The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-04-18
HOT FIGHT OVER
IMPEACHMENT
ADJOURNMENT
The Prosecution Wants Time
in Which to Prepare It's
Rebuttal. Evidence
WAR Of WORDS BECOMES
REFLECTION on WITNESSES

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Tracy Bangs Declared If Cowan Had
not Travelled the Stats to Find Evi.
denee He Would Have Been Lied
Into tho Lower Regions. <&.M
(H D. Paulson.)
Bismarck, N. D., April 1S.-Bitter
words were used this morning by
Geo. and Tracy Bangs in support and
opposition to the proposition Of the
court OF Impeachment taking an ad-
journment at the conclusion of the
evidence for the defendant. After
beating about the brush on this ques-
ton till after IL O'Clock, having con-
vened at $3.50, the court decided to
continue its work Of taking evidence
for the defendant without having
made any decision as to adjourn
ment.
One proposition, that Of adjourning
one week at the close Of the intro
duction Of the testimony Of the wit
nesses for the defense now in the city
or on the way here, was voted down,
as was another proposition of TAX
ing two weeks adjournment at the
same time. Senator Bessessen made
the one week motion, while Senator
Steel Of Stutsman made the two
weeks motion. When President Bur-
dick brought the adjournment propo-
sitten before the court he stated that
1t probably would be we'll to deter
mine the question at once, inasmuch
as it had been discussed 80 general
ly in the last few days.
Counsel Geo. Bangs then made the
statement in which he declared that
the prosecution would be in need Of
some time to prepare its rebuttal,
stating that he was beginning to un-
derstand someA Of the serious dis
crepincies in evidence relating to the
Lakota and Rugby affairs as offered
by the prosecution, and the respond
ent also declared that the attitude Of
the house Investigation committee In
refusing or failing to turn over It's
evidence had been responsible FOR the
hard work, and that in order to get
the rebuttal evidence, some time
would be required.
This statement from the prosecution
counsel brought forth scathing talk
from Tracy Bangs. He declared that
the cry for time at this time was an
admission Of neglect Of duty upon the
part of the board Of managers. and
that It meant nothing more or less
than that the board was ornamental.
He declared that the house commit
tee had not been friends Of Cowan
and at the same time declared that
there had been an attorney search
ing the state from one end to anoth-
or for evidence. The defendant, he
declared, had travelled over the state
to get the right evidence on the prop
ositions that had come up and that
II he had not he would have been
lied into hell long ago. He contend
ed that the prosecution knew there
was nothing to rebut and II the ad-
journment was taken, he wanted 1t
now 90 that no more witnesses could
be brought.
George Bangs came to his feet at
this remark with q query as to wheth-
er Tracy Bangs was making insinua-
tions. Not toward the prosecution
counsel, he answered, but Dan Bren-
nan, Joe Kelly and Fred Mann and
others. The tight Of the prosecution
counsel, he said, had only been for
victory. He wanted to know If the
witnesses that had been placed on the
stand for the defense had been of
the type Of Dan Bremen who would
drive Cowan, McClory and Cuthbert
out Of Devils Lake and said that the
defendant had not made payments of
$50 a day for the purpose Of spying
on them, az he declared counsel for
the defense had been spied upon. He
declared, too, that he had talked with
no witness without having to take the
precaution Of being "pussyfooted, -
and that he never stepped out Of his
room In the hotel but what some one
Of the clique was hanging around
the other end Of the hall.
George Bangs made an equally heat
ed reply In which he said his chief
source of regret In the case. was the
bitterness Of the arguments of the re-
0pondent and that the house board
and their counsel had been insulted
continuously In the TRADE voiced by
the only tongue in the state which
could give 1t sharp sarcasm.
He referred to Jordal's statement,
refusing to turn over evidence, but
was interrupted by Senator Simpson
who declared the language was moth
ing like that used by the counsel, to
which George Bangs responded that
he would like to know what Jordal
did say. He said that the statement
that the counsel was going over the
state to collect evidence was not true.
Tracy Bangs replied that such coun-
Gel had come to his Office looking for
evidence while on his way to Devils
Lake. George Bangs continued by