Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-12-16 | Page 3 | Score Democrats for Abandoning Inquiry

SCORE DEMOCRATS FOR FUR ABANDONING INQUIRY Republican Minority Files Caustic Report on oj Controller Ba Bay Affa Affair i Wasl Washington Dee Dec 15 The Thc The sudden e coding lIln- lIln of oC the Inquiry Int Into tho the charges charlS that the lilt government o had allowed a a. monopoly monopoly- of the tho coal harbor at at Controller Con Controller Controller nn Bay Alaska was roundly scored In the Republican minority report of or orthe the Hou House e c on Interior department dc de de- c expenditures filed today today- to a Tho 0 said that common decent J if not justice would have hac demanded demanded de uc- some In Investigation to expose e those responsible for or the fabrication of th the so called to Diet to letter alleged alleged al al- al to have been written b bv by Secretary of the tho Interior to Richard S. S Ryan flan the latter supposedly representing represent represent- lug ing the lie GUg Guggenheim interests The rho minority report said this expose should have o b been n permitted even evon if the Democratic majority was Vats unwilling for tor partisan Ini In- In reasons to to exonerate ate the i tenor and other otIle hl high h officials of ot the tho unjust cruel charge And so 50 the tho whole of or fabrication fabrica- fabrica lion ion suspicion and downright falsehood falsehood false Calse hood Iod on which tho the In estl Investigation atlon was owns bared tails falls to the ground says as a's the minority report It Jt also urged a thorough inquiry so 80 as to to locate the tho guilty guilt persons persona and hive some punishment meted melee out to theta them and to deter others who ho may mRY employ falsehood and duplicity In assailing assailing as as- sailing official character The action of the committee It was wall said can have but one effect of or shield shielding In ing the tho perpetrator of or tho tiro libel and throwinG prot protection lIon around whoever er l I through malice mallco Inspired the tho cowardly coward attack on the i I President