The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-02
MAKE PUBLIC TODAY
Correspondence IN
WHITE SLAVE CASES
Judiciary Committee viii With
hold Everything in Nature
Of Evidence
ATTORNEY GENERAL
REFUSES TO SELECT
McReynolds Declares Commit
tee Must Decide What Shall
Be Given Out---Letters
Are Uninteresting

WASHINGTON, July Attention
will be directed again to the much
discussed action OF Attorney-G
McReynolds in delaying the trial OF
the Caminetti-Dig white slave case
tomorrow. when the house judiciary
committee will make public the cor
respondence of the encouragement
with United States District Attorney
Hugh McNab. who resigned an q re-
suit OF the postponement.
The committee today voted unan-
imously 10 make all this correspond
ence public. 1t was decided. how
ever. that those documents which
contain the evidence against the de-
PENDANTS which has been gathered by
the district attorney and his assist
ants should be held back for fear OF
prejudicing the case for the prose-
cution in the trial soon to begin.
What Is Withheld.
To this end. Chairman Clayton an
nounced that the. delineafion Of the
evidence. which was forwarded to
the attorney-general by McNab. a
considerable time before the discus
sion regarding the postponement. as
we'll as a report on the case. made
by a special investigator. should not
be given out.
The making public of this corre-
spondence Will come as the result OF
tho introduction Of a resolution call
ing on the attorney-general to send
to the house direct all papers and
correspondence In the case which the
department of justice had in its files.
Representative Kahn. OF California
Republican, introduced this resolution
last week when criticism OF the at
Encouragement was at It's height. Ac-
cordingfy. q copy Of the resolution
was sent To the attorney general with
the suggestion that he send to the
COMMITTEES the papers called for.
The attorney-general on Saturday
transmitted to the committee every
document In his files which he
thought pertained to the case.
Problem Of Selection.
Immediately the committee was al
q loss whether to make the entire
mass OF correspondence public or to
take steps for Withholding a part OF
Il in order not to handicap the prose
cution Saturday night after meet
tng In which IL was impossible to reach
an agreement as to this phase OF It's
task. the committee called on Mr..
McReynoIds to request that he indi-
cate the papers which could with WIS
dom be made public at this time. Mr..
McReynolds refused to do any such
thing. He took the stand that since
90 much criticism had been directed
at himself for his action In postponine
the case he would lay himself open
to charges of protecting himself by
withholding evidence should he as
sumo the responsibility for showing
the papers to be made public.
At todays meeting the COMMITTEES
selected the papers to accompany It's
report on the Kahn resolution with an
eye solely, 1t was declared, to win
moving out only those which were in
the nature OF evidence against the de-
PENDANTS on the white slave charge.
Give Out All Letters.
All the correspondence between the
attorney general and McNab as well
as that between the attorney general
and Secretary OF Labor Wilson on the
need for postponing the case will be
incorporated in the report The re-
port itself will be entirely non-com-
initial as to the propriety OF the at
torney generals course in ordering
the postponement. 1t will merely
state that all the papers relating to
the case which can properly be given
out now have been furnished the
house in accordane with the Kahn
resolution and will suggest that the
resolution itself be laid on the table.
Members OF the committee predict
ed freely today that little interest will
be aroused when the correspondence
Is made public.