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THE BKK: OMAHA. FRIDAY. KhTTKMBHR 17. 1000. BALLIXCER IS VINDICATED President Tift Approrei Official Actioni of Secretary of Interior. ' j OLA VIS TO BE DISMISSED I Denial that Arts Secretary Vr te Ceaeare er that Hf I ' Oat af l.laa with ( tntf r. ALBANT. N. T Kept. H - A statement In which President Taft inrounpM his finding upon th charges airalnet the ennduet of th Interior depsrtment of the government by T... R. Glavls. chief of the field division of tha genera) land offic In connection with the Cunnlnghsm coal land claims In Alaska, .einneratlng Secretary flalllnger of tha Interior department and observing that Mr. Olavls' case embraced only "ahreda of imptrlon without sub tantlal evidence" was made public here tonight Tha pre. dent grants Secretary Rallln ger'e request for authority to dismiss Mr. Olavla from th service of the govern ment, "for anJuBtly Impeaching the offi cial testimony of ' hli superior officer," and takes fgr to review evidence In the no-celled "waterpower" trust and other raaea to refute tha charge that the sec retary f tha Interior la out of eympathy with the policy of the administration In favor Of th conservation f natural ra aourcaa. ' t.attaa Mr. Balllaaer. Tha statement, which Is In the form of a letter,, t Feoretary Bellinger, written before President Tafl left hie summer home at Beverly, Mase., In part follows: "BCVERLf ) Mass., Sept. IS. 100.-My dear flirt On. the 18th day of Auguat last Mr. U Tl. fllayl. chief of tha field division of the general land office, with headquar ters at Seattle. Wash., called upon me here and submitted a statement, or re port, relating to tha conduct of the In terior department and particularly to the action of yourself. Assistant Secretary Pleroe, Commissioner of th General Land Of flea Dennett, and -Chief of the Field Hen lea Bchwarti,- In' reference to the so called Cunningham ' griiup of coal land claims In A leak e. , ,'- "I hava examined tlia whole record most carefully and hava reached a definite con clusion. ' It Is Impossible for me In an nouncing this conclusion to accompany It nlth a review of tha charges and the evi dence on both sides. It la sufficent to say that tha case attempted to ba made by Mr. Olavla embraces only slued of suspicion without any substantial evidence to sustain hi attack. "The whole record shows that Mr. Cllavls waa honestly convinced of the Illegal char acter of tha claims tvi the Cunningham group and that he was seeking evidence to defeat the claims. But It also shows that there was delay on his part in preparing the evidence with which to bring this, with other claims, to hearing, and that justice to tha claimants required more speedy action than tha department, through Mr. Cilavls. seems to have taken. Mr. Olavls seeks by' quoting from a single telegram to ahbw that at one time the department wished to delay him In his Investigations of tha Alaska claims and at another time unduly to hurry him and he attempts to prove these two circumstances by citing telegrams and correspondence without dis closing other circumstances and corre spondence which he knew or had under his control and which do show entirely proper reason for the action, which, in each caee, waa directed to be' taken. '"In othar word,' th reading of the whdle record leave ho doubt "that in hi seal to convict yourself, Acting Secretary Pierce, Commissioner Dennett and Mr. Hchwsrts, h dlfl not give ma tha benefit of Informa tion which ha had Ihst would have thrown light, qn. tha transactions, showing them to be consistent with an impartial attitude on your part toward th claim in ques tion. ' 'The ..record overwhelmingly establishes that eapressly because of your previous employment as counsel to one of the L'lalmants from the time you entered upon tha duties of the office of Secretary of the Interior, until tha present flay yon have stiid'ntieiy declined to have snv connection whatever with the Cunningham claim, m to eirrrle any control oer the enure of th depsrtment In -respect, to those claims; that you have said so (u written and verbal communication to your sub ordinates snd to the claimants themselves. Moreover, in May Inst you came to me and made a similar atatement te me of your course and intention In respect t thse claims. (harae ot etislaed. "The statement made by Mr. Glavls that while you did thus formally withdraw from any official conneetion with the Cun lnghsm claim, you nevertheless contin ued to exercise your Influence In regard to them. Is not sustained by any evidence In the record produced. "The truth Is that had you, or Commls sloner Dennett or Chief of the Field Ser vice Kchwarti, during the years of tha pendency of these claims, been desirous, through dishonest motives and without regard to law and the Interests of tha pub lic of bringing them to patent, ' th op portunities for you to hava done ao were many and tlicne clrcumstancee speak, not more conclusively than many others, but still most emphatically against the ac cusatory statements