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Show SPR1NGSJENSATI0N FORMER SECRETARY GARFIELD A STAR WITNESS IN THE BAL-LINGER BAL-LINGER CASE. Statement Mad That Guggenheim Had No Intereet In Alaekan Coat Claim, When Record Showed They Had Secured Option. Weeh.inr.ton. Jamea fl Uarfleld, former aecretary of th Interior, waa finally excuned from th wltneaa aland at tha ItalllliKcr I'lnrhot Inveatlitailun lata Thuraday afterniMin. Ill final half hour before Ihe committee fur. nlahed tha avnaatlon of what had been a decidedly dull day. Mr. Uarfleld dated lhal .Mr. Ilallln-aer, Ilallln-aer, after having been rontmlaaloner uf th land office, auhmltted In him on September 17, lmm. an affidavit alaned by Clarence CunnliiKtiam and cnntalnltig th alatement that th OuKKcnbelma had no Intereat what, aver In the Cunnlnnhara iroup of coal claim lo Alaaka, while a a mntler of fact, Ih record of a recent hearing before the aenate committee on territorial terri-torial show that, prior to th making of th affdavll, Ih Guggenheim yndl-cat yndl-cat bad been given an option on a half Intereet In all the Cunningham claim. Th former aecretary of th Interior waa examined and croexamlned on hi admlulat ration of tha office which ha aurrendered to Mr. Dalllnger on March S. lu. Mr. Ourfleld. In explaining ex-plaining what he did In the matter of th withdrawal of lamia without ape-clfle ape-clfle provision of law, declared h wu working In the intereat of the people and to prevent monoHillallr com nil of power rllea and consequent extortionate extortion-ate pt lcca to conaumera. |