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Show present attributed to Mr. Taft that the accused secretary shall be sustained sus-tained as an innocent and persecuted man, he will retain his position; If they fall to back him up he will resign. re-sign. That this Is Mr. Balllngers position was learned here today upon up-on authority hardly to be questioned. At the first meeting of the cabinet after the summer recess Secretary Dickinson, the Democratic member, will not have returned from the Philippines, Phil-ippines, and will therefore be saved the embarrassment of participation in what Is regarded as largely a problem of Republican policy. The meeting Is expected to .last three days. It will surprise nobody here If the Balllnger case occupies a large part of the time. Resignation May Come Flrtt. Rumors have been constant and decidedly de-cidedly definite here during the last few days that Mr. Balllnger's resignation resig-nation would bo one of the first developments de-velopments of the cabinet meeting; but his friends, Including his assocl-i assocl-i ntes in the Interior department, have refused to believe that he will retire "under fire." and hae pointed to his oft repeated declaration to the contrary con-trary and to the recent statement attributed to him that he would resign re-sign only at the specific rerpieit of the president. BALLINGER ON WAY TO WASHINGTON D.C. WASHINGTON, Sept. 1G. Whether Wheth-er Richard Hallinger's resignation as I secretary of the Interior will lollow j Immediately upon the cabinet meet- . ing Sept. 20, to attend which ho U J now cn route from Seattle, or wheth- I er he will retain his position Indefl t'Jtoly, at least noill alTer the deliv-ff deliv-ff to congrers of the reports of tho committee that Investigated his stewardship stew-ardship of the public domain, depends de-pends now upon the attitude of hl3 cabinet associates. Unconscious of Any Wrong. Mr. Halllnger Is coming, to Washington, Wash-ington, his Mends say, wholly unconscious un-conscious of any act on his part of which he should be condemned, and has determined to force his chief and his official colleagues to be la tifect his Judges. if they .concur lu the view al |