The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-02-18

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y n deputy sheriff
CONGRESSMAN Svitzer objected
10 this hearsay testimon. ana asked m
= the anver ne stricKen ont Cbairmg
1ovlor took issue with him ON !,
'' eround tha, the man v,s testifyb
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p Her. Ma, I.c.rdre iptariected m.
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s tbeir coots which may b,vo rrevopr
. Oh rho witness rr,p, distipp,isbing m
u ,fbci,I character nf his ossailapt.
- Mr. SWltzer pressed his obiectior
,m nnall, chairman Tavior exclaimed
g oohio,,, ohio,t IN an ~ ~ q
course II Won object % this investiga
ZION you might as well not he ON thu
committee"
81 only ,skod" oxpl,ip.d Congress
man Switzer "to hovc Tins matter
expprveJ from tne rcror5
Chairman TAYLOR stated that rs II
has bcen ,ustomar, for moro than
100 wears for the party I'm mower in tho
administration 10 also have majority
lin the committees. the majority in This
committee is going To rule and the mi
nority, or Republican members can
make an tlc objections they please.
the objections 10 be noted in the record.
But Chairman Taylor ruled, anything
that goes into the record is going to
stay there despite objections.
AS chairman Of this committee"
said Chairman TAYLOR Il will say that
| anything that goes into the record
viii 90 back Ia Congress. do not
! think il helps the dignity of the COM
nitteo To quarrel among ourselves"
Norgrcssman Howell mterposed
With
DO ! understand YOU To say that
this is partisan committee and a
partisan INVESTIGATION
i had no intention of saving SO.
said the chairman, but when a mem
her Of the committee tries to discredit
the committee by saving that this is
state matter. which We have no righc
no investigate. il is time for the major
ny of the committee To take a decided
stand
Mr.. Swt7er-'I protest that | have
not said the committee has no right |
80 make an investigation.
Mr.. Howell came to the assistance J
of his Republican colleague and made
rather an extended speech.
Centuries have shown that it is
according 10 the rules Of evidence that
an investigation should be made" he
said. congress expects us To present
the truth and not ten volumes of mat
ter i'm which there is one grain of truth
to two bushels of chat our record is
under our own control and we have
the right 10 say what goes into ii. !
recognize the majority controls but /
10 not recognize that this is a parti-
san investigation. We have RICH,
to give expression to our views, we
OF the minority; that's the reason
am stating mine"
Chairman Taylor-"Alr. Switzcr has
he right to ask to have anything
stricken out"
Should it not be stricken because !
,sk it," asked Mr.. Sw'2er.
No" said the chairman, nothing
should he stricken just because any
me man asks It,"
Mr. Petermann of counsel for the
operators here intcrposed an observa-
ion:
1T is hardly fair or just to the sher-
# or his ocers to charge them with
rhine or hearsay evidence"
Mr.. LeGcndre here resumed the eX-
animation of the witness, under in
from Chairman Taylor, and ,
brought out the statement that the
nan had been held up on Il county
Dad
Were they mine guards or public
mcials who held you up" asked Mr..
;witzer.
The witness was not sure on the ,
,oint.
Were YOU searched on public
Highway" asked Mr. LoGcndre. and )
he witness said he was.
DO YOU contend Mr.. LcGcndre," \
sked Mr.. Petermann, that a police
aicer cannot search a suspicious
haracter when arrestirs him?" ,