The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
COST OF OPPOSING MARK HANNA
BAR ASSOCIATION WILL ExPEL
SENATOR BURKE.
Result of the Trial at Cleveland
Association Used AS the Wash
line For Republican Dirty Linen.

Cleveland O., Dec 10.-State Senator
Vernon F.. Burke will be expelled from
the Cleveland Bar association, and
Judge Frank E. Dellenbaugh will be
Investigated. This the Bar association
decided to do at its meeting this after
noon. This conclusion was not arrived
at, however, until three hours of de-
liberation.
Then the vote was taken by calling
the roll. The result was almost unani-
mously in favor of adopting the report
as submitted by the trial committee.
This carried with it the expulsion of
Burke and the investigation of Dellen-
baugh.
The vote was announced by James A.
Garfield, chairman of the meeting. The
vote stood eighty in favor of adopting
the report, and twenty against. Chair
man Garfield announced: THE report
Of the committee has been adopted"
Not a sound followed the chairman's
announcement. Then Chairman Gar
field continued: THE report of the
committee has been adopted. Vernon
ii. Burke will be expelled as a mem
Der of the Cleveland Bar association,
and his name will be erased from its
ROLLS. The honorable Judge Frank e.
Dellenbaugh will be investigated by the
investigating committee OF the Bar as
ISOLATION.
The findings Of the investigating
committee will be presented to the cir
cult court, for such action as in the
premises is proper
No murmur of applause or disap-
prevail greeted the chairman's an
nouncement. The members of the as
ISOLATION seemed glad the affair was
ended. Attorney M. A. Foran made a
hard fight for his client, Senator Burke.
Friends Of Judge Dellenbaugh were
also strongly in evidence.
Attorney Foran moved the first rec
concentration of the trial committee,
to-wit: That Burke be expelled from
the Bar association, be amended by
striking out the words BE expelled
FROM" and inserting the words BE
Censured by"
The motion was lost by an over
Whelming vote.
A motion to adopt the report, minus
the recommendations, and another mo-
ton to postpone the adoption Of the
report Indefinitely, were lost by big
majority.
Then Mr.. Foran again obtained re-
cognition from the chair. He moved
that the first recommendation of the
committee he amended, so that it
read: THAT Vernon Burke be suspend
ed from the Bar association for
period Of sixty days" This motion was
lost by an almost unanimous vote.
Judge Hamilton created a mild SEN
sation. He said he understood Judge
Dellenbaugh had retained half a dozen
law firms to defend him. These firms,
Judge Hamilton said, were members
of the Bar association. He wanted to
know how these men could conscien-
tiously vote on the adoption of the re-
port.
Judge Ingersoll raised a point of or
der. and was sustained.
Hon. L. A. Russell was the recipient
OF Misses He said: IF Burke had vot-
ed for Mark Hanna for United States
senator last winter he would not have
been called before the association. The
Bar association should not be the wash
line for the dirty linen of the ReOub-
ican party
Just before the vote was taken Mr..
Foran said the trial committee had ex-
ceeded its authority, that its report
was contrary to the rules of the asso-
citation and the law. He said. Il want
to serve notice that 1 will take this
matter into the courts
Judge 1ngersoll, representing Dellen-
baugh, was seen after the action of
the association, and said: 81 voted
against the adoption of the report. We
will take the position, now and for
ever, that the trial committee had no
jurisdiction over Dellenbaugh.'
Burke's attorney, MIR. Foran, said:
i am thinking of getting an injunction
restraining the Bar association from
eXDelling Burke. l will likely do this
Monday. 1 think the committee ex-
ceeded its authority. It heard evidence
on one charge. and brought in a YER
dict on another
This evening Senator Burke stated
he would begin injunction proceedings
against he Bar association at once.