Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-28
CHARGES AGAINST WALSH
FILED WITH PRESIDENT
prominent Washington Citizen Ac.
cuses Chairman of Federal In
dustrinl Commission.
NO COMMENT AT WHITE HOUSE
Held to Have Gone Beyond Bounds
or Propricty in Examination of
witnesses and Conducted Himself
in Manner Unbecoming Gentleman.

Especial to The Times Dispatch.1
WASHINGTON. May 27.-Brainard II.
warner. one of the best-known citizens
OF tho national capital. to-day filed
charges with President Wilson against
FRANK II. Walsh, OF Kansas City. chair
man OF the Federal Industrial Commits
sion. Mr.. Warner alleges that Chair
man Walsh, in his examination of wit
ncsses before the commission, has con-
"uctcd himself in manner unbccoming
an officer and gentleman.
Inc charges relate particularly to the
attitude assumed hy Chairman Walsh
toward John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. and
w. l.. Mackenzie King, former Minis
Ter OF Labor in the Canadian govern
incnt, both Of whom appeared as Wit
ncsscs before the commission during its
session In this city. Mr.. Warner is Il
Republican,. while Chairman Walsh is Il
Democrat
MIR Warner declined to make the
text of his charges public, but said they
were based on newspaper reports Of
tho hearing and stenographic reports
OF the testimony. He said the charges
represented the views OF representative
business men, who regarded the cXain
nation by Mr.. Walsh "as having gone
beyond the bounds OF propriety."
tT'ToUNEY RETAINED
TO PRESS CHARGES
Mr.. Warner has retained Attorney
Charles a. Douglas to press the
charges upon the attention Of tho
President
White House officials will make no
comment upon this situation. but II is
admitted that n number Of letters have
been received and will be referred to
the President for such action as he
deems best. The life Of the commission
ends n August next, and II was init
mated in official quarters tonight that
no good would be accomplished at this
late day In making any change in the
personnel OF the commission.
Chairman Walsh could not be seen
tonight, but members Of his staff de-
clarch that he was not worried by pub
lie criticism that has been aimed against
him. BEFORE these charges were made
but with regard 70 similar accusations.
Chairman Walsh said that all ne wanted
was TO get ~ the truth. and he did not
care now much he was criticized for
his method OF getting II,
The commission concluded its hear
ing this afternoon. Its members will
go ~ Chicago tomorrow. and the time
between now and August will be
EMPLOYED in digcstlnG q mass OF teEti-
monv and preparing a report
President Gompcrs. of tho American
Federation of Labor. to day defended
that organization from charges that
nav" h"cn made against il during tho
hearing on the Colorado strike. lie
nesscs, and submitted data 10 suhstantf-
ate his declarations that ORGANIZED la
hor was not consistently and always
hostile toward unorranizcd workmcn
lie defended tho clayton antitrust law
as n great victory for labor. and said
III" declaration placed in that law that
labor is not a commodity OF article OF
commorcc-a declaration Of which Scna-
tor Cumrnins Was tho author-made
tina, section OF the law 20 charter OF
industrial freedom"
THEODORE SCHROEDER
EXPLAINS HIS IDEALS
Theodore Schroeder. who described
himself lawyer working for tho
oppressed without pay, explained his
social and economic ideas 10 the com
mission for more than an hour He adj
vocated tho repeal OF all criminal libel
and slandor laws, tho repeal of all cen
serious postal laws and tho throwing
opcn Of tn" mails to literature OF all
sorts, regardless Of its character even
10 the admission OF obscene literature.
There could hc nothing obscene he
said. II society were civilized and prom
crly organized
He declared that our present s,lncr-
stitious reverence for courts should he
destroyed and tho Judges uncanonizcd
Contempt laws should he set aside and