Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-05-26
NEWS FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What Our Lawmakers Are Do
ing and Other Items Of
Importance.

arguments by counsel.
Two days will be devoted to speech
making. The so-called prosecution
will open and for five hours Friday
the committee will listen to the ad-
dresses of Louis D. Brandeis, counsel
for L. R. CLAWS, and George w Pep
per, counsel for Clifford Pinchot.
The defense" win sum its case on
Saturday, May 2S. John ]. vertrees,
counsel for Secretary Ballinger, will
have five hours in which to answer
the attorneys for the other side.
Both sides will be given until Mon
day, June l3, in which to file briefs
with the committee to assist it in
passing on the great mass of evidence
which has been presented.
Taft Stands by BaIlinger.
President Taft has intimated to
callers that he intends to stand by
Secretary Ballinger, for he is con-
vinced of Mr.. Ballinger's innocence
either of wrongdoing or of improper
motives. The President says he does
not consider that Ballinger's accusers
have made out any case against him.
On top Of this announcement from
the White House comes the reitera-
ton OF Secretary Ballinger's purpose
to hold on to his position, notwith-
standing a renewal of the reports that
he Is soon to resign.
Exposition Fight Warm.
The battle Of the cities for the big
show in the matter of celebrating the
completion of the Panama Canal is on
in earnest with San Francisco and
New Orleans in the lead.
New Orleans bases her claim for
Government recognition on the fact
that she is the natural canal port and
besides the Pacific Coast has Just
been recognized in the exposition line,
while 1t has been long time since
the south has had slice of this par
ticular kind of pie.
San Francisco on the other hand
comes with something like $4,000
subscribed for the exposition, and the
claim that it's further from Frisco to
Seattle than from New Orleans to
St. Louis SO the sectional claim is
without merit.
Country Wild on Battieships.
That the United States has gone
wild on the matter of armament and
especially In the construction of bat
tleships was asserted by Hale, Clay
and Gallinger in the Senate during
the consideration of the naval appro-
priation bill. The bill carried $780,
100000 and Hale predicted that with
In five years the annual naval ap-
preparation would not be less than
$175.0Oo.OOO.
The opinion was expressed that the
promised reduction of expenditures
would not take place in the present
session of Congress, and Hale and
Gallinger, both members of the com
mittee on appropriations, agreed that
the expenditures would exceed the
revenues the next fiscal year.
Borah Talks on Conservation.
The Vests view OF conservation of
natural resources was explained to
the Senate for the first time by SEN
ator Borah, Of Idaho. In a recent
speech In which he dwelt particularly
upon the right and power Of the Presi-
dent to make Withdrawals OF public
lands in the absence of Constitutional
or congressional authority.
In his speech, the Idaho Senator
maintained that the Executive has no
authority to make wholesale with
drawals such as have been made re-
Gently at the behest of Pinchot and
his band Of theorists.
Minor News Items.
Oregon, Idaho and Washington ap-
pie growers will be interested to
learn that the New York Orchards
Company, Inc, has been formed here
In the National capital, for the pur-
pose, first, of buying and operating
apple orchards in Western New York,
and, second, to advertise extensively
so as to compete in the markets with
the Pacific Northwest apples.
The Interior Department is prepar.
ing for the establishment OF the bu-
feau OF mines, in accordance with the
recent enactment of congress Great
Ing 1t as q coordinate division in that