The Cairo bulletin., 1910-01-08
TWO OTHER OFFICERS o.
FORESTRY BUREAU OUSIED
Price and Shaw Feel Presidents Wrath Cannon
Lost Point in Congress Yesterday by In
surgents and Democrats Combining
Forces-CapitaI Was in PoIit-
t icaI Ferment All Day Long

informs me that ON the 2stl of De.
eember your associate forester, Price,
proposed to him to resign on the
ground that he had been engaged with
Shaw. assistant law officer, In lnsti-
ISating publications IN Various news.
papers and magazines attacking the
good name of Secretary Ballinger AMI
|charging the interior department AMI
land office with corruption Tho Sec
lretary wrote YOU on December 29,
Iasklng your recommendation in the
premises You did not answer, but on
Jan |, YOU said to him that yon
fwiaho@e to make i statement. sss-as Raa
would be read in the senate the SAME
Iume my message transmitting the
lrecords in the CLAWS case reached
there. and that you thought you could
Induce Senator Dolliver TO introduce
| the statement for you. The secretary
Iadyised against such a course. but
lasked you for recommendation as to
accepting Prices resignation In order
tnat he might bring the matter to me,
| to whom, be told you. 1t must ulti-
mately come, because | had consid.
cred the CLAWS charges and passed
upon them.
Pinchott to Deliver
Without further conference with
the secretary and before making the
report TO him. you succeeded in maxi
Eire public, by having it read in the
senate, letter from you stating that
iyon bad sufficiently disciplined Price
and shaw by reprmanding them and
that your recommendation would be,
,hat no further punishment was re.
CURED, and tbis before that recon-
iuendation was submitted to the see
IretaIy and me, whose power and duty
iit was % determine upon Prices al-
missions as % his completely, what
action be taken respecting his resig.
EaatiOn.
| In order 70 understand the full pus-
port ot your letter In which you adj.
nit completely with Price and Shaw
in publications in the press, it should
| be said that the grayest of CLAWS
charges were that Ballinger and the
others were all affected by the cor.
rupt wish to patent 50 so-ealled Gun.
ningham claims upon coal lands in
Alaska: that the question of whether
these claims were fraudulent re.
mained to be decided upon the evi-
ience after both the United States
and the claimants had been heard;
hat every patent as an executive act
Is completely within the jurisdiction
Iof the president to the direct with
Ilolding Of it in order that he may ex.
anime the evidence as to the validity
Of the claim.
Pinchot's Intimations.
These facts understood, the plain
Iintimations Of your letter are first.
that reached a wrong conclusion as
to the good faith of Ballinger and the
officers OF the land Office, although
YOU and your subordnates had only
seen the evidence of CLAWS, the ac,
cuser and had never seen or read the
evidence Of those accused or the rec
ords they disclosed, which were sub.
mitted to me; second, that under
these circumstances. without ex-
poitatoh, by Shaw and Price in tie
daily weekly and monthly press, OF
the charges of Giavis, tue administra-
Ition, including the president and oft
GERS of the interior department AMI
land office, would have allowed Ger.
tain fraudulent claims to be patented
on the coal lands Of Alaska, althoagl. !.
lthe matter has been specifically
brought to the attention ef the presi-
ldent by the CLAWS charges. You
solicited an opportunity TO make such
a declaration in congress for the rur.
pose Of offsetting, if possible, in the
Concluded Or Third Page.)