It was made public by Collier's Magazine, who hired Louis Brandeis to subsequently defend them from its fallout.
Before this incident Henry Martyn Hoyt brought to the attention of the administration Arthur Bowman's responsibility that presaged the events leading to it. This event led Frederick Kirby to testify that it was Oscar Lawler and not the president who had written a memorandum. One of the disputes in it was a multi-million dollar purchase by the Guggenheim-Morgan syndicate.  It was made public by Collier's Magazine, who hired Louis Brandeis to subsequently defend them from its fallout. This event, which was prompted by the firing one of its namesakes and (*) Louis Glavis, led Theodore Roosevelt to run for the Presidency again in 1912. For 10 points, name this political incident stemming from the sale of Alaskan coal lands under Taft's administration that involved the chief of the U.S. Forest Reserve and the Secretary of the Interior.
Before this incident Henry Martyn Hoyt brought to the attention of the administration Arthur Bowman's responsibility that presaged the events leading to it.
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair [accept Ballinger-Pinchot Affair]