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Show LEI DEFENDS SnUKEHEGOEffl Member of Investigating Committee Submits Minority Mi-nority Report. Corporation's Judgment Is Good in Salvage Plans, He Asserts. PORTLAND, Au. 30. Representative Representa-tive Clarence K Lcn, Democrat, member of the congressional aubcomlmttce in-vostigatiiy; in-vostigatiiy; airplane spruce production, lelefraphcil today to Secretary of War Jtnkor n minority report, in which ho tf'Ok i"suu v.-ith t ho majority report made Thursday by Republican jneinui-rs of I lie committee. Reprosentative Lea in his report defended de-fended the actions of the spruce corporation cor-poration in connection with the Lake Pleasant railroad and sawmills in the state of Wssliintrton, and doclared he believed the criticism of John IX Ryan, former assistant secretary of war, was rot justified. Charges Inaccuracies. The minority report called attention to "some inaccuracies" in the report submitted by the other committee members, mem-bers, and declared that sales of property prop-erty which have been mado by the spruce production corporation since the war "reflect creditably" upon tho corporation. cor-poration. ' ' I see no reason, ' ' Representative Lea, who represents a California district, declared, de-clared, "to question either tho good ."judgment or tho good motives of the men now acting for the corporation in tho salvaging of tlieso properties. In my judgment, my colleagues have aetod prematurely in passing judgment upon the propriety of selecting the Crescent route for the Pleasant Lako railroad." Disque Defended. Tho report was telegraphed to See-rotary See-rotary Baker just before Representative Lea left with other members of the committee for a trip to the Toledo district, dis-trict, to inspect milling and logging properties. Referring to tho selection of tho route for tho Lako Pleasant road, the report continued: ' ' The testimony shows that General Disque. assumed responsibility for this selection, and that ho did so after consulting con-sulting with various parties and after having tho route investigated by Mr. Roberts as a disinterested engineer, connected con-nected with the Union Pacific railroad. Neither Mr. Roberts nor General Disque, nor anv other person who took part in tho selection of the route, has vet testified as a witness before the committoe. "Tho witnesses criticising the' route have in almost every, if not in every, ease had financial interests inoro or less adverse to the activities of the spruce production corporation." |