Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-06-01
Charges and Counter,
Charges Made in De-
p0rtation Row.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
SHOWS UP POST
Assistant Secretary Of Labor Accused
of Overriding Laws Of Congress
and Substituting His Own Pervert-
ed Views in Dealing With Anar-
chists Arrested by Department Of
Justice-PaImer Passes Lie.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Washington, June Charging that
Louis r. Post, assistant secretary Of
labor, had perverted sympathy"
for the criminal anarchist, Attorney
General Palmer told a house commit
tee today that in dealing with the
attempts Of the government 70 rid the
country of dangerous aliens, Mr.. Post
had employed a "self-willed and au-
tocratic substitution of his own mis-
taken personal viewpoint for the OBJ
liga6ons Of the public law"
Mr.. Palmer was testifying before
the rules committee. which is inves-
tigatins the official conduct of Mr..
Post in deportation proceedings.
'It has become perfectly apparent"
the attorney general said, that Mr..
Posts course In all the deportation
proceedings has been dictated by his
own pGsonal view that the deporta-,
law Is wrong, rather than by any
desire or intention to carry our eise-
law as enacted by the congress.
Nuliifies Law Of Congress.
by his wholesale jail deliveries
and his release of even self confessed
anarchists of the worst type, he has
utterly nullified the purpose Of the
congress in passing the deportation
statute, and has set at large amongst
the people the very public, enemies
whom 1t was the desire and Intention
OF the congress to be rid Of.
He has defied the rules OF evidence
as laid down by our nncst responsible
courts. He has Cancelled hundreds pr
legal warrants issued by this depart
ment. entirely without justification,
and has flouted the Judgment OF a
committee of the senate which has
investigated one of the cases before
him. He has shown constant favors
to violators Of the law and their at
torneys. refusing even common
courtesy to the department of JUS.
tice.and has showered upon this de-
partment mass of charges Of mis-
conduct in the hope that he could
put this department on the defen-
sive' in the place Of those criminal
enemies from whose activities our
department has sought to protect the
government and the people"
Says Post Is Liar.
Mr.. Palmer said he hoped ut
might never be necessary to indulge
in another criticism Of another gov
ernment official, but the outrageous
and 'unconscionable falsehoods" laid
before the committee by Mr.. Post
required definite answers.
Tn apcmorir
that he had Cancelled deportation
warrants only where facts warranted
such action" Mr.. Palmer cited num-
erous individual cases which he
claimed placed the assistant secretry.,
in position of passive tolerance
and encouragement Of bolshevik lit
erature and propaganda."
He also submitted reports OF the
department showing the particular
persons actively identified with the
spreading Of the doctrine OF the die
tatorship Of the proletariat.
Mr.. Palmer declared Mr.. Post had
become a factor in the revolution
ary PLAN, but he credited the assist
ant secretary as having been led into
it "unconsciously."
The specific charges made before
the committee by Mr.. Post were an
swered by the attorney general.
Regarding Mr.. Posts assertion
that with all these sweeping raids
only three pistols have been found",
Mr.. Palmer declared that while the
number of guns found in no way In
dicated the potential danger of the
aliens, department agents not only
found scores of them but bombs and
other implements of destruction as
we'll.
Communist Oath convicts Them.
The attorney general offered, as
proof of his statement that the men
arrested were aware Of the purposes
of their organization, the member
ship application Of the commune
list party in which the applicant
agreed to engage entirely in its
work and eescribe to the tactics OF
the communist internationale"
This, he declared, had pledged it
self and its members to the world
wide revolution by force.
Charges by Jackson III. Ralston,
counsel for Mr.. Post, that the de-
partment of Justice had provocatuer
agents in service who were engaged
in forming new communist local or
ganizations against which raids
could be directed were characterized