Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-04-08
Witness TAMPERlNG
charge FALLS FLAT
when Committee HAS
AN INVESTIGATION
No Ground for Action.

The first complaint filed with Pres.
ident Burdick of the senate charg-
ing witness tampering, and submitted
by him to committee yesterday, will
not result in action. This committee
holding meeting last night at which
time evidence was taken. No report
from the committee has been made,
but the report when made, will be
to the effect that there is no ground
for action.
Both witness who made the com.
plant and the party against whom
was lodged appeared before the COM
mittee to give their views of the
matter and upon hearing the stories
the committee decided that no cause
existed The report will be forth
coming Monday.
Further charges, it is claimed, will
be laid before the senate by the board
of managers, while the respondent
also has some complaints, but accord
ing to announcement made this morn
ing, will handle such complaint when
witnesses reach the stand before the
impeachment court
Found Missing Leaf.
This morning at the opening sof
session Tracy Bangs announced that
Judge Cowan had found among his
papers the missing leaf from the hotel
register at Rugby, over which there
was some discussion yesterday, and
which had been sent to Cowan by
Proprietor Jones of the Cramond.
Yesterday the prosecution insisted
upon having the missing sheet, and
in giving this sheet over to the prose-
cution, Tracy Bangs also stated that
the register from the hotel that had
been given Cowan would be secured
from Devils Lake where
it now is.
No Blame to coAan
One specification in which delay OF
decision by Cowan was charged was
dismissed on the motion of the prose-
cution today. This is the case of
H. F. Stolze vs. Edmore School Dis |
trict. Prosecution stated that inves |
tigation revealed the fact that no
blame attached to Cowan for delayed |
decision in this matter.
Question Of when a cause is finally
submitted to a Judge was taken up
oday by President Burdick, who said
hat there was no we'll defined law
With relation thereto, and he said
hat it was for each member of court
O determine for himself when cause
s actually submitted. This question
rose yesterday afternoon when the
contended that hearing
N facts completed submitting case,
With defense contending that cause is
lot actually submitted till briefs that
nay be ordered have been filed.
Prosecution Nears Close.
Today the final work of the prosecu-
ion is being done. When the court
ldjourns this evening the work of
evidence may not be COM
'leted for the prosecution, but it will
'e finished not later than Monday or
tuesday, odds and ends of the prose-
ution now being brought together
nd woven into the evidence.
Since yesterday morning the pro-
ress of the case has been remark
bly, tedious; the dull grind of intro.
ucing evidence with relation to de-
aged cases being such that the men,
ers of the court have become ex.
eedingly restless. 1t is a monoton.
us grind.
New Order Means Little.
The new order or rather expression
f the court relating to the evidence I
n delayed cases, made late yesterday I
fternoon, is taken to mean but little.
his is the vote that was taken on
he question of whether or not the
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