The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-06
PRESIDENT ORDERS
DRAFT RAID INQUIRY
Continued from First Pape.

supporter of the. Administration gener-
ally assume would be very severely |
criticised Tor having that matter read |
into the record" said Senator Chamber
lain. II know nothing about what II I
being done except what the paper states. |
and want to unite with the writer In |
that paper in denouncing any such pro- |
ceeding as is now being had In reference |!
to so-cslled slackers. no matter whence |
the suggested authority comes.
There Is not a man In the Senate or |
in the country who despises a man who /
undertakes to evade his military duty |
as much as do. but notwithstanding |
that. these men who are slacking-and |
there are some-ouGht to be reached by |
due process Of law. The whole DEPART |
ment Of Justice, the Intelligence bureaus
Of the War and Navy departments. all
the American defence societies, the
United States Marshals and all the Of |
ficers Of the law have means and In |
strumentahties for reaching the slack |
ers.
But here we have an instance where |
thousands and tens OF thousands Of per- |
fectly innocent men are being hailed be- |
fore courts and some Of them held over |
night in crowded prisonsf although they |
were perfectly innocent OF trying to
| evade military duty.
THE result of this kind Of proceeding
| is that young men who are innocent who
are not undertaking to slack. who are
trying to do their duty by their country.
In many instances are rounded up and
put in prison. I do not know by whose
| authority It Is done. and I want to take
this first opportunity to say that the
country will not stand l. to have limo
cent men rounded up and imprisoned
where they have undertaken to do their
duty"
| Calder Loud in Protest.
| Senator Calder IN. ". who was AMI
| eve witness to the activities or the
roundup crew, asserted he had protested
to the officers engaged in making the
| arrests against the manner In which
| they were proceeding.
| when I arrived in Washington yes
| terday morning I protested to the De-
| partment OF Justice. the newspapers nav
4 ing indicated the department was re-
sponsible for It," said Senator Calder.
'The Assistant Attorney-General. with
whom 1 talked yesterday. said the mat
ter was without his knowledge and would
have his immediate attention.
II know hundreds Of men In New York
| city personally over the Draft age who
| could have no card or classification, but
who were taken by the authorities. sent
to police stations and herded together in
school yards and armories. where they
were compelled to have responsible peo-
Pile come and identify them. In at least
| dozen cases men In my own employ
were thus Identified"
| At this point Senator Brandegee
| Comm interpolated an inquiry as to
whether Senator Calder had Ascertafned
the authority under which the raiders
were operating. and the New Yorker re-
piled that the men he talked with as
serted they were operating under orders
from the Department Of Justice.
The French Reign Of Terror" ac-
cording to Senator johnson (Cal.) fur
nished a parallel for such action as this
| by the Government in the Application
and execution Of the law Of suspects"
| He declared that mo man would have
said that such a thing was possible In
our country"
Asks II Habeas Corpus Obtains.
Senator Sherman un) demanded to
know of Senator johnson II the writ OF
habeas corpus had been suspended.
THE writ of habeas corpus and every
other writ has been suspended when acts
such as those perpetrated In New York
on Tuesday are possible" snapped SEN
ator Johnson.
Senator johnson did not reply, evil
IDENTIFY regarding the question as its own
answer. Then Senator Sherman con-
tinued:
II want to ask the Senator II he thinks
there Is any material difference in mill,
tarism in Berlin. when in time of peace
an officer runs a man through the body
and Is simply tried by, court martial and
reprimanded. and between bayoneting
men around when there Is no martial law
proclaimed. when civil law IL in full ef-
feet in New York city-bayoneting in