Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-04-23
THINKS STATEMENT OFFERED
By ATTORNEY HAS BEEN
FIXED UP.
juneau man ON The STAND
SAYS GOLFERS OFFERED HIM
NOTHING MORE THAN Ex-
PENSES.
Three Sessions Week Will Be Held
In the Future - Members Of the
Committee Are Getting Tired Of
Their Jobs - Will Endeavor to

Washington, April 22.-After at
tacking certain statements in Attor-
ney General Wickersham's summary
of the CLAWS case during the cross
examination of witness before the
Ballinger-Pinchot investigation to-
day, Attorney Brandeis, counsel for
L. r. CLAWS, threw out a broad sug-
gestion that the document had been
dated two months earlier than it
had been prepared in order to make
it appear that President Taft's let
ter of vindication to Secretary Bal
linger had been based on the alleged
facts it contained. At the White
House and department of justice it
was stated that neither the pres1-
dent nor the attorney general would
tions.
Comparatively little progress was
made with the inquiry today, despite
the apparently growing impatience
of the committee and the general
desire of members to bring the hear
ing to a close. The committee will
act tomorrow on the proposition to
hold hearings three days each week.
E. C. Finney, assistant to the sec
retary of the interior, was under
cross-examination during almost the
entire day. He admitted, under
questioning by Mr.. Brandeis, that
some of Mr.. Wickersham's state
ments were inaccurate, but insisted
that they were unimportant.
1t was near the end of Finney's
examination that Mr.. Brandeis
sprang his surprise. Mr.. Wicker
sham, in his summary, says the sug-
gestion that it was unlawful for Mr.
Ballinger to have any professional
relations with the Cunningham
claimants because of his previous in
cumb bency of Office of commissioner
OF land Office was based on section
100 Of the revised statutes, and he
cites authorities to show that Mr.:
/ Ballinger had not violated that law,
Mr.. Brandeis asked the witness if
he did not know that CLAWS accused
Ballinger of violating that law for
! the first time in a statement publish
ed in a November number of "Col-
,lier's Weekly?
Mr.. Finney was not certain on that
point, whereon Mr.. Brandeis de-
manded If it was a fact that the
statement, which purports to have
been made on Sept. II, 1909, was
not made until more than two
months after thata time. Mr.. Finney
responded that he did not know it
to be a fact and did not believe It
was.
/ n oil hn
Alaska at the behest of the commit
tee, to tell whether he had made
the sttement to Marshall H. K. Love
that an agent of Golfers had told
him 1T would be worth $4,000 to
$4,000 for him to come to Wash
ington to testify" John w. Dudley.
the dismissed register of the land
office at Juneau, took the stand and
said Mr.. Love had misunderstood
him.
! Mr.. Dudley said Editor Russell of
Juneau paper had sought to act
as intermediary between him and
Golfers, whereby Russell . wanted
him to prepare an article supple
menting the CLAWS charges for which
he was to receive the sum mention
GU. ne IOlu lLOFS VI LulS OlI0r from
Russell and supposed Love had not
understood. He said ne did not take
kindly to Russell's proposition and
that "Collier's Weekly would not
agree to it further than to pay Dud-
ley's expenses to New York, to talk
the matter over. He said Russell
did not pose as Golfers agent and
that there was nothing said about
him testifying to the investigating
committee.
Members of the committees and
attorneys of both sides questioned
Mr.. Dudley at lenth and apparently
satisfied themselves that there had
been no effort to- influence testimony
improperly before the committee.
! C. C. Keltman, former chief of the
minera division of the interior de-
partment, will take the stand tomor-
row. Attorney Vertress. counsel for
Mr.. Ballinger, said tonight that he
had more than dozen witnesses to
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