The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-27
AOMIN|STR
GETS ROASTING
FROM Mann
Says Attorneys neraIand Pres.
ident "Ate Their Words
SARCASTIC AR RAJ G N ME
Representative Liked Objects of His
Scorn to Frightened Rabbits
Hunting Their Hole.

Washington, June 27.-Thomas j.
Hayden and Matthew l. Sullivan
were chosen by the administration
late yesterday to prosecute the Cam
inetti-Diggs and Western fuel COM
pany cases. Francis j. Heney,
whose name has been mentioned in
this connection, was not selected as
one of the prosecutors. Mr.. Hayden
was, formerly president of the San
Francisco board of education. Mat
thew |. Sullivan is an attorney of San
Francisco, who was prominent in the
prosecution of the notorious munich
pal graft cases several years ago.
Mr.. Hayden is now in Washington,
d. C. Mr.. Sullivan said last night he
had received no official notification
of his selection and would await
word from Washington before decid-
ing as to acceptance of the post.
Judge Van Fleet of the United States
district court yesterday appointed
Benjamin L. Mckinley to the posi-
tion of district attorney for the north
ern district of California to serve I'M
til John l.. McNab's successor is ap-
pointed in Washington. Mr.. McKin-
ley was senior assistant to McNab.
In vigorous speech in the House
at Washington, yesterday, Represen-
tatiye Mann, the republican leader,
attacked Attorney-General Mercy
nolds for postponing the white slave
cases in San Francisco; critized Com
missioner-General Caminetti of the
immigration bureau, father of one of
the defendants and declared that
District Attorney McNab had made
the president and encouragement
not only to beg the question but to
eat their words" Frightened rab-
bits" said Mr.. Mann, never got
away quicker than the president and
the Encouragement when this mat
ter was brought up"
Mr.. Mann declared that the presi-
dent and the encouragement had
permitted themselves to be used to
moral reform law" and insisted that
the administration excuse for the
postponement, Offered to cast igno-
miny 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-
Tense"
THE younger Caminetti is a youth
full boy of q years, with, believe,
several children" continued the
speaker, land it was desirable to
have his father at the trial to pro-
tect him in his guileless innocence,
having only seven lawyers TO do so.
His father has been appointed COM
missionergeneral of immigration,
one of the duties of which Office is
to enforce both the Mann and Ben
nett white slave laws in reference
to the deportation of aliens brought
here for prostitution--a fine man TO
place in that position, whose princi-
pal object is to leave his Office in
order to go to the side of his 81
years-old son under trial for white
slave offense.
THE action now taken Is pure
hypocrisy. Manliness such as l
would have expected from the Chris
tlan, moral gentleman occupying the
White House would have required
him to ask the district attorney to
withdraw his resignation and try
these cases, he being the most famil
lar with them.
81 suspect the elder Caminetu and
possibly the junior Caminetu 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 fir
ed out of the service before anyone
else has time to learn all the cir
cumstances of the case"
Mr.. Mann charged that the new
cabinet officers seemed to have an
exaggerated Importance in their own
eyes and an exaggerated idea OF the
influence of each. "a former men,
Der of this House (Secretary w. B.
Wilson," he said, telephones to
the attorney-generals office, and the
encouragement says that without
stopping to go through the files and
so refreshing my recollection con-
corning any particular circumstanc-
es of the case, I sent the following
telegram TO the district attorney, or
dering him to postpone the case
What sort of a department of jus
tce is IL? What kind OF an attorney
general is It? he asked. mo doubt
the attorney-general is a great law
yer and a great man. But IL the
democratic administration intends
to proceed upon the theory that
when a cabinet officer telephones
the encouragement or when some
wealthy defendant, as happened In
the Western fuel case, walks into
the office Of the encouragement and
asks to have a case postponed, Il is
done. there win not be many demo
cratic administrations in the next
100 years."