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Show All Witnesses Have Been Heard andNowComes Argument Washington. May 2n Tho taking of testimony In the Balllnger-Plnchot investigation in-vestigation ended today and tho committee com-mittee udjourned to met again nest Friday to hear oral arguments by counsel. Two days will be devoted to speech-making. speech-making. The so-cailed "prosecution" will open and for the next five hours the committee will listen to the address ad-dress of Lou 1b Brandels, counsel for L. R. Glavls, and then George W. Pepper, counel for Gifford Pinchot. The "defense" will sum up Its case Saturday, May 2S. John J. Vertrees, counsel for Secretary BalHnger, will have five hours in which to answer the attorneys for the other side. Such time 33 the attorneys for the prosecution prose-cution shall have reserved out of the 2 1-2 hours asljned to each may be In closing. Both sides will be given until Monday, Mon-day, June 13. In which to file briefs with the committee to assist It in passing on the reat masj of evidence which has been presented. Without having given prelou not-ice, not-ice, the defense announced unexpectedly unexpect-edly at the opening of today's session ses-sion that it bad rested Its case and the prosecution put on but one witness wit-ness In rebuttal. Secretary BalHnger sent a letter lo th. commllteo today to the effect that a careful search of his files had failed fail-ed to reveal any correspondence with Geo. W. Perkins of tho firm of J. P Morgan & Company other tiian that already made public. |