NEWELL REFUTES BALLINGER
Newell Refutes Ballinger BECAUSE of the keen interest taken in the contest over the lules in the House of Representatives, the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation committee was unable to summon a...
...Sixteen known witnesses are yet to be summoned...
...He had done so, however, when ordered to by Secretary Ballinger...
...This was made possible under a provision of the resolution, under which the inquiry is being held, which allows subcommittees to hear testimony...
...Newell was expecting to be dismissed by Secretary Ballinger...
...Many Witnesses Still to Come INDICATIONS are that the end of the investigation is still far off...
...Newell, however, remained unshaken in his statement that he knew nothing about Mr...
...His testimony corroborated the statements of Chief Engineer Davis, and was in flat contradiction to many of the statements of Secretary Ballinger...
...In this letter, Secretary Ballinger stated that withdrawals were made after surveys of the ground...
...On Saturday, however, a session was held and testimony taken without a quorum present...
...Newell said no new surveys had been made, as the letter indicated...
...That Secretary Ballinger had made a misstatement when he said the Reclamation Service had recommended the restoration of public lands withdrawn under the administration of Secretary Garfield, was sworn to by Mr...
...In addition, it is said, the committee itself may summon former Gov...
...The Pinchot-Glavis side has summoned, or expects to do so, G. O. Smith, Director of the Geological Survey...
...Newell closely as to the reports that there was to be a shake-up in the Reclamation Service...
...In the testimony of Arthur P. Davis, chief engineer of the reclamation service, the disagreeable true inwardness of Bal-lingerism—President Taft and all—comes cutward in calm and convincing fashion.— The Public...
...Newell said he regretted that Secretary Ballinger had apparently sustained E. T. Perkins in accepting $500 a month from the Harriman railroad interests in addition to his government salary...
...Newell said Ballinger refused to sign a written statement containing his instructions to the Reclamation Service to issue a report favoring the restoration of the public lands to entry...
...The Ballinger side expects to put on the stand Secretary Ballinger himself, assistant Secretary Pierce, Land Commissioner Dennett, Chief of Field Service Schwartz, A. Christenson, who succeeded Glavis, G. W. O'Neill, and Special Agent Sparks, the last three relative to private papers of Glavis at Seattle, and Ella M. Shartell, a stenographer, relative to affidavits by coal claimants...
...Questioned concerning the so-called "black tent" affair, Mr...
...He denied that he had ever recommended of his own volition the restoration of any lands...
...It is rumored that the Ballinger side may summon certain so-called "muckraking" correspondents of newspapers and magazines relative to the color they have given their reports...
...The purpose of this cross-examination was plainly to make it appear that Mr...
...This order was given orally...
...Ballinger's attorney consumed a good deal of time in cross-examining Mr...
...Director-Frederick H. Newell of the Reclamation Service was on the stand all day...
...Ballinger's attitude toward him...
...former Associate Forester O. W. Price, former Law Officer A. W. Shaw, J. N. Steele and Stephen Birch, attorney and managing director, respectively, of the Guggenheim Alaska syndicate...
...said that Secretary Ballinger had not given the facts to Senator La Follette in a letter dated May 25, 1909...
...For a time there seemed some possibility of the committee going to Alaska and investigating the situation relative to the coal claims, but it is now believed this will be unnecessary...
...Newell Refutes Ballinger BECAUSE of the keen interest taken in the contest over the lules in the House of Representatives, the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation committee was unable to summon a quorum last week...
...Miles C. Moore of Washington, one of the Alaska coal claimants...
Vol. 2 • March 1910 • No. 12
