Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1909 — ATTACKS BALLINGER ON FLOOR OF HOUSE [ARTICLE]

ATTACKS BALLINGER ON FLOOR OF HOUSE

Glavis Is Called a Martyr by Representative Hitchcock

Washington, Dec. 17.—Charging ths "the real seat of the public lanu frauds is in the land office rather than outside,” Representative Hitchcock of Nebraska, addressing the house, de> dared the situation called for a con gresslonai Investigation. “My resolution to investigate is before the committee on rules,” continued Hitchcock, “but there is no way to force the committee to report” He added that if 90 per cent of the house desired an Inquiry, it would be impossible, under the rule*, without the speaker’s consent Hitchcock attacked Secretary of the Interior Ballinger for his conduct la the Cunningham Alaska, coal land rases and held up as a martyr L. R. Glavis, who was dismissed from the service of the land office because “he bad shown too much seal in protecting the government against frauds.”