THE MORNING OKEGOXIAJT, FRIDAY. JMAY 20, 1910. BALL1NGER PROBE 1! CLOSE TODAY Ml Departure of Root Likely to Bring Taking of Testi mony to End. LAWLER DOUBTS GLAVIS Newcll"s Desire to Make Ballinger "the Goat" Is Told by E. T. Per- -kins. Engineer In ; Service. "Too Big Man," Heply.' " WASHINGTON-, May 19. The BalHnger Pinchot Investigation Is likely to end to morrowso far, at least, as the taking of evidence Is concerned. "The defense" practically had rested when the day's hearing- ended, and At torney Brandels, for the "prosecution," tonight said his side would consume little time in- the examination of witnesses in rebuttal. Attorney Vertree, counsel for the Ballinger "defense," will call one or two more witnesses tomorrow, hut ex pects their contributions to be brieC It Is probable that the departure of Senator Root, one of the leading Republican members of the committee, who left to day for The Hague arbitration tribunal, had a great deal to do -with the decision to bring the hearings to a close. Testimony Xears End. Brandeis concluded his cross-exam Ina lion of Oscar Lawler. assistant Attorney General for the Department of the In terior and author of the now famous tentative draft for the President of a letter dismissing Special Agent I. R. Glavis. Commissioner Fred Dennett, of the general land office, also finished his testimony. E. T. Perkins, a Chicago of ficer of the reclamation service, was the last witness of the day. What was regarded by the "prosecu tion" as an Important admission was ob tained from Lawler. Brandeis was en deavoring to show that Lawler retained an old grudge against Glavis that un fitted him for the preparation of a ju dicial finding to assist the President in passing upon the Glavis charges. Lawler Accuses Glavis. He was questioning Lawler along that line when the latter unexpectedly volun teered the allegation that Glavis had "demonstrated" himself to be untruthful. This, he said, was three years ago, when Glavis had made complaint to the land office that Lawler was not competent -to conduct the Government's prosecution of certain land fraud cases in Southern California. j Lawler was then United States attor ney for the Southern District of Califor nia, and Glavis was chief of the field division at Oakland. Lawler said that the charges were investigated by the Department of Justice and were found baseless. He - went to trial with, the cases and obtained convictions. :i, Collateral Inquiry Refused. An attempt by, Brandeis to secure the production of all papers and documents relating to this question, on file at the land office, was blocked by the commit tee as involving a collateral investiga tion. Brandeis said that he desired to show whether Secretary Ballinger knew that Lawler entertained such, a griev ance against Glavis. In the cross-examination of Dennett the fact was brought out that the Interior Department had employed two of its spe . cial .agents on "detective work" in an effort to connect forest service officials with the preparation of the Glavis af fidavit, and to trace the motives of other critics of the department. Xewell's Motive Shown. A conversation E. T. Perkins said he had had in Chicago on October 23 last with F1. H. Newell, director of the reclamation service, whom it has been alleged Secretary Ballinger intended to supplant with R. H. Thomson of Seattle, was the most interesting feature' of Per kins' testimony. Perkins detailed it as follows: "You should not try to vindicate Bal linger in the 'black tent' matter," Newell paid. "I want to make Ballinger the 'goat.' " "You can't do it," Perkins replied. "He's too big a man." "Never mind." Newell replied, "I am going to do it, anyhow." Xewell's Friends Organized. Perkins told of attending, at the re quest of Glfford Pinchot, a conference at the home of ex-Secretary Garfield in Ohio on July 18. He said that Pinchot, Garfield and Thomas R. Shipp were pres ent at the conference, the purpose of which was to Insure -the retention of Newell in office. Perkins said he had promised to work for Newell and had done so to the extent, of inducing several railroad officials to write to Ballinger in" .Newell s behalf. Attorney Vertrees introduced letters and telegrams written by Shipp and Gar field regarding a trip "our friend" (who Perkins said was Pinchot) was to make to Washington, to see Newell. The evident purpose of the "defense" was to show through the testimony of Perkins and these documents that the conspiracy which the "defense" charges exists against Ballinger had its beginning at the home of Garfield, and that Pinchot came to Washington to try to induce -.Newell and other subordinates of Ballm ger to participate in it. Black Tent Plan Explained. Perkins contradicted much of the testi mony of Newell and Davis as to the "black tent" lectures. He said he him self had initiated the idea of giving tereopticon lectures throughout the Mid dle West to encourage people to settle on reclaimed lands. He said all the Western trunk line rall- Toads, excepting the Great Northern, had contributed to the fund or carrying on .mese lectures, and Tesment Hill, of the Great Northern, had not complained his road was discriminated against in these lectures. As a matter of fact, Perkins paid, most ot the projects advertised in the lectures, were accessible exclusively by the Great Northern. Perkins said both Secretary Garfield and Receiver Newell knew he was being paid for lectures around Chicago and that he delivered them in his own time. s Perkins said he had a contract to de liver six lectures a month at $50 each for a period of eight months. He said he had delivered lectures and had been paid - for seven more when the matter was brought to Secretary Ballinger's atten tion by Davis. Ballinger Dose Not Approve, When he next saw Ballinger the latter ; told him he did not approve of his re ceiving money for lectures from a rail road with which the tGovemment did business and he did not wish htm to de liver any more. Perkins said he delivered the seven remaining lectures paid - for and then cancelled the contract. He said Ballinger never gave his approval to his lecturing. During -the -four-mantha-eince-theji- vestigatlon began on aJnuary 26 the com mittee has taken an enormous amount of testimony. The printed record covers about 6000 pages and the committee has weeks of hard work before it in going over the testimony and formulating a re port to Congress. Loyal Legion Indorses