Arizona republican., 1910-09-14
THE PEANUT
 PRACTICES Of Minority Members of Ba||inger Committee DENOUNCED BY MAJORITY
Rules of Decency and of Congress De clare d to Have Been Violated At Late Minneapolis Meeting For Campaign Purposes

0DlCdSo, H.. GotDl To iit SiN i'- publican members of the Ballinger in- vestigating committee today issued a statement, condemning the action of the four democratic members and one republican insurgent who delivered a report at Minneapolis last Wednesday,, demanding the retirement of Secretary Ballinger
 Those present were Senators Nelson, Sutherland and Root, and Congress- men Mccall Olmstead and Denby They declared the action of what they termed the minority" at Minneapolis to have been according to the worst methods of ward politics"
 The evidence in the Ballinger case was discussed, but in the absence of a quorum, it was stated, no action on the case itself was possible. It was reported that Senator Nelson had au- thority to act for Senator Flint, member of the committee, who is in Europe This could not be confirmed, but in any event no attempt was made NO uSt IAit oiAN6Nu RAbNs- %hii e'N
 journment was taken, subject to the call of the chairman, Senator Nelson.
 As the minority declined to attend -tuday-s and took their ad- journment at Minneapolis until the next meeting of congress. it is prob able that Senator Nelson will not call another meeting until the return of Senator Flint, who as the seventh member would make a quorum.
 After reviewing the history of the committee up to the Minneapolis in
 cident, the statement says: "The meeting being left without a quorum, any attempted decision of the case would have no more validity than would have like action if a similar number of men were collected at ran dom in the streets, but a spectacle was presented of five gentlemen out of a tribunal of twelve, created by the congress of the United States, as suming to act as the tribunal itself. "These five gentlemen continued their proceedings to the end accord ing to the worst methods of ward politics, and after pretending to adopt report of eighty nine pages which
 they brought to the meeting already prepared, and which was never the subject of consideration or discussion,
 or was even read in committee, they
 gave it to the newspapers, although
 the law required it to be rendered to congress-; and they completed their perversion of the purpose of the
 meeting by adjourning to December 3, so as ito foreclose, if possible, any action or consideration or discussion
 of the evidence by the committee in
 the meantime, and by a solemn vote
 they graciously extended to the ma jority the leave to file a minority re- port"
 Tt does not need to be said that such action in both form and sub stance is wholly lawless, and it leaves if entirely unnecessary to ask what sort of justice any public servant could look for whose character was on trial in such a proceeding in the excitement of political campaign If there is any relation between the law less methods and the character of the results, which they accomplish. this so-called verdict condemns it's authors, rather than the official un- der investigation.
 Every effort was made to induce the minority members to agree to a meeting on some early date at Min neapolis or Chicago as might suit | their convenience but without avail. The chairman then cared the present meeting. The members whose names are hereto attached have spent the day reviewing the case, but without quorum, are powerless to act, and have adjourned subject to the call ] of the chairman.
 "The report of the committee can not be made until December ,, when congress meets. The meeting called for September was for the purpose of considering and discussing what the report to be made three months thereafter should be. There was, ! therefore no haste or pressure for i time The action of the democratic minority in taking temporary advan- tage of the delay of some of the members in reaching the meeting was an effort to substitute a pre- arranged program for the orderly deliberations and discussions which the duty of the i, committee requires.
 "The pretended adoption of the re- port by the political minority and it's publication as if it were the report of the committee. exhibited willing ness to sacrifice the rights and in
 jure the reputation of the officer in- Ivestigated, in order to obtain a SUD-