HEARING UNEXPECTEDLY ENDED
Hearings Unexpectedly Ended QUITE unexpectedly a sudden end was brought, Friday, to the hearings of the congressional committee investigating the so-called Ballinger-Pinchot controversy. Arguments...
...Lawler wrote the President's summary and the important contribution he made to the evidence was his admission that he was prejudiced against Glavis at the time of writing it because Glavis had previously reported Lawler for incompetency in connection with some land cases...
...of Baliinger recommending Thompson...
...and of Perkins inviting Ballinger's son to take the trip...
...of Perkins asking Baliinger to name him an engineer to go with him (Perkins) to Alaska to investigate the feasability of exploitirg Alaska for railroad purposes...
...Oscar Lawler, attorney general of the Interior Department, did his side much harm by a vulgar display of bad temper on the witness stand...
...One of these was the fact that Baliinger a year ago had planned the removal of F. H. Newell as head of the Reclamation Service and the appointment of a friend, R. H. Thompson of Seattle, to his place...
...More important was the showing up of the intimate relations existing between Baliinger and George W. Perkins, head of the house of J- Pierpont Morgan & Co...
...Letters between Baliinger and Perkins were introduced in which Baliinger tells of dining at the Perkins home in New York...
...The principal developments of last week came through the testimony of Frederick M. Kerby, the stenographer whose expose led, among other things, to President Taft's admission that he had instructed a Baliinger henchman to write the letter clearing the secretary and authorizing the dismissal of Glavis...
...Arguments will be heard th-is week znd the committee will then pruceed to digest the great mass of testimony taken during the past four months and to formulate its report, or reports...
...An attempt by certain members of the committee to break down Kerby's published story, by "rushing him off his feet" at the start, failed, and other exposures of a scarcely less startling nature were madj by him...
Vol. 2 • May 1910 • No. 21
