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Show ANTI-ALIEN HEARING M DRAMATICALLY! Attorney C. M. Booth Escorted Es-corted Out to Prevent Personal Per-sonal Encounter. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 22. The anti-Alien, hearing conducted by tie senate judiciary committee came to an abrupt and dramatic dra-matic close here tins afternoon, when C. M. Booth, the Twin Falls attorney associated asso-ciated with Hie lobby charges, branded as false In toto the charges made against him in affidavits am: was forced to face j Senator Elliott, who demanded to know who had lied, tho attorney or the makers I of the affidavits, Messrs. Rank'.n, Craig and Hasbrouck. Booth pleaded his physi- ; cal unfitness to testify, but cro (Sv J the j investigation committee frequently and demanded to know the charge that was : a.sainst him. He was finally escorted I from the senate room and :he ..npitol ! buildins by the seroar.t-at-arms and his assistant to prevent a personal attack from two of the men who bad worn to the affidavits. The investigating- committee had read Into the record numerous telegrams pro-ducei pro-ducei by G. H. Hackett. manager of the Western T"nion, who appeared under subpoena. sub-poena. These messages passed between Booth, the Japanese consul at Portland and Samuel Herrick, a Washington attorney. at-torney. They showed that Booth had sought their aid to Mock the passage of the anti-alien bill and had urged Herrick to call the attention of the state department depart-ment at Washington to t lie pending bill and to see that knowledge of its existence readied the president, so that some formal for-mal action could be taken by the Washington Wash-ington authorities to hold up the mea: sure. Booth stated in them frequently that lie represented tiie Idaho Japanese association, including all Japanese in southern Idaho. Booth waived his constitutional rights to prevent the introduction of the telegrams tele-grams on personal grounds, as he explained ex-plained he had nothing to hide. "I don't knovr" what I am charged with," said I Booth. "I want to know what the charge is." He was assured by the chairman of the committee that he had been charged with nothing. He denied that he knew Senators Harding and Elliott, two of the senators the affidavit makers said he claimed he had tied. He also exonerated Senator Mitchell, declaring he had only spoken to him about a hearing "before the committee. Asked point-blank if .he had ever said he had these senators "tied" to defeat the anti-alien bill, he replied. "Certainly not." Explaining his motives for his activity against the bill, he said he was actuated by patriotism and fairness fair-ness to his clients. "the Japanese hoys" of southern Idaho. He charged the affidavit makers with being character assassins. Referring to Senator Atherton of Twin Falls, who is the author of a hill to prevent pre-vent intermarriages between Mongolians and American girls, and who had stated in the senate that Booth had accompanied accom-panied the Japanese in Twin Falls seeking seek-ing to secure a marriage license to marry an American girl. Booth openly charged Grant had admitted he "lied." "Atherton "Ather-ton s only claim to patriotism is his facial likeness to General Grant," cried the enraged Twin Falls attorney. Senator Sen-ator Cummings asked to have the remark re-mark stricken from the record. Booth demanded to. know if he did not have anv rights. Senator Elliott then faced Booth and demanded to know who had lied about the charge senators had been tied on the anti-alien bill. He said he was entitled to the explanation and insisted that it be given, as he shook his hand at the Twin Falls attorney. Booth curtly replied re-plied he had answered that question by denying the charge, and the hearing broke up while Booth demanded and was uiven an escort from the room as the crowd surged about him. The house of representatives recommended recom-mended the SI. 000. 000 good road bond issue is-sue for passage after an unsuccessful attempt at-tempt was made to amend the bill by having SluO.OOO of the total set aside for the building of bridges. A state department appropriation bin carrying J463.0S0 was also recommended for passage. t: There was introduced in the senate a measure caliing for a referendum vote in the state as a whole to determine the definite def-inite location of the state capitol, as provided pro-vided by the constitution. Tills bill seeks to counter the measure introduced for a S5"',000 bond issue to complete the wings of the capitol building. |