Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-27
Investigating Committee to Send
representatives Joseph, StOokey
And Miller East.
foRGERIES NOT TRAcINGS
= Ratified Handwriting Expert 0rsOn
P Rumel at This Mornings
Hearing,
o,e MORE BOGUS ORDER FOUND.
v,o,bsr Which Gov Wells Said Was
Genuine Proves to be a
Forgery.


Forgery.
The committee Investigating the af-
n,rs Of the Worlds Fair commission
Ma a brief session this morning, and
ram what was accomplished II is eyi-
dort that when the report Is finally
made there win remain no stone under
which a dark secret may Turk. Repre-
sentatlyes Joseph, Stookey and Miller
are 10 spend the present week, or long
or IN ST Louis. turning over every de-
tail Of the commissions work. in the
tr city. The rest Of the committee
arc 10 investigate the books at this end
and see what manner OF undiscovered
fraud is still to come out. No more
publlc committee meetings will be held
until the sub committee reports from
st. Louis,
ONE MORE FORGERY,
The only testimony taken this MORN
ng was that Of orson p Rumel. the
handwriting expert who had been go
inc over the commissions orders, This
testimony showed the finding Of one
more forged order and one genuine
order that had been charged to the
storage accounts but In reality had
gone 10 the Utah Light and Railway
company to pay a personal bill OF John
@ Cannon. It Is stated unau-
thontatlyely that this voucher
IS among those already made
good BIS the Cannon association
ana Is the one which Gov. Wells stated
was genuine when he was first put upon
the stand 10 Identify the forged orders.
The one new forgery discovered Is or
Der No. i2l, IN favor Of the Allen Trans
ftr company, dated March 4, 1904, for
t06 Saturday Gov. Wells and Mr.
Rume were together examining the
complete llst Of orders and both agreed
upon this one as being forged,
whitaker WANTED TO OBJECT.
One Incident occurred which promised
Tor moment to lead 10 something SEN
Htlonal, and this was ayerted by the
refusal OF the committee to allow Di-
rector General Whitaker TO address II
IN question Of personal privilege. The
ilrector-general held In his hand copy
" The Tribune containing an interview
with Representative Miller.
II IA undorgtOod that tho diractor.Uot,
ara wished TO ask Representative Mill
n Il he was correctly quoted, and in the
went Of securing an affirmative answer.
pf asking that he be removed from the
committee on the ground OF being
biased Afr Whitaker refused to make
my statement Of his position for publ-
'atlon, although his attitude was clear
" that an injustice was being done him
by having investigators look into his
hfalrs VINO had already passed judg-
ment upon them.
F0RGERIEs NOT TRACINGs.
orson ?. Rumel when placed upon
me stand was asked n there was any
way IN which he wished TO modify his
testimony.
Yes he replied, 81 would like to
amend IL IN several particulars"
:, ne was shown order 1874. and asked
ne mad observed anything partlcu-
,uH N regard to II, not mentioned
" me last testimony
Nhen | looked at the order under
lnlscroscope Of high power he ex-
PANIED III appeared not to be trac-
ipg, N Iact none OF these forged or
geIs appear to be traced. There are
Important discrepancies In the forma-
uoh OF letters, They start with the
Wlers 'er IN Heber Mr., Rumel then
e9apalned the nature OF the desorepan-
XIV, ue Wherever they occurred He was
;, are you able to state who forged
'he name Of GOV. Wels?"
a haIe compared the signature with
me nandWrlting Of John @ Cannon. and
~ Nould say that John Q. Cannon wrote
Inc forged name.
WENT FOR LIGHT BILL.
Have you examined order l2l?o
YES II is forged"
lave you looked at order iil?r
ms order is genuine. ON looking Il
ny ! ma that II is charged to the ac-
suunt OF storage and freight, but In re-
snV u went TO the Utah Light & Rail
nWsy company TO pay bill against Em-
H. IL cannon. There Is no voucher for
Ire check upon which this order was
XIV was issued Feb. 6. 1904 by Hoyt
Ss n.y. treasurer OF the commission,
ora Did , You ascertain anything about
NO ! dld not"
a, us concluded the examination ~
W. witness Attorney II. A. smith
wen announced that the committee
sa,io u n9t Wen proceed with the inyest-
hhau9n because the auditor was ann
nv, u al work on the books and could
IL XIV . reody TO report for several DAYS,
am S'so slated that In the meantime n
ana ,1ulWittee would go TO ST. Louis
g't,, ,eok over every Item connected
~ we commissions business tbero
wsa,. ne,pVed an adjournment until "a
tlon rom Today. In putting this mo.
III. ,ue chairman was interrunted hy
ss e0,or General Whitaker, who asked
ha matter Of personal privilege that
ibo auoWed TO make n abatement ~
bri., "sF,esugatlng committee After n
"a TTIlscusslon the request was reo,s.
"a 3, ne motion was then MIR arsnd.
rsturn "HNe the next meeting upon Tho
next vi the committee, instead ~
af,sr inuay 10 carried in this Form,
heen ,ooseph stookey and Miller Ma
'Vu 70 make the ST. Louis trip
STAR CHAMBER SESSION.
ebsipoIhed'ng the open session s,,r
Of olnsiu heeunF was held. Instead