The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-06-26
M'NAB RAPS MREYNOLDS
says AttOrWeS-GenerRl Hoped Cases
WOuId He ThrOttI~d.

san FRANCisco. June -. when nit ed
States District Attorney McNab stepped
out OF office to-day he had the satisfac-
ton of hearing warm tribute to the
value of his work from District Judge
Van Fleet He also took parting shot
a the Attorney-Genera in a statement
which sums up the whole controversy
from his point "f view
Mr.. SIC cNah declares that Attorney
General Mickey NnDlds could not have
shown the President his kilograms Civ
ing details of the subornatiOn of wit
nesses and other methods To destroy
the cases If he did. then. Mr., McNab
says, official Washington is not sensi-
tive 10 the charge OF corruption IN It's
public servants
Judge Clayton Hcrrngton. special
agent Of the Department of Justice as
signed tn the white slave" cases. re-
ceiv-d "A despatch to-night from his
chief in Washington saying that he
cause he reflected on the integrity ~ the
Attorney General he is suspended with
out pay pending an explanation, Her
ring,on wired back:
You are advised | have n.A,her ex-
plantations nor apologies to make. Tn
der the circumstances. | would repeat
what | have said without the change OF
a single word
To the President Herringtnn wired:
AS a citizen Of California ! charge
that officials Of the Department of Jus
tice and Of Commerce and Labor have
prevented the deportation of French
prostitutes in this State. demand in
vestiSa,ion Of these matters. complete
ipfa IN Of urh to In n
ington. ON Mach II Secretary Wilson
was Informed about some of these
cases
Nr<Nb's Statement.
McNah's statemen, in part is as fol-
lows;
no one in California will be for an
instant deceived by the lam. and pueril.
defence Of the Attorney General to the
President. He SAYS that should have
wired to remind him that | had three
times warned him that postponement
would destroy these cases that II was
boasted that a postponement would he
obtained by political influence A. Wash
ingtOn that our witnesses were being
suborned, and one of the defendants at
torneys was jailed for attempting to
corrupt the witnesses, and that any con
tinuance would leave this office under the
stlkHlH oI corruption,
THE Aforementioned knew all this
hut cared not a whit whether this oftice
was charged with corruption or not So
long as his rich and influential friends
were satisfied. He wanted all these eases
post pOned with "A View that they would he
throttled and his riCh and influential po-
litical friends he saved from just and
righteous trial. Now, reused by the prick
OF public opinion. he expresses his sudden
determination to force immediate trial by
the aid of special counsel. why this sud
den paroxysm of virtuous haste"
THE Attorney General never made such
a suggestion until he was caught sitting
the cases TO death with orders To postpone
until autumn. II it was proper to post
pone these cases to death. why is IL now
necessary To rush to trial with expensive
| special counsel, the abes, we can obtain
This spasm Of excrutiating virtue should
have seized the Attorney -'enerai week
ago
r'aminetti was not witness, and he
had no right to he a lawyer for his
son. for the immigration law he Is sworn
to uphold makes II his sworn duty to
| prosecute viOlatOrs of the white slave
| law. not to defend them His presence
| was unnecessary, because his son is ably
| defended by seven prominent members
| Of the California bar. one of whom has
been so active in his hehaf that he Is
under Indictment for suhornng pol jury
. to save him
''In resis snin- 10 prevent the throttlns; OF
! these cases | did nothing moro than L
perform simpl" and necessary publ,
duty II by so doing | have succeeded IL
, a small way in awakening the public con
science and bringing these prominent Of