Ballinger. SEATTLE, Wash., May 19. The Wash ington Commandery of the Loyal Le gion, at its annual banquet last night adopted a resolution indorsing Secretary of the Interior Richard A. Ballinger and characterizing the attack that has been made upon him as malicious and unjust. PAPERS FOUND IN ATTIC Clerk Sentenced for Destroying. Doc- uments Saved by Baby,. CROOKSTON, Minn., May 19. (Special.) When playing in the attic of his mother's home this afternoon, the 1-year-old son of Patrick J. Fearon fcftind five filing papers which, it had been believed, had been destroyed by Fearon, who for merly was a Land Office clerk. For the destruction of the papers, Fearon. who is 22 years old, was sen tenced to 18 months in the Federal Pen itentiary at Fort Leavenworth. At his trial Fearon maintained that he had not F ... A -. , , ' u W. - G. Voliva, Successor of John Alexander Dowie, Wno Is Try Ins; to Resaln Control of zion City. destroyed the papers, but was unable to say what had become of them. A petition was prepared today asking President Taft for the liberation of the young man: POINDEXTER HOLDS ALOOF Statesman Not In Caucus With. Other Friends of Bank Bill. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, May 19. Representative Polndex ter is continuing his "support" of the Administration legislative programme. He announced today that he would, not at tend the Republican caucus to be held next Wednesday to reach, an agreement upon the postal savings bank bill. His explanation is that leading Repub licans are oposed to this bill and will in fluence the caucus to take some action that -will result in its defeat. He says that he will not be bound by any caucus that is inimical to this measure. However, all regular Republicans and insurgents who want this bill passed are to attend the caucus. STATE'S SHARE NOT INCREASED House Opposition Defeats Senate Amendment Concerning Reserves. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, May 19. Because of strong op position in the House, the Senate today abandoned its amendment to the agri cultural appropriation bill, giving Western states 85 per cent of the receipts from forest reserves within their respective boundaries. Under the present law, the states get 25 per cent and this will continue. The House maintained that states were not entitled to more than one-fourth of these receipts. Representative Hawley voted in the House to concur in the Senate amend ment hut was defeated. BOURNE, AMENDMENT 'TO FAIL Senator Apparently Cannot Accom plish Closing of Draws. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, May 19. The conference commit tee in charge of the river and harbor bill will meet again Monday, at which time an effort will be made to reach a final agreement upon the bill. Unless there is a change of purpose, the Bourne amendment closing the draws of Portland bridges will on that day be for mally eliminated from the bill. No action was taken today. Enumerator Overlooks Farmer. OREGON CITY, Or.. May 19. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Paine, who reside near the Redland road, northwest cor ner of Maple Lane precinct, and what is known as the William Myers place, were in Oregon City this afternoon and said there had been no enumerator at their home, of which there are 11 peo ple, including children and men em ployed by them. Mr. Paine stated that he was certain that there were other families in his neighborhood who had not been visited by the enumerators. Right of Way Secured. JACKSONVILLE, Or,. May 19. (Spe cial.) The committee appointed by the Commercial Club to secure a right of way for an electric road to the Blue Ledge mines has reported its work prac tically finished. Property-owners along the route were enthuslasticaly in favor of the road and thase who did not at once give right of way have promised to do so. The only ground to be crossed for which the right of way is not secured be longs to the Government. GOODYEAR SHOE CO Portland's Cut-Price Shoe Store. 146 Fourth, Opposite Honeyman Hardware Company Seasonable styles that are right. We are showing a wonderful variety of foot coverings for Summer, wear. Our prices mean a saving of 50c' to $1.50 on each pair purchased. Alway Remember It will pay you to let us shoe you SUMMER SUMMER THE HIT OF THE SEASON. Women's Black Undressed Buck Button Shoes $3.85 Here's a Shoe that la up to the min ute, lnteat "Arlnto" tipped toe, band welted ntmilon hoIpk. Cuban heels. 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Zion City, founded by John Alexander Dowie, is again the center of a bitter factional fig;ht with Overseer W. G. Voliva at tempting, it is said, to obtain dismissal of the receivership and gain control of more than 6500 acres of city and farm land In a deal aggregating $1,000,000. War became open today, with a dele gation of "lndependents'V visiting Chi cago in an effort to obtain the sanction of Judge K. M. Landis to thwart Voliva in the proposed coup. They failed to meet the Federal judge, owing to his being in Madison, Wis. 'It would mean-a despotism and worse fanaticism than In the days of Dowie for Voliva to succeed in his project " said JudKe V. V. Barnes, head of the delegation, today. ""It would mean a depreciation of the property and abro gation of rights of citizens." When it was found that they would not be able to see Judge Landis, the clerk was instructed to request the- Judge to telegraph his permission or refusal. "We must act quickly," it was explained. COMBINE ON BILL TALKED (Vontlnued from First Faxe.) said a vote should be reached by the end of next week. Formally the railroad bill was before the Senate throughout the day and Sen ator Cummins of Iowa occupied the floor from the beginning to the end of the session. . His amendment, requiring that before going- into effect increases in railroad rates shall have the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, was under immediate consideration. Reviewing a wide range of argument in behalf of the proposition, he charged since January on the railroads have put a large number of increases in force and their activity in this respect was invited by the provision of the pending bill. Mr. Cummins said he did not charge j PER DOZEN f QUARTS Bottles Exchanged. Free Delivery. Wines and Liquors for Family and Medicinal Use at Wholesale Prices. SPRING VALLEY WINE CO. - Phonea, A 1117. Main JWO. 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