The Washington times., 1910-05-15

duty 70 tell know VIII be misCOn-
stE-tied. and my motives questioned. but
! feel j have done right
Yesterday morning / went ont IN
the country with the Boys Brigade.
as am major IN the organization and
command Company =. which is at
Iached 10 Christ Church
Massey. came out 10 see me shortly
after nOons BY direction Of the depart
menL At 1L30 the department had
prospect Of publication Of my afdda-
viz and the department was furnished
with q resume Of my affidavit Mas
Sey had been directed 10 see me and
ask me IL IL was true and he brought
along notes as TO his direction ] told
him i was true. and he went away
Draft Found Suddenly.
TEe Times had been on the street
but q few moments yesterday when
Attorney General VICkersham sud
denly found the draft OF the LAWYER
letter which Attorney Brandeis had
been calling for so persistently, but
which Attorney General WicL1ershaTn
had previously stated could not be
found or produced This draft was
written, as Kerby charged. with the
evident purpose Of having II refer to
Secretary Ballinser- The language
clearly indicated that the Il" used By
LAWYER was intended 70 refer 10 the
President, and the you Wnlche occur
red repeatedly referred 10 Secretary
BaIlinEeT-
The I.avvIer draft OF the letter which
he says he prepared at the dlrecJloh
retarv Of the Interior contains the
following paragraph
~On blank date Mr. l. r., Claws,
chief Of the field division Of the Gen
eraI Land Once. with Headquarters at
Seattle, Wash, called upon me mere
and submitted a statement relating 10
the conduct Of the Interior Depart
rnenr and particularly 10 the action Of
yourself, Assistant Secretary Pierce
Comm iSsiOner of the General Land o.
nee bennett. and Chief Of Field Serv-
ice Schwartz. IN reference to the so
called Cunningham group OF coal
claims in Alaska
Comedies With Draft
The Presidents letter completely CO.
iucides with the LawIer draft quoted
above. with these exceptions The
blank date is filed in with the words
"On the eighteenth day OF August
last and the words, "or report" are
inserted after the words submitted
q statement"
Another paragraph Of the LAWYER
letter is as follows
The great reSponslblilly or CaDlLel
positions demands the selection there
for of men of the highest character
and integrity Possession OF these
Qualities. as wei a. an ablhty ana
experience which specially nJIed you
10 direct the affairs Of the Department
of the Interior, warranted your ap-
pOintmenr as Secretary
DUTY TO the country 10 you and
20 myself requires that any aSpeT-
Sions upon the propriety OF your acts
or those Of your SubOTdIudUeS. be
promptly met and carefully consider
ed. TO the end that If JuStlnec- proper
remedies may be applied, and II not
that il may be SqUarely and emPhatI-
cally Tefuted-
In TIE Presidents letter the hrsJ
nara graph quoted above IS identical.
including commas The second para
graph is Identical with the exception
Thaf the President did not use the two
words "sQuarely and emphaLically In
the last line. and inserted the word
publicly so that the end OF the sen
1euce read publicly refuteti-
The President IN his last letter
speaks Of the inference which CLAWS
seeks to draw TO BailInEer.s oiScreoit
that while ne was commissions OF
the Land Office he came into posses