The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-01-28
CLAWS TELLS HIS
TROUBLE WITH RALlINGER

Washington. Jan. 2s.-Tne Congress
ional inquiry into the Ballinger-Pin-
chot controversy was resumed today.
The committee room in tine senate Of
flee building had been entirely rear
ranged to provide better accommoGa a
tions, the seating capacity having
been doubled.
Louis r. CLAWS was on the stand
and it is believed he will not only oc
cupy the stand all day but probably
for several days to come.
Mr.. Pinchot and his dismissed as
sistants in the Forest Service. were
present but Secretary Ballinger was
again absent.
CLAWS took up his story where he
left it on Wednesday. CLAWS said that
in 1907 he wrote TO II. II. ScwartZ.
then chief of the field division, saying
ae was worried about the Alaskan sit
uation. 1T will pain you as much as
it has panied me-" he wrote, but |
am sure you will want to learn tle
true situation
What Alaskan claims did you re-
fer to in that letter." asked Repre-
sentative Omstead.
"AH of them.
Mr.. Branders then took up the
printed documents in the case, which
consist of SO7 pages and spent some
time calling the attention of the com
mittee to various letters and telegrans
tending to show CLAWS activity in
the ALASKA cases, and to certain let
ters which showed the part Mr.. Bal
linger played.
In directing the inquiry his pur-
pose was, he said, to indicate that
President Taft and Attorney General
Wickersham were mistaken when they
stated they reached the conclusion
hat Ballinger's participation had been
merely formal.
CLAWS told of a visit to Washington
where he told Mr.. Schwartz of the
Land Office of the people of Seattle
saying there would be no further in
vostigation into the claims in Alaska
aad that patents would be granted.
Said that there was great danger
# another big scandal equal to that
n Wyoming and Colorado whore the
Investigation OF the coal land cases
was suppressed" declared CLAWS.
who suppressed these investiga.
TONS" demanded Senator Paynter.
1T was testified at Salt Lake that
former commissioner Richards did.
Mr. Ballinger had no connection with
it in any way"
Later he saw Mr.. Ballinger and was
placed in charge of all the Alaska
cases. Mr.. Ballinger told him to make
his investigation thorough and to g
after them, no matter whether the
were his (Ballinger's) friends or not.
CLAWS said he was satisfied there
was to be a thorough investigation.
but in less than month Ballinger
wrote him stating the Cunningham
claims had been "clear listed
Later CLAWS said that after his pro
test by wire and mail the clear list
ng was revoked.
Arthur K. Bowman, of Cheyenne.
vas among the witnesses summoned
today
Would Admit Coal Lands to Entry.
Washington, Jan. 2s.-The House
Committee on Public Lands today vot
ed favorabIy on the Mondell bill ad-
hitting to entry the surface of coal
ands in the United States. The meas
IRE affects about thirty million acres
If land in Wyoming, Colorado. Utah,
New Mexico, Norta Dakota, Oregon,
Washington, and Idaho.
The application by the Armour Car
lines to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission Tor reparation against the
Southern Pacific Company on ship
nents of ice from Los Angeles to Yu-
ma. Arizona, was rejected today by tae
Commission, which held that the grant
ing of the request would open the door
n the prossest form of fayoritiSm and