Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-06-26
RESOLUTIONS
NOT TAKEN
UP
PROPOSED INVESTIGATION OF M'NAB
CONTROVERSY BY HOUSE JUDI.
CIARY COMMITTEE POSTPONED
BECAUSE OF LACK OF QUORUM.
PRESIDENT STILL
WANTS F. J. HENEY

Washington, d. c., June 26.--Repre
sentative Kahn's resolutions to hav,
congress investigate why Attorne.
General McReynolds ordered the de
lays in the now celebrated Diggs-Ca
minetti slave cases and the Western
Fuel company prosecutions at Sar
Francisco, were not taken up today
by the house Judiciary committee be
cause of the absence of quorum. An
other meeting is to be held tomor
row. Mr.. Kahn declares President
! Wilson's direction that the prosecu
| tions be Immediately resumed will
not deter him from pressing his reso
lutions and he expects them report
ed out to the house for action.
Representative Kahn made state.
ment of the history Of the reputed
cases to those members who attended
todays meeting and declared the
committee owed it to the country to
make public all the correspondents
which resulted in the postponement.
"Then you don't think the explana-
tion made by President Wilson was
satisfactory asked Representative
Webb.
"No | don't said Mr. Kahn.
at is my opinion" said Mr. Webb,
"that United States Attorney McNab
has been wrong in his actions. 1t
looks to me as if he were rushing in.
to print and seeking little cheap no
toriety."
81 don't think that is true" said Mr..
Kahn. .....
Kahn agreed to a suggested amend
ment to his resolution which would
confine the request for papers to
those which bear on the postpone
ment of the cases and would not in
volve all of the voluminous corre-
spondence relating to the evidence in
the cases.
Representative Hinebaugh said to-
day he would no.spaess his RESOLUTION,
before the rules COMMITTEES to direct
the judiciary committee to investi-
gate the entire matter.
President Wilson and Attorney Gen
eral McReynolds still want Francis
]. Heney for special prosecutor. The
offer will be made formally as soon |
as Washington can get in touch with !
The lawyer. who has been travelling |
har To Erornicoo
Washington, ID. c., June 26-Minor-
ty Leader Mann brought the case up
n the house and attacked the course
If the president and attorney general.
Ie declared that the "chief magis-
rate of this country" had permitted
himself to be used in the postpone
nent.
The administration in rebuking Nc
Sab and subsequently ordering
peedy trial, had acted with hypocrisy
nd had run to cover like frightened
abbits,' he declared. ...
Mr.. Mann declared that the manli-
ess he had expected from the Christ
an gentleman at the white house."
yould have led him (Mann) to expect
different course of action.
81 suspect" he added, "that the el-
er Caminetti and perhaps the junior t
'aminetti would like to have the jc
ases come to speedy trial when the {
wo men who worked up the cases t
ave been fired out of the service" {
Criticizing the attorney general for c
the Caminetti case on a I
,lephone message from Secretary
wilson and the Western Fuel cases t
n another representation, Mr.. Mann v
t
"If the Democratic administration
ltends to proceed on the theory that 4
hen cabinet officer telephones the
ttorney general, or some one walks
ito the Office of the attorney general,
is sufficient reason to postpone,
,ere will not be many Democratic
in the next hundred
ears" fr
caminettl Arrested. {
Sacramento. Cal, June 26.-F. d. @
aminetti, son of immigration Com. r
issioner A. Caminetti, whose elope. r
ent escapade has now become ma II
onal affair, was arrested today on a !,
,nch warrant issued yesterday after +,
s indictment on a charge of having r
serted his minor children.
He gave bond in the sum of $500.