The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-17
K.erby Declared Unfit
for Public Ser
vice.
HE IS DISM ISSED
BY BALLINGER
Stenograpker Who Gave Out In
side Facts Of Taft's Exonera-
tion Of Secretary Calmly Re-
plies That His Chief Is
Not Excellent Judge
OF Ethics.
rapher Who Gave Out In.


Washington. May 1s.---"You are here
by discharged from the public service
because you are unworthy to remain
in it,"
This, in part. was the stinsing re-
Duke administered in, q letter to-day
TO Frederick II. kerby in dismiasing
the latter from the government SER
vice.
Kerby II Will be remembered. was
the stencgrapher in secretary Bal
linger's office who on Saturday issued
statement regarding the LaWler
memorandum on the CLAWS charges to
the P..esiasnc. He was discharged
from :he government service by Sec
rotary Eali,ngcr today. Continuing,
the letter vi Secretary Baliinser to
Kerby says:
In divulgins information obtained
by you in the confidential relation Of
ftenogrspher to the Secretary or the
Interior: in communicating that in
formation to those whom you are
bound TO know are wrongfully seck-
Ing to bring reproach upon the adj
ministratien and to injure me, and in
deliberately misststing material facts
as to what you did treacherously COM
nunicate. you show that you are un-
worthy and unsafe. The fact that
Your trcachery is futile cannot miti-
gate the character OF your offense.
For the good OF the service you are
hereby dismissed"
Kerry received the letter OF dis
missal b.. special messenger this morn
ing In discussing the subject of his
discharge to-day. Kerby said the sec
retary's action had not pesn sur
prise to him "of course. when
issued my statement he added u
realized that the secretary would take
scne such action. .As TO the charges
made hy Secretary 5allinger against
me am pertsctly willing TO Leave to
the Judgment ct the people Of the
country as TO whether acted treacf-
erously or patrtotically. and feel en-
tirely certain that the general ver-
dict Will be n my favor. At any rate,
/ think that Secretary BalliuEer is
not an excellent judge of ethics"
Gives Up Intended Call.
Ksrbv had planned to call at the
Office OF the Secretary of the Interior
this morning and ask Don Carr. Sec.
retary 10 Secretary Ballinger. IL he
wanted him to report for work TO-
morrow morning when his two days
leave of absence was up, but shortly
before o'clock he changed his mind
when Il special messenger from the.
Office Of the secretary called at his
home on A Street, northeast. with
the letter of dismissal, which the sec
retary had just issued.
Whilo reluctant to discuss the mat
ter at all, lie said that he wanted to be
placed in the right light before the
people of the country. believing that
they will render a judgment which will
be just, and that they viii consider
that he, as a young man of unsullied
character is acting in patriotic man
ner for the good OF his country.
kerby was graduated from the Bust
ness High School of this city He has
taken prominent part In church work
and has always manifested a deep In
terest in the work of the Boys Brit
gade, being major Of the First Battal-
ion in this city He Is superintendent
of the Fifteenth and Potomac Streets
Mission and Sunday school of Chris,
Episcopal Church, in the southeastern
section OF the city. and has been re-
markedly successful in his work there
At the Interior Department to-day
none of the officials had anything to
say in the matter. simply pointing to-
ward the Office of the secretary and
declaring that he was the man to do
the talking, If anything was to be said
OF the Developments