Show BUT ONE IAN Cooressman Sl1zer Ascertains Ascer-tains that He is i Not Entire COimittee is s GALLED TO fiME E Feeling Ran High at Coeur dAIene Investigation BITTER TALK < INDULGED IN I Several Spirited Exchanges Between Chairman Hull and the Ohio Congressman Con-gressman Latter Made to Understand Under-stand that He was Simply One Member of the Body Conducting the Inquiry A Witness Tells tho Committee that nn Old Soldier Because Be-cause of the Brutality of Colored Soldiers Toward Him While Confined Con-fined in Bull Pen Took His Grand Army Button from His Coat and with Tears in His Eyes Threw it AwayAuditor Sinclair Denounces the Story i Washington March 14 Feeling ran high at the Coeur dAlenc Investigation before the House Committee on Military Mili-tary Affairs today and thero were several sev-eral spirited exchanges between Chairman Chair-man Hull and Representative Lentz George Cornell was on the stand relating relat-ing his experience during Imprisonment Imprison-ment which differed only In detail from those of other witnesses GEO CORNELLS STORY One of hisreeltal3rcasagtqan old soldier who because of brutality of the negro soldiers toward him took his Grand Army button from his coat and with tears in his eyes threw it away Cornell said he made n memorandum of the affair but the book was taken from him and he saw It afterward In the possession of Bartlett Sinclair the Governors representative during the troubles SINCLAIR DENIES STATEMENT Mr Sinclair who was present arose and declared there was no such soldier as had been described Mr Lentz protested against statements state-ments not under oath lie also gave notice that he would call on Mr Sin clair to produce all his books to locate this alleged soldier entry LENTZ NOT THE WHOLE THING Chairman Hull here Interposed to remind re-mind Mr Lentz that he was not the en tiro committee and was not In n position posi-tion individually to order tho produc tlon of books This was the province ton of the committee and without such action ac-tion Mr Lentzs notice amounted to nothing MAKES THE REQUEST Mr Lentz staled that this was the te usual notice that books referred to In the testimony would be called for He asked that the committee make the request and without objection this was done Mr Lentz also moved that the committee com-mittee call for all rolls records etc showing the names of those held in the bullpen the charges against them etc REFUSED HIS DEMANDS Tho committee went into executive session to pass upon the motion At tho executive session the committee voted 6 to 5 against calling for the immediate im-mediate presentation of the rolls records rec-ords etc of the bullpen I was agreed however that Gen Merriam and other be requested to present any such papers when they are heard EXCITING CONTROVERSY When the open session was resumed the testimony was soon Interrupted by another exciting controversy One or the attorneys present In behalf of the State of Idaho occupied a seat near I the head of the table and Mr Lofts referred re-ferred to tho outDid coaching which was going on Jfe also questioned time attorney as to whom he represented by whom ho was retained and what retainer re-tainer had been paid The answer was that Coy Slcunenberg had given him n S230 check as retainer Then the following fol-lowing colloquy occurred SUCH A THING AS DECENCY Chairman Hull What difference does I that make Mr Sulzer of New YorkDont be ao timid Mr Chairman Mr Stevens of Minnesota Thero Is such a thinS as decency Mr Sulzer That may be Mr StevensYou had better get I n little o t Mr Dick of OhioI object to the In suiting remark of the gentleman rrom New York to the chairman Mr Sulzer Never mind what you want to do about 1L I have my rights here You can rest assured of It MEMBERS IN EARNEST The manner of the exchange shows lhat the members were very much In earnest The witness then went on with his testimony He told of the vileness of the barn where the men were first confined and of the harsh treatment accorded ac-corded them MILITARY IN CONTROL At the afternoon session tho witness Cornell sid he never heard an army officer tell minors who hud Cult work In the mines that he would put them back at time I point of tht bayonet If they did I not voluntarily resume work Time military mil-itary authorities he said were In con tr < r 1 njulAwoerlor to the civil auihorl tiN tiNThe croKSexamlnatlon did not materially rially I alter Cornells story The committee com-mittee hieu a JtUrmd |