Arizona republican., 1921-10-29
WHEEIER' $ CASE WAS REMO VED
 FROM 1.-THE JURY

Without a jury composed of the l Maricopa county Democratic com mittee and without benefit of clergy, he alleges, Charles De Sales Wheeler was severed from his association of three months with the investment department of the state corporation commission.
 It happened yesterday at an execu- tive session of the commission in which resolution was proposed by Commissioner Johnson and assented to by Commissioner Retts, the pur- port of it being that the said Wheeler be no longer appurtenant to the com mission and that it's pay roll no long CT be adorned with his name. Com missioner Vaughn voted against the resolution.
 There are differences of versions as to precisely what happened to Mir. Wheeler. He came away with an impression, shared by Commis- sioner Vaughn, that he had been fired. It was the expressed view of Commissioners Betts and Johnson that temporary arrangement. de- signed only to cover a period of two months, in the way of an experiment has been formally terminated.
 It was stated that in the course of the session, MT. Wheeler was assured that what was about to happen to him was not to be construed to be evidence of unfriendliness toward him or to be in any way a reflec- tion upon him. MT. Wheelers mind reverted to earlier conversations with his father in the woodshed when the latter sorrowfully said. My son, hate to do this; It hurts me a good deal more than it does you.''
 Commissioner Johnson is said fO have declared that the purpose of the session was to dispose of a matter long pending, that is to say, the ex- cision of MT. Wheeler, on which it had been engaged for the last month or two, that it might get at the next order of business, the firing of Mir. Wheeler not being the only business which the constitution had pre- scribed for the commission.
 There was another note of acerbity in the commission when either Com missioner Betts or Commissioner Johnson referred to a recent publi- cation in The Republican, inspired it was believed. by Mir. Wheeler which had caused the commission to become a contributor to local gayety. It was oIapIained that that evening when the commissioner went to his accustomed haunt at the Arizona CluD lie Was 5ACCiSu HAbA q AuGlI ild ha. MT Wheeler denied that he had instigated that publication, and he was corroborated by Commissioner Vaughn who said that he would as- surne responsibility for it.
 The resolution of expulsion or termination, whichever it may have been, as originally drawn provided l for immediate effectiveness. That l had been changed though, so as to i become effective on Nov. l. MT. 1 Wheeler said that he would regard it 1 as effective at once, the ink on the | record of vote having dried.
 He has not, as a matter of fact, in i fested the offices of the corporation l much since a week ago yesterday | when the majority of the commis- 1 sioners in executive session ordered that the case of MT. Wheeler, in-
 volving the fate of the Democratic l party of Arizona, be left to a jury of l the Maricopa county Democratic | committed The case was set for the 1 following Tuesday. MT. Wheeler was i told by the commissioners that he ! might employ the interim in seeing the members of the jury. He says 1 that he did not engage in the per l mitted jury fixing and that as mat I ters have been disposed of and turned out. that would have been Q
 waste of time. By casual inquiry
 he stated. he had learned that the
 jury would have been overwhelming
 ly in his favor.