The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-05-18

I inquiaitor with flasing eyes.
/ Mr. Brandeis instantly appealed to
I the committee to reprimand the wit
ness.
III my remark has been offensive. I
withdraw II and apologize TO the COM
mittee." said Mr. l.awler. Mr. Bran
I des was pacated and resumed his
cross examination.
Nh Lawlcr said he had been asked
4 by the president to prepare an opinion
and that he regarded 1t az Il confiden-
tial trust. He said he had furnished
To the committee all the information
he had felt at liberty to dvuge and
did not think he had any right To in
/ form the committee that such mem
orandum existed.
I Immediately after his return to
4 Washington from Beverly last Septem-
ber. MIR. Lawler said he had begun
7 preparation of his memorandum. The
original draft, he said. was completed
without consulting anybody.
When the draft had been typewrit-
ten by kerby and Massey. he added. ha
had called in Secretary Ballinger and
others one night to hear II read.
| Il wanted to he absolutely correct In
every statement" explained MIR. Law
Ter. He said no one made any sugges-
tion except for the purpose of verfica-
ton
Mr.. Lawler said he had burned the
4 original draft OF the memorandum.
Il was confident" he said. that
gum shoe men had been on my tran
for months and I knew there We're no
depths OF degradation to which they
would not stoop I was afraid soIne-
one In the office might be corrupted, as
Kerby has been corrupted"
Asked who he thought were behind
the gum shoe" men, Mr.. Lawler de-
clared dramatically;
James b. Garfield. clifford Pinchot.
Norman Hapgood, man named Con-
molly and that man there"
You mean Mr. Brandeis?'
Yes. lie came In later. He's the
flower OF that foul flock"
This reference to the champions OF
conservation caused an uproar among
the spectators. most of whom were
women. and there was some Kissing
The witness said he gave two copies
of his memorandum to the presidents +
secretary and one to the attorney gen.
eral and had not given one to Secre-
tary Balllnger. He produced the orig
inal which he said he had obtained
from the White House Saturday morn.
in1.
Confidential Letters.
Confidential letters which passed be-
tween Secretary Balinger and r. =
Thompson. city engineer of Seattle, las
spring and summer. were read by Ste
nographer Kerby to bear out his con.
tention that Thompson was not III
man to be IN the reclamation service
lie said he had mentioned to Mr. Bran
deis at Pinchots home here last Feb
ruary that Ballinger had intended L
supplant Director Newell with .Thomp
son ever since he became secretary
The letters We're furnished the com
mittee In response to "A request by Mr.
Brandeis. The letters related to IA tri
to Alaska which Ballinger had sug
gested Thompson should take as al
expert In the summer of 1903. witt
George w. Perkins, OF j. p. Morgan
view to establishing IA railroad 70
I the development of mineral lands MI
: Ballinger wrote Thompson he ha
4 recommended. him to Mr.. Perkins an
# that the matter should be kept strictl
e confidential. II appeared from the cor
t respondence Mr.. Thompson first ha
e agreed to go to Alaska. but subse
: quently had abandoned the trip to b
: present at the Spokane irrigation con
gress.
= In the letters between Ballinger an
Z Thompson reference was made to tn
= reclamation service and the reorgan
! ization Mr.. Ballnger planned and I
i some proposition Mr.. Ballinger hope
s to be In position to make To Thomp
son by September l. last kerby rea
!. letter received by Mr.. Ballinger. frol
q s. II. Geddes OF Seattle. under date {
,e April II last, i'm which Geddes wrote h
It had told Thompson he would like
=. see him in Washington as head of I'll
/. reclamation service. but had assure
1t the secretary that he had not int
mated some conversation the two ha
N had
= The committee declined Mr.. Brar
'e dels' request to have made part |
III the record the. statement issued fro
= the White House last Saturday deny
y ing there was any foundation for II
Kerby statement. Senator Ro'
:. charged Mr.. Brandeis whole line of II
., auiryNgas "A covert attempt to drag u
a. president into he investigation.
N which Brandeis said 1t was material
* the inquiry as tending to show that Il
of presidents letter generating Ballli
tn ger was prepared in such haste that
he was mot judicial in its nature. b
was extremely partisan"