Deseret Evening News

BUNGLING IN BALLINGER CASE.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Recognition of the fact that Secretary Ballinger has been too heavy a load for the administration to carry, and that his voluntary retirement would have been an act of loyalty and gratitude, should not preclude frank and vigorous criticism of the unfair and extraordinary tactics of the minority of the investigating committee.
The candid public will learn with astonishment from the statement of the six Republican members who met in Chicago Tuesday that the evidence in the case "was never weighed and discussed in committee." This is literally startling. The so-called minority report is no report at all It is merely a snap judgment prompted by very small partisan politics The Madison report is of the same quality and kind.
New York Evening Post.
That there is great force in the criticism passed upon the action of the Democratic and "insurgent" contingent of the Ballinger investigating committee by the "regular" Republican members of it cannot be denied. While, as we have said, the conclusions announced by Representative Madison are such as impartial students of the evidence will generally approve, the method of procedure adopted by the minority, consisting of himself and the Democrats, is inconsistent with the idea of a judicially conducted inquiry by an unbiased committee.