Show BURTON RU R TON IN JAIL JA IL PEIRCE AT LARGE Two Men Guilty of the Same by the I House HOLise Committee Washington Jan J Faulkner former ormer United States senator from West Virginia appeared tOday before the house committee on ways and means to refute charges made b by Pro lessor fessor Henry V T Elliott of Cleveland against tho North American cia 1 company in connection with the th lease of sealing scaling privileges in Alaska which this company holds I Last week Professor Elliott stated to I the committee that ho he was for years employed by Secretary of State Hay Hayas as a agent to Investigate the seal question Mr Faulkner statEd today that for lor maps and charts 1 is the only record of any payment made by the government t to Professor ProCessor Elliott I Mr Faulkner also said that Secretary i Root refused to recognize a verbal I agreement which Professor Elliott al alleged he had with Mr Roots sor as secretary of stute Defense of Peirce I I II Mr Faulkner denied the charge that I Ithe the North American Commercial com coni company pany had been sUborning the United States officials and stated that great injustice was done Herbert H D PIerce United States minister to Nor Norway Norway way In the accusation that he should not have been paid by the owners of the sealing vessel J 1 Hamilton Lewis for representing their Interests before The Hague tribunal when their claims against Russia for the thc seizure of the tho vessel were heard Representative Clark or of Missouri and Representative Williams Interposed that the principle of allowing a United States government to represent sent an American corporation before The Hague was wae wrong and Mr Cl rk remarked that Senator Burton was put In jail for practicing before a govern government ment department w which Mr Clark said was to his m mind nd no 10 worse than what Mr Peirce did |