Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-12-15
ATTACK ON
Taft COWARDLY
Republicans Score Democrats
For Bad Faith In Alas
kan Affair
DICK TO DICK LETTER AGAIN
Majority of Committee Fails to
Expose Fabricators
of Lies.
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Not in session.
Will meet 2 p. m. Monday.
s Edward Hines and Nanny"
s Abrahams were witnesses at
the Lorimer inquiry.
s Louis D. Brandeis continued
criticism of United States Steel
Corporation before the Inter
state Commerce Committee.
Railroad counsel discussed
with employers liability COM
mission suggestions for a liza
s bility bill.
Foreign relations committee
s members consulted ON Jewish
passports legislation plans.
(, An agreement with Russia was
) rumored.
s HOUSE.
s Met at noon, agreed to ad-
s journ today until Monday. Lat
s er agreement set aside.
s Recessed from 1:1O p. m. to
s 4.3O p. m. to receive and con-
s slider urgent deficiency appro-
: priation bill carrying $4,000
s 900.
) Steel investigation continued.
5 Senator Oliver (Penna.)
testified that ore rates to Pitts
s burg were too high.
Rules committee heard argu-
5 ment by Representative Lind
s bergh, of Minnesota, for in
vestigation of the so-called
money trust.
General Crozier urged on mil
itary committee a war basis
supply of ammunition for the
army.
s Republican minority report
) on Controller Bay inquiry ar
raigned Democrats for alleged
s unfairness.
y Representative Mondell, of
: Wyoming, spoke in opposition
to the repeal of the Sherman
antitrust law.
+ Sugar trust Investigation
s committee began inquiry into
sugar increase of several cents
s a pound last summer.
: Labor committee authorized
s 10 visit Philadelphia and eam-
s ford, Conn, in investigating
scientific system of shop man
s agement.
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Democrats Scored.
Washington, D. c., Dec. 15.-T
sudden ending of the inquiry into I
charges that the government had
owed a monopoly of the coal hart
It Controller Bay, Alaska, was roul
y scored in the Republican minor
,eport of the House Committee on
.erior Department expenditures, fiji
iOday.
Dick to Dick Letter.
The Republicans said that comm
lecency, if not justice, would ha
demanded some investigation to
pose those responsible for the fal
cation Of the so-called "Dick to Die
letter, alleged to have been writ
by Secretary of the Interior Ballinl
to Richard S. Ryan, the latter 8
posedly representing the Guggenhe
interests.
The minority report said this
pose should have been permitted e,
Il the Democratic majority was
for partisan reasons, to :"
the interior and other hi
officials of the unjust, cruel charg
Fabrication Falls to Ground.
"And so the whole fabric Of fa1
cation, suspicion and downri
on which the investigat
was based, falls to the ground" 8;
the minority report.
Muckrakers Denounced.
1t is also urged q thorough inqu
so as to locate the guilty persons, 8
have some punishment meted out
them, and ito deter others who n
employ falsehood and duplicity In
sailing official character"
cowardIy Attack on President.
"The action Of the majority of
committee" it said, "can have but .
effect, that of shielding the perpet
tor of the libel and throwing prot
ton around whoever. through mall
inspired the cOWard1y attack on