Show TAfT T AND ANDIN IN BALLINGER FIGHT fIGI W WASHINGTON May n 16 President 16 President Taft in person last night took a band hl in inthe inthe inthe the situation concerning the tho II inside inside history of his letter o of September 13 exonerating Secretary Ballinger from the char charges of Special ial Agent L L. H H. H Glavis and authorizing the dismissal l of or GIs Olavis Glavis is Over his own signature he addressed a 1 long lone letter to Senator Knute Nelson chairman of or the B investigating in atin committee setting forth in I minute detail the sequence of ot events c following his receipt at Beverly on August IS of the tho charges of Olavis Glavis The president makes no DO direct mention mention men men- tion of tho the statement of Fr Frederick M. M 1 Kerby the tho young steno stenographer in n Secretary Sec See B llin which bich tho the rotary Bellinger's Ballinger cr a 8 office in stenographer declared the presidents president's 8 letter of exoneration tion was prepared in in Ballingers Ballinger's office b by bOscar Oscar Lawler Lawlor assistant as ns ts- ts attorney general for the tho interior department Tonight's s 's utterance of Mr Ir Taft was obviously ob provoked by br Kerbs 9 statement Mr Taft declares Lawler did prepare prepare pre pro pare such a letter us as Kerb Kerby said but that he did so EO by bv the presidents president's specific direction Wh When n he re received e eed ed it ho he found he S says f that it was not what he wanted to isue and ho wrote the letter himself in the form Lorm in in which wInch he hC desired It Jt using from Lawlers Lawler's draft only onh ono one or two statements Tho The president go 7 still further and takes up the quest queston question on of or tho the back backdating backdating dat dating n of Attorney General Wickersham Wickersham Wicker Wicker- sham s 's summary of the Glavis charges to which Attorn Attorney v Louis Louif D. D Brandeis has hu drawn attention Mr Taft says that the tho attorney generals general's letter was in fact fRet back dated laed and this thill also was done b by hi his specific direction |