The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15
NEW SENSATION
Is DUG UP IN THE
BALLINGER CASE
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furnish. Mr. Wickersham wrote Mr.
Parker that the resolution seemed TO Dt
an inquiry into details of intercourse be-
tween the Attorney General and the Pres
ident, which would be neither competent
nor seemly for either House TO attempt,
Mr.. Wickersham said he had received
three requests for information bearing
on the subject in his possession and he
thought they had been complied with &c
the full extent that propriety would ad-
| nit He said he nevertheless directed his
private secretary to make another searcf
| OF his files and today the LAWYER lettei
was found.
Mr. Wickersham said the memorandum
had been entirely overlooked in his pre-
vlous communications to the committee
As soon as it was found Mr.. wicker
sham said he sent the letter TO MI
Nelson.
Mr.. wickersham said the Lawler letter
had been handed to him by LAWYER on
September II and that he left 1t with
! the President at Beverly the next day.
| Assistant Attorney General LAWYER said
as the matter involved his relations with
| the President he could not discuss IL
without the Presidents permission Per
sonally he said he was perfectly WING
to make a reply but he did not CONSIDER
such action would be respectful to the
President unless he obtained the Pres
dents consent.
Pierce and Carr Silent
Assistant Secretary of the interior
Pierce and Don NJ. Carr, private secretary
to Mr.. Ballinger, declined to make any
comment of Mr.. Kerby's statement. h.
C. Finney, assistant to the secretary OF
the interior, declared that Kerby's asser-
ton that he (F'inney) took part in any
conference on the subject of the LAWYER
memorandum was "a lie.
ATTORNEY Brandeis counsel for L. r.
CLAWS, has made several efforts to
obtain the Lawler memorandum and
has promised that it would appear Sc
similar to the Presidents letter OF
September 10 as to prove that 1t formed
the basis of the Presidents letter OF
exoneration. Attention was called to
the memorandum by Mr. Brandeis
when he began examination of Fred
bennett, commissioner of the general
land office, late this afternoon before
the investigating committee. He said
the document had been received by the
clerk of committee about o'clock and
that he mentioned the hour because he
desired to refer to it in his examina-
tons At that time several members
of the committee were reading in the
newspaper the statement by Kfby. will
you tell us what you know of the
preparation of the Lawler memoir
andum?" asked Mr.. Brandeis. Il didn t
know anything about it." replied Mr..
bennett He added that he had heard
that Lawler was preparing something
for the President, but he had no con-
nection with its preparation.
Were you present when the memoir
andum was being considered?"
NO"
Did you not know as the result
of the trip of Secretary Ballinger and
Mr.. Lawler the latter was preparing a
memorandum"
Mr.. bennett denied that he had any
conference or correspondence with At
torney General Wickersham with ref
erence to the summary of the CLAWS
charges which Mr. Wickersham pre-
pared for the President. His state
ment that he took no part in the con-
ference previous to the preparation OF
the Lawler letter was a fiat contra
9iction of Kerbys statement. The sub
Ject was passed over for the time be
ing after Mr.. Brandeis had obtained
permission oprint a large number oil
letters containing requests for docu-
ments from the department of justice
which have included this memorandum