The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-07-02
Says M'NAB SCARED THEM.
WILSON AND McREYNOLDS ARE
HARSHLY CRITICISED.
House Republican Leader Declares
Action Now Taken by President
and Attorney General i'm California
Case is Purely HypOcrisy--IllinOis
Representative Handles Commits
siOner General Caminetti with
Gloves OF.

Gloves OF.
Washington, June 26.-In n Wig
Orous speech in the House today
Representative Mann, OF Illinois, the
Republican leader, attacked Attor-
ney General McReynOlds for pOstpon-
ing the white slave cases in San Fran
cisco; criticised Commissioner Gener-
al Caminetti, of the immigration bu-
reau, father Of one of the defendants,
and declared that District Attorney
McNab had made the President and
Attorney General not only to beg the
question but to eat their words"
Frightened rabbits" Mr.. Mann
said, never got away quicker than
the President and the Attorney Gen
eral when this matter was brought
up"
Mr.. Mann declared that the Presi-
dent and the Attorney General had
permitted themselves to be used to
prevent the enforcement of a graf
moral refrom law and insisted that
the administrations excuse for the
postponement, Offered to cast ignom-
my upon one official in the depart
ment Of justice who has bravery.
courage and knowledge Of how to do
things" was worse than the of
fence"
THE younger Caminett is n
youthful boy of 27 years, with, I
believe, several children" continued
the speaker, land it was desirable to
have his father at the trial TO pro-
tect him in his guiltless innocence,
having only seven lawyers to do so.
His father had been appointed COM
missioner general Of immigration,
one Of the duties of which Office is
to enforce both the Mann and Bennett
deportation OF aliens brought here for
I prostitution--a fine man to place in
that position whose principal object
is to leave his office in order to go to
the side Of his 27-year-o old son under
trial for white slave offence.
'The action now taken is pure hy-
pocrisy. Manliness, such as l would
have expected from the Christian,
moral gentleman occupying the White
House, would have required him to
ask the district attorney to withdraw
his resignation and try the case, he
being most familiar with them They
have accepted the resignation of the
district attorney and dismissed the of =
or who worked up these cases
II suspect the elder Camnetti,
and possibly the junior Caminetti may
be quite willing to have the case
speedily tried. when the few men who
were familiar with the case, and who
have worked it up, are fired out Of the
service before any one else has time
to learn all the circumstances of the
case"
Mr.. Mann charged that the new
cabinet officers seemd to have an ex-
aggerated importance i'm their own
eyes and an exaggerated idea Of the
influence of each.
"A former member Of this House.
(Secretary Wilson,'D he said, "tele-
phones to the Attorney Generals Of
nee and the Attorney Generals saws
that without stopping to go through
the files and so refresh my recollec-
ton concerning any particular cir
'Cumstances Of the case, / sent the fol-
lowing to the district attorney, order
ing him to postpone the case
What sort of n department of
Justice is it? What kind Of an At
torney General is it," he asked. "No
doubt the Attorney General is a great
lawyer and great man. But if the
Democratic administration intends to
proceed upon the theory that when
cabinet officer telephones the At
t"rne! General, or when some
wealthy defendant. as happened in
the Western Fuel case. walks into the
office of the Attorney General and
asks to have n case postponed, it is
done, there will not be many Demo
cratic administrations i'm the next
hundred years"