of Mr. Olavls, Is the fact that though his conviction that" the claims were fraudulent ar Illegal waa well known In the department he was allowed during all the years of the pendency of these claims to remain In charge of thorn as an agent of the department when it would have been entirely easy for either you or Dennett, or Schwarts to remov hi m to Portland or elsewhere and thus take the claims out of his jurisdiction. Glavls Be Dlsrharared. "In your answer you request authority to discharge Mr. Olavls from tha service of the United 6tates for disloyalty to his superior officers in making a false charge against them. "When a subordinate In a government bureau or department has trustworthy evidence upon which to believe that hia chief la dishonest and Is defrauding the government It is of course his duty to submit that evidence to . higher authority than his chief. But when he make a charge against his chief founded upon mere suspicions and In his statement he falls to give his chief the benefit of cir cumstances within hi . knowledge that would explain th chief's action ag on proper grounds, he make ; It Impossible for him to continue In the service of the government and his immediate separation therefrom becomes a necessity. You are therefore authorised to dismiss . L. R. Glavls from the service of the government for filing a ' dtslngenlous statement un justly Impeaching the official Integrity of his superior officers." "It was charged on the floor of the Irrl gallon congress at .Spokane by former Governor Pardee of California, that you had restored to the public domain for set tlement certain lands which had been withdrawn by the last administration for the purpose of conserving water power sites and that after complaint made thereof, you had subsequently withdrawn some of the lands again from settlement; but that meantime, between the on act and the other, an opportunity had ben given to the so-called 'water power trust' to file entries and obtain vested rights In valuable water power sites In the. slate of Montana. Montana Power Site Case. "At the same .time that this charge was made by Governor Pardee, there appeared In the public press, In a telegram which seems to have had the widest circulation, a atatement quoted from a Montana paper that a water power company with a cap ital of $10 000 000 bad In. the Interval be tween th order of . rent oration and the order of withdrawal, located and obtained vested rights In 16.000 aerea of land In Montana which absorbed 'for th com pany all tha valuable water power sites In that state, and tha statement, wat ao oompanled by detailed reference to th particular land office and th particular agent through whom this result waa ac complished. Th Inference , which It waa sought to have drawn and which . was drawn by the newspapers hostile to you was that you had brought about tha restoration to settlement of th land upon which were the water power sites for the purpose of enabling private water, power companlea to acquire vested Interests; WW iw Deatgnad by SUnwi'i & Weil, Chicago A Fancy Vest Every Two Minutes An White or Fancy Vest is demanded by tome man every second minute of every twenty-four hours for 365 days a year. This means that 840 men in the United States buy an "OUGT Vest every day. This popularity is not the result of luck or a few days work. Each Vest represents the accumulated knowl edge of many years of experience. ''OUtJ" White and Fancy Veils are stylish, fit perfect ly and give excellent service. Buy the only Vests known by name. $2.00 to $10.00 Sold by leading dealers everywhere. Makers Chicago that after doing so you hsd withdrawn what remained from the public settlement and that you took this course because you were out of sympathy with that poller of conservation' of national resources and wer n. favor of the corporate control of such wster power sites. trael lajastlr Deae." "When the facta are examined In this regaid. It will b found that the persons responsible for the circulation of these charges have done you cruel Injustice. The fart was that In January, l. In the last administration, executive order were made withdrawing from public settlement 1.60,000 acres at tke Instance of the reclamation service for conservation of water power sites. Soon after you became secretary of the Interior you brought this order to my attention and said that It Included a great deal of land that had no water sites on It. running back many mllea from tha rivers. and that It Included a great deal of land which ought to be opened to public settle ment; that you had applied to the reclama tion bureau to know whether It was de sired for reclamation purposea and what their recommendation was In th premises and that they recommended that It be re turned to the public domain. You also ad vised ma trlat It was Impossible to procure from the geological aurvey an accurate atatement of the water power sites which were available and which might be sub ject to private ownership, and that you would direct th geological aurvey tp make auch statements and that then there could ba mad temporary withdrawals of the land needed to preserve these water power sites until congress could act. "Th order revoking the withdrawal of the 1,600.000 acres was msde In April. Suf ficient Information was procured from the geological aurvey to permit an order with drawing tha land upon which were water power sites In May and this withdrawal covered about 300.000 acres, instead of 1.600,000. The form of the new Order of withdrawal was auch that It set aside all filings and entries of any kind which had been made prior to Ita going Into effect, and, as a matter of fact, not one slnale filing has been attempted on any of the water power attea alnce the original order f withdrawal In January. 