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Show PEPPER IS PEPPERY. (Continued From Page One.) "By neglect of duty and by positive pos-itive action adverse to his trust In the past, Mr. Ballinger has seriously endangered public rights In our Alaskan Alas-kan coal lands. Ills present course and attitude constitute a menace to the people's Interests," says Mr. Pep. per, in summing up his description ot Ballinger's coal land policy. As regards the secretary's attitude toward forest lands, Mr. Popper declares de-clares that "in the two Instances where Mr. Ballinger as secretary has had to do wit htho administration oi the national forest, he has sacrificed the public interests in petty manifestations mani-festations of hostility to the forest serlce," He says that ' care for thu public iuterests in the reclamation of arid lands has been subordinated by Mr. Ballinger to personal considerations considera-tions to such an extent as to result i.i great demoralization and loss of 'efficiency In the reclamation service. "It Is obvious that Mr. Ballinger took whatever action was taken in the department "In nil that bis subordinates have done, they have simply reflected the wishes and desires of their chief. Director Di-rector Newell and Engineer Davis of thi? reclamation service alone have insisted upon placing responsibility where It belongs lustead of sacrificing lagenlousncss to a desire to relieve a superior from embarra-ssment.'' The Pepper brief quotes the record at great length as going to show that Mr. Ballinger misled the President In presenting to him his own relation to the Alaskan coal leases, In explaining explain-ing his course In restoring power sites and his attitude toward the-reclaniatlon the-reclaniatlon service. Mr. Pepper contends that the Presbleat would have taken vigorous action to save tho efficiency of the reclamation service ser-vice when Pinched urged that it was In danger of disintegration from Balllnger's Bal-llnger's administration, had he not been misled by the secretary's assurance assur-ance that no intimations of trouble had ever come to him from the chief of that service, j Asserting that the original charge l of deception made against Ballinger has been corroborated by his conduct on the witness stand, Mr. Pepper saj'3 that Ballinger was compelled to take direct issues of veracity with different differ-ent witnesses and that first statements state-ments on the stand have, in a number of Instances, been contradicted by admissions ad-missions subsequently wrung from him on cross exauiiuailon or by the terms of the documents subsequently subsequent-ly produced. Alter discussing tho legal questions involved in the controversy, Mr. Pepper'-enters into - what he terms "a correction of the misconceptions of the alms and methods ' of conservationists conserva-tionists reiterated throughout the hearings of Mr. Ballinger and bis associates, as-sociates, declarlug "there could be no greater mistake than to say that Mr. Plmlioi holds the view regarding the conservation of coul that 'the present pres-ent generation must shiver, in ordf that po.jteilly might bo warm.' "Conservation does mean prousinu for the future, but It also means, and first of all. the recognition of the right of the present generation to the lullest necessary use of all the re-sourcs re-sourcs of tlie country " He said the first principle of con-Eervution con-Eervution was development; the second, sec-ond, prevention of waste, apd the third, the development of natural re-foarce:? re-foarce:? for tho benefit of the many nad not merely lor the profit of the few. |