Arizona republican., 1910-02-27

PinchOt on the witness stand, the Ballinger- PinchCt inquiry entered the second phase today. The dismissed chief forester. before being sworn dramatically declared that, when his story had been told. the country would demand q verdict in harmony with the general conviction that the secretary of the interior has been unfaithful to the public. whose prop erty he has endangered and to the president whom he has deceived"
 L. R. Glavis, the Cunningham coal claims and Attorney Brandeis all stood aside to make room for Pin chot, for Attorney George Wharton Pepper, his personal counsel, and for his story of Secretary Ballingers dealings with the water power sites of the public domain.
 Pinchot accused Secretary Ballin- ger of having made an explanation of his conduct to the president that was essentially false He charged him with being dangerous enemy to conservation" He charged him with having made a statement. shown by undisputed documentary evidence to be absolutely false in three essential particulars" He charged him with having '-wilfully deceived the president" and of being dislOyal to the president.
 Mir. Pinchot's first hours on the witness stand were as replete with sensation as had been promised and the Suffocating crowd in the hearing room hung intently upon every word that fell from his lips. A trifle ner- vous at first, MT. Pinchot soon be- came accustomed to his surround ings and maintained confident boise thereafter
 His recital had not progressed far. however, when there came an ob- jection from Ballinger's attorney, as to the witness repeating conversations with President Taft. It was con- tended that the relation of these con- Yersations would put the president in an attitude where he would either have to remain silent or else appear before the committee as a witness, which it was declared would be un- desirable. The question was argued for some time and in his statement of the matter the attorney for Pin chOt admitted that President Taft in a letter written subsequently, to the conversation, had declared his recollection of what transpired at the interview differed in some particulars from that of Mir Pinchot The mat ter was put over for consideration of the committee and it is expected q decision will be announced when the next session is held on Tuesday morning.
 Ia attack made on Secretary Ballinger in his opening statement, by declaring that he fully believed in Special Agent Glavis and was convinced that Clavis had said what was true. He characterized Glavis as a faithful public servant" and declared the facts which he presented proved that Mir. BalTinger had been unfaith- ful to his trust as the guardian of public property of enormous value"
 The conservation movement begun under the administration of Presi- dent Roosevelt was progressing splen- didly up to the time President Taft and Secretary Ballinger took office. declared Pinchot. He declared that in Jess than a month thereafter Sec retary Ballinger practically had broken the backbone of the central idea of the conservation movement by restoring previously withdrawn water power sites to the public do- main and laying them open to pri- vate appropriation and monopolistic control
 Pinchot declared that when the re- storations were made, Mir. Ballinger gave no point that he withdrew the power sites. and that as a matter of fact. he did not re-withdraw any of them, until after Pinchot had gone to the president and had made a viz orous protest.
 Restorations by Mir. Ballinger were made without any investigation of the subject whatever. said MT. Pinchot. and he charged the secretary with hay ing deliberately ordered officers of the reclamation service against their will to recommend that some of the re- storations should be made. MT. Pin chot declared that Director Newell of the reclamation service. would be called as one of his witnesses to prove his charges against Secretary Ballinger. Former Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield, it was announced. would be one of Mir Pinchots packers.
 One of the most dramatic incidents of the day was left for the last half of the session, when Mir. Pinchot de- clared there was no such decision by