The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-03
aoyAl eAklNo POWDER co., NEW YoRk

its report, that 1t had good warrant cor
ali It had said although, VIC spoke
Ironically Of the superfluous statement
that nobody had meant 10 do wrong, Tile
cutlery Of the persons ccnslired impressed
us then as merely tho defiant or angry
howl frequently heard under such cir
cumstnnces. III
Later, when 1t developed that the ses-
sIons or the committee had been held
in secret, our comment was that this (
method OF procedure was lncxcusably
unfair, whether Mtssrs. Fuller. 0A--.)s.
and SHIELD. or any Of them, were guilty
or not 5 a.
the manly assertion that II he did wlat
& the committee makes 1t appear that he {
4 fns DONE he was not merely indiscrcet.
II slle did that. lie snys, lie must have
acted deliberately una viii, fraudulent
Intent. He sp,irns the sop Of mo wrong
intent. and demands acquittnl or cons
victiotl on the evidence. &
$ We heartily sy1npatlizc with Delegate
puilcr here. He either did wrong orIdid&
not do wrong. and lr lie did wrong
he 5,lndoubtedly did 50 with irtcnt.-No--
y folk Landmark. e
. Tho plain duty ofitlic committee. IN 4
J, our opinion, ~ to reconvone. rohcar the
evidence. conduct It's proceedings with
- II,
Sand ana Shields to defend themselves
If this course is not pursued the whole
matter IL left In very I'm 81 isfactory&
status for all parties immediately con
cerned, and also for the puhlic.-Lynch-
burg News.
Mr.. Fuller according to the report Y
or tic ma joritS committee, committed
an ac, Of "lndiscretlon.r Mr.. Fuller
f,t i,,a n
mittcc arc correct, he has not com-
United AN "indiscretion. but fraud.
This Is the correct View, and is the way
the matter should have been treated
by the committee. ( Mr.. Fuller was
guilty OF making changes In the BILL
even actua!ed BY his friendship for an
other party who would become q bene-
s ficary BY reason OF the change made,
he has committed n fraud, and i should 4
be SO treated
The committee 4..did'' ana Mr.. Pullers
"didn't'Bis hardly sufficient for Tie pub +
He Some ono has tempered with tho
bill. according TO the report OF the conf 4
mittec, The person who did committed
"A fraud and not IN intilscretion. II Air.
{pullcr is innocent. he deserves full Vim
dtallbh,d ara y II guilty. lie deserves. ho ;
condcmna tion II fitcdF by my one who
has committed q dclibcratc fraud and ibc-4
trayed the trust imposed. - h rlf 20
Times.
As this committee met behind closed
doors and the testimony was not made
public, It Is impossible Tor outsiders y Q
rcac. any positive conclusions on ! he
subject. but the contention Of Mr. Fuller
seems to us to bic entirely proper, II nc
Intentionally attempted to thwart the
will Of the Legislature. lie is not guilty
OF an IndIscretion,5 but of an attempt at
fraud, and tlieWreport should have been
explicit ono way or the other.
The committee that reported OH Inc
Corporation Commission nuddle also
found San act of indiscrction,. and now
comes another "indiscrctlon, which Mr..
Puiler says is either fraud Or nothing.
The Legislature seemed to think the for-@
NOR inliscreton was nothing, ana Is ne
latter more serious? There can he, OF
course. various degrees Of lndlscretIor.
but tho legislative committees do not
seem to be original enough to define those
OF recent discovery. Norfolk Ledger.
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