The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-25
tion and accept your resignation to
take effect at once.
.. aMnNDpOW WIZ GOND

tion and accept your resignation to
take effect at once.
~,~ WOODROW WILSON"
Attorney-general McReynolds' state
ment that he ordered a postponement
of the cases as an ordinary procedure
in criminal trials without anticipating
that "any fair-minded man" would at
tribute "a malign motive" to him was
acknowledged by the President in his
letter:
Exonorates McReynolds.
June "a, 1918.
"My Dear Mr.. Attorney-general:
ALLOW me to acknowledge with sin
cere appreciation your letter of today,
giving me full account of the way in
which the Department of Justice has
dealt with the Diggs-C -Caminetti and the
Western Fuel Company cases pending
in California and transmitting the doc
uments connected with the two cases
necessary for their elucidation.
'T am entirely satisfied that the
course you took in both the cases was
prompted by sound and impartial judg-
ment and clear insistence for what was
fair and right.
Il approve your course very heartily
and without hesitation, but l agree
with you that what we may think of
what has been done does not relieve
us of the obligation to press these
cases with the utmost diligence and
energy.
81 approve very heartily of your sug-
gestion that, in the circumstances, spe-
cial counsel be employed; the best
that we can obtain.
81 will be very glad to confer with
you about the selection. hope that
you will do so without delay. am
very glad, indeed, that you are giving
your personal attention to the immedi-
ate and diligent prosecution of the
cases, which l agree with you in re-
garding as of serious Importance from
every point of view.
Sincerely, yours,
WOODROW WILSON,"
Besides the Attorney-generaps let.
terter to the President, the White
House gave out letter written to Mr.
McReynolds by Secretary Wilson OF
the Department of Labor, in which the
latter declared that Anthony Cami
netti asked for leave of absence to at
tend the trial of his son before he took
the oath of office as Commissioner
: general of immigration.
Furthermore, Secretary Wilson
stated that neither Mr.. Caminetti mol
anyone else suggested that he ask fol
the postponement of the cases, but
that he did it of his own volition, sc
3 as to keep Mr.. Caminetti in Washing
+ ton for the work of organizing the i'm
D migration bureau.
: History Of Cases Given.
In his letter to Attorney-general Nc
: Reynolds he recited the history of thu
I two cases and submitted the files OIL
each case. Responding to instructions
!, from the Attorney-general for detail
!, ed report of the Diggs-Caminetti cases
and to take no affirmative action un
I til further advised by the Department
t of Justice, the Attorney-general sail
q United States Attorney McNab sent {
/. report received on May 27. In this re
i. lport, he added, McNab "details ver
sion Of the acts with his inference
therefrom, and expresses the opiniol
that the case was aggravated, an
D should be vigorously prosecuted; ais
that there might be attempts to intel
d fere with the due course Of justice b
o improper influences"
9 On the day the report was receive
e the Attorney-general telegraphed MI
n Nab as follows:
'T think the proper course is fc
al you to set the cases and proceed wit
I them as you have planned, and you al
L.