Show I II I I BY GlAVIS C R ErA IE S FURORE Sensational Charges That Taft Adopted Letter of Dismissal Written by Lawler OFFICIAL STATEMENT ENT SPREAD ON RECORD B Inquiry Brings Out Allegation gation That Th lt fre President Words of Another WASHINGTON May ar 14 Lawlor assistant attorney general of or ortho tho the interior department nt of which A i Ballinger Dallinger is tho head h ad did didIn dl didIn t tIn In fact prepare a draft dr ft oC of o a letter ad ael addressed i dressed to Secretary Ballinger and in such a form nod and phrase that thal it might aught 1 have been adopted verbatim and sign signed sIgned signed ed by the president as Mr Ir Tafts o ox of oC the tile secretary from front the charges of L I R Glacis Glans and amid authorising ing the thc dismissal of o Glans from his position of special agent of the in interior Interior tenor department This draft by Mr Ir Lawler was de uie delivered livered this afternoon TO 10 the committee and ordered spread upon tho the records of the Invest Investigation l Careful comparison of the Lawler draft with the letter of oC iho Wi president shows that Mr Mi fl Taft did In fact adopt practically verbatim two short paragraphs of Mr Ir Lawlers Lawler La lan Ian language langua guage gnage gua e The of the two documents is Ig 1 otherwise widely dis ills similar J The subject et was as on every ever tongue to tu tonight tonight night in Washington ton wheel almost ev cv every e cry ery or man maii woman and child Is bitterly bitter either Ballinger or Pinchot partisan Destroyed i iThe The thing came to a head today In Inthe inthe the tho publication of oC a statement at attributed 1 to Frederick W V Korby Kerb one of the th stenographers in the lie office of or Secretary Ballinger in which Kerby related at length the thc circumstance under tinder which he alleged the Lawler draft to have haLve boon been prepared Kerby Kerb asserted further that all alt of or the tho th pre pro preliminary drafts used mused in the preparation preparation pre para tion of the lie letter were nore burned In a agrate arate agrate grate rate In the interior department at atthe atthe atthe the suggestion and under tinder un er the super supervisIon visIon of oC Don A Carr Mr Ir Ballingers private secretary Kerby Kerb drew the tho inference that the thc Lawler draft had bad been adopted by br the tho president es essentially as his own that Mi Mr Ir Bal Ballinger Ballinger linger Unger and his legal advisers had bad therefore virtually prepared the ex ox exoneration exon on which Mr 11 Taft TaCt had Issued over hIs bib own signature Almost simultaneously with the pub publication publication of oC the thc Kerby Kerb statement Attorney Attorney ney ne General Wickersham sent sont to the investigation icom com then thon In lu session a Il copy CO CoIl of oC tho the Lawlor 1 wier draft accompanied by b a n let letter letter letter ter to Chairman Neison In which Mr declared tIme the nt lund had been overlooked in iii sending the tho papers requisitioned by the tue commit committee tee at the behest of oC Attorney Bran Brandeis helS deis White House Houze Statement The publication of oC the hue state slat statement fluent ment evoked from the White House a statement nt declaring that there was ab absolutely absolutely no foundation for a n state statement ment that the presidents letter of oC September 13 1909 was vas substantially prepared for tho presidents signature by hr I Assistant Attorney General Ia Ial lor lr l r and asserting unequivocally that the mIte president dictated his hula letter per personally personal personally an at the result or hIs own in investigation of the records and con consideration or of documents document and papers in his possession at the time and upon the report of the attorney general It was utis further pointed out both athe at athe athe he White House and by hy Attorney General G Wickersham I himself hat lint a n comparison of the tho Lawler draft and the presidents letter would show that the tho inferences of the Kerby statement wro wre unwarranted Mr alluded t to the practice tice common in the government de departments departments of o subordinates preparing letters etters and documents J for the thc consid consideration consIderation oration of their superiors nail and their use title by br them Item In whole hole or In part as they might aught soc see fit Ballinger B r Blushes Secretary and rind Mr 1 Law Lawler Lawler ler her were in conference for a n long Ions timo time this afternoon with Attorney General While they were w ro so en eu engaged engaged at tho the department of at 01 justice a n was sent out for u it cop copy of or a newspaper containing the Kerby Kerb statement t Whoa When Mr emerged from tho the conference he showed howd signs of oC angry concern but hilt hiltI declared vehemently that there was I nothing to be ashamed of oC |