Show BALLINGER DOES VIGOROUS DENiAl STUNT AND INCIDENTAllY ROASTS HIS CRITICS WASHINGTON Nov Nor 20 20 Replying to charges mado made in a magazine interior department department depart depart- tho tary tal Ballinger of ment yesterday denied man many reports recently re roo ra- ra circulated LODI oncoming th the duct of his bis department To say that I J over v r havo have advised ordered or lent SU support t tn any effort Hort to perpetuate a fraud frand upon tho thu govern govern- meat 1 J ho he said ia is not only false but hut I is intentionally 50 if made mado by any one ono who has ls taken the Iho trouble to inquire into tho the facts In explanation of the charges in con w wUi h th the Alaska coal al lands he went into o history of President Boose- Boose volts volt's withdrawal W l' l from horn entry of all aU coal lands in Alaska in 1006 1906 showing that tho order older was was F so mOd modified by Secretary Secretary Sec Garfield as to validate all applications applications ap mado matlo prior prior- to May 16 1907 1007 lIe le then called attention to the fact that hat in in in his annual report of 1007 1907 as commissioner of tho general land of of- fice ice ho had r c action by con congress to prevent pre any formation of or trusts by y claimants to coal lands and a adds ds Garfield and Pinch Pinchot t The Tho trust antitrust clause of the Alaska coal act as liDa finally passed May Mw 28 1008 1908 was not submitted submitted-by by ML Mr r. r G Gifford Pinchot Pinchot Pin Pin- chot eliot but was submitted as a 3 suggestion tion ion to Secretary Garfield by alive tatie Herbert Parsons of New York in in n his hil letter Jetter of May 7 1908 IDOS and favorably fa- fa considered and indorsed by the secretary in his llis report to congress con Mr then stated that no Alaskan coal coa claims havo been patented pat pat- and says that flint the tho in investigation of such claims with a n view view of determining deter deter- mining their validity or invalidity in have been een vigorously prosecuted Mr rr denounced as a plain ordinary falsification a R report that he be heis hes bei i is s interested in shares of or the Alaska Petroleum an and Coal company compan Denial DentaL The Tho rho statement that 1 for or m my former firm firma was attorney for this this company or over cr J advised ed or counseled 10 in its effort to acquire title to public lands is also without basis in fact ho he added Mr lr Ir said it was true that in inus his Lis us private prito to practice after ho had resigned resigned re re- re- re signed as Commissioner of tho the Land Offie Of Of- fi-e fi ho lie hail had been heen consulted in the preparation alion of arti articles ls l's of incorporation under law of Jf f U HIOS CS which had bad been heen ap ap- ltv v iho ho lent anti and which permit per per- mit mi ted the entry of as os much as 2500 a of eoa 0 lend but not true that in this or in iii any aDY other LIOn h he ho had md given any advice looking to lo a n fraudulent act at against the govern Jo in Ul cut nt Asked about a statement that ho he had said airl that the he proper course courso to take with I the he domain divide it was to up I among the bi big corporations corporation and let in inthe in the time people who know kno h how to make I money out of it Mr lr or re to plied So asinine a statement hardly merits merits' a n denial Of course I made no such statement Such a thou thought ht could not bo be entertained by any normal intelligence en e. e What I really think in in regard to the time public pub pub- lie lic domain aud and the conservation of natural nat nat- ural resources ma may be found in my official of lal reports as commissioner of the general land an office and in my ray present annual report soon Roon to be bo published 1 I have c not only been consistently in the vanguard nard of conservative conor movement but butr F r have ha sought to give permanence along lines lints reasonably within tho the spirit of present law anti and to additional adequate laws lie Hc made an equally emphatic denial of a n statement that his big firm firm finn is known a ns o n 5 tho time Standard Oil legal le l advisory in Seattle t tic Mr r. r al also o made response to toa a thai that in granting rights of wa way to Hill and Hamman railroads throng tho in in Orl Oregon on he lie hart bail the construction of ofa a power plant in the canyon Ad Admitting that tho department had given cn 1 it its approval ap ape prova to tho the applications Mr Ballingor sa saul said ll that this course had hod been pursued under law Jaw and in pursuance of the tho wi wi lh wishes s of people of tho tio section affected but lint not without taking the precaution vf inserting a R requirement that when whenn Q n i iTc l for power plant purposes s each railroad should its ita tracks a 8 hun tred t feet But this action artion he be said laid insured to tn the p people of Central Oregon Oron competing line of r railroad iro d and anil at the tho same O time Ju guaran guaranteed guaranteed ran tf teed tho use of tho the water power when the country needs it lie Ifo also quoted records in the case o to hb that time the proceeding proceeding pro had hlll been in strict compliance with v.-ith tho law Jaw |