The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-01-19
MILLER REPORT
WILL BE MADE
TO COMMITTEE
Subcommittee to Submit Matter
to Full Judiciary Commit
tee Next Monday
HEARINGS ARE ENDED

Washington, Jan. -19-(By the AssO
ciated Pressl Members of the judic-
iary subcommittee considering the
charges preferred by the clean court
committee against the confirmation OF
Andrw Miller to be United States dis
trict judge for Nlorth Dakota, expect
to make report to the full committee
at it's meeting next Monday.
The members of the committee, il
was said today, will consider any af'
fidavits which may be submitted this
week either by the opponents or sup
porters of Mr.. Miller but no further
oral hearings will be held.
Washington, Jan. 19-(By the Asso.
ciated Press)-The clean court com.
mittee of North Dakota which is op-
posing the nomination of Andrew Mil
ler to be United States district judge
for that state, is understood to have
requested investigation of his citizen
ship at today's session of the hearing
by the senate judiciary committee
which is considering the nomination.
Counsel for the clean court com
mittee are said to have stated that Mr..
Miller was born in Denmark and that
no record could be found that he or
his parents had been naturalized.
While yesterdays meeting, like
those preceding, was held behind clos.
ed doors, it is understood that addi-
t:.onal charges were filed against the
nominee by the clean court commit
10 ho irn Ind n1
the allegation that he was instrument
tai, with the assistance OF William
Lemke, former attorney general Of
North Dakota, in obtaining modifica-
tion iof the state inspection laws
while representing the Standard, OIL
Co. In this incident it is said to have
been charged that Mr.. Miller advanc-
ed $4,000 for defraying certain expen-
ditures of the state legislators called
in special session to amend the law,
the subcommittee was requested to
subpoena two representatives of the
oil company alleged to have been ia
miliar with the transaction.
Senator Ladd, Republican, North
Dakota, who was connected with the
state, inspection bureau at the period
under consideration, is understood to
nave discussed these charges at the
request ,of the subcommittee He is
said to have asserted that amendment
of the law was widely favored in the
state at any time and that no impro-
priety attached to Mr.. Miller for rep
resenting the oil company. He told
the subcommittee, it is understood.
that the money referred to in the
charges was owing to the state by the
company and that appeal was made to
Mr.. Miller to have it's payment ex.
,pedited to meet an extraordinary sit.
uation in which no funds we're avail
able with which to pay the Legislators.
It is also understood that the clean
court committee renewed its charges,
already denied, that Mr.. Miller had
been affiliated with the Nonpartisan
League and the Industrial Workers OF
the World.
Millcr's Statement
Andrew Miller in formal state
ment declared that the prosecution
has utterly failed in every respect 10
substantiate single charge" and as
serted: "The slate is wiped entirely
clean" by evidence submitted by him
Opposition to his confirmation was
political, he asserted, and made with
"hope only to delay my appointment
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