Show 1EELER HILL LOSE HIS SEAT CONGRESSMEN CANNOT ACCEPT COMMISSIONS IN ARMY Decision of the House Committee Unseats Un-seats Four Members of the House May Accept Civil Appointments Washington Feb aThe Inquiry ordered or-dered by the house of representatives as to what members had forfeited their seats by reason of accepting other offices ended today with a finding by a judiciary committee com-mittee that Major General heeler a member from Alabama Colonel James R Campbell of Illinois Colonel David G Colson of Kentucky and Major Edward E Robbing of Pennsylvania had vacated their seats In the house by accepting commissions com-missions in the army At the same time the committee determined that none of the members of congress serving on civil commissions had thereby vacated their i seats in the house Tht judiciary committee has been conducting I con-ducting the inquiry for several days and after an arduous session ending at 33 p m the injunction Of secrecy was I removed and General Henderson chairman chair-man of the committee made the following follow-ing statement bumming up what had been done The committee considered In order the cases of the members of the house holding civil offices First the members of the postal commission Moody Catch I ings and Fleming second the members of the industrial commission Gardiner Lorimer Otjen Livingston and Bell third the member of the Canadian commission I com-mission Payne fourth the member of the Hawaiian commission Hltt and fifth officers appointed by the speaker such us visitors to West Point regents I for the Smithsonian and trustees of other public institutions in which the government j govern-ment has an interest In all of these foregoing fore-going cases the committee finds that they are not officers within the meaning of article 1 section G of the constitution The i I result of this finding is that such officers do not forfeit their seats in congress by j virtue of accepting such offices i Then the committee finds that Joseph Wheeler Edward R Robbins David G I Colson and James M Campbell after being qualified as members of congress and acting as such having accepted commissions com-missions in th Vnltd States army then I I tJdlle in I and thereby vacated their seats in the I j fiftyfifth congrosj i i General Wheeler was seen after the t finding was announced but asked to be I I excused from commenting on the decision I as it was In the nature of a judicial proceeding I pro-ceeding It is said General Wheeler and I his associates will take no action for the present as the finding of the committee is yet to be passed upon by the house I The fact that Mr Jenkins voted against I unseating General Wheeler and the others may lead to a minority I I report I 1 38 I |