The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-23
W|CKERSHAM THE
OBJECT OF ATTACK
Louis Claws Attorney Makes
an lnSinuation Regarding
Attorney General.
LATTER DOES NOT REPLY
STORY OF JOHN w. DUDLEY
TOLD.

Washington, April 22.-After attack
ing certain statements in Attorney
General Wickersham's summary Of the
CLAWS case during cross xamination
OF witness before the Ballinger-Pin-
chOt investigation today. Attorney
Brandeis, counsel for L. r. CLAWS,
threw out a broad suggestion that the
document had been demanded months
earlier than 1t had been prepared 10
make II appear that President Taft's
letter of vin1ication of Secretary Bal
linSer had been based upon the alleged
facts it contained.
At the White house and the depart
ment of justice II was stated neither
the President nor the attorney general
would comment on Mr.. Brandeis' inti-
nations.
Comparatively little progress was
made with the inquiry today. despite
the apparently growing impatience of
the committee to bring the hearing to
a close The committee probably will
decide tomorrow whether 10 hold hear
ings three days each week.
E. c. Finney. assistant TO the secre-
tary of the interior, was under cross
examination almost the whole day. He
admitted that some of Mr. Wicker
sham's statements were inaccurate, but
insisted that the inaccuracies were un-
important.
Witness Did Not Know.
It was near the end of Finneys ex-
animation Mr.. Brandeis sprang his sur
prise. Mr. Wickersham. in his sum
mary, says the suggestion that ii was
unlawful for Mr., Ballinger TO have any
professional relations with the Cum
bingham claimants because previously
he had been commissioner of the land
office was based on section 1870 of the
revised statutes, and he cites author1-
Ties to show Mr.. BallingeF had not VIC
lated that law.
Mr.. Brandeis asked if he did not
know CLAWS accused Balltnger Of vio-
lating that law for the first time in a
number of Golfers Weekly. Mr.. Fin
ney was not certain on that point,
whereupOn Mr.. Brandeis demanded TO
know if it was a fact that the state
ment which was purported to have
been made on September Il, 1903, was
not made until more than two months
after that time. Mr.. Finney responded
that he did not know it to be a fact
and did not believe it was.
DudIey's Story Told.
Having come all the way here from
Alaska at the behest of the committee
to tell whether he had made the state
ment to Marshal H. K. Love that an
agent of Golfers had told him ut
would be worth $4,000 to $4,000 for
him to come TO Washington to testify,
John W. Dudley, the dismissed register
of the land office at Juneau, took the
stood him.
Dudley's aid. Editor Russell, of a
Japanese paper. had sought to act as
intermediary between him and Golfers 5.
Russell wanted him to prepare an artt-
Gle supplementing the CLAWS charges,
for which he was to receive the sum
mentioned. He had told Love OF this
offer from Russell and supposed Love
had not understood He said he did
not take kindly to Russell's proposition
and the weekly would not agree to it
further than to pay Dudley's expenses
to New York to talk the matter over.
He said Russell did not pose as Col
lier's agent and there was nothing said
about his testifying before the investi-
eating committee.
c. c. Keltman, former chief of the
mineral division of the interior de-
partment, will take the stand tomor-
row.
Attorney Vertrees, counsel for Bal
linger, said tonight he still had more
than a dozen witnesses to examine.