The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-15
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The President in his letter speaks of
the inference which CLAWS seeks TO
draw to Ballinger's discredit, that
while ne was commissioner of the land
office he came into possession OF facts
concerning the so-called Cunningham
group of coal land claims which made
after your resignation in the course of
securing patents"
Lawler says:
Game into possession Of facts which
the detriment of the government in the
course of private employment by some
of the parties interested In such
claims"
The President says another infer
ence is that you have acted improperly
since you became secretary of the in
terror in reference to the Cunningham
cases and have used your influence to
feat the claims"
Lawler says: "Ycu have acted I'm
properly since becoming secretary OF
the interior in reference to the consid-
Grafton OF the Cunningham cases, the
improperly arising out of the fact of
your having been consulted by parties
interested therein after your retire
ment as commissioner and before be-
ing appointed secretary"
Taft More Moderate.
Mr.. Taft's letter says: The whole
record shows that Mr. CLAWS was
honestly convinced of the illegal char
ham group, and that he was seeking
evidence to defeat the claims"
LAWYERS letter credits him with no
such honest intent, stating: '+rhe re-
ports and records have been carefully
examined and therefrom / find that
rot only are the inferences without
justification, but that CLAWS has been
guilty of perversion and suppress
representation
Mr.. Taft in his letter authorizes Bal
linger to dismiss CLAWS for filing
heterogeneous statement, un1ustly i'm
peaching the official integrity of his
superior officers"
I,awler calls his statement "disin-
genuous and celored, seeking through
inuendo and inference to create a sus-
picion of improper conduct on the part
of his superiors, by recital OF isolated
circumstances, dis associated from the
detached letters and kilograms without
reference to the communication 70
which they were replies. or to res
ponses ELECTED 70 them:
The Lawler document Is very mucn
larger than the entire Taft letter. and
deals exclusively with the Alaskan
coal claims. while only about half OF
the Taft letter refers to the CLAWS
charges, the balance relating to the
forestry controversy, TO which LAWYER
hardly refers at all. The Lawler draft
totals upwards of 5000 words; that or
the President makes about 3,ouV
Statement by Kerby.
81 made the facts public because l
had decided that loyalty to Mr.. Bal
linger did not justify disloyalty to the
country said Frederick NJ. kerby to-
night He added that in view or what
he had heard Of snake killing" he
assumed he would be dismissed from
the department.
IF the secretary of the interior be-
lieves that my statement of the facts,
he continued, calls for my separation
from the service, it is up to him. !
have only stated the facts. he has
said that he wants the truth of all the
facts 1 have only made my contribu-
tion of what he had failed to make
public
In response to a question as to what
he would do in case he lost his posi-
ton, Kerby said:
ct have had personal assurance from
others than those to whom l gave the
| information that they would do the
| best they could for me IN case 1 was
dismissed" He declined to say from
whom he received the assurance.
Mr.. Kerby said that the question haC
not been an easy one to decide from
an ethical and moral standpoint
! Notwithstanding considerable pres
| sure from newspaper representatives,
| said he, IT had refused to make thu
| story public, believing that the prope
| course was TO wait until i could 81
| called as a witness, but the attitude o
the committee in practically shutting
! off the inquiry regarding the mem
| Orandun by LAWYER convinced me tina
| the only course to adopt to make tn
! facts public would be TO give 1t q
| the press"
He emphaticaIly denied that the so
called Pinchot side of the controvers.
had anything to do with the publica
ton of his statement He said tina
ex-Secretary Garfield knew of tn
facts in his possession from a mutua
friend, but had nothing TO do wit
their publication.
Attorney Vertrees, counsel for MI
Ballinger, met the President at tn
White House tonight and held a brie
conference with Mr.. Taft.