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Show JAMES CAUSTIC IN HJSANSWER Minority Member of Ballingcr Investigating Committee Says a Few Tilings. CHARGES DIRECT INTENT TO DELAY THE' REPORT Declares It Long Clearly Understood Under-stood That Committee Report Re-port in Minneapolis. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. Sept. 1-1. Congressman Con-gressman Olllc James, one of the Democratic Demo-cratic members of the Ballingcr Investigation Investi-gation committee, replied to the statement state-ment issued by the Republican memhers of the committee in Chicago yesterday. "The statement is only positive proof of what wo saw demonstrated In Minneapolis, Minne-apolis, and that is that tho Republican members of the committee did not desire lo make a report on the Bnlllnper pasc until after the elections. Their attempt to prevent a report was resorted to by breaking up the quorum. "Senator Root arrived In Now ovk on tho r.th of this month. Tho cominltleo did not meet until the nth to pass upon tho Ballingcr reports. Had lio desired ho could easily have been in Mlnneapol h. Senator Flint staled positively that he would not be present. Eap at Eopublicans. 'Representative Olmslcad was in Maine making Republican fjpccchcs which he thoiiRiit more Important tlmn attending attend-ing lo his official duty. 1-lc might plead, however. In mitigation or his absence to the minority, the result of the Malno flection. Representative Dcnby was absent, ab-sent, attempting to tlefcnt an Insiirgotit for the senate, In which he was Mkewlsc unsuccessful, . "The rest of us wore there. Five of ua ivfre there to do the business. We adjourned ad-journed nve days waiting for the others. Vo had a duty to perform and we performed per-formed It. Denies Statement Made. "Til- statement made by the gentleman gentle-man that the meeting called for fcop-UMubor fcop-UMubor 5 in Minneapolis was for Uio purpose pur-pose or considering and dlscuslng what the report lo be made tnrcc month.'-thereafter month.'-thereafter is far from tho truth. It was KpmMfleally agreed when we adjourned In Washington to moot. In Minneapolis September Sep-tember f.. that it was for tho purpose of making up ur report and giving It to U"Vcbowcd it lo the people to give them this report. If Secretary Bollinger Is innocent of tho chargen preferred those gentlemen ought to have, the eour-u-c to snv sn and not allow him lo rest under a cloud or until congress i Hni-bles Hni-bles and on the other hand, if Mr. ballingcr. bal-lingcr. as guardian of many millions of I ho pcoplo'a properly, was an unsfifc of-llelal of-llelal ami unfaithful to Mie people, he quicker this was given to tho public the better." |