1009. teelaaaatlaa Certificates lavalld. "In connection with the same charge weight has been given to th fact that you have declined to carry out the contracts made by the reclamation service with homesteader and entrymen by which cer tlflcatea were Issued to entrymen for work done and material furnished with a view to enlarge the projects of the " reclamation bureau. You brought up the question of the legality of such certificates In a cabinet meeting and were directed to submit it to the attorney general. That officer has, very properly. In my . Judgment, decided that it Is at variance with an explicit prohibition In the reclamation law to Issue suoh certificates. The fundamental man date of that law is that no project shall be entered upon until there Is money enough in th reclamation fund to pay for th project or the part thereof contracted for. The certificate system Is In fact a system for borrowing labor and material and making the government a debtor to Intending settlera-a system that Is Inhibited by law and cannot but result ultimately In disaster. Of course those who have ac cepted such certificates for labor and ma terial In good faith ought to be recom pensed and I shall ask from congress at ) the next session especial relief for them, j Meantime the work of reclamation should j ba carried on wherever funds are avail able with all the dispatch possible and 1 am assured that this is being done. Hrre fcy ftallac ( Comptroller. j "Another Instance In your conduct of the : department has been mentioned as Indlca-1 tiv of your purpose to block the general plan of conservation of national resource,' la your refusal to carry out a contract made In the last administration between the sec retary of th Interior and the secretary of agriculture, by which the Interior depart ment delegated to the foreatry bureau of th Agricultural department the power and duty to conserve th forest on the Indian reservations and to expend, under the con trol of the foreatry bureau, the money ap propriated by congress to be expended by the Indian bureau for auch conservation of Indian forests. Your declination to carry out the contract waa made necessary by a ruling of the comptroller, whose ruling I final and without appeal even to the presi dent, that such an arrangement Is a dele gation of responsibility and authority for the expenditure of money which the appro priation by congress for the Indian bureau did not authorize. "In my Judgment he Is the best friend of the policy of conservation of natural re- ! sources who Insists that every atep taken in that direction should be within the law and buttressed by legal authority. In sistence on this Is not Inconsistent with a whole-hearted and bona fide Interest and enthusiasm In favor of the conservation ! policy. From my conferences with you and convince all wearers of their exceptional quality by the simple test of wear. You will realize what these high class materials mean to you, after you have worn an Adler Collegian Suit or Overcoat for season or two. You will see Jiow thoroughly these garments retain their shape. You will see what Adler tailoring accomplishes. There are no other garments pro duced at our prices into which is put SO high a quality of cloth, linings, interlinings and workman' Ship. We make this as sertion because it is a fact. We ask you to try one of our garments and you will agree that we have over stated nothing. They are the best clothes this country produces, from every point of view. ha Guilders TOOLS lor the Contractors' Supplies Carpontors Machincst Electrician rick Mason Cement Worker Wire and Manila Rope Wnoel Barrows Tackle Blocks Timber Carriers. Shovels, Etc. JAS. MORTON . SON CO. 151M513 Ooigt Street. Bell Phone. Douglas 437. !nd. Phone. A-1437 JSJiama8jHi.i.jyf . larffi,BIHJMLU, H.JJf H;tf J.yf .ffJ-l.T.,.r L-U -a;.!. -The Autumn snd Winter fubioas in Suits and Overcoats are now bein ebown br the most repre sentative clothiers i a all parts of America. Prices ranrte from David Adler & Sons Clothing Co. Nobby Cloth MaUn. MILWAUKEE "BISHOP J SUNBEAMS" A Companion Flees to "01 Sorh Is the kingdom" How ready for delivery, will be aent postpaid on receipt ef SI from everything I know' in respect to the ronduot of your department, I am able to say that you are fully In sympathy with ' the attitude of this administration In favor of the conaervation of national resources, sincerely yours. "WIM-IAM H. TAFT." 