cunningham and other
claimants as attorney. Brandeis 40
clared. he drew strange ethical dietiTc-
tons q us me
ne had felt At liberty 20 serve the
=. Uni. ..uHLlngnam claimants" he continued.
'io I ne rad previously represented
them; but on becoming Secretary he felr
barred rom representing the peopIe. =
As 70 BaltnSer's prctestatfons thar he
hao ABSOLUTE nothing to do with the
Brendeis decl2 red. '0i > ,
secretary BalltnEer knew all and IN
effect nc did ali. II needed no vy-i.jnn
signed by him to DO the art. II needed
no specinc Instructions. Those by whom
ne was surrounded were OF the cate
CORY who at the winkinE Of sutho-itv
understand law and ,-ho would rsver
RfoVe .,sSoordina5e from overzeai for
the public Interest"