The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-30
Secretary Denies Charges of
 G|avis As Wi||fu| Lies
HE DEFENDS HIS CONDUCT
With Cunningham Cases and Cor pOrations Before He Became
 e Cabinet Member

Washington, April 29.-Indignantly deny | ing he had been guilty of any wrong doing. Richard A. Ballinger. Secretary of the Interior, made a bitter attack upon his critics While d witness before the Bal finger Pinchot Investigating committee today. and characterized many of the sworn statements of his principal accuser. l.. R. Glavis, as ''willful and deliberate lies"
 Led on py his attorney, MT. Vertrees, the cabinet officer answered one by one the indictments of those who would de- stroy him. He referred with special pride to Theodore Roosevelt the ex-President' s high estimate of him, particularly refer ring to statement made when Ballinger was commissioner of the land office that he (Rooscvelt) had secured s25, 600 man for s500O
 He defended his conduct in connection with the Cunningham coal cases, and em- phatical,y stated that he would take the same action today as he did when at the head of the land office if he had the same record before him.
 After leaving the land office MT. Balln- ger declared his only connection with the Cunningham cases was in bringing east frorn Seattle an affidavit from Clarence Cunningham and presenting it to secre- tary Garfield. For this service he had received s2O0 or s25O. which he regarded as travelling expenses. He said that when he became Secretary of the Interior he refused to pass upon the claims In any way.
 Attorney Vertrees still has to examine MT Ballinger on the subject of water power sites before turning him over to Mir Brandeis, counsel for Glavis, and MT. Peper. attorney for Pinchot, for cross- examination The secretary's testimony today dealt almost exclusively with the Glavis charges Tomorrow it will em- brace his attitude toward conservation and the beginning of his controversy with Forester Pinchot. The defense" hopes to conclude by noon tomorrow. If this hope Is realized, Mir Brandeis will have MT. Ballnger in hand all afternoon
 Letter to Garfield
 In reply to an Inquiry from his law yer as to whether he and Garfield had parted friends, MT Ballinker said Yes" and started to read letter he had writ ten to Garfield after he had returned to Seattle.
 My Dear Jim:" he began. Then his voice broke and he stopped. MT. Yer trees took the letter from him and read while MT Ballinger recovered himself There was reference in the first few lines to MT Balinger's mother, who Is still living, but every feeble, and this reference caused Mir Ballinger to betray emotion. The letter was such one as friend might write to another. He spoke of the political situation in the northwest and said that Hughes seemed to be very strong, but that he himself was going to work for Taft
 It Is estimated that not less than s6000,- OOO will be required to finance the cot ton delivered this morning, that amount representing the volume of money which the bulls must produce in addition to what the banks will loan to them on the cotton which now passes into their hands The first May notice day had been looked forward to for more than month as likely to prove severe test of the bull cam paign, but 1t Is not regarded as a final test of the ability of the short interests to deliver cotton on all contracts held by the bull leaders. The interests short of May have until the end of that month to make good their contracts, but it is felt that any shorts now remaining must either be protected by cotton available for delivery here later in the month or very strongly financed.
 Price of May Cotton
 At the opening today May contracts sold at 1460c. compared with 14.50c at the close yesterday. The quotation quickly ad- vanced to 14.S0c on covering by scattered shorts, who found that they were being promptly stopped and reacted to 14.7lc under realizing. The excitement which had attended the opening subsided some- what when 1t was found that the bull leaders were prepared to accept delivery as the scattering interests on both sides had been pretty we'll eliminated during the recent period of violent fluctuations
 MT Scales, who with James A. Patten, William P. Brown and Frank B. Hayne, are leading the bull movement was seated in his brokers office this morning watch ing the ticker as calmly as though it was an ordinary days work instead of the biggest transaction on record.
 We will take every bale of cotton of- fered for delivery" he said, "and every bale of 1t will go to the spinners. The spectators will get none. We will show the spinners that we are their friends. But we will have no mercy on the bears. he men who sell something they have not got are the ones who do the harm. If they haven't got the cotton to fill their contracts they'll have to pay good stiff price to settle with us. The spinners will get the cotton at a reasonable price. Something more than 40,000 bales will be shipped south as soon as we get the cot ton and Europe will have a large amount
 MT. Patten again said today that there fr,