The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-05
SHER|FFS FAIL TO
FIND BREWERY
MEN
Senate Committee Warrants
for Officials are Not Yet
Served by Deputies.

Minneapolis, Aug. 5.-Armed with
municipal court warrants charging
two brewery officials with gross misde-
meanor by failing to appear before
the special state senat committee in
N~estigating charges of brewery owner-
ship of saloons and brewery activity in
promoting blind pigs. Chief Deputy
utics We're unable to find the men
wanted Yesterday and late Saturday
night gave up the search until today.
A score Of subpoenas for other brew
cry officials citing them to appear be-
fore the committee to give testimony,
We're likewise returned without serr-
ice. There was a general exodus of
brewery men to their farms and lakes
for Sunday, and Deputy Sheriff Wall
said last night thai report on all the
men wanted was that they had gone
to the country for Sunday.
Several witnesses outside IF the
brewery and saloonkeeper list We're
served Saturday and the conlEls:ee
testimony while the question of the
power Of the committee to compel
witnesses to appear when sun moned
is decided by the courts. Attorneys
for the brewing companies declare
that the committee is without power
to force an attendance of unwilling
witnesses. and it is probable the mat
ter will be determined by the courts
today through issuance of writs Of
habeas corpus by attorneys Represent
ing Charles Gluek, vice president of
the Gluek Brewing company. and Phil
Riordan. secretary of the Puritan
rants charging a gross misdemeanor
were issued at loon Saturday.
Status OF Inquiry.
Developments in the investigation
Saturday were:
Gals from the city and the inability of
the sheriff's Office to serve either war
rants or %subpoenas.
Service obtained on a score of cit
liens interested in the question of
brewery control of saloons to appear
before the committee today.
Brewers denial of the authority of
the committee to compel attendance of
unwilling witnesses on the ground that
the resolution creating the committee
does not specify that the committee
shall meet during recess of the senate.
Determination of the committee to
proceed with the Investigation eve
though they cannot force unwilling
witnesses to testify.
Settlement of the question expected
today, when. it is said. issuance of
writs of habeas corpus may be brought
so as to bring the matter before the
curtis and settle the case direct with
out waiting for the action of the grand
jury.
I'VE will proceed with the investi-
cation with such witnesses as we are
able to get" said Senator John Saug-
stad. chairman of the committee, late
Saturday night. evidence is to be
be had from other sources, and pend
ing the test of authority we will con-
tinue to prove the ownership and COM
plete control of a large percentage of
the Hennepin county saloons through
testimony offered by employees of the
city treasurer and records compiled by
the county attorney. There is much
other evidence to be found, and the in
vestigation will continue, ven if the
courts hold that the committee is pow
erless to force witnesses to answer a
summons.
w consider the statement of At
torney F.. w. Zollman, counsel for the
Minnesota Brewers association, a
practical admission Of all that is
charged against the breweries doing
business in the state, and while we
may not be able to show by proof OF
! actual contract between the brewery