The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-14

witnesses or at hearings is comprised In attendance during the whole or part Of fl days"
 Concerning Glavis' report to the Pres ident, the brief says that while it was of necessity. ,fragmentary, because 1t dealt only with the matter of which Glavis had personal knowledge, yet 1t is notable for accuracy and moderation
 Continuing, the brief says:
 "A deluge of typewritten matter came to the President from the interior de- partment in answer to the Glavls re- port Those answers were supplemented by oral statements and arguments made by Secretary Balllnger and Oscar Law Ter assistant attorney general of the interior department, in their interviews with the President on September and [; and finally by the draft of letter ordering MT. Balinger to do certain things by a subordinate, and man who had a special grudge against Glavis and who in that draft of the letter declared Glavis guilty of falsehood, of the sup pression of the, truth, and of neglect of duty thus condemning Glavis on evil dence which he had never seen and of course had no opportunity to meet, on arguments that he had never heard and what was even more on charges of the preferring of which against him he had no knowledge whatsoever
 The Missing Letters
 The fifteen chapter is devoted to 'the missing letters" and in this connection the brief says that the interior department officials unconsciousy paid high tribute to Glavis' official record when search ing for some means to discredit him they could find nothing more damaging than ''the baseless and silly charge" that he had concealed twenty-three insignificant letters which Special Agent Bowman had brought to Seattle from Alaska just be- fore Glavis dismissal from the service. The brief expresses the opinion that Gavis successor, Christensen, put the letters into a box belonging to Glavis in the storeroom of the federal building in Seattle.
 What a pitiful story 1t is,'' comments the brief. "The whole machinery of an important government bureau was em- ployed for months in an effort to in- jure and disgrace Glavis in order to ex- ecute upon him the revenge of his former superior without any possibility of ad- vantage resulting to the government"
 Concerning MT. Ballinger's defense the brief says that it consisted chiefly in explaining away the natural meaning of documents in pleas of ignorance. in plac- ing responsibility upon subordinates. His word alone gives whatever force such testimony possesses"
 In conclusion the brief says
 "In this proceeding MT. Wickersham appears no longer as an assistant judge filing his concurrence after decision but as an over-zealous advocate. In this pro- ceeding MT. Lawler is not the judge but stands in bis true light prejudiced wit ness, bitter, vituperative.
 Such are the facts. Such is MT. Bal fingers record. Such his character Can you say that the department of the in terlor, that the peoples domain is in safe hands?"
 George w. Peppers Brief
 We trust that the committee will record their definite conviction that the immediate care of the public domain is now in unsafe hands, says Attorney George w. Pepper. counsel for Clifford Pinchot, in concluding his brief.
 MT Pepper says that the question whether Pinchot has been right and Bal finger wrong is less important than whether the administration of the in terior department under the latter has been marked by fidelity to the public interest. He says that when MT. Bal finger became secretary he had "a land office training that being equivalent. as MT. Pepper views ik to a leaning to- ward policy of distribution of the peo- ple's lands. The secretary's viewpoint was distinctively, MT. Pepper says, that of a distributionist. s..ss.-. He appears to have known little oi | nothing of forestry problems the briei continues. with respect to the policy of power site protection. MT. Ballingel testified that when he became secretary he knew nothing whatever about it. He was not accurately informed respecting the work of the reclamation service. But it was not merely that he lacked equip ment, but that he had a distinct hostility to the men fn the government service who stood for conservation and distinct prof. ect against their views. His conduct and his testimony make it clear that he re- garded reclamation with ridicule and with forestry feeling akin to contempt. What was impending when MT. Ballinger be- came Secretary, says MT. Pepper, was not a conflict between the forest service anc the interior department, but a conflict between distribution and conservation wherever and whenever the two concep | tions might meet. Result of Collision
 "The collision came quickly" he adds and this investigation is one of the con l sequences"
 MT Pepper refers briefly to the par played by the forest service in the in I quiry, and then says:
 i This brief proceeds upon the assump | ton that this is general recognition O the failure of the attempt to make an. case against the forest service.''
 | He added that MT. Pinchot has no com plaint to make because he was dismissed i by the President but insists that tn former forester was not responsible fo | the published attacks on the departmen of which MT. Ballinger complained. l Denying the existence of any conspira | tors organization to secure the officia decapitation of MT. Ballinger MT. Peppe declares, however, that mo one will hay the temerity to contend that it is unlaw | full to regard MT. Ballinger as unfit fo office Nor is it illegal for a number c people to hold this view"
 Not only is it permissible to hold tn view, he says, but those who honestly en certain 1t hGve the right to say so put licly. MT. Pinchot has long held his opir
 lon respecting MT. Ballinger, and he final ly made up his mind to declare it. NJ Garfield, from a position of confidence i
 Mir Ballinger, came more slowly to sin
 liar conclusion. cabinet officer wh does what MT. Ballnger has done mus
 be prepared for vigorous protest and pull
 lie criticism. Those whose policies he ha
 attacked are inevitably driven togethe
 Into a defensive alliance, says MT Per
 per. MT. Ballinger apparently had n
 objection to warfare as long as he was tn
 assailant. What aroused his ire was tn
 refusal of Mir Pinchot and others to at
 merely on the defensive. When they b' gan to open fire upon him he raised tt conspiracy cry.
 BallinEer's Administration
 MT. Pepper gives general and specif | answer to the question as to what infe l t< ha dx.ax f,otal tho taSt