New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-07
From Tho Tribune Bureau.1

washington. May 3.
A MARES NEST.-The discovery of an
apparent discrepancy in the dates in the
report which the Attorney General made
TO the President on the CLAWS charges has
caused Louis D. Brandeis, attorney for
CLAWS. great anguish OF soul, has made
Representative Harrison to go into action
with a resolution demanding the evidence
which the investigating committee denied
to Brandeis, has proved Tie occasion for a
histrionie illumination in La Follette's
Magazine" and altogether has created as
much excitement as the average mares
nest Several references have been made 70
the subject in this column, and it is now
possible TO state the facts regarding this
report without violation of confidence
When President Taft received the replies
of Secretary Ballinger and other officials
to the CLAWS charges he carefully reviewed
them, and then prepared the opinion exon
Grating the Secretary and all other officials
in the Interior Department and instructing
that CLAWS be dismissed When he had
finished the dictation of his opinion and
before it was made public, the Attorney
General went TO Beverly. The President
handed the records to Mr.. Wickersham,
and. without any intimation Of the conclu-
sion he had reached, asked the Attorney
General to review the evidence and report
his opinion at his earliest convenience MIR.
wickersham took the records to his sum-
mer home on Long Island. and after a
careful review reported verbally to the
President his opinion. IL conceded abso-
lutely with that of the President. Later
the President asked the Attorney General
10 reduce his review to writing, and in so
doing Mr. Wickersham dated it on Sep
TENDER II. the day on which he had adopted
his verbal report TO the President Subse-
ouently, however, there had come to the
knowledge of the Attorney General some
facts which strengthened the conclusions
which both he and the President had
reached originally, and he made reference
in his written report TO some documents of
later date than September IL This ''strik-
ingly significant fact has afforded the en-
tire basis for Brandeis's hysteria and his
charges Of duplicity on the part Of the At
torney General In due time the Attorney
General will send to the investigating COM
mittee a communication setting forth the
facts as explained here.
LA FOLLETTE'S HARD LUCK.-For a
willing and hard working orator who is
ever ready to entertain the galleries, even
at the expense OF infinite boredom of his
colleagues and of unlimited vocal and gym
nastic exercises. Senator La Toilette, of
Wisconsin, has the hardest luck of any
man in the Senate. The Senator has alb
scented himself from the chamber, neglected
committee meetings. and even sidetracked
much of his editorial work in the publica-
ton which bears his name, in order TO
prepare a speech on Sections and Il OF
the interstate commerce bill, a speech
which in luridness promised 10 outshine
even the most ambitious ebullitions of the
Senator from Arkansas, jeff Davis. Just
as the Wisconsin Senator had completed
his herculean task, the leaders quietly de-
cided TO abandon Sections and II. and
they went out of the bill. This is the
second time that Senator La Toilette has
been treated in this cruel manner by the
Senate leaders, the former instance having
occurred when he had prepared a speech
which was TO occupy the time If not the
attention. Of the Senate for three days, and