Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-01-29
NELSON AND
CLAWS CLASH
Further Testimony in the
Ballinger-Pinchot Inquiry
at Washington
DIRECT ANSWERS DEMANDED
Startling Declaration That At
tempts Were Made to Hinder
Agents Work.

Washington, Jan. 29--Louis r.
CLAWS resumed the stand before the
congressional committee investigating
the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy to.
day. The greater part of the morning
was devoted to the introduction of
documentary evidence from the print.
ed record of the controversy. CLAWS
and Senator Nelson had a clash dur
ing the morning. The senator asked
CLAWS if in his relations with Commits
sloner bennett or others there had
been any attempt to hinder him in his
work
We'll, | would have -
"Oh, answer it directly yes or no."
said the senator sharply.
Yes, they did, CLAWS declared
among other things that Mr.. Ballinger
on one occasion instructed him not to
pursue the investigation against Rep
reSentative Mclaughlin of California,
who held claims in the Green group of
coal lands in Alaska He quoted Mr..
Ballinger saying that there had been
too much of that thing. The witness
said he once thought of resigning
from the service in order to give out
the facts in the fraud cases to the
press, but was advised not to do that
as it would make too much scandal at
the beginning of President Taft's ad-
ministration.
Ask Taft's Help Against Insurgents.
Washington, Jan. 29.-Representa-
tive Dwight of New York, Republican
whip of the House. Representative
Dalzell of Pennsylvania and Represen-
tative Boutell of Illinois, called at the
White House yesterday to see what
assistance the President would lend
in stemming the tide of insurgency
which is said now to threaten the ex-
istence of the committee on rules.
The last cause for alarm on the
part of the regulars" was the Fow-
Ter resolution, deposing the speaker
as a member of the committee on
rules and trebling its membership.
The regulars want the Presidents
help very much but Mr.. Taft is very
reluctant to become involved in the
factional strife. He made it clear
that his main purpose is to secure the
enactment of certain legislation to
which the Republican party is pledged
and, of course, that he is willing to do
What he can to harmonize the ele-
ments in the party when the point
Of action is reached upon any of these
measures.
Congressman Wants Washington
to Be Dry.
Washington, Jan. 29-Representa-
tive Aiken of South Carolina, wants
the capital of the United States to be
dry territory. The southern states
man desires that not drop of liquor
be sold or given away within the
confines of the District of Columbia,
not even in club
His ideas on this subject are incor-
porated in bill introduced by him
in the House of Representatives pro-
viding that Washington be swamped
under the prohibition wave.
President Has No Use for MeaaIo-
manics.
Washington, Jan. 29.-President
Taft told the periodical publishers of
the United States last night that if
they overloaded their criticisms of
men in administrative authority with
unparliamentary expressions and in
timations as to lack of honorable mo-
tives, nobody is going to pay any at
tention to them.
Although he made no direct allus-
ion to undertaking it was plainly
evident at what he was directing his
attack