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Show SUTHERLAND IN MINNEAPOLIS. Senator Sutherland continues to serve his masters to the best of his ability. He was placed on the Ballinger- Pinchot investigation committee because he was looked upon as a pliant tool by those who had set about to exonerate Ballinger regardless of the evidence to be presented. Sutherland had scarcely assumed his duties as a judge in the Ballinger case when he displayed a bias shockingly out of accord with his obligations. On Wednesday last, after the committee commit-tee had been called to meeLin Minneapolis and due notice had been served onall members of the committee, Sutherland attempted to upset the proceedings by deliberately walking out of the committee meeting. A vote had been taken and a majority was in favor of ousting Eallinger from office, Thcrewas no snap judgment and no premature arrival at a decision, in fact, the evidence had been under review so long that the public had about given up hope of any statement state-ment from the committee. The dispatches of today again mentioij Sutherland in an unfavorable un-favorable light. The Utah Senator once more helps to break a quorum, this time, with a little better show of good faith, remnining away from the committee meeting which was set for this morning in Minneapolis. What is the object of all this evasion of a public duty? The people are not looking to the committee for an enlightened enlight-ened opinion on the merits or demerits of Ballingcr. The majority of the committee as originally constituted, with all members present, was selected not to judge but to laud Ballingcr. By a remarkable realignment, growing out of the insurgency within the Republican party, the partisan majority, generally to be relied on for any party exigency requiring a subversion of principle, destroyed the persuasive persuas-ive power of a call on party fealty and loyalty, and left five mem- bers of the committee free to express their honest 'convictions. As a result, the committee, when it met in Minneapolis, stood in favor of reporting back to the Senate that Ballingcr had been proved an unfaithful un-faithful public servant. Senator Sutherland, in an effort to give official sanction to a fiction later to be uttered by a full committee, is laboring to avoid the present declaration of the committee being made final. So far as the moral effect on the American people is concerned, Sutherland's Suther-land's efforts are without avail, as the judgment of that part of the committee which has spoken and which is supposedly free from a warped conscience, will be accepted as of greater weight than whatever what-ever the whole committee may eventually, in its majority subserviency subservi-ency to Eallinger, decide to promulgate as .the fir',;-WT- of that farcical body. |