The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
MUCH INTEREST
EXCITED BY THE
NJ NAB CHARGES
Assistant District Attorneys a,
San Francisco Expected to
Follow Their Chief Into
Retirement.
GRAND JURY WILL
MEET NEXT TUESDAY
Present Plan Is to Pass Reso-
lutions Condemning Attor-
ney General and Send
Them to Wilson.
By International News Service

By international News Service
SAN FRANCISCO, June 22.-New
disclosures today supplemented the
sensational resignation of United
States Attorney John l.. McNab with
concise narrative of governmental in
reference. McNab's charges are re-
inforced by documentary evidence that
before Washington had stayed the
prosecution Of Maury Diggs and Drew
Caminetti, and directors of the West.
ern Fuel company, McNab had re-
peatedly warned Attorney General
McReynolds that powerful influences
were at work in behalf Of these de-
PENDANTS.
Interest in the tensely drawn situa.
tion precipitated by McNab's direct
charges that money and Influence had
been used in blocking his performance
Of his duty was heightened by the fact
that members of the federal grand
jury and local federal officials had
rallied to the support of McNab and
regard McReynolds' order as a direct
thrust at the efficiency Of the local
department of justice. The grand Jury,
which returned the indictments against
Diggs and Caminetti and the Western
Fuel officials will meet Tuesday, and
resolutions have been formulated de-
Tending McNab and condemning the
attorney general for his order delaying
prosecution. The present plan is to
telegraph these resolutions to President
Wilson.
Father Interfered.
While McNab refused to discuss the
case today, enough of the correspon-
dence became public TO show that Nc
Reynolds orders had been issued after
Commissioner General Caminetti, faith
er of Drew Caminetti, had appeared as
intercessor for his son before the de-
partment of justice in Washington, and
after Sidney V, Smith, one of the
Western Fuel directors, for whom Nc
Reynolds ordered exemption, had writ
ten to prominent government Off
cial in Washington asking that he use
his political influence to procure the
dismissal of the Indictment against
Smith and Robert Bruce. These were
the two men whose prosecution Nc
Reynolds forbade.
McNab received scores Of kilograms
today, pledging him support in his re-
fusal to sanction what he regards rs
palpable interference In his admins.
tration of Justice, and hsndreds of
telegrams were sent to President Will
son from various parts of the state,
protesting against McReynolds' ac-
tious.
It is expected that McNab g subor-
dinates will enlist in his defense to.
morrow, and the resignation of Ben
iamin Mckinley, Thomas Savage and
Earl Pier. deputy United States at
torneys, is regarded as imminent,
Subordinates to Resign.
"We are awaiting the reply from
Washington before taking action"
said one Of the trio. "We will stand
behind McNab to the last, but do not
care to discuss the case until Mercy
nolds has seen fit to make some kind
of a reply to McNab's specific
charges
Several months ago McNab became
convinced that the defendants in the
Western Fuel cases were using every
possible means to enlist political and
financial influence in their behalf, and
began q special investigation Of that
phase of the case soon after the trip
of Sidney Smith and Robert Bruce TO
New York II was soon after this trip
that the following telegram was sent
to the department Of Justice in Wash
ington:
81 ascertain that attorneys for the
Western Fuel defendants are search
ing the records of trial jurors, and are
expending large sums in shndowing
them. ! believe the situation requires
that I be informed on questions re-
Garding all trial jurors. ] request nu,
thority to employ detective to secure
the information above suggested, and
to prevent interference with Justice
by above defendants. All government
agents might be detailed to the work
of searching for evidence
A detail Of the case which nI9used