Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-06-14
PIERCE must.
! PROVE CHARGE
- ~
INFRINGEMENT COMMITTEE OF
LEGISLATURE TO CALM
- PUBLISHER.
AUST GIVE EVIDENCE OR
! BACK UP ON ACCUSATION
Members Of Exposition Commission at
San francisco Ready 70 Make. Ae-
counting Of All Funds Received From
stats-Pisres Accused Of Playing,
Petty Politics.
to imes-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. June 14--Another crowd
which has been repeatedly attacked by
james NJ. Pierce. publisher OF the Iowa
Homestead, is planning on calling him
to an accounting.> This crowd is made
up of members OF the Iowa Commission
to the Panama Pacific exposition
whose officers and MANAGEMENT
Pierce has charged with not properly
accounting for its funds. appropriated
by the Thirty-sixth general assembly.
to put on the Iowa exhibit at the San
Francisco fair.
Representatives and members Of the
commission appeared before the re-
trenchmentand reform committee Of the
Iowa legislature Friday and urged that
full hearing be had on these charges.
that James M!Pierce and his associates
who testified before the special senate
committee OF the legislature this last
session be subpoenaed. and that the
Iowa commission Be given Opportunity
to present its case fully. This the
committee consented to do and Tuesday,
June "a, was fixed as the date for the
hearing.
Empet FINLEY, OF Council Bluffs.
one OF the liberty loan workers Of that
city who was attacked by Pierce In a
special edition which aroused the re-
turned soldiers of that city, attended
the retrenchment and reform COM
mittee meeting Friday. FINLEY was one
OF the members of the Panama Pacific
exposition commission in 1915 altho not
one OF It's managing officers. Wood
worth Clum was present, represented
by attorney Swisner. or Waterloo. The
COMMITTEES had It's data all at hand to
show that its funds were all accounted
to the state executive council for all
monies expended. and that the COM
mission could not be held responsible
il the state executive council could not
produce the vouchers.
The members of the commission
complained particularly when the
hearing was one before the special
committee last winter on the Pierce
charges that the hearing was secret
and they were not able to be present
and hear the evidence submitted
against them nor to properly defend
themselves. Hence they are asking
the retrenchment and reform commit
tee to saye them this opportunity.
II Pierce Playing Politics.
y The members further declare that
these charges by James NJ. Pierce are
directed more particularly against the
Greater iowa Association. whom
Pierce has fought bitterly because of
It's activities for good roads. And that
Pierce hopes, or had hoped to make a
political issue\out of this to use in a
campaign for governor, in which either
he or Senator Milton B. Pitt, of Har-
rison county. would be the candidate
for the republican, nomination for
governor.
The retrenchment and reform COM
mittee Yesterday seemed disposed to
hold a night session. put Pierce and
his associates on the stand and secure
their evidence. and wind up its in
vestigations by giving the Panama
Pacific c1nmission clean hill OF
health. Members and officers Of the
commission, however said they would