Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-01-08
Letter Read in Senate Regarded by
Taft as a Def of His Insurgents
And He Immediately Takes Dras-
tic Action. Chief Executive Again
Takes Sides With The MOnOpOlies
And Protects Ballinger Whose
Dealings With The Corporate In
terests we're Exposed by Ousted
Forester.

WIOlt uolt W YOU, uuutI udlc vi
December Goth, asking for your rec
! 0mmendation in the premises. You
did not answer, but on January 4. you
had a conversation with him in which
you said you wished to make state
: ment which should be read in the Sen
, ate at the same time that my record
, IN the CLAWS case reached there, and
! that you thought that you could in
, duce Senator Dolliver to introduce
| the statement for you
"The secretary advised against such
course: but asked you for a rec
ommendation, in order that he might
bring the matter to me, to whom, he
told you, it must Infinitely come be
cause | had considered the CLAWS
charges and had passed upon them
then.
Without further conference with
the secretary. and before making a
report to him, you succeeded in max
ing public. by having read in the
senate letter from you stating that
you had sufficiently disciplined both
Price AMI Shaw by reprimanding them
and that your recommendation would
be that no further punishment was
required and this before that recon-
mendatiOn was submitted to the sec
retary and me whose power and duty
it was to determine upon Prices ad-
missions as to his completely what ac-
tion should be taken with respect to
his resignation.
I'm order to understand the full
purport of your letter in which you
admit the completely of Price and
Shaw in the publication in the press
it should be said that the grave ma
ture of the CLAWS charges was that
Secretary Bailinge rand the others
were ali affected by corrupt wish to
patent thirty-three sO-called Cunning
ham claims upon the local lands in
Alaska; that the question whether
these claims were fraudulent or not
re manned to be decided upon the ev-
idence after both the United States
and the claimants iad been heard;
that every patent as an executive act
is completely within the jurisdiction
of the president to direct the with
holding of it in order that he may
himself examine the evidence as K
the validity of the claim.
These facts understood the plain
intimation in your letter are, first
that | had reached a wrong concul-
sion as to the good faith of Secretary
Ballinger and the officers of tAe land
office, although you and your subor-
1inates had only seen the evidence of
CLAWS. the accuser, and had never
seen or read the evidence or the rec
ords that they disclosed which they
| submitted to me: and second, that
| under these circumstances, without
! the exploitation of Messrs. Shaw and
Price in the daily, weekly and monthly
| press of the charges of Claws. the ad-
ministratiOn, including the president,
and officers of the interior department
and land office would have allowed
certain fraudulent claims to be paten-
ted on coal lands in Alaska, although
the matter had been specifically
brought to the attention of the presi-
dent by the CLAWS charges.
| you solicit the opportunity to make
such a declaration in Congress for
the purpose of offsetting, if possible,
in the public mind, the presidents s
decision in the CLAWS case, support.
ed by the opinion of the attorney gen
eral, after full examination by both,
of the evidence adduced by the ac-
cuser and the evidence on behalf OF