The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-03-16

| congressman who are standing by him,
! The President does not hes .rate to pitch
INTO the fray. He VII do all he rea-
! >onabIT can IL put Insurgent aepirants
| Tor nominations such districts out Of
! business and when once the nominal
! tons are made the President will help
| the regulars. who win at the primaries,
| t. get a reflection
All these activities keep his hands
| full. Visitors On political and legisIa-
| tive errands are thronging his offices
| these days. He finds time to take up
/ each case with care and is gaining d
| vast deal Of Information, which VIII
stand him in good stead. after congress
! has gone home ana he is able 10 center
| his attention upon the fall elections.
| These are bound, a matters are run
| nIng now, TO monOpollZe q large share
| Of his time during the late summer and
| early autumn. As things are now shap-
! ING the President Will be in virtual
! command of the congressional cam
| palgn. with POstmaSter-G eueral Hitch
| cock as his chief Of staff Whether his
I headquarters be in Washington or Bev-
| erly, or in the field as lie travels 70
! Alaska and return. the PRECEDENT pro
| poses to keep abreast of the situation
and to make the Democrats realize that
/ they are having real fight in irving
| TO capture several northern States and
! the national house. He viii fight them
with grape and canister viii eufilade
them with VoIleys Of musketrv and have
a real live battle right from the very
start up to the day the votes are count
ed If the majority is with him, he
VIII have won greater victory than
any OF his predecessors in recent times
have won. He VIII be the Napoleon
of the situation.
The numerous Investigations which
the President and congress have started.
are now nearly all in full swing. There
IS not much burning Of red fire in that
connection, however The business of
congress is 50 pressing in some instances
that the investigators have to take sew
eral days off at Intervals But they are
returning to their tasks with aviditv
and trying to drive through to the end
The allinger-Pinchot investigating
committee is resting most of this week
but the lawyers are delving into papers
and documents. studying up and making
ready. They have examined only two
witnesses thus far-former Special
Agent L. r. CLAWS. who preferred
charges against Secretary BalIinger that
led to his dismissal, and Henry NJ Hovt.
now attorney general of Porto Rico but
once district attorney at Nome. Law
yer J. J. Nertres. of Tennessee. whom
the President and Secretary Ballinger
selected as the latter 5 leading attorney,
launched into the cross-examination of
those witnesses with great energy. He
did not disappOint his distinguished
client although CLAWS made a remark
ably steady witness under cross examin-
alton.
Lawyer Nertrcs now has several wit
ncsses speeding across the continent
and when the investigation Is resumed
on FRIDAY he expects to be able to
concentrate a more effective fire upOn
the former special agent who kicked un
all the fuss about the Cunningham coal
lands in Alaska. He hopes to impeach
the testimony of CLAWS in important
particulars.
The star witnesses, cx Forester Gift
ford Pinchot, and Secretary Ballingcr
are vet to be heard. Mr.. PInchot may
be brought forward very soon. There
will be high tension among the in
vestigating committee. the LAWYERS and
the spectators when he begins to tell
his story. LAWYER Nertres will do his
utmost at grlling the former forester
and IN turn Lawyer Louis Brandeis of
Boston, who represents CLAWS. VIII
make a herculean effort when he has
an opportunity to cross-eXamine See
rotary Ballnger. It will be contest
of legal wits such as Washington rarely
Witnesses. Presumably after those two
witnesses have been heard, popular in