Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-07-01
MANN IS SEVERE.
Republican Leader critioises MeNab
Case.


Case.
In vigorous speech in the house last
Thursday, Representative Mann, Of
Illinois, Republican leader, attacked
Attorney General McReynolds for post
poning the white slave cases in San
Francisco; criticised Commissioner
General Caminetti, Of the immigration
bureau, father Of one of the defend
ants. and declared that District At
torney McNab had made the president
and attorney general not only to beg
the question but to eat their words"
enlightened rabbits" Mr.. Mann said,
never go away quicker than the
president and the attorney general
when the matter was brought up"
L.. Mann declared that the president
and the attorney general had per-
mitted themselves to be used to pre-
vent the enforcement Of great moral
reform law. and insisted that the ad-
ministration's. excuse for the postpone
ment, Offered to cast ignominy upon
one Official in the department Of JUS
tice- who has bravery. courage and
knowledge Of how to do things" was
worse that the Offence" s
caminettis Attacked.
1.-The younger Caminetti is a youth
full boy Of 81 years. with, believe.
several children" continued the speak
er, "and 1t was. desirable to have his
father at the trial to protect him in
his guiltless innocence. having only
several lawyers to do so. His father
had been appointed commissioner gen.
eral of immigration, one Of the duties
Of which office is to enforce both the
Mann and Bennett white slave laws in
reference to the deportation Of aliens
brought here for 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-old son under trial for white slave
offence. ~ 90
'"The action now taken is pure hy-
pocrisy. Manliness, such as I would
have expected from the Christian, NOR
al gentleman occupying the White
House, would have required him to ask
the district attorney to withdraw his
resignation and try the cases, he being
more familiar with them. They have
accepted the resignation Of the district
attorney and dismissed the officer who
working UP these cases. s. E
L Action Suits Defendants.
Il suspect the elder Caminetti, 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 SER
vice before any one else has time to-
learn all the circumstances Of the
case" Ey# #.k ga
Mr.. Mann charged that the new cab
met officers seemed to have an ex-
aggerated importance in their own
eyes and en- exaggerated idea Of the
influence of each. s. 49,
"A former member of this house.
lsecretary wilson) he said tele-
phones to the attorney generals office,
and the attorney general says that
without stopping to go through the
files and 80 refresh my recollection
concerning any particular circum-
stances Of the cases. I sent the follow
ing telegram to the district attorney,
ordering him to postpone the case
What sort Of department Of JUS
tice is It? What kind of an attorney
general is it?" he asked. No doubt
the attorney general is a great law
yer and a great man. But If the DEM
ocratic administration intends to pro-
ceed upon the theory that when cab
met officer telephones the attorney
general, or when some wealthy de-
fendant, as happened in the Western
Fuel case, walks into the Office Of the
attorney general and asks to have a
case postponed, 1t is done. there will
not be many Democratic administra-
tions in the next hundred years"