Arizona republican., 1910-05-28
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 0F INQUIRY. Arguments In Pinchot-Ba|- finger Case BOTH SIDES DENOUNCED
The Secretary as a Man Unfit to Have Charge of Conservation, and Pin chot as a Conservationist Gone to Seed.

Washington, May 27-With the at torneys on one side scoring Secretary Railinger as a man unfit to be at the head of the department of the interior and with the leading attorney on the other side defending him and denounc- ing his accusers, whom he termed the "Glavis- Garfield Pinchot' group the Ballinger- Pinchot investigating committee of the senate listened to the summing up arguments by the counsel today.
 The arguments probably will be concluded tomorrow.
 Attorneys Bradeis and Pepper told the committee they had produced evil dence which they said established that Ballinger was not "vigilant' and ''resoute" in resisting the aggressive ness of special interests and that his course had been biased by lack of fidelity to the cOuntry's interests.
 In summing up for the prosecution. Attorney Brandeis, counsel for L. R. Glavis. declared it has been conclu- siveiy established that Secretary of the Interior Ballinger is not a man so Zealously devoted to the interests of the common people. so vigilant and resolute in resisting the insidious az gression of special interests, that he may be safely depended on to carry forward the broad policy of conser- vation of national resources
 That he is a subject for severe criticism. we firmly believe" said Brandeis. He referred to Glavis as an ideal public servant" and to Gif- ford Pinchot as "a man of character as high as to be even above the sus- pician of self seeking"
 This investigation has been re- ferred to as a struggle for conserva- tion and a struggle against special interests" Brandeis continued. Tt is that. but it is far more. Its es- sence is a struggle for democracy, a struggle for the small man against the overpowering influence of the big politically as well as financially-a struggle to establish that every Amer ican is-entitled to equal justice
 Mir. Vertrees reply was that Bal finger was as much of a ''conserva- tionist'' as any one "in proper sense" but he did not belong to the "Pinchot brand of thirty-third de- gree cOnservationists who have gone to seed on conservation"
 The lawyers for the prosecution finished their speeches. but MT. Yer trees was hardly launched on his ar gument when the committee ad- journed Brandeis and Pepper will make short speeches in rebuttal
 Sneering at what he said were termed the Garfield policies, which Rallinger had been charged with over turning. MT. Vertrees said he believed this controversy, which has degener- ated into something infamous. originat- ed in an honest difference of opinion"
 Former Secretary Garfield and For ester Pinchot came in for the most severe castigation from Attorney Yer trees, who did not hesitate to denounce them as disappointed men who sought revenge upon the new secretary. He declared that Garfield and Pinchot used the water power sites "as a mere pre- text and sham, and that they practicei duplicity in the course they had adopted.
 These two officials, said MT. Yer trees. regarded themselves as faith ful stewards" and believed they had a right to do anything they thought ought to be done, whether there was any law to back it up or not
 Contrasting the purpose of Secretary Garfield as one who believed he had d right to do anything he was not 'spe- cifically forbidden to do by the law, with Secretary Ballinger, whom he pie tured as being guided by the law, MT. Vertrees entered into a careful review of the legal aspect of the water power sites. Reading from letters from President Taft regarding water power site withdrawals MT Vertrees under took to show that Secretary Ballinger had merely carried out the policies of the president
 His voice quivering with emotion, Mir Vertrees said: Right or wrong. a cabinet officer who carries out the poli- cies of his chief is not to be censured before the nation. Do not misunder- stand me as merely insisting that you should deal with this matter solely be- cause Mir. Ballinger was carrying out the judgment of the present Not but that I say his construction of the law was correct. He was fortified and re- inforced by the opinion of the law officers of the government"
 Sneeringly referring to the letters of the Garfield Pinchot group, MT. Yer trees declared that 1t would rot do to say the president was fooled in mak- ing his decision because the president