Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-25
NAY Call IhGHAM
IN PARDON PROBE
MEMBERS OF JUDICIARY COM.
MITTEE INcENsEp OVER
EDITORIAL.
WHIrEWAsH OF HARDING
ALLEGED BY TRIBUNE
Des Moines Publication Accuses Com.
nittee of Plans For Passing Rath'
bun Case With Mild censure For
Both Governor and HaVner--lntI-
mates Compromise Agreement.
Republican.

Special 10 Times Republican.
Des Moines. March 25.-Aroused
over an editorial in the Des Moines
Evening Tribune intimatins that the
report OF the house judiciary COM
mittee on the Rsthbun pardon probe
Would. be a white~ash Chairman T. p
Harr!ng ton, u the. committee, declared
late Monday that ne was CONSIDERING
summoning Harvey Ingham, editor OF
the Register and Tribune. before the
committee and inquire Of him the basis
for his belief
There are absolutely no grounds for
such a charge, safd Chairman Har-
ringtou. There are men on the com
mittee naturally who are friends OF
the governor and have been for years,
but the only thing we are trying to do
is 70 get at the facts and bring them
out. We are anSiouss to bring before
US any one who can give us any facts"
The editorial quoted from news
report IN the Register. which said:
There IS still, no Indication that the
outcome Of the Investigation will oe
anything other than mild report,
criticising both the governor and the
attorney general" The editorial then
went on 10 say that every newspaper
man about the capital has made and
IS still making the repor: and that from
the Very beginning all newspaper men
who had anything 10 do with the Ida
Grove affair have been saving that
mild rebuke would be the ending of it.
Says Protection Was Promised.
For some reason continued the
editorial, not yet explained. the feel
ing is growing that when the governor
was at Carroll and entered into an
agreement TO let young Rathbun go to
the penitentinary and permit the par
DON 10 be annulied some promise was
made him of protection in the legis-
lature"
Chairman Harrington especially re
SCENTS these charges and declares that
II any ors. has facts along this line
they should be brought out.
The committee did not resume its in
vestig cations until 2 o'clock today. Since
tho adjournment at noon Saturday
each member of the committee Is ex-
pected to have had opportunity to read
transcript OF the evidence and get all
of the facts before them which were
brought out in the grand jury investi-
cations at Ida Grove as well as those
brought out in the present probe With
this information the members will be
ready to further consider the case.
Governors kilograms to Be Read.
All kilograms received or sent by
Governor W. L. Harding or received
or sent by his office while he was
sick in the Carroll hospital or while
he was in Ida Grove will be introduced
az exhibits in the investigation being
conducted by the house Judiciary COM
mittee into the Rethbun pardoning
Speaker Arch w. McFariane and
Chief Clerk Walter Ramsey yesterday
signed subpoenaes, duces tecums. sum-
moning the managers Of the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph companies
70 appear before the house judiciary
committee today.
The duces tecurns also INCORPORATE
an order to bring certain kilograms
sent or received by the governor and
by his office.
A certain telephone call from the
governors office is also being traced
down and the manager Of the teIe-
phone company here will probably be
summoned.