The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02
HERRlEGTON WHO CALLED FOR
REMOVAL OF MC'REYNOLDS
SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY
Having Criticised His Official Super
ior Earshly the Government Gives
Him a Chance to Explain While
Sulnmarily Suspending Him as
Special Agent.

Clayton Harrington, Federal inves-
tigator of white slave cases for the
United States department Of justice,
who gathered evidence in the Diggs
Caminetti cases, and who called upon
President Wilson to remove Attorney
General McReynolds from Office fol
his action in delaying the trials, was
suspended from Office Wednesday on
an order from Washington. The or
der was igned by A. B. Bielaski,
chief of the bureau of investigation,
department of justice and was as fol-
lows:
''I am advised that telegram has
been received by President Of the
United Staes sent by you seriously
reflecting upon the integrity Of At.
torney General. You are hereby sus-
pended from duty without pay pend
ing receipt of any explanation you
may care to make"
This action, it is said, is to give
Harrington an opportunity to explain
his telegram. If the explanation is
not satisfactory officials declare that
the special agent will be summarily
dealt with. Harrington is former
Judge and is in charge of the Fed
era Governments bureau of inyesti-
CATION at San Francisco. He helped
District Attorney McNab to prepare
the Diggs-Caminetti white slave cases
the postponement- Of the trial OF
which resulted in McNab's resigna-
ton and his sensational charges
against the Attorney General.
Just prior to receiving his suspen-
sion Mr.. Harrington had dispatched
the following night letter to President
Wilson:
tAs citizen of California I charge
that officials in the department OF
justice and Of commerce and labor,
in disregard Of judgments Of the
Courts and in violation Of law, have
prevented the deportation of French
prostitutes in this case. I demand an
investigation Of these matters, COM
plete information as to which is in
the files at Washington. On March
IA Secretary Wilson was informed
about some of these cases."
In a public statement issued We'd
nesday night Mr.. Harrington said:
'The president approves in words
the way in which McReynolds dealt
with the Diggs-Caminetti and West
ern Fuel case He Gisapproves in deed
by ordering the immediate trial Of all
the defendants, including those Nc
Reynolds tried to save. He ought
therefore, to dismis McReynolds and
retain McNab.
e'To sustain a Washington official
whose decision he overrules and
blame another for doing what he
himself now orders done is not only
inconsistent and unjust, but is hu'
initiating evasion Of the RESPONSE
bilities of his high station.
s'McReynold's explanation is even
more pitiable He protests that he Ii
profoundly conscious that his acts
were free from unworthy motive Sc
was Lord Bacon, who accepted bribe
money, because it would not influ-
ence him. There are influences othel
than financial ones.
"McReynolds needs a better mem
ory, as much as the President needs
a better Attorney General. However
my object has been accomplished. The
Attorney Genearl has been compelled
to order the cases to trial forthwith
and the sinister influences to which
he had yielded were frustrated .