Show PROSECUTION CLOS CASE Ballinger Pinchot Investigation Committee Adjourns After Day of Examination PINCHOT MISSING WHEN SEARCH IS MADE Chief Forester Who Was WaG Wanted on Stand Falls Falie to Appear Wit Witnesses nesses Corroborate avI Washington Fob Feb 18 The case for Cor forthe Corthe forthe the prosecution In tho the chot dIet Inquiry practically has hao been closed clos When the tho committee adjourn adjourned eel ed er today until Friday Mr Brandeis stated there was some Bomo corroborative evidence yet to be produced and that Gifford Pinchot probably would want to make a statement before he could announce lila his case caso was waR ended Mr Pinchot was to have havo taken the stand this afternoon but ho could not be found in tho the luncheon recess Tho The days s proceedings began with the unexpected announcement that tho the cross examination of or Louis R Glavis GIais was as ended ende Henry M Id Hoyt attorney general for Porto Rico was called caned to the tho stand to corroborate corr borate that t at portion of or Glavis GIais testimony In which ho he told of or seeking the advice of Mr Ir Hoyt Hot In Washington In May 1909 after First Assistant Secretary of the Interior Pierce had har rendered an nn opinion which thought would permit tho the Cunning claims In Alaska to go to patent Mr Hoyt told of oC how bow deeply wor worried or ned ried Glavis seemed to boat be at this time I and said that before going to Attorney Attorney ney hey General G he and CIa Gla Glavis vis uis Is had discussed tho the advisability of taking tho the matter up directly with the president Mr Hoyt loyt also testified t sU fled fied to lo the good character of or Glavis saying Fa ho had known him lor br a anum num her ber of o years and he had told tho the at attorney attorney attorney torney general that Glavis was as an honorable upright young man The Tho only other phase of or the ilia case to which Mr Ir Hoyt Hot directed his testimony had hadU tl U do with tho the Wilson coal coni land cases In is which ho bo acted as special attorney for the tho United tateR staten Glavis GIals testified fled fied ho had hoard the name of R A l on nn attorney for some somo of tho the Wilson claimants had been loft left out of tho the court record by stipulation of o counsel Hoyt HOl said Bald It was at nl his hits personal suggestion and without tho the knowledge knowl of ot Mr tr that tho the stipulation hind had been entered Into As Asa Asa a n of fac however Mr Ir Bal Ballingers lingers name did appear fifteen or twenty times In iii tho the testimony given en Mr Ir Hoyt said a search had been made for tho the alleged escrow es row agree alroe agreement ment meat which Mr Ir is said by Claris to have drawn up and which according to Glavis constituted a criminal act but hut that it could not be bo found and the only evidence as to Its existence was an Informal state statement sl te ment meat by b ono of or the witnesses who at nt tho the trial denied the existence of such Buch an on agreement The remainder of tho the day da was taken up with th the In Introduction introduction of ot documentary evidence by Mr Branders who read rend such ex cx extracts extracts tracts as aa he ho considered of peculiar Interest to the tho committee These consisted largely large of oC references In the agents reports to conversations or Interviews with Mr Ballinger as commissioner of or the tho land on the subject ct of or the tho Alaska claims This was vas done the tIle attorney said to show that Mr Ir had hall been actively Interested In these cases before ho lie left the land office and acted as at attorney torney tomo for Cor some of or the claimants He also read from a statement by byH byH H H Schwartz chief of or the field service that It was waa at nt Mr Balling Ballingers ers direction In January 1908 1008 that the tho Cunningham claims were ere ordered to be for tor patent This was withdrawn after aCter Glavis had been notified and had protested Mr Branders accompanied tho the in introduction introduction of ot the tho documents with a aBort sort eort of o summing up statement In which he said It was claimed Mr Bal Ballinger Ballinger linger had hind acted on a favorable re cc report report port by Special Agent Lovo Love Ho He thon then read a n letter from Love to Commis Commissioner Gloner abner Dennett of the land of office lice in which Love denied that thal his hla report of August 2 1907 favored ing of ot the This report ho 1 said suggested the advisability of or further although pre pe previously ho he had bad recommended clear listing |