The Washington herald., 1913-04-25
PRObERS DECIDE
ATTACK ON Sims
ACTINCONTEMPT
Select Committee Will So Hold
in Case Of Charles c.
Glover.
MAKE REPORT SATURDAY
Severe Reprimand Likely to Be Melted
Out to Local Banker by
the House.
MAKE REPORT SATURDAY
BY JOSEPH II. AMIN,

Charles c. Glover, president of the
Riggs National Bank, of this city, will be
called publicly TO account for his attack
upon Representative Thetus w. Sims of
Tennessee by the House of Representa-
tives, unless he is able to save himself
from that humiliation through an appeal
to the Supreme Court of the United
States
Tomorrow morning the select commit
tee of the House, appointed to investigate
the charges that Glover had slapped
Sims face in Farragut Square last FRI
day morning, and to recommend a course
OF procedure if they found the charges
to be well founded, will report as direct
ed by the resolution. The report will
state that in the opinion Of the commit
tee the constitutional privileges and pro-
tections of a member of the House ave
been violated, and that Mr.. Glover H in
contempt of the House.
The report will be accompanied by a
resolution reciting the attack as a state
ment of fact and expressing the senti-
ment that Charles c. Glover is in con-
tempt of the House.
Delay May Follow.
Neither the report nor the resolution
will make further recommendations as to
the procedure to be followed by the House.
Hc icSOiullOL MAY NC " iic
upon the table until the tariff bill is out
OF the way, although il concerns mat
ter of the highest privilege and can be
called up Immediately if the committee
so desires. Ii it is called up at once,
vote on the question of further pro-
cedure will follow. The probability is
that no attempt will be made to impose
a prison sentence upon Mr.. Glover, but
that the sergeant-at-arms will be IN
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bar of the House and the Speaker will be
instructed to administer a severe repri-
mand. AS il is hoped, however, to get
the tariff bill out of the way within the
next two weeks, ii is possible that the
matter in some stage will lie over until
that time.
If the House acts Immediately upon the
receipt of the report and resolution to-
morrow, ii may deprive Mr.. Glover Of
an opportunity to appeal to the Supreme
Court, unless he can evade whatever
assistant sergeants-at-arms are sent to
serve him with the House summons. Once
empowered to bring him before the House,
the officers of the House would be SUBJ
ject to no stay except writ of habeas
corpus. The writ could not be issued
unless Mr.. Glover should be in custody.
If immediate action is decided upon and
the House votes that Glover is in con-
tempt and instructs the Speaker to repIi-
mand him, he can be brought before the
House as quickly as the assistant ser
geant-at-arms assigned to the case can
produce him, unless Glovers counsel can
obtain a writ of habeas corpus from
justice Of the Supreme Court between the
time that Glover is apprehended and
reaches the Capitol in the custody of the
sergeant-at-arms.
The House can, if il desires, permit
Mr. Glover's counsel to procure the writ
of habeas corpus and thus carry the
affair Immediately to the Supreme Court
Members of the select committee how
ever, are by no means prepared to admit
that writ of habeas corpus would lie
against the proposed action in this case.
This is one of the many legal points
which the report of the committee is eX-
pected to instruct the House upon, and
il is considered probable that because
of the desire that members of the House
may have the full benefit of the COM
mittee's efforts before acting, the case
will be permitted to lie over until mem
bers can study the report.
The committee continued yesterday to
read precedents and decisions and to
frame their individual views on the SUBJ
ject of the report A conference of sew
eral hours was held, and it was evident
the committee was of one mind on the
major points involved. Not even rough
draft of the report has been. found as
yet, though members of the committee
have set down their own views for pre-
sentation when the actual drafting of the
renort commences