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Show Ii'i flEWELL ON STAND IN m BALLIHBEB Mill ! iPl "ProseiMif ion's" Case Is Nearly , .'M Closed, According: fo Those .) JjB in Charge. !'' ''kwWi ,liy As!,'0(,,il,cd Press. I jiVlJj WASHINGTON, March ' IP. The 'VrKl "prosocution" in the Ballin'gcr-Pinchot 'r'Sll investigation will bo concluded next fi Saturday, according to nn announce- I 'rsl-jH ",0nt' ,na(c at toJay's hearing by At tor- I ('PiuW uey Brnndcia. '.nV$'l "Dircelor Frederick It. Newell of the ij!i,fl reclamation service, occupied the stand J iWlS n" (la-v- 11(1 w:,s (-,,p ,,,sl vitiicps by , L'JljrJl which Gifford Ptnohot promised to prove '' I'H'M nis statement that Mr. BalHngor had ' : '! f'Jl made a misstatement when hp said the I'! i'n reclnniation servieo had recommended , lijl'Vjl ,M0 restoration of public lands wilh- drawn under tho administration of Scc- . W: rotary Garfield. II Ir' Tt'wH's testimony vwas largely '''inii!1' '! of the corroborative character, llo do- I 1 ' I uhfl ,jiot 1,0 '''u' ovcr recommended (ho res- i ' iw il toration of any lands on bis own ue- )'; ji5f; count, although he had done so when l ' ''?Jh- if ordered by Secretary Ballingcr. Mr. ) ni'" I Newell discussed tho KO-callcd "black r 1 'Vfl' ' I lent" afl'air aud said ho regretted thai lj! Secretary Ballingcr bad apparently I . J'jj;'.' sustained K. T. Parkings, Chicago pur- j''.lLi; chasing agent, in whnt he considered a I ,' j ji'fl wonderful act in accepting $500 a I ' 'I'Uii'.n month from the llnrriman interests for ilPir B advertising lands along their routes f 1 f jj during his lecturo tours. IpV Attorney Vcrtrccs cross-examined the '.iWi la witness closely regarding newspaper ' V'h-.ff reports t hat tlicro was to be a sliake- ! ''tn1 'I l,p n reclamation service. It was rtti il apparently Mr. Vortroes's purpose to ' "Sl; il fihow tho animus of Mr. Newell by ex- .'plji' l trading from him. an admission that he ' I'll' 'I "a expected to bo dismissed bv Mr. i thi' I BallLagor. Mr. Nowoll insisted repcat- ' irfi!;l CHV that ho did not know what Mr. Irff?i Ballingcr thought of him. Messrs. , J,.1; Burch and Steel of tho Guggenheim syn- J y.lti "'. , ilicato, will bo called to tho stand next ju'M. Friday. Attorney Pepper announced l hVl today that his case was practically com- I ' j , plctod, although ho expected to call a , m! ' number of witnesses in rebuttal. J if During tho great or part of today's . i hearing, only senato members of t.hc 1 'L : cominitteo wrc present. Tho provision , jfjj;'' of tho resolution under which the in- I.Tl ! quiry hoing hold allowing sub-com- 1 -,18 1 I mi tees to hoar testimony made it pos- i . m a siblo for tho hearing to continue with- ) ' ')(i!'ffl Ut a quonim oC 1,10 " committee. |