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Show Deposed Forester May Make Statement Before Prosecution Prosecu-tion Closes Case. BALLJNGER'S ATTORNEY FINISHES WITH GLAVIS Attorney-General for Porto Rico Principal Witness Examined Ex-amined Saturday. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. Tho case for the prosecution In the Ballingcr-PInchot inquiry practically has boon closed. When the committee adjourned today until Friday, Fri-day, Mr. Brandois stated thero was somo corroborative evidence yet to be produced, and that Glfford Plnchot probably would want to make a statement beforo he could announce his case was ended. Mr. Pinchot. was to have taken the stand this aftornoon. but ho could not bo found during the luncheon recess. Tho day's proceedings began with the unexpected announcement that tho crons-oxamlnatlon crons-oxamlnatlon of Louis R. Glavls was ended. Henry M- Hoyt, attorney-general for Porto Rico, was called to the stand to corroborate that portion of Glavls's testimony ln which he told of seeking the advice of Mr. Hoyt ln Washington In Mav, 1009, after First Assistant Secretary Secre-tary of the Interior Pierce had rendered an opinion which Glavls thought would permit the Cunningham claims ln Alaska to go to patent. Mr Hoyt told of how deeply worried Glavls seemed to be at this time and said that, beforo going to Attorney General Wlckersham he and Glavls had discussed the advisability of taking tho matter up directly with the president. . Mr. Hoyt also testified to the good character of Glavls, saying ho had known him for a number of years, and he had told the attorney-general that Glavls was an honorable, hon-orable, upright young man. Wilson Coal Oases. The only other phase of the caso to which Mr. Hoyt directed his testimony had to do with the Wilson coal land cases In which he acted as special attorney for the United States. Glavls testified ho had hoard that the name of R. A. Balllnger, an attorney for some of the Wilson claimants, has been left out of the court record by stipulation of counsel. Mr. Hoyt said it was at his personal suggestion and without the knowledge of Mr. Balllnger that tho stipulation had been entered into. As a matter of fact, however, Mr. Bnllinger's name did appear fifteen or twenty times in the testimony given. Mr. Hoyt said a search had been made for the alleged escrow agreement which Mr. Balllnger is said by Glavls to havo drawn up. and which, according to Glavls. constituted a criminal act, but that it could not be-found, and the only evidence as to its existence was an Informal In-formal statement by one of the witnesses, wit-nesses, who, at the trial, denied the existence ex-istence of such an agreement. Still More Documents. The remainder of the day was taken up with the introduction of documentary evidence, by Mr. Brandcis, who read such extracts as he considered of peculiar Interest In-terest to tho committee. These consisted largely of references in the agents' reports re-ports to conversations or Interviews with Mr Balllnger. as commissioner of the land office on the subject of the Alaska claims. This was done, tho attorney said, to show that Mr. Balllnger had been actively Interested In these cases before he left tho land office and acted as at-tornev at-tornev for some of the claimants. He "also read from a statement by H. H Schwartz, chief of tho field service, that it was at Mr. Ballingcr'sf direction In January. 100S, that tho Cunningham claims were ordered to be clear-listed for patent. This was withdrawn after Glavls had been notified and had protested. pro-tested. Mr. Brandcis accompanied the introduction intro-duction of the documents with a sort of summing up statement In which he said it was claimed Mr. Balllnger had acted on a favorable report by Special Agent Lqvc, He then read a letter from Love to Commissioner Dennett of tho land office of-fice in which Love denied fhat his report re-port of August 2, 1907, favored" tho clear-listing clear-listing of the claims. . , This report, he said, suggested tho advisability ad-visability of further Investigation, although al-though previously he had recommended clear-listing. |