Show VERY ANGRY I r Members o of Honse COllmit1 tee t on Military AffairS I Have Hot ll t Debate LEMTZ IS S THE CUE I Ohio Man Puts Nonsensical l Questions to Witness I HEATED ARGUMENT FOLLOWS Hypothetical Question Put to Lawyer Forney tho First Witness Called who was Not Identified with thoso Bringing Charges in the Inquiry into the Coeur dAlcne TroubleIt was Pronounced Absurd Witness Finally Said to Ohio Member that He Wanted Him to Understand that He Witness was Perfectly Honest in tho Matter This it was Alleged Placed the Witness in Contempt and a Controversy of HaH an Hour FollowedQuestion was Finally Changed Washington March 15 Although the direct testimony In the Coeur dAlcno Investigation before the House Committee Com-mittee on Military Affairs is not yet closed the prosecuting witnesses temporarily tem-porarily gave place to the first witness not Idcutillcd with those bringing the charges This was J II Forney the special prosecuting ofllcer who directed direct-ed the cases before the CQroners jury and the grand Jury at the scat of the d1f5 order Unsaid he had been a prosecuting prose-cuting official Ijcvenfceh ycafsi aiid was especially appointed In this case by the AttorneyGeneral of Idaho AS TO CORONERS INQUEST The witness said the Coroners Investigation Inves-tigation which was much criticised on the direct examination was conducted In the usual way and In accordance with the Jaw Tho jury not only investigated Inves-tigated the deaths resulting from tho riots of April 2tth but also the conspiracy con-spiracy leading up to that demonstration demonstra-tion The theory that a conspiracy existed ex-isted gave the Intiury a broad scope Mr Forney said however that no force violence or Intimidation was used toward the witnesses PRISONERS IN BULL PEN Concerning the prisoners In the bullpen bull-pen MI Forney said they were not held under any specllic charges but by virtue vir-tue of the Governors proclamation declaring de-claring that time county was In a state of insurrection This was in accordance with the Jaw he saId which provided la case of insurrection time Governor can appoint a special ofllcer with an I armed force to take charge of affaire Bartlult Sinclair was appointed as this oJIlcer In charge and as the State mi HUll was In the Philippines the Governor i Gov-ernor called on the Federal Government Govern-ment for troops U S TROOPS ASSISTED STATE Tho witness said the United States troops assisted the State authorities Jn making arrests but so far as he knew they did not make arrests or discharges Independent of the State authorities i He speclllcally denied that he had authorized au-thorized the proposition referred to by Witness SImpklns relative to Implicating Implicat-ing two miners In the blowing up of the mill millTHE THE PERMIT SYSTEM Mr Forney was asked as to the permit per-mit system under which men wore not allowed to work without an ofllcial permit per-mit He said Coy Stounenberg had told him the system was not naw that tho Miners union had compelled the mineowners to take out permits and that this was an Inning for the other side After some controversy Mr For I ney asked that this last phrase bo stricken out but Mr Lenlz objected Mr Forney then added to the phroso that It was an Inning for thu other side so far as thin was necessary to preserve order in the Coeur dAlene district dis-trict t tBAIL BAIL WAS NOT REFUSED Mr Forney salt the counsel for tho accused demanded the nurncu of parties par-ties Indicted and copies of the testimony testi-mony but this information was not given as It would have been against the ends of Justice and would have assisted assist-ed suspected parties In escaping Ball was not denied In bailable ease ho said but the men In the bull pen were not bailable being held not under the usual law process but under the proclamation of the Governor FORNEY CROSSE ll INED Mr Sulzcr conducted the crossexam ination He brought out that Mr For ney did not live In Shoshone county when appointed special prosecutor and he then read a statute of Idaho to the effect that no person shall be eligible to a county o 111 ceo unless ho has been an elector if the county for sIx months The witness explained that this law applied to an elective olllcc CLOSELY QUESTIONED He was closely questioned as to his alleged efforts to secure testimony from SImpklns He said It was reported to him that SlmpkJns had damaging testimony testi-mony to the effect that three of the prisoners In the bull pen participated In blowing uy the mill but that he was afraid of his life It he gave this testimony testi-mony He Forney then assured 1 Slmp lln of protection and wild he would recommend to the court his exoneration but SImpklns would make no state ment ATTORNEY FOR MINING COMPANY I The wit nCJIA wild he wes an Uttonuy for tbe Bunker Hill mine about y nrf prior to iltefurbautxr and DOW lie wan an attomejHn 11 calf aaln them The wltnHs was examined at length on the leial rtghw Involved In the MUf I pension of the writ of habeas corpus etcHe He said the writ had not been suspended sus-pended J In Idaho although the action of the Governor and the holdings of thoicourt might have had that practical effect He maintained however that the denial of a writ of habeas corpus In particular cases did not operate as I a general suspension of the system The crossexamination of Air Lentz and Mr Sulzcr was directed to showing that time AttorneSGeneral of Idaho demurred de-murred the application of habeas corpus cor-pus and In effect held that the writ was suspended HEATED CONTROVERSY A heated controversy arose over the hynpthetlcal l nuestlon by Mr Lqntr hs to wbSlTTgtVnMtigter Cvjihai Lyhad been put In the bull pen she could h lYe secured a writ of habeas corpus The answer was that l08uch condition could have existed When Mr Lent pressed tho question Mr Stevens of Minnesota sharply protested pro-tested that the question was absurd and nonsensical Mr Lent declared that the witness was seeking lo evade the question whereupon the witness turned to the Ohio member and said WITNESS CALLS LENTZ DOWN I am perfectly honest In this matter mat-ter I want you to understand sir The witness finally declined to answer the question further Representative Hay of Virginia raised tho point that this placed the witness In contempt and asked for a vote on holding the witness to be In contempt t A controversy of half an hour followed fol-lowed bringing frequent sharp and rither personal exchanges bilwccn I Marsh of Illinois and Lontz of Ohio The quostion was Ihuilly changed and time controversy rinsed When the witness I was asked as to his polities Mr Jell of Illinois inquired if the investigation uus to bo on political lines Mr Marsh I answered that In his opinion the Investigation Inves-tigation was conceived and executed for I political purposes |