The evening world., 1920-01-08
Lenine'S Agent Willing to APP
pear Before Senate, Says
His Lawyer.
NVEINSTEIN RELEASED.
Ten Thousand Dollars in Lib
erty' Bonds Put Up for
Ambassadors" Agent.

Charles Recht, an attorney at No.
A. Wcst 42d Street. informed Tho
/ Evening World late to-day that he
will produce his client, Ludwig c. A.
X. Martens, Ambassador Of the Rus
sian Soviet Republic to the United
States, Whenever the United States
Senate Investigating Committee de-
sirs TO har hm.
"F'Or the Senate COMMITTEE yes"
said Lawyer Recht, "but for the De
partment Of Justice. no.
The Senate Committee was getting
ready to call Ambassador Martens
early this week when the Department
OF Justice issued Il warrant for his
arrest. The reason was that the Gov
ernment does not want Mr.. Martens
to discuss publicly its attitude toward
| Russia"
Department OF Justice agents de-
| clared they knew Martens was in
New York as recently as Tuesday,
when they traced him TO the Broad
way office of am attorney. Martens
disappeared, they said, before they
could take him.
Rcchts little office was jammcd
this afternoon by forty-five relatives
of Communists held on Ellis Island
pending deportation proceedings. Lib
| cTty Bonds said to be worth $45, 900
and intended for use as bail for the
prisoners were piled on an office table.
Following the prccedcnts set in the
cases o. Emma Goldman and Alcxan-
der Bcrkman, before their deporta-
| ton 10 Soviet Russia, Gregorivitch
| Weinstein. who WAS arrested Mon
day as an associate of Martens,
was admitted to bail in the sum OF
$4,000 by a special hoard of the Dc
| plrtment Of Labor This afternoon.
! His attorney, Charles RcchL took
SlOOOI in Liberty Bonds TO ellis
Island to secure Wenstein's freedom.
The board concluded a preliminary
hearing for Weinstein in a very few
minutes establishing his identity as
tine individual described in the war
rant calling for his arrest and the
existence OF accusations, which, II
true, would Justify his deportation.
Tic Will DO called for a final hearing
within a week or ten days.
Rose Weiss, an attorney OF No. AZ
West 42d Street appeared ut the i'm
migration station to-day in an effort
to get IN cOmmuniCa ton with some
| Of the detained aliens. She said At
torney Eecht would begin two habeas
corpus actions before Federal Judge
John c. Knox to-day or tomorrow
TO test whether or not the aliens can
! De held without bail. A sum, said to
be more than 5000 has been sub
scribcd by parlor Bolshevild" and
others to be used as "a bail fund. the
money being raised on the under
standing that bail would he fixed 1T
81 900 in each case.
| Difficulty in arranging the bail was
! encountered when a surety company
with (which the fund was to have been
placed declined to DE a party to luf-
ntshing bail to enemies Of the Gov
crnment." The officials Of the immi-
grafton service declined to accept cash
bail, as thcy said they had no means
Of keeping such large sum. 1t was
announced during the day, however
that the immigration authorities
would accept Liberty Bonds as bail
for the Reds, whose hearings have
been completed and who are now
awaiting final action on their cases
i'm Washington
When Miss Weiss was at Ellis
Island this morning she called up
Rocht, She told rcoprtcrs that the
wire lcadinr-jnto Rechts onicu had
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