Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-30
MAJORITY REPORT
+. SCORES SOCIALISTS
Urges N. Y. Assembly to unseat
Five Members Of Alleged
DisIoyaI Party
FINAL VOTE on THURSDAY
By the Associated Press

Albany, March O-RTnd.nG til" 80
cialist party rs IAN organization '"l
posed exclusively of perpetual traitors.
a majority Of the Judiciary committee
Of the New York state Assembly. IN
report transmitted to the low'V house
Of the Legislature today. WHnded
the expulsion of the tive Socialist aS-
sembymcn-August Clacsscns. 'harSS
Solomon, Louis Waldman, Samuel Orr
and Samuel De Witt.
Minority reports were submitted nH
members of the committee who disagreed
with the majority. Action on the re
ports will be made special order OF
business in the Assembly tomorrow and
Il is expected that the final vote VII
be taken Thursday.
While no concerted action has bccn
taken BY those opposed to the expulsion
Of the Socialists. Majority Leader
Simon L. Adler. Of Monroe. and As
semblymau Theodore Roosevelt. Of
Nassau. will speak and vote against
that program.
Enactment Of law to prevent any
orgauizatiou which admits aliens to its
membership from occupying the posi-.
tion of political party on the oticial
majority report.
The Socialist assemblymcn. the find
ings state. ARE not obcdieut To the
constitution and laws Of the United
States and the state of New York. nor
desirOuS of the welfare Of the country.
nor in hearty accord and sympathy
with its government aud institutions.
Cites Evidence against Party
The report reviews portions OF the
evidence heard during tn" recent twenty.
four day trial. purporting 10 show that
the Socialist party opposed prosecution
Of the war. opposed legislation for in
dustral and military CONSUMPTION.
pledged its members to work for the re
peal of the conscription law. advised
resistance to CONSUMPTION of life aud
labor aud urged reputation Of war
debts.
Referring to the statement that some
20C0 Socialists had been arrested Tor
their activities the report says:
1T was impossible to give expression
tn or act upon the true doctrines 0S the
Socialist party during the war without
running afoul of the criminal law.
There is but one inference from the
position of the Socialists in relation to
military and naval appropriations and
for war. the report continues. They
would render the country ana govern %
mcnt helpless against all enemies. so
that it may bo helnlCSs against them,
the enemies of established order.
Two Republicans Dissent
Two Republicans of the committee,
William W. Pellet. of New York. and
Theodore Stitt of brooklyn. signed n
report expressing the belief that the So e
cialists were entitled 20 retain heir
seats. They maintain that no evidence
was produced to show that the attitude
: of the Socialists during the war wa,
not other than negative. Withholding
aid and comfort to their government
rather than a positive one of giving niC
and comfort to the nations enemies.
ITO exclude n duly elected member
because Of his membership in n partiCu
lar political party or because Of hi,
political or economic viowS." they say
'not only would be contrary to the
spirit Of the constitution, but would b'
a most dangerous attack upon the right
OF representative government and free
political action
None Guilty Of Anarchy
None Of the assemblymon. they say
was charged with breach of the cruina
anarchy statute of the state or tho cs