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Show INQUIRY BEGINS. Balllnger-Plnchot Controvtrty to Hold Center nf Stage for Awhile. Washington The Palllnger Plnrhnt congressional Inquiry began Ita public sesalona nn Wednesday with linls It. mavis, riiier nccuser or Hecretnry tint-linger, tint-linger, on the witness stand. Aa a result of ninny Interruptions and the final decision of the commit, tee to Insist that llluvls' counsel make an opening statement of the specific charges ugulnst Mr. Ilalllnger, the I witness did not get far lu his narrative. narra-tive. ' The charges. In brief, nre "That, prior to entering Ihe government aer-vice aer-vice in any rapacity. It. A Ilalllnger , acted as attorney In drawing up nn agreement In rsctow and deeds In the , i I hi in Coal coiniialiy cases In Lew-Is county. Washington; these cases being be-ing an nlli-ged fraud upon the land , luws. Mr. lliilllnci-r's name did not up pear In court records In the ease. I '"I'h at Mr. Iliilllnger, as commissioner commission-er of the land oil ice lu I!in7, did not show dire diligence In Investigating alleged frauds connected with the ( ii t nt 14 li ri in coal land claims In Alaska; Hint he had knowledge of all 1 circumstances surrounding these claims nnil, In spite of this, eniered the employ of one of the claimants tiller leaving the land office and before , 1 hemming secrelnty or the Interior; that he urdered these claims in bo I'cleur listed'' lor patent without due ' Investlgalion. and that thev would . have gone to patent If Hlavls und , others had not Intervened" |