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WW I MONDAY, JUNE 5. _----------'-------- - l Probe Cannot Use Telegrams» , to Define Source of Lewis Charges COUNSEL WILL BE HEARD Hearings of the Macintosh Com- mission. which has been inquiring into the charges ot Alex. Lewis, 'M.P.P., regarding the death of Capt. Orville Huston at Fort Frances, may be concluded this afternoon, when counsel will present argument. On adjourning the Saturday: , morning sitting it was announced! that argument would be heard when:' the commission resumes this after- noon. Commissioner MacIntosh and Gordon Waldron, K.C.. representing the Government. expressed their willingness to go on with argument "n. Saturday. but ll. 8. White, K.C., asked that this be delayed because the senior counsel for E, W. Backus, i. F". Hellmuth. ICC.. was not pres- _ (vnl. Read Telegrams. Reading telegraphic. communica- tions between The .Evening Telegram and its Winnipeg correspondent oc-', vupied most of Saturday morning's sitting. Major Lewis was called as a witness and questioned for a few minutes by Mr. Waldron. Before opening the sealed envelope voritaining the telegrams, which had been forwarded to the commissioner by the Appellate Division on delivery Judgment Friday night, D, L. Mc- . Carthy, K.C., entered protest as to admissibility. He contended that _ the judgment of the Appellate Divi- rion directed that the corprt1qn.i.tea-i' tions should be admitted only if they were relevant to some of the matters under inquiry by the commission. There was nearly an hour's argu- ment on this question. Mr. McCarthy being the only one present who had in his possession a copy of the Ap- pellate Court's reasons for judg- ment. The commissioner thought that the correspondence might he relevant as to the question of eft1- 'uittey of the Attorney-General's De- partment. After detaching one tele- gram and handing it to J. D. Spencer ICC., who represented the Canadiani Pacific Railway Telegraphs. the com-i . missioner handed the other 17 com-l munications over to Mr. Waldron. This was strenuously objected to by, Mr. McCarthy. but without avail. l Refers to Phone Can. i One of the telegrams from G. C.l Porter referred to a certain telephone. call which Huston had had from, someone at Fort Frances, which} should be valuable to "the man in; the Legislature." it said. i "You were 'the man in the Legis- lature?" asked Mr. Waldron of Major Lewis. "t suppose so," replied the wit- new. He failed to recognize in any of the correspondence "the Porter re- nort," to which he had referred in a previous examination. Major Lewis refused to answer. one question. Mr. Waldron asked] him if he would still maintain hisl previous statement that he had gone) . to stir up The Telegram rather than The Telegram stirring up him on the Huston matter. " won't answer the question in that form," declined witness. [ 'Then answer it in your own way." . Major Lewis explained that he. had asked J. R. Robinson of The Telegram to have G. C. Porter get certain information for him regard- ing Captain Huston's death.