The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-23
TO END THE LONG
DRAWNL.0UT AGONY
Will Hold Three Sessions Next
Week in Ballinger- -Pinchot
Investigation

Washington, April 23.-The Ballin-
ger-Pinchot committee decided today
to hold sessions on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday of next week in order
to hasten the conclusion of the in
quiry.
Two important questions to be de-
cided at once confronted the commit
tee when the hearing was resumed to-
day. If the committee decides to al
low Attorney Brandeis, counsel for
L. r. CLAWS. t. recall the witnesses
now being heard, after Secretary Bal
linger leaves the stand, the investiga-
tiOn is likely to be still further pro-
longed. E. C. Keltman, former chief
of the mineral division of the interior
department, took the stand today and
Attorney Vertrees began the direct
examination of the witness.
That President Ta;;'s letter to Sec
retary Ballinger dated Sept. 13. 1909,
generating him from the CLAWS
charges, was not based on the sum-
mary prepared by the attorney gener-
al and appearing in the record under
date of September IL was strongly
intimated BY, Attorney Brandeis yes
terday. .~''-4,g,
He was questioning Mr.. Finney re-
garding the second conclusion" in
Mn Wickersham's summary. to the
effect that the suggestion that it was
unlawful for Mr.. Ballinger to have
any professional relation with the
Cunningham claimants because of his
previous incumbency of the office Of
commissioner general of the land Of
rNf a
revised statutes. which makes it In
lawful for any person appointed to a
position in any of the government de-
partments to act as counsel for prose-
cutting any claim against the United
States which was pending while he
was such employe.
lis it not fact that this statement
of the attorney general, which pur-
ports to have been made Sept. II. 1909.
and bears date of Sept. IL, 1909, was
not made until more than two months
after that time?" Mr.. Brandeis asked.
II don't know that to be fact the
witness snapped back.
Mr.. Brandeis based his inquiry on
the fact that CLAWS had not charged
MIR. Ballinger with violating section
100 of the revised statutes in his
charges filed with the president and
the alleged fact that CLAWS had never
suggested that Ballinger had violated
that statute until November. 1909. two
months after the date of Wicker
sham's summary, in statement pub
lished in Golfers Weekly.
Mr.. Finney was excused from the
stand after further questioning by At
torneys Brandeis and Vertrees. Mr..
Brandeis announced that he desired
to cross-eXamine the witness further
after he had an opportunity to ques-
ton Secretary Ballinger. The COM
mittee has not yet decided whether
counsel will be permitted to recall
witnesses.
John w. Dudley. former register of
the land Office at Juneau, Alaska, was
called to testify regarding a conver-
saIion he had with Fl. X. Love. now
United States marshal in Alaska, in
Il juneau hotel in February
Mr.. Dudley denied MIR. Loves state
ment before the committee recently
that he had told Love that an agent
of Golfers Weekly had said it would
be worth from $4,000 to $4,000 for
him to come to Washington to testify.
He said Mr.. Love must have misun-
derstood him. What he had said was
that he had been given to understand
it would be worth that amount for him
to write story for Golfers supple
menting that of CLAWS. This was just
subsequent to his dismissal from office
he said.
Mr.. Madison. the "insurgent" men,
ber of the committee, questioned MIR.
Dudley. The witness said E. c. Rus
sell. editor of Juneau paper. had
spoken to him about the story for Col
lier's. After his conversation with
Love, he saw Russell again and the
latter told him he had received the
following telegram from Norman Hap
good, editor of Colliers:
Cannot negotiate without further
knowledge. Will pay Dudley's ex-
penses here and back"
He said he told Russell he had no
which he thought Golfers
woulr want for All article. Members
of the committee questioned Dudley
closely. He was still on the stand
when adjournment was taken.