Show I i ISSATTJFON S T r T 11 J JIn In r I Hous Committee on Mili I I tary Affairs Spick I Mr 1u Sulzer PETITION CAUSED ROW i One to Secretary of War Front Citizens of Idaho > WANTED TROOPS TO REMAIN Scoldcr from Ohio Denounced the Petition Pe-tition as Bogus and Fraudulent Declaring That Many of Signatures Wero Forgeries and That Others Had Been Secured by Intimidation He Wanted to Introduce Affidavits Affi-davits Attacking the PetitionThis Effort as Also a Motion of tha Buckeye Member Calling on the President for Affidavit Bearing on tile Petition Were Voted Down by the Committee Several Wordy Colloquys Between Sulzcr and Cn pron Occurred Washington April 16n oxoitin controversy occurred at the afternoon session of tho Coeur dAlene Investigation Investiga-tion whon the petition to the Secretary of War from several hundred citizens of the Cocur dAlcne district asking for the retention of Federal troops wa presented in evidence Represent all vc Suiter denounced ilo petition us bogus nnd fraudulent tip daring that many of tho slgnatur S were forgeries and that other minias had been aeexucd by intlmldaObn 3io i asked to Introduce nfliduvitK atU l 4 lug tIle jrctlUgn but tCoV an nnlniat d 1 c mtrgyery the o ware rulod > out thu i vote efhg l oifiwrtyllne S A motion by Mi Sulser calling ou tJ 1 > President for nlfldavlt besiriig no ll I petition was similarly voted down by tho committee 5 Mr Sulicer sharply commented on thn course of the majority and hlf exchanges ex-changes with Acting Chairman Vlanili wcro at times personal and runplintlc Messrs Suber and Capron also had several wordy colloquys I DR FRANCE TAKES STAND Dr Hugh France who Is regarded as an important witness since he acted as Coroner when time Bunker 11111 mill was blown up and shared with Barl Jolt Sinclair In the direction of affairs following that event was put on the ntaiid 8tanDr France said be was graduated from Bellevue hospital New York and hu denied being In the employ od tho Bunker Hill mine us had been alleged al-leged and said he wan chosen by I the miners as their physician and surgeon receiving his pay from them He do aorlbed the warfare between time union and nonunion men 131 minuting with the march on the Bunker Hill and the dynamiting of the concentrator Dr France defended the work of tho Coroners Jury against criticisms made during the testimony and explained the regularity of the various stops taken His testimony will proceed tomorrow to-morrow Investigation was resumed 11 day with W R SUmMon one of Wa former County Commissioners of SKo hone county on the stand to ruEMt features developed in the previous Cf1 lImon His evidence was to tho effect ef-fect that he was removed from offl i by the State and military iiuthorltl 1 because l they believed he would nit hecJ JI J serve tljelr purpose He declared answer to questions that his rftnw 1 was brought about by the legal J niil Judicial tools of the Bunker HII 1 mine and the Standard Oil companj The witness presented 1 a pholorrapn I taken al till time of the outbreak of lijtii It showed the front of a utj at Gem with the glaw windows rM I died with rill shots These he tlb PinkerIons 1l I lied were made by thugs brought in br the mining cam panics to put down time unIon men iMo i rela Ito Stlimon testimony Most t of to minor clrcnmslanccs in the affaIr I under investigation |