Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-28
V[RIRE[S ATTACKS
BALL|NG[R ENEMIES
ATTORNEY FOR SECRETARY OUT
LINES DEFENSE TO PIN
cHoT CHARGES.
FORMER FORESTER AND CLAWS
ARE BITTERLY ARRAlGNED
Charges Denounced as False and Bal
Iinser is Given High Praise-GIavis
Accused Of Hiding Papers Bearing
on Coal cases-Pinchot Accused Of
Being Too Ambitious.

Washington, March 2s.-The defense
had its first inning at the congression-
al inquiry into the Ballinger-Pinchot
controversy when Attorney Vertrees
| chief counsel for the secretary of the
Iinterior, in a statement presenting his
case, poured out the Walls of his wrath
upon Clifford. Pinchot, former forester,
and L. r. CLAWS, former chief of the
Seattle field division of the land office,
| the two principals in the prosecution.
He answered the charges against
Ballinger in terms Of bitter denuncia-
ton on the one hand, and warm COM
mendation of the secretary on the 9TH
er.
The Pinchot- CLAWS side finished
shortly after the luncheon recess. At
torney L. D. Brandeis, at that time.
| made a second Intellectual attempt to
force the committee to call Secretary
Balinger to testify as the first witness
for the defense" but the committee
overruled the request, as it previously
decided against demand by Brandeis
that he be allowed to call Ballinger
as a witness for the prosecution"
Attorney Vertress then began his
opening statement, which he read from
a carefully prepared manuscript
BalIinger is Praised.
when Mr.. Ballinger has been
heard" said Attorney Vertrees. sit
will be said that true conservation has
no steadier supporter than he. He
holds that conservation is not a thing
Of caprice, but of law; that those who
have already been born and now
breathe have rights as we'll as those
yet to be born and to breathe.
"Mr. Ballinger did restore vast Sec
tions OF domain under one 4pretense or
another. Hesstill believes he was right,
but II he erred, he denies it Is an error
for which the good faith of his official
faction should be questioned at the in
stance of those who would substitute
opinion for law.
''The evidence now to be offered
will make all things so clear, so un-
deniable and so plain that this COM
mittee will cast about to discover how
it is that men who knew as much Of
the truth as Pinchot and CLAWS and
Garfield and Davis and Newell knew,
could have the daring to present them
selves as sincere, honest harborers OF
a suspicion, much less as persons really
believing that they had knowledge of
inculpatory facts.
'Glavis, suspicious by nature, be-
came perverted by detective service
until apparently he has become in
capable Of fair judgment.
''Mr. Pinchot, vain and flattered as
chief of the forest service by his own
publicity bureau. had come to regard
himself as the most important person
ality in the department of agriculture.
Conservatism, like all sound doc
trines. when preached by the vain and
self-seeking, had become perverted, un-
til it was here folly and there a re-
proach. Reclamation and 'conserva-
ton believing toured hand in hand
and those who feel. rather than those
who think, appear to see great forests
spring up like Jonah's gourd in night
and vast reclamation projects estab-
lished not only where projects can and
ought rightfully to flourish. but at
every poor site which a missionary
might describe.
combining these doctrines, their
chiefs swept all aside that stood in
their way. 'Co-operation agreements
.co-operative certificates, ranger
schools wholesale Withdrawals of the
people's lands became the vogue. Here
was the reign of man.
Pinchot's Ambition Defeated.
"March 4, 1909, there came the reign
Of law. Mr.. Ballinger conceived that
his duty was not to be expressed in
the words I hereby direct and Order
but in the words BE it enacted by the
senate and house Of representatives of
the United States of America, in con-
gress assembled, and he acted ac-
cordingly.
"By command Of the law he undid
some things which Mr.. Garfield had
done. BY command OF the law, CO.
operative certificates and cooperative
agreements and ranger education at
government expense became things of
the past When they lost their vivid
coloring and took on a cold, dead gray,
there was q subsidence in the proper
tions Of the forestry chief, and he
ceased to be the department of agrt-
culture. He was exposed and Mr.. Bal
linger had committed the unpardonabls
sin of defeating the ambition of a self
exaggerated man.
Says CLAWS Hid Papers.
He further stated that 1T Will De
shown that CLAWS surreptitiously and
corruptly concealed among his own pri-
vate belongings papers, the property of
the United States government, which
he really knew were not Injurious to
Mr.. Ballinger's name, but which, being
hidden, could be made the foundation
Of a malignant and slanderous accusa-
ton, and that, conceivinE this to be the
situation, he called upon this commit
tee to require Mr.. Ballinger TO produce
those papers with view Of falsely
asserting that they were not produced
because they would incu1pate him."
9syler Murder Trial.
watseia, ILL.,, March 28.-village
Marshal Gibson. on the witness stand
today In the trial Of DR.. Miller, Ma.