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Show BRANDEIS ITS JIT "SUM" Attorney for Glavis in Ballinser Hearing Makes Broad Suggestion. APPARENTLY SEEKS TO INVOLVE THE PRESIDENT Little Real Progress Made With Testimony and the Committee Commit-tee Grows Weary. WASHINGTON, April 22. After attacking at-tacking certain statements in Attorney-General Attorney-General Wickereham's summary of the Glavis case during cross-exaaiiuatiou of a witness boforo the Ballingcr-Piuchot investigation-today, Attorney Brnndcis, counsol for L. K. Glavis, threw out a broad suggestion that the document had been demanded months earlier than it had been prepared, to make it appear President Taft's letter of vindication of Secretary Ballingcr had been based upon alleged facts it contained. At the Whito House and the department depart-ment of .justice it was slated neither the presulont nor tho attorney-general would comment on Mr. Brandeis's intimations. inti-mations. Comparatively little progress was mado with the inquirv today, dospite tho apparently growing inmationcc of tho" committco lo bring tho hearing to a close. The committee probably will decide tomorrow whether to hold hearings threo dnvB each week. K. C. Finney, assistant to tho secretary secre-tary of the interior, was under cross-Continued cross-Continued on Pago Three. I DEIS HINTS I I AT "SLY JYORK" t lontiiiucd From Pao One. - 21 ition almost i he wholo tlay. hie g xl some of Mr. Wickcrabnm's mis were innccurale, but insisted tcuracics wero unimportant. B Now Comes Surprise. Is near the end of Finney's ex's ex-'s on Mr. lirnndois sprang bis sur-'1 sur-'1 Mr. "Wicbersbam in bis suni-: suni-: avs the suggestion that it was i il'for Mr. Ballingcr to have any ional relations with the Uun-$ Uun-$ a clnimants, because previously -f, jjbeen commissioner of tho land . lyas based on Section 100 of tho A HSlatutcs and lie cilos authorial authori-al show Mr? BnlHugcr had not I i iMliat law. 1 3 Brnndcis asked if he did not Javis accused Balliiiper of violat--j it law for (he first time in a -Tinj. published in n November Kpf Collier's weekly. Mr, Kin-MS Kin-MS jiot certain on" that point, ffon Mr. Brandeis demanded to lap it was a fact the statement, purported to have been made on i. b'or 11, 190D, was not mndc until a ian two months after that time. incy responded be did not know in jjj.i fact and did ot believe it Jap; come all the way here from j kt the behest of tho committee xi, jifhothcr be bad made the !?t c-) c-) Marshal II. K. Love that an it Collier's had told him "it dmc worth SnOOO to $10,000 for iconic lo "Wash in at on to tcs-flbhn tcs-flbhn W. Dudley, the dismissed 1 o the land office at .luneau. e itand and said Mr. Love had fstnod him. Dudley's Explanation, jbtidley said Hriitor llussell, of Ju pajicr, had sought to act as .'.Buary between him and Collier's, llTjiwantcd him to prepare an arti-M arti-M lylomenting tho Cilavis charges. for which be was to receive the sum mentioned. He had told of this offer from Bus-sell Bus-sell and supposod Love bad not understood. under-stood. Ho said be did not tako kindly to Russell's proposition and the weekly week-ly would not agree to it further than to pay .Dudley 'h expenses to New York to talk tlio matter over. He said Bus-sell Bus-sell did not pose as Collier's agonfc and there was nothinc said about bis testifying testi-fying before the investigating committee. com-mittee. Members of the committoe Rnd attorneys at-torneys on both sides questioned Mr. Dudley at length and apparently satisfied sat-isfied themselves there had been no effort ef-fort to influence- testimony improperly before tho committee. C. C. Kcltman, former chief of the mineral division of the interior dopart-men. dopart-men. will tako the stand tomorrow. , Attorney Vertrecs, counsel for Bal-lingcr, Bal-lingcr, safd tonight ho still bad more than a dozen witnesses to examine. |