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Show alone gives whatever force such testimony testi-mony possesses. ' In conclusion, thtf brief says: "In this proceeding Mr. Wlckersham appears ap-pears no longer as an assistant Judge filing his concurrence after decision, but as a noverzealous advocate. In thl.? proceeding Mr.";Lawler is not the judge, but stands in his true lisht, a prejnliced witness, bitter and Uluper-atlvc. Uluper-atlvc. ; "Such are the facts Such Is Bal-lluger's Bal-lluger's record Such his character. Can you say that the department of the interior, that the people's doman, la In safe bands? '- BRAND EIS EMPHATIC. (Continued From Page One ) ! mei'ttd bv oral statements and argu-- argu-- mcnts made by Secretary Ballinger and Oscar Lawler, asslr.tant attorney general ofthe Interior deparlment In their interviews with the Presldeut in September, and finally by the draft of a letter exonerating Mr. Ballluge;-, prepared pre-pared by Mr. Lawler, his appointee and In effect his subordinate, a man who had a special grudge against Gla-vis. Gla-vis. and who in that draft of letter ue-elared ue-elared Olavl guilty of falsehood, of the suppression of the truth and of neglect of duly, thus condemning Glavis on evidence whl:h he had never seen, and of course had no opportunity opportuni-ty to mee. on arguments that he had never heard, and what Is even more, on charges of the preferring of which against him he had no knowledge whatsoever." The fifteenth chapter is devoted to tlie ' inlslng letteri," and in this connection con-nection the brief says that the interior in-terior department officials unconsciously uncon-sciously paid a high tribute to Glavis' ofTleial cord when iu searching for some means to discredit him they could find nothing more damaging that the "baseless and silly case" that ho bad concealed twenty-three lnslg-nitlcaut lnslg-nitlcaut letters which Special Agent Bowman had brought to Seattle from Alaska Just before Glavis' dismissal from the service. The brief expresses the opinion that Glavis' successor, ChrMenstn. put the letters Into a box belonging to Glayls In the. store room of the federal building in Seattle. "What a pitiful story It is," comments com-ments the brief. "The whole nia-ehine nia-ehine of an Important, government bureau bu-reau was employed for months in an effort to injure aud discredit Glavis in order to execute upon him the revenge re-venge of his former superiors without any possibility of advantage resulting to the government."' Conccrninj.Mr. 13allliiger'3 defense tho brier say that it Vonslal?d chlt.fl ly In explaining away the natural meaning of documents in pleas of iKnorxnro and In placing responNibn. ny uion his subordinates. ' ilia word |