Show W TO bO f FOR FORS S rf r f T I Alt Gen Robb Would Vou Id Have loc Pros Prosecuted hint Him Had the Evidence Warranted Va ii ted WAS RATHER CONTRADICTORY Said Statute of or Limitations Protected he i tie Ex First Assistant Post Postmaster Postmaster master I I Washington March 2 Tho senate committee on posto and anti today heard Hob of ot the tho department III In advocacy of a abill abill bill III to prohibit guessing contests car carried ned ried on by b newspapers and circulars This hilt hill wan tuns prepared III In the department amid Introduced by Senator During the tIme course of ot Mr Mm h state statement ment fluent the subject of the pot Investigation was wa referred to Senator Cut Cul asking It If sonic men had not tech been protected by the time statute of or limi limitation tation Mr said he ho believed helleved such Fuch was wal the tho case Senator on then asked If It Heath was not one ono of ot those tho e protected by b the statute Mr III Hobb an answered II in the tho affirmative adding that lint account of ot th time the posit which occupied both hoth officially and amid politically he would imao been jeen glad to have ha pros him Senator Scott at nt this Juncture de do declared dared that Mr r Hobb was going outside his province In making such sueh a it 1 state statement statement ment lie He declared tint that the did not authorize him hIm to tomake tomake tomake make any such sueh statement amid would disapprove of ot if his hili doing BO so Senator Scott moved mond that all reference to the tho matter be bo stricken from toni tho the record This motion was carried by n a strict party vote ote Senators Senator Culberson and Clay Cloy strongly objected to the proposition proposition tion to strike the lie statement made mado by b Mr fr Hobb from tho thu record Subsequently Mr II Hobb stated that what he ho Intended to say eay was that If It time tho evidence lund had warranted the Indict Indictment Indictment ment of ot Heath he would have Ime been beon glad to o sec ceo him tutu take his hla medicine on account of 01 the high position he lie Heath Ileath held heill Hobb also pointed out that In iii a public document presented to the time sea lien senate file ate by Senator Halo Hale It L was vas shown shon that Mr expressed the opinion that only a R su suspicIon lay against Heath and that there wits was not su evidence to warrant nn an Indictment Senator Clay moved to report favor favorably favorably ably a 0 resolution Introduced some time ago by Senator lenro o calling for tor a congressional investigation of the time post ollice department On Omu this motion tho the tour four Democrats present and amid Senator voted oled aye rind ani five In the tho negative Senator Penrose again put hut the time mo motion molion motion tion lion and all of the tho except Chairman Penrose withdrew breaking tho the quorum Some were absent on other committee duty dut |