Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-06-13


 members of the national committe lost their nerve today and for the frs time baked at the Taft program.
 They were scheduled to throw Cal ifornia's case to the bottom of the lis so that the entire delegation could b, grabbed if necessary to control tn, convention. What they did was tt vote unanimously to seat the Califor mia delegation with the exception o two delegates from the Fourth con gressional district, which are beins officially contested. The Fourth dis trict contest was set for Wednesday
 This decision was not reached, how ever, until after the committee haC been subjected to grilling the likes of which probably never has been re corded in political annals.
 The grill master was Francis G Heney, the intrepid foe of grafters He appeared before the committee to represent the Roosevelt, end in the Fourth district convention Heney had his real fighting clothes on. Yes terday's decision by the Taft conferees 70 grab the entire California delegation had aroused the militant prosecutor and he went before the committee de termined to protest, not to plead.
 Presenting Demands
 q am here representing a sovereign ;tate," Heney told the committee, and T am not pleading for the seating of Ill our delegates, but demanding it.
 'We in California are not to Dc Oluffed. We're here to fight -against my group of men taking upon them selves the right to dictate to the re )ublicans of California"
 Senator Dick, representing the Taft contestants, asked for postponement of the California case until Friday He gave as reason that "certair papers" were on their way and would not be available until the day men toned
 MT. Heney wanted to know wha' these certain papers were. Perhaps lave them with me-" he suggested 4eney's proffer was not accepted.
 Dick insisted upon delay.
 Heney's intimation that the com nittee intended to be other than ''per fectly fair" with California was resent ed by several members of the commit zee. One member demanded that Hen ey be suppressed, insisting that his remarks were a direct insult to til 
 Crane as Peacemaker
 Senator Murray Crane of Massachu setts hastened to pour oil on the troubled waters by assuring MT. Hen ey that he personally favored dis posing of California's case as soon as possible and that he would not stand or throwing it at the bottom of th' list.
 ''Yes, Murray Crane" retorted Hen ey, "men like you have too much a stake to attempt political grand lar ;eny, but unfortunately there are cer ain of your associates on the nation u committee who are plain crooks 1 who will stop at nothing to carry ou heir purposes"
 Dark clouds lowered over the com nittee room while MT. Heney dashed 1 he committee mercilessly. Several ines things were in uproar and wher | 1eney closed his dramatic address several members of the committed | were purple with anger.
 Former Governor Pardee, who ac | Heney, at the hearing de 1 Jared after the meeting that Heney'' | Itterances constituted the most sensa ional hearing he had ever attended i
 Punch in Every Word
 "There was a punch in every word Ieney uttered" said Pardee.
 'T carefully studied the faces O he members of the committee a hey were being flayed and I never aw a more frightened group in my fe. It was an entirely new experi nee to them. They knew what Heney aid was absolutely true and the! yere unable to refute him. Penrose nd one or two others looked sore ut the great majority of them were lst scared"
 At the conclusion of Heney's ad ress the committee went into execu- we session. Senator Borah diplomat ,ally suggested that the thing for the ommittee to do in order to prove tha'
 has no intention of allowing frauG ) be done with respect to California; elegation was to vote to place on tho oll all the California delegates whC ,ere not officially contested.
 This he said included all but two f the 26. Borah's suggestion. was