Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-06-14
Final Words Of BrandeiS for Special
Agent CLAWS, vetrees for Secretary
Ba|inger and Pepper for the
Former Forester PinChot,

his character. No man with such char
acter would be trusted by an individual
or private corporation with care of inn
portant property interests.
The remainder of the Introductory
chapter describes what the attorneys
term The Roosevelt Policy of Conserv-
ing Alaska Coal Lands THE PervadinS
Fraud in the Alaska Coal Claims, Mr.,
Balinger's Desire Have Patents Is
sue" and The Morgan -Guggenheim Syn
dcate's Option on the Cunningham
Claims" Mr.. Ballinger is charged with
seeking TO reverse and nullify an ad-
ministrative policy with regard to Alaska
coal lands the wisdom and beneficence
of which nobody has ever questioned"
titled How Commissioner Ballinger
stopped the investigation, and reviews
the testimony given at the hearing be-
fore the investigating committee re-
claims by Special Agents H. X. Love and
Horace 7. Jones. In this connection the
brief says "The testimony shows Mr..
Balinger's sympathetic attitude towards
Balinger minutelv supervised the inves-
tigation. and while it was in progress
discussed with Jones and Love the re-
suits they were obtaining. This is i'm
Ballinger's assertion that when he d-
rected the clear listing of the Cunning
ham claims he acted without any knowl-
edge except Loves favorable report.
and. secondly. upon the Presidents find
ing of the fact that as commissioner Mr..
Ballinger acquired no knowledge in re
spect to the claims except that of the
most formal character
Under the title CLAWS First Interven-
ton to Save the Alaska Coal Lands. -
the attorneys describe the action of their
client in attempting to have resumed the
Jones investigation which had been sus-
pended. The fourth chapter reviews the
Clear-listing of the Cunningham claims
by Mr.. Ballnger, who was then commits
the attorneys declare that Mr.. Ballinger's
inquiry regarding the claims was "un-
pardonably superficial"
The fifth chapter describes CLAWS
Second Intervention to Save Alaska Coal
Lands and comments on what the at
torneys characterize as Mr.. Ballinger
lnsincerity.' In this connection the brief
says We do not pretend to fathom Mr.
Ballinger's mind and to discover the mo-
tives which prompted him to clear list
the Cunningham claims. Whatever his
motives We're. his act was indefensibe
The order clear-listing the Cunningham
proper conception of his duty as trus-
tee and that he was willing to abet wha,
ne would describe as technlcal viola
tion of the statute. by which the Gun
fully into private ownership instead OF
being kept by the United States for sub
sequent disposal under laws which
should adequately protect the public in
tereSt."
The suspension of the clear listing or
der again subjected the Cunningham
claims to CLAWS investigation. which i,
reviewed in the sixth chapter of the brief
The seventh chapter is entitled MI
Ballinger-Lawyer for Cunningham ane
Other Claimants and charges that after
Mr.. Ballinger retired from the lanG
office and resumed the practice of law
he acted as attorney for the Cunningham
claimants. Contending that such conduct
on the part of Mr.. Ballinger was i'm
proper. the brief says: After having
represented the Government against the
claimants. he accepted a fee on the other
side of the case. placed the knowledge
he had acquired in the Government ser.
vice at their the claimants) disposal
drew a specious and perjured affidavit
for the purpose of overcoming the evi-
dence obtained bv the government and