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Show BEPLY HE TO CLARK " 4 Senate Committee Tell Their Side of Investigation. Washington, June 6. Senator Chandler, Chand-ler, from the committee on privileges and elections, today presented a supplemental sup-plemental report on the case of Senator Clark of Montana, replying to the strictures stric-tures upon the committee made by Senator Sen-ator Clark in his speech, and also to the minority report in the case, made by Senators Harris and Pettus. The report takes up and replies eer-iatim eer-iatim to Mr. Clark's ' criticisms, ' the charges being either denied or reasons given. Replying to the charge of unjudicial methods of proceeding, the committee I asserts that these were only resorted 1 to in order to discover additional testimony, testi-mony, and that the statements thus admitted ad-mitted 'were not permitted to influence the result. "The methods of the .committee were in no sense unfair," says the report, "but were such as ordinarily prevail in investigations like this. The prerunip-tion prerunip-tion of innocence was at no time disregarded, disre-garded, and the findings favorable to Mr. Clark were made as a court or jury would have made them, upon a full and fair consideration of all the facts in the case." The committee stands by its original position th?.t Mr. Clark was, from the beginning of the campaign, a candidate candi-date for the senate, and says that "nothing since the hearing closed has tended to impair the facts stated concerning con-cerning Senator Clark's own personal connection with the course of his canvass can-vass for election as senator." Senator Chandler, as chairman of the committee, adds a memorandum of his own in refutation of the statement of the minority that "the chairman left the committee little to do." This criticism, criti-cism, he says, is unjust, and says: "The eha'rrnan did nothing except what such an officer is expected to do." He also asserts that "so far as Senator Sena-tor Clark was concerned, there was no refusal to summon any witness whom his counsel insisted upon obtaining." ( |