| Show J ly SEC SECY S GY BALLINGER t MAKES DENIAL I 1 t it i i I Ii i That He Ever Advised Any One OneTo OneTo i To Defraud the Government I Is Absolutely False Falset t i II I i I II Il I l I SOME ONE HAS BEEN LYING II k I Sour of tho 1 l a l ale JIp l Uti t n m j Nov toy 19 to f 4 44 Charges charger made In a Secy Scy 8 1 of or the th Interim dep tI mt to today today tot t day d sled many recently circulated 1 I dated on the of crt his kU do dor dol r l To soy ney y that t I ever have hAV l leNd or lent to t any An effort t 1 r to I te tf a upon th gov gos government IO I i i he hf said Mid U h I not nol onh f C tale h hOut but Out Is le intentionally ro PO If made mad In by any Rny anyone one who hen has h taken the Ih trouble to In quirt Into the thC fadIn sets fad In explanation of ot oi the th charge in to a cn con cnn cann n with the Alaska AluM hull al I lands h he hent went nt Into the tam Y of oC J to from fromn entry of fill nil COM reel I lands In Alaska AI k In III 1004 show bow showIng shoat la lit Ing InK that the order wits no o modified by b byl t l Sexy Daniel UR l an se to validate nil an i m malls mael d prior to ly 16 1 lOOT 1907 He ale 11 1 0 I then culled attention to the ll feet fart that 4 In his III annual retort report at of 1901 a as AI tOm com of ot the general land Iad office Mil he hn hI had rl a by n lO to tit prevent prent any of ot combinations or trusts touts by b claimants to coal coat coatI I lends lands and amI adds 1 The antitrust antt clause of the tho AI Alaska t mal coal act Rt H as finally pa t l May Iny ay 29 28 1908 lOOS 1 fr was ve nut not submitted u by Mr Ir Gifford hot chot but was wan submitted AS a I tl then n to Secy by h Herbert lI ert Parsons of ot New N York In his lits letter of Slay May tl 7 1 1909 1001 mid and favorably and AmI Indorsed by tho thu sec secre re ret t tar ry In hl ht hll report to Congress l ALASKAN COAL CLAIMS 1 t Mr Ir then thou stated that no Alaskan coal roal claims tovo hao been p I pat pati vt t ton i on and aye mys that tho Investigation f S of or such uch claims with a tI view of ot deter determining determining ti mining their validity or Invalidity has hasI 4 I b been n vigorously l prosecuted S Mr Ballinger denounced as a II plain ordinary falsification a tI report that ho hoU hoI U I Interested In shores of ot th thu k Alaska Petroleum k Coal company The statement that I or my tny former fonner i firm arm was attorney for tor this company on or ever advised or counseled In Its effort to title to public lands Is la also ahO without basis balls In fact flUt he ho added a Mr lallinger said alli it was true that In his private practice practise after he had re resigned signed as all of the land of office are fice he lie had been bren consulted In the prep preparation of articles of ot Incorporation un under unIl Il der the tho law of 1903 1909 which had been I 1 approved by tho the president and which 11 permitted the entry of or as much touch a as asI 2660 I acres of or coal col land but not true that t either dither In this or In any other connect connection on nee t tion ho he haul hrut given ulven any nn advice looking I to te a fraudulent act against the government govern government government ment Asked about a 1 statement that ho he had said raid that th the proper course to take with the public domain was to di dl divide vide Ide It up union the big corporations t end Inri let Ift the people l lo who know how to tomake tot t j make moke money mono out of ot It It Mr 1111 replied r AN ASININE STATEMENT So ao asinine a statement hardly malts a 11 denial Of course I made no nos s Mich statement Such a thought could 1 i not be bl entertained by b any normal In x What I really think In re reo 1 gurd to tho the public domain and the I conservation of ot natural I may maybo maybe maybe be bo found In my reports as com corn mb lohl of the general land office and andIn andIn In my present annual report soon to be published I have hate not only Dilly been con consistently In the vanguard of ot conserva conservative eona r the tive movement but I have havo sought nought to give IIVO permanence along lines re son ably within the spirit of the prevent present law and to curo additional adequate laws lawsHe lIe He made malJe an equally equall emphatic denial of a II a statement that his hla firm Is known AN as the Standard Oil trust advisory advIsor In 1 tUe Mr Ir also alai rondo mode to ton ton ton n charge that In granting rights of way wey wa to 10 lUll Hill and Harriman railroads through I the canyon In had lord hadr r rendered n 3 r d Impossible the construction con t of lit a 0 power pow AI plant In thu canyon Ad Admitting milting that the department had hall given It Its approval to the application Mr Ballinger said ld that this thU course had been purIl under the th taw law and In pursuance of tb withe of of the th d but not luit without taking the precaution of ln Ira ting thug a R re ret r nt that th when needed d for tor I tower cotter t plant s each ench should r It its tracks track a Ii hundred fe feet tHI t Hut Dut till thi action he h said Mid I to toUt Ut people of central Oregon competing I nab or of railroad and at the seine Hmo time tam l the tho use of the water power When hen han th the country needs It lie Ho also 1110 I l 1 records r In th the cane c t e to how that tote 10 pro had bed ben n In strict com corn compliance with the tb Uw law |
