OCR Text |
Show Unless Ho Is Acquitted, Idaho, . I Will Be Represented by j? One Senator. , ji, RUICK MAY TAKE LTD j) OFF A BIG SENSATION District Attorney Likely to Re- j p! veal Plottings of Federal i J Administration. u Special to Tho Tribune. t W1 BOISE, Ida., Sept. 34. Unless a coat II j of whitewash can be applied to Sena- ill ; tor "W. E. Borah, now under indict- jn I ment for land frauds, before December jjll ' 1, Idaho will "be represented in the next HJj ' session of tho United States senate by III onl one senator, and that, too, b a man as hostilo to the plans and iutriguoj of Ijj the Itoosevolt administratiDn us Bomb. jS is friendly to them, namelv, Senator AT. . B. Heyburn. ' JJ Sonatorial etiquette, as exemplified in the cases of Senator Ralph Burton of iV Kansas and Senator John TL Mitchoil Ifl of Oregon, requires that :t Senator ud- j der indictment or conviction must ill ! cease to exercise his scnafcori-il func- ivs ' t ions until tho clond is roinovcd from m t I him. The prospect of IJtyhnrn being $1' Idaho's sole representative is believed to be responsible in part for the c.ffcrt , of tho Roosevelt administration t.; se- lit' euro an acquittal for Borah, accom- ; Ij 1 panicd b ythe discrediting and possible ! J ' removal of District Attorney .Norman 'im' M. Ruick by tho Department of .lus- i' tice. , Sp Labored With Rulck. J When Mr. Ruick first secured the wi- 311 dictment of Senator Sorah ho was sum- moned post haste to Washington. There, J j&! it is said, ho was labored with by At- iyl toruey General Bonaparte, if nor by 1 'WL President Roosevelt himself, to consent " ifm to a dismissal of the case against fnG ; t! senatorial favorite of tho administr-i- i sp tion from Idaho. Ruick, it is said, jl ! stubbornly refused, insisting that Borah p was guilty and that, ho had the evi- .(If denco to convict hiin. i ; Tho administration bided its lime, .t and just before tho trial of tho ac- 'M ctiscd Senator it sent, a special agent li of the Department of Justice. Jn.lgo M. C. Burcb. of Denver, to Boise 'to sM displace Ruick in the conduct of tho 'Tl prosecution. Burch has started his la- i hors hero by having a specnl grand M' jury summoned to investigate Ruick, Tm with a hope that somo excuse can .be jj found for removing him from office. jij Ruick May "Split." IU Fricdns of Mr. Ruick sa' that, if he fi is the game tighter he has been nring Si his whole political career, ho will ntako m public the efforts which have been 3 made by men in high places to cause ffl him to desist in the prosecution of Sen- c at or Borah. There is little doubt that M Ruick, if so disposed, could unfold a , a talc that would create the biggest kind tl of a political and judicial sonsation. 3 Ruick is a man of tremeuljus cour- fl ago and unlimited fighting qualities. ; II o is no more afraid of Thcr.dort Roosevelt than he is of an Ilaho inck- ' ( rabbit; and, if ho feels that he i? being )! outraged, he is likely to take th? peo- 111 pic of Idaho into liis confidence, ind ' m remove the lid from what is believed to i bo a political scandal of the first mag- 1 uitude. j; The political atmosphere h.ire is 'J chargcel with electricity, and something W sensational is likelv to happen .tnv , I time. Judgo F. S. Dietrich of the J'd- ' oral court, who, prior to his recent ap- jj, pointment, was exceedinglv activo :n a Idaho politics, will not sit fn -vho Borah a case, it is announced. Ho has sum- 1' moned Federal Judge Edward "Whitson of Spokane, who presides over the Ea&l- y ' em district of Washington Stale, to j act in his place. |