The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-13
Special from United Press.)


 Washington, June 13.-Parting hot shots were exchanged through the me- dium of three stocky volumes filed to- day with the Ballinger-Pinchot Con- gressional Investigating committee, representing the briefs of counsel on both sides
 The, thousand odd pages of the docu- ments bristle with the same sort of vttuperation that marked the ''triaP' from start to finish. The committee is asked to regard l.. R. Glavis the form CT field agent as "a patriot (by At torney l.. D. Brandeis) or traitor and a snake (by Attorney Vertrees) OuS advocate of good government" (by Attorney Pepper) and an arch con- spirator seeking to destroy the good name of a cabinet officer (by Attor- ney Vertrees.o
 Brandeis says: 'In our opinion the record amply discloses MT. Ballinger' s knowledge of the situation and shows and his cooperation with the private special interests who were and are striving to take the peoples property in violation of the law.''
 Pepper says: Whatever may be the form of their (the committee's) report, we trust that they will record their definite conviction that the immediate care of the public domain is now in unsafe hands,"
 VeNrees says: 'It is no idle thing to assail the character of a member of the cabinet. He is one of the ad- visers of the President and dishonor- able conduct on his part not only ual but reproach upon the governor of the republic itself. Consequently such an accusation ought not to be lightly brought. There ought surely to be substantial grounds. Here it may be asserted there are none."
 Attorney Vertrees dwelt consider ably on the conspiracy which he de- Ballinger by Pinchot. Glavis and Gar field. Attorney Pepper declared such an excuse baseless. saying that '.ft is the convicted man who usually raises the cry that the police and prosecu- tor have conspired against him.
 Attorney Pepper in his brief con- tends that the case is really a charge not a little difficult in these days of the reign of law" it reads, '-to justify the courts of the legislature in pro- ceeding to investigate the executive AS. however, the inquiry was request ed by the Secretary of the Interior ne CdHIIOl COHlpldlH 1T Iull is taken by the committee
 In conclusion, Attorney Brandeis sums up: "If the facts which have been stated are proved by the record, by this record the department of the interior is to be judged.
 ''In these controversies, Glavis, Pin chot, Jones and Kerby have been dis missed. Hoyt has resigned. Newell and Davis hold so slight a tenure of office that before this committee re- ports thy may be no longer in the ser vice. From the conduct of these men the committee will determine whether they are honest men or snakes to be killed and traitors to be dismissed
 Attorney Pepper dismisses Vertrees' conspiracy charges as trivial. 'No one'' he says. twill have the temerity to contend that it is unlawful to re- gard MT. Ballinger as unfit for office. Nor is it illegal for a number of peo- ple to hold this view. Not only is it permissible to hold this view but those who honestly entertain it have a right to say so publicly. Those whose policies MT. Ballinger has attacked are inevitably driven together into a de-