'Hon. Richard A. Balllnger. Secretary of the Interior. Washington. D. I'." of his transfer to the federal Jurisdiction of Kansas to answer for using the I' titled States mails fur. fraudulent purposes. He will be at once t,ken to Topeka and there turned over loathe -.Jsansas federal author ities. His heitiflitK. 'ul he had at Leaven worth October A, s-. , Decorations : Costly In Court Decora tions come hih in police court and C. B. Johnson was fined $r0 for tearing the waist that was worn by Emma -J. Haskell and hanging a piece of crape over her left eye. John J. Lynch was fined $.'5 for as saulting his divorced Wife. The women live at 22i'Z Pierce' street. The bunch had been drinking during the day. The women went away for a little outing and returned .with another man. Lynch and Jnhnxon resented the coming of the stranger and the fight resulted. They have been re leased on appeal bonds. Tonth in Prison Becomes Cook Harry Johnson, an lS-year-old boy who has burr, serving a six months' sentence in the county Jail,, was released by Judge Sutton on parole so that , he could tspend the last month of his time earning money. He was offered a position an assistant cook In the JhII kitchen and will have his free dom under the new parole law, being re sponsible only to Jailer Frank F. Johnson for his conduct. The release was to give him a chance to have something to start on when he gels his final freedom. He was sentenced for burglary. 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I'm stow- to move It has helped me. give themselves more retuiily, it mure readily, ll congratuliitlons me coining to vuu so iuuiIi as THANKS." BRIEF CITY NEWS Bot Vrtni It. ohllta Oaf now open. Blaehart, photographer, ISth A Farnam. Bera, phot, removed to 16th A Howard. Ambler Farm A city loans, (15 Bee Bldg BtaitabU tlfe Pollctea sight drafts at maturity. H. O. Neely, manager. Omaha, Her Oraad Kotel Turkish Baths, Six teenth and Howard streets. iieti in Omaha. Del sen a Waives Prellanlnary John De- leena. who was arrested on the charge of assaulting Officer Cunningham, waived hia preliminary hearing and waa bound over to th district court. He as re turned to Jail in default of a bond of $2,500. Scheme to Kelp Taxpayers Miss Ida B. Jonts has a plan for t'.ta employment of th oounty'a poor she thinks will greatly aid In taking the burden from the tax payers If It can be put Into practice. She propose to get promises from the street department of the city, from the larger corporation such as the South Omaha packing houses, to give a certain number day employment each year. The Associated Charities may keep a record of such prom ises and then when a man complains of not being able to get work he may be presented with a certificate that will give him a temporary means of getting wages. Prominent public men have been doing similar work for years in sending unfortu nate to their friends to get work and th plan seems feasible to the authorities. TeatlMe. Artrr foir Years. Carlisle Center. N. Y., O. H. IMrhans. writes: "About four years ao I wrote you that I had been entirely cured of kid ney trouDle by taking two bottles of Foley'e Kidney Remedy, and after, four years 1 am again pleased to state that I have never had any return of those symp toms, and I am evidently curd to stay cured." Foley's Kidney Remedy will do the same for you. Sold by all druggUta. 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Omaha, has Just succeeded In ty ing up the -Omaha rlghta" on these fa mous prints. "Ouerln" prints are eapensive, 'lis true, but the buyer Is safe in the knowledge that they will NKVKK become tawdry or common. Kach print Is worth every cent asked for It. "Ouerln" puts beautiful, subtle, art Into even commonplace buildings no other artists In the world today give such You are absolutely certain of correct style in everything you buy from Brandeis Stores. For women who wish a suit that is practical and well as strictly modish in design we sug gest one of these stunning suits at thirty-five dollars. I " OMAHA 1 . . .. l .. . . 1 .. ' 1 1 mm HaiF Good Specials Dr&ndeit Second FJoor For HT.ae Tnnknn .T.aStV. Natural MY liC lieb me 1U1 Uilll wavy novel outline and color effects to jj, churches, castles, monuments ami the , Sf Woaaaa Whs Shoot Gt rr Charged ' like. with shooting with intent to kill was the predicament of Delmaa (treen in police court. Phe explained to Judge Crawford that she was playing with an automatic revolver and that It began to shoot. She wa charged with shooting one Frank Try son, but Judge Crawford believed her story and discharged her He warned her to refrain from praying with firearms in th future unless she waa familiar with th mechanism. aC. Bisons t 0 to Topeka M Bloom, alias E M. l.lpke. alia Jesse Converse, alia M. C. Britten, has been taken fiom the rtouglae county iail to l.incoin 10 appear befoi Judge T. C. 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