The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-25
N RECONvENE ON
BALl|NGER case
Another Fight Is Looked For When
Committee Reopens Famous
3 Case Dec Sc

~ WASHINGTON, Nov. 2o.-One oi
n che warmest committee fights OF years
\ 4 looked for on Dec. 5, when Senator
Knute Nelson, OF Minnesota. chairman
h and the eleven other members OF the
q Joint committee convene III Washing
r. ION. and begin anew their efforts TO
{aoive the problems which have grown
n out OF the Ballinger-Pinchot-Gl
Eeontroyersy, which is now passing
E'into it's second year
ri The last sessions OF the committee
kin September broke up In goou
b sized row, and the members nave oeeh
|. roasted To a fare.you-well by Dotl
NJ friends and foes of the administrator
TOR acting like spoiled school boys
after saying unpleasant things about
one another. The adjourned meeting
a TO be held on Dec. was decided upon
4 by the six Republican members cary
4 last September when they met III Chf
4 cago after having walked OUT Oh the
\ committee room in Minneapolis sew
eral days before, refusing To cohipiete
y quorum.
Tired of Whole Affair.
IA great many people over the couh-
f9$ have grown rather tired OF the lons
Xv4wn out investigation which was be
nm January 26, last, and which 1t was
Rfhnnpht would be concluded weeks be-
&fnre the adjournment of congress
Nssperform, is the command which is
now coming TO the members from all
4sides The committee, however, VIII
Il md Itself In somewhat OF dilemma
lfor the question is asked, how can IL
'snerform when there is such spit ne
/. tween the insurgent Republican anu
}.fhe Democratic members, VINO uphoid
CLAWS and his fight to have the cum
nfngham coal claims cancelled as
fraudulent, on one side, and the STAND.
mt Republican members, who upfDld
a aecretary Ballinger and his admins
B.tration of the Interior Department, on
4 the other.
Il Is practically sure that the line
xup Of the members which existed at
\ the September meetings of the com
$mittee will continue, but there Is
chance OF q switch at the last moment
which will upset present calculations
entfrely. While none OF the commit
teeinen has shown by sign or word
y that he Is shaky, yet number OF Sen
atof Ballinger's friends are known TO
be sdispleased with the action OF sew
''erai members of the committee during
the fall meetings.
Senator Flint. of California. whose
votes during the investigation made
I'd appear he intended to uphold the
Secretary of the Interior, took himself
10 Europe at the time he was needed,
and left the standpat members with
out their quorum of seven. Repre-
<nentative DENLY, of Michigan, also an
5uphOlder of Ballinger in the investiga-
>t3O0. abeentei himself from the first
;laeeting In Minneapolis, but was pres
mt at later sessions. DENLY was the
|2mH member who had TO fight the Bal
RIlnGerism. and Cannonism issue most
E1n shis campaign, and this was the
fehief cause for his defeat, for other
<WiGe he Is popular Senator Root
<Wa& busy getting settled In New York
after his return from The Hague about
THE time the first meeting was called,
and he did not put in an appearance
until the meeting OF the six Republi-
Gun members in Chicago
Delay Did Lot Of Harm.
\. At the time of the early fall meet
\ Inns, there was some talk in admin
ktDtration circles that the secretary had
Fbeen forsaken just when he had ex-
4 pected a vindication by the seven Re
4 puHlican members who had voted for
him while the investigation was on.
4 and that he had been made to suffer
Y the embarrassment of having the con.
i duct OF his department made an issue
I during the campaign. Many friends
1 OF The administration, however. were
4 glad that the quorum was broken at
'sMitneapolis, thinking thu the post
& ponement OF a report until after cleo
|}tion would better the G. o. Ps
'.ch Snces. As things have resulted it
Ahae been shown that the Withholding
LOT the report did great deal OF harm.
frather than to- help the party in the
31eaht.
As matters now stand. there will be
three reports made by the committee
Ito Congress. and be voted on by both
houses. Two OF the reports were made
|Ipublic at the Minneapolis meeting.
'lthat OF Judge Madison. the insurgent