Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-28
POST IS HELD 70 BE CAUSE OF RADICALS
 REMAINING HERE Official Conduct of Secretary In Deportation Cases
 Under Fire SAY HE MADE FARCE OF THE PROCEEDINGS Cancelled or Stayed Deportation on More Than 300 Cases, Says Report of House lnves-
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Washington, April illegal ac- tions of Louis F. Post, assistant sec retary of the department of labor resulted in blocking deportation of alien radicals, members of the house declared today before the rules com. miteee.
 "rhe responsibility lies at the door of Secretary Wilson for not recon mending removal of such man, if these charges are true," Representa- tive Rodenberg, republican of Illi- nois, a member of the committee, de- clared during the hearing which in- augurated investigation of MT. Posts official conduct.
 Representative Johnson, republi- can of Washington, chairman of the house immigration committee, pre- sented report by committee inves- tigators on more than 300 cases, in which it was said MT. Post had can celledl or stayed deportations recom- mended by immigration authorities.
 Representative Siegel, republican of New York, accused Mir. Post of bringing the deportation law "into disrepute and making deportation proceedings a farce and a joke" He added that there had been many plain violations of the law" Repre- sentative Tinchner, republican of Kansas, said he doubted whether Mr. Post had violated the law, although he contetnded that the assistant sec- retary had unquestionably abused his discretionary authority.
 Thirty-eight cases are cited by Representative Hoch, republican of Kansas, author of the resolution that led to the investigation in which MT. Post was alleged to have released ac- cused agitators without waiting to review the evidence on which the charges were predicated. With Mir. Johnson, MT. Hoch also charged that MT. Post for time accepted a de- cision of Secretary Wilson that mere membership in the communist party was sufficient grounds for deporta- tion, but that later Post changed his mind and did not follow this ruling
 May Impeach Him.
 MT. Johnson charged in this con- nection that MT. Post called for as der to release accused aliens.
 w hllC tIlc HUH IcSOluClOu lOOkS to possible impeachment proceed ings against MT. Post, republican leaders plan complete preliminary event of an5adverse finding they will Posts removal.
 port of committee investigators, pre- ,orod hxr N" p1o of tie, Wash, which reviewed scores Of Mir. Post was said to have cancelled deportations recommended by inn migration inspectors and the immi- grafton bureau. The cases, MT. Johnson said, were those of "alien communists and anarchists"
 The report, according to MT. John son, showed the assistant secretary followed "for time the opinion of Secretary Wilson" that membership in the communist party was ground for deportation, but that he later "changed his mind" and ordered many communists freed.
 "Mr. Post called for cases," declar- ed Johnson, "to be sent him at the rate of 10 per day and still later at the rate of 100 per day, these cases going over the heads of the commits sioner general of immigration and the law clerks of his bureau, and without having received his sigma ture, were ordered cancelled by As sistant Secretary Post. The report also shows a decision by the assist ant secretary in cases which he un- dertook to define the word "anarch- ist' and to affirm the congress could not have used the word as a verbal brick bat"
 Chairman Johnson declared l"the public is not seeing red without req son."
 "It is seeing it's laws violated by public officials" he declared, Gin behalf of aliens who have contempt for this government and who are here trying to overthrow it, and who are in league with similar revo- lutionists throughout the world, whether they call themselves social ists. bolshevists, communists or an- archists; or whether they contrib ute dollars to the cause or throw bombs for the cause.' Personally cannot believe that Secretary Will son knows what sort of boring from within is going on in his depart ment. do not believe that Presi- dent Wilson knows of the system and it's dangers.
 Many hundreds of aliens, taken for deportation under the law against alien anarchists, have been turned loose," he continued Among them are not only aliens taken in the so-called raids, but scores of aliens
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