Show IS II IN INA l A MOOD Washington Sept Secretary Ballinger at ai tho ho chose or of the first tins da after his hi hurried trip front from the tho Pacific coast I Intend to kill sonic some snakes The remark was made In to La questIons relative to the hI Pinchot c cent regardIng power plants lie tho coal entrIes and other conservation matters The Tue illustration used bv b the tho secretary was drawn from rein au an in In iii his 1116 own life when houi some years cars ago aeo as a cowboy at MedIcine I Id Ledge c ho found the tho nIght camp In wIth rattlers und and lie ho killed I twelve of them lr Dallinger refused to explain the t or of his remark and declined to dIscuss matters In controversy be hIs department and the forestry bureau he scald It be 00 Improper for me to talk on this sub subject The h heads ot of the tho varIous dl di divisions visIons have hae all prepared red I their reports and I expect to sui j L the tho whole question to the i int nt at an early date dath I 1 could not there th l fore go Into the subject at this time limo t further titan than to say Ray my previous knowl knowledge edge ot of the tho situation with the informs len I 1 have hao derived today from the pe pc of the of PIerce Donnett and Seh Schwartz justifies tho ho statement that this department ba has nothing to tear from the closest Un tiny of the tho conduct of Its officials W |