The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-02-17
HOT DEBATE
IN INQUIRY

Washington, Feb. l6.-The Bal.
lingcr Pinchot investigating committee
was In session for three hours today
and then adjourned until Friday
morpine at 10 O'Clock Mr.. Vertress.
attorney Tor Secretary Balllngcr. con
tlsucd mis- cross examination OF Louis
r.. Claws. but made little headway.
lie argued several times with the Wit
ness on Che svbioci Of direct answers
,na in one ui these disputes Repre-
sentative Graham oi Illinois. demo-
crlt. and Senator Nelson of Mime
sofa. chairman ~ the committee had
q warm co.lCquy
Nr. Vertrcgs read into the records
tcday q numcof o. letters and teie-
E.a.s Gta LIS with the calling In oi
l-c lJrcst seryicc by J'at1S In the
ctusl cca;IlaatiJn oi The witness it
vaS sh0Ua that before nc Was called
o.. t1c A;1-sl land cases. IN May. 1908.
hr Eal ,eirgfaihcd ;he department a;
F,a-. iug on that the United States
a.tcney 90 Pr,i9-j had urged the
uoc- s'iy ci ciosms Jp about a thou
sand QciCG IN Oregon, WAcrein hear
tiltcy alG ne W.l field service
would inc nced-d. Three days later
Clay WIS token OFF the Alaska case
R1d 1ssi-"c. 10 the oregon work
Cia.l5 tes'ssci bC go. no orders 90
ocsuma t.c A.aeka cases undl Octo-
ber. l.lS
.E Ee,,rcss sought 60 draw from
ts- N;tc.7 the adIisScl that when
Sc ,t'c-.-p -pAra thc apartment he
cca'd pa sibait q report on the
CIm.I2..J,A claim7 because additional
cHtrrfc @as not ava liable he did
lol tnoN ANY evidence could be cb-
td,ncd.
GlNi insisted he tbcught evidence
might he ,2l IL Alaska lie was uc5
sure. tuwcver Nertresg asked Gla-
vlc vixen ne iEst received word that
he was TO be surplnted. iic said
On q ny !. 1'oS.
number Of let .ers ana telegrams
dealing with the calling IN ot the
f.'C.ly' were read by MIR NertreeS.
Copies ~ these were received from
ihe forestry" TODAY. In letter
dated July G. 1908, and addressed by
G.avis to s. A. Snaw. former assist
ant law officer OF he forestry service,
G'a,is se!! ,he land cGice. for OBJ
NiO1T rHrs1U7 "prob9hly would turn
ceer ocrt9,n papers 90 the forestry
Pint s. have copies Of them" he
continued. an 'Hcy viii make mighty
Interesting reading TO YOU. The rea-
eCGh lol my request Tor delay VIII
LC oppdrCn rom nv reports"
IA q telegram, which shaw sent TO
the district forester a. Portland. he
vas instructed to assist CLAWS and
make his telegraphic reports 'iull and
strong.
Air. Ncrrees next turned to the
charge CLAWS has made that he was
called or the Alaska work In May.
1908. aud Got no order To resume uu-
til Octoyer OF that year lie adj
m'ttod thar three days before he was
called OF the Alaska work he had
ic'cGaphed the department that the
tAitcd States attorney was requesting
immediate action on enc thousand
cases in oregon. where patents would
have TO be attacked in the near future
and that the entire force would be
required IN this work until May
Air Nertrecs quoted from a tele-
gram OF Commissioner bennett on
May 2S 1908. which told of an add.
tional appropriation for field work and
concluded:
Push work"
Claws said he aid not regard this
as referring to the Alaska cases and
tlot H. II Schwartz. chef of the field
service did not so regard 1t. for on
September %. 1905. Schwartz recon-
mended TO bennett that the order TAX
Ing CLAWS OF the Alaska work be re.
volled
Nearly an hour OF the session was
spent on comparison OF set of coal
land rules compiled prior to Mr. Bal
lilCer's service as commissioner of
the land office and OF set complied
by Mr. Ballinger
Ia was found that the rules referred
entirely To lands In the United States
proper and had no application to
Alaska