The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-09-16

| employees, Is hereby called TO be liclu
at the Auditorium Annex hotel in Chi
cage, ILL.,, on Tuesday, September IL,
| 1910, at 10 a. NJ, and you are hereby
requested to be in attendance. Yours
| truly, Knute Nelson, chairman
! Mr.. Nelson regarded this as an adj
journment and dit no> return to the
room.
Order Was Surprise
| The letter of Senator Nelson an
noHncing that he had adjourned the
committee to meet in Chicago next
| Tuesday night came as shock to
Messrs. Madison, james, Fletcher, Pur-
cell and Graham. Less than an hour
previous, Senator Nelson had left the
committee room, saying that he would
be black in a minute" When it
dawned upon the five immortals that
Senator Nelson had joined the ranks of
the boilers they were indignant.
They charged him with bad faith and
declared that throughout the proceed
ings in Minneapolis he had acted in
the most arbitrary manner. In Il
statement issued by Mr.. Madison. both
for himself and his democratic col
leagues, it was represented that the
Nelson adjournment was illegal.
Will Remain in Minneapolis
Mr.. Madison said furthermore that
he and his democratic colleagues would
remain in session in Minneapolis in all
probability and publish their report as
soon as it was whipped into shape.
1 1t is the understanding that none of
the five will attend the Chicago meet
ing. Mr.. Madison's statement, after
: reviewing the history of the commit
tees various meetings this week, and
saying that neither Senator Sutherland
or Representative Mccall nor Rcpresen
tative DENLY put in an appearance at
tOdays session enters into II long dis
cussion in defense OF the attitude of
himself and the four democrats. lie
declares they are here to DO business
and they constitute the Legal majority
Nelson Only One Present
Senator knutc Nelson of Minnesota
was the only majority member of the
Ballinger Pinchot committee present
, when the committee met Yesterday
morning at ten O'Clock ut Che West
hotel. Just as the committee met. Sen
ator Sutherland Of Utah left the hotel,
going to the Western Union Tele-
, graph office. He said Il few minutes
later that he was rot going into the
meeting. He also said that Represen-
tatives Mccall and DENLY probably
were in the hotel, but would refuse
to take part in the meeting this morn
ing.
Nelson Motion Is Lost
Senator Nelson presented a state
mcnt saving that Representative Ohm
Stcd of Pennsylvania would not be able
TO attend the committee meeting until
tomorrow. He said that Senator Root
could not reach Minneapolis before
= Tuesday. He therefore asked that the
committee adjourn until next Tuesday.
The democratic members replied that
they were there to do business. and a
. quorum was present and that they saw
no reason for further delay.
Then Senator Nelson suggested that
they adjourn to meet in Chicago next
u Monday, where they might meet SEN
u ator Root. This proposition was also
declined by the democratic members.
The democratic members, including
Senator's Purcell and Fletcher and Rep
resentatives James and Graham were
in the committee room five minutes
before ten o'clock. Representative Mad
ison of Kansas, progressive republican,
. was also on time.
Sent for Absentees
As soon as the time arrived for open
ing the meeting, Clerk Paul Sleman
closed the door and locked it. The
democratic members said in advance
that they would insist on the meeting
4 being open to the public. A few min
utes after the session began, Mr.. Sic
man, acting as the sergeant lat arms,
4 was called in and sent in quest of
i the absent members.
The democratic members took into
the committee room copies of the re
port which they intended to submit.
1t made up typewriter book of
; considerable size. Representative Madi-
son also had a copy OF his report 1t
is understood that he has prepared
report entirely different from that of
the democratic members That i.
while it is different in details. both
ports reach the same conclusion in con
demning Secretary BallDger.
Threaten to Arrest Them.
Soon after the committee met, the
democratic members sent word to the
absentces. who were assembled ut room
222 in the hotel, TO attend the meeting,
otherwise they would be obliged TO or
der their arrest and compel their at
l tendance.
L This threat didn't move the alb
sentecs. They sent back word that, in
view of the action of the five minority
members, they would have nothing
further to do with them. Then the
democratic neubers sent word to the
: absent republicans requesting them to
attend and confer as to a course of
procedure. This the republicans refused
Z to do, replying that since the demo
cratic members had reached definite
conclusion and had formulated and
signed their report, there was nothing
to confer about.
: While Senator Nelson met with the
minority members of the committee