Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-14
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SCORE MINORITY
MEETING OF PART OF COMMIT
TEE in CHICAGO CONTENTS
ITSELF WITH "RoAsr."
COURSE TAKEN BY FIVE
MEMBERS is CONDEMNED
Declared to Have Been According to
"Worst Methods Of Ward Politics"-
Complaint Made Because Democrats
and Insursent Madison Refused 10
Attend Chicago Meeting.

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Chicago, Sept. 14.-Six republican
members OF the Ballinger investigat-
Ing committee who met here last even
Ing issued staement condemninE the
action Of the four democratic and one
republican 1nsurgent" members who
delivered q report at Minneapolis last
Wednesday demanding the retirement
from office Of Secretary Balinger.
Those present last evening We're Sen
ators Nelson. Sutherland and Root, and
Congressmen Mccall. Olmsted ana
Denby. They declared the action OF
what they term the minority at Min
neapolis to have been according to the
worst methods of ward politics.
The evidence in the Bauinger case
was discussed, but in the absence or a
Quorum they state no action on lhe
case itself was possible. 1t was report
ed that Senator Nelson had authority
to act for Senator Flint, who is a mem
ber of the committee. but who is IN
Europe. This could not be confirmed
but, in any event, no attempt was mace
to use the alleged proxy. Adjournment
was taken subject to the call OF the
chairman, Senator Nelson.
AS the minority" declined to attend
this conference, and took their ad-
tournment 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.
Their Statement.
Following Is the statement issued:
.rn advance OF any consultation
uhatever upon the evidence, Whicn
never had been weighed and discussed
in committee. they demanded the pas
sage OF resolutions of the most sweep
inS character, formally finding Secre-
tarv Ballinger guilty. not merely OF
charges that had been made, but OF
charges that had only been implied
and of things which never have oeen
charged. but which persons appearing
at the hearing had alleged against
him.
"Other members OF the committee
present protested against such pro-
ceedings which would dispose OF tne
case in the absence OF four OF the
twelve members. making 1t possible TOT
minority Of the committee to find
+ha committee verdict, and this. too.
,,itho,,t anv consultation or discussion.
Partisan Politics.
"P,,t the partisan political end to be
Gained by the democratic minority be-
came all the more urgent in propor-
tion as the railway trains bearing 9TH
or members of the committee were ap-
proaching Minneapolis.
"The minority refused even to take
, recess, and the other members, pro-
testing against the evident determine
ton to take a snap judgment by a
minority in the absence of a third OF
the whole tribunal, and declining to
bear any responsibility for thus con-
verting the investigation into a ira
yesty, and for a violation of the funda-
mental principle, which should govern
the proceedings, withdrew from the
meeting, and thus deprived the demo-
Gratis Of their temporary control OF the
committee.
THE meeting being left without a
,uorum any attempted decision of the
case would have no more validity than
would like action at similar number
of men collected at random in the
streets. but the spectacle was present.
ed of five gentlemen out of a tribunal
Of twelve created by the congress OF
The United States assuming to act as
the tribunal itself.
"These five gentlemen continued
their proceedings to the end, according
to the worst methods Of ward politics,
and after pretending to adopt report
of eighty-nine pages which they
brought to the meeting already pre-
pared, and which was never the sub
ject of consideration or discussion or,
even read in committee, they gave 1t to
the newspapers. altho the law required
it to be rendered to congress, and they
completed their perversion of the pur-
pose of the meeting by adjourning to
Dec. 3 so as to foreclose, if possible,
any action or consideration or discus
sion of evidence by the committee in
the meantime, and by solemn vote they
graciously extended to the majority
the leave to file minority report.
"It does not need to be said that
such action in both form, and sub
stance Is wholly lawless, and it leaves
it entirely unnecessary to ask what
sort of justice any public servant could
look for whose character was on trial
in such proceeding in the excite
ment Of political campaign. If there
is any relation between lawless meth
DDS and the character of the results
which they accomplish, this so-called
verdict condemns its authors rather
than the officials under investigation
PowerIess to Act.
Every effort was made to induce
the minority members to agree to
meeting on some early day at Mime
apolis or Chicago as might suit their
convenience, but without avail. The
chairman called the present meeting
The members whose names are hereto
attached have spent the day reviewing
the case. but being without quorum
are powerless to act and have ad-
journed subject to the call of the chair
man.
'eThe report Of the committee can not
be made until Dec. 5, when congress
sneets. ana the meeting called for Sept.