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from the House Committee some kind of a statement or rather charges against the Steward of the Club.

It was expected no doubt or feared by Newton's friends that his matter was to be brought up at the Saturday meeting and this can hardly have been anything more than a sort of flank movement to head it off. Mc.D. don't believe there is anything in it. The steward was furnished with a copy of the charges. Judge Spier came to the meeting, Mc.D. said, in apparently a state of considerable irritation with regard to the Newton matter. Mr. Geo. Booth had handed him certain papers to read (documents) their side of the story I suppose, and he proceeded to express in very free terms his disapproval and surprise at the action of the board. When the other side of the case was shown to him and the grounds of the board's action, he necessarily had to haul in considerably. Marbury also came and sat down with us, and he expressed something rather like disgust I thought, at Spier's talk that evening. But he has qualified it considerably since, I believe and says he didn't intend to criticise [[criticize]] the board &c.-

Mc.Donough said they would look into these charges properly but not permit them to be in any degree mixed up with the charges against Newton - which of 

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