Show INQUIRY BEGINS ballinger pinchot controversy Contro ersy to hold center of pf stage for awhile washington NNa abington the ballinger Pin cliot congressional inquire began its public sessions on an wednesday with ith louis it 11 accuser of secretary bal linger on the witness stand As a result of many interruptions ind the final decision of the commit tee to insist that glavis counsel make an opening statement of be the specific charges against mr air billinger the witness did not get lar tar in lit his life narra live tive tho the charges in brief are that prior to entering the government sr vice fee in a PLY t ap lefty R A ballinger acted PS attorney atto iney in ila drawing up an agreement in escrow and deeds in the ulon coil cases in lewis brunty washington these cases bo be ing an alleged fraud upon tho the land laws inns mr air dallinger Bal lingers s nimo nime did not appear in court records in the ole case i that mr air ballinger as commission er of the land office in 1907 did not show duo due diligence in investigating alleged trauls connected with the dunningham Lunn ingham coal land claims in alaska that he had knowledge of all circumstances surrounding these clims ind in pito of this entered tho the employ of one of tho the claimants afat after r leaving caving the land office and before becoming secretary of the tile interior that he lie ordered these claims to be b clear listed for patent without Nit hout duo due and that they the would have gone gono to patent tent it a r 10 I 1 athers had not liot infra int rv aw nd |