The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-01-20
GREEN ROOM |.
IS IAlB'!QOED'
Beatty Wants All Sessions
of the Probers to Be
Above Board.
SoMEOTHERS PREFER SECREC
Do Not Want to Expose
Their Hands,.
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Middle Men GetEMost of
the Blame. A
No Junketing Trips Will BE Made by
the "High Price" Committee for
Two Weeks or More and the
Time VIII Be Occupied With
Having Look Into Conditions I'm
CoIumbus--Probers Will Not Work
Full Time.
BY United Press wire.

ator Beatty. Everything we do Is
of interest to the public, and they
have a right to know what we do. Az
chairman of the committee, 1 will de-
mand open sessions and IL the others
vote me down, I'll come out and tell
the people of Ohio through the news.
papers what we did at our meetings.
am opposed first and last to any Sc.
crecy In connection with this probe"
Columbus, o., Jan. 20.-The legis-
lative committee to investigate the
high cost of living will decline to In
vestigate the effect of the protective
tariff.
The committee will do its investi-
eating only during Fridays. Saturdays
and Mondays of the session. "This
Will be necessary" said Chairman
Williams, because we do not want
to miss our regular legislative work."
He said, i'm a formal statement after
the committee meeting today that the
committee viii have to stick to the let
ter of the resolution. 1liHWe ARE not
going into the tariff at ALL" he said.
THAT should be made clear at the
outset" y tgot pu'
Member Norris, of Cleveland, when
asked by member Gottshall, who was
responsible for delaying the appropri-
alton for the committee exclaimed In
anger: 'The Republicans. Some Of
those fellows I'm there who were try
ing to tear the dome from the state
house with Fourth of July speeches."
He referred to Brenner, Of Springfield.
who Is defending the emergency bill.
said that the house members who
challenged the honesty OF the emerg-
ency bill were liars. ."3d fs7 ,ras
Mystery has been thrown about the
work of the Legislative investigation
by the fact that the greater part of
their work has been behind closed
doors. Some suspicion OF their good
faith has resulted.
Senator Beatty chairman of the Il
vestlgation of state ,oflicesh declare
today that i'm future all meetings
his committee would be open II I
could control II.
w. w. Riddle, member OF the
| same committee, said, however that
I'VE will have more of them," refer,
ring to the secret sessions. Riddle
said the committee does not care to
cast any unjust suspicion or to place
any state official In an embarrassing
position before the public unless the
| committee has facts 20 Justify 1t.
Chairman Williams. Of the food
probe. says that a certain degree OF
| secrecy will be maintained by his
committee. "All testimony taken will
| be in open meetinb.c said Williams.
'But we want to prepare SO that the
other people do not know what we
have UP our sleeves.
| "We are going to have, believe.
the cold storage men, the commission
men and all classes of middle men
| against us and we want to be pre-
pared to meet them at every angle"
| No junketing trips Will be made by
| this committee for at least two weeks
Several Columbus witnesses, however.
are To be examined early next week.
| or the pile of letters received.
Chairman Williams says the vast ma
jority condemn the middle men,"