Evening star., 1920-02-06
PROSECUTION ENDS
|TSCASEA ALBANY
Defense of Ousted Socialist
AssembIymen to Open
Next Week.

ALBANY, N. Y. February 6 (by the
Associated s).-Adjournment un-
til next Tuesday of the trial of the
five suspended socialist assemblymen
found Albany today deserted of
counsel, witnesses and out-of-town
| spectators.
The prosecution has virtually closed
it's case A few odds and ends" of
| evidence, however, remain to be in
troduced before the defense opens.
These include a deposition by J.. E.
Harris, formerly city editor of the
Milwaukee Leader. which will be TAX
en- in that city tomorrow. The prosecu-
! tion has announced that it seeks to
show through Harris that Assembly
man Louis Waldman, a defendant.
made the following remark on the
floor of the socialist convention in
Chicago in 1919:
"If I knew if we could sway the
boys after they get guns to use them
against the capitalistic class, I would
favor universal military training"
The prosecution also has announced
it intended to read into the record
excerpts from testimony of i. c. A. K.
Martens, self-styled Russian soviet
Ambassador" given at another in
vestigation.
Defense to Take n Week.
| Seymour Stedman. defense counsel.
said yesterday his side would re-
1
he added that it would take even
less time If he decided not to go into
| the question of conditions in Russia
| The defense, it has been learned, is
prepared to call witnesses who per-
sonally have observed conditions in
\ that country in the last few years, in
order to refute charges made by the
prosecution while trying to link the
socialists of America with the boil
| sheviki of Russia.
The defaDSa Yesterday rparlad for
exhibit a letter to Morris Hillquit
from the Rev. John A. Ryan of the
Catholic University in Washington.
| which was made public this week.
worker. testifying. said he did not
agree with the writer that suspension
of the socialist assemblyman was an
outrage.
Asked to support a statement that
| after the United States entered the
| war American socialists had expressed
sympathy with Germany, the witness
said he would do so IL the defense
supplied him with files of the New
York Call, Milwaukee Leader and the
named newspaper, Mr.. Stedman said,
had gone out of existence eight
years ago.
In the afternoon session Mr.. Stanch-
field attempted to INTRODUCES a report
by Secretary of State Lansing to
Senator Lodge on "bolshevist move
ments in Russia" but when Lawyer
Stedman said he would prefer to make
his objection to admitting the docu-
ment on next Tuesday counsel for
the prosecution consented.
Mr.. Collins then was recalled for
redirect examination. Replying to a
question by Assemblyman Harring
ton, a committee member. the witness
said that Morris Hillquit ten years
ago had said that 80 per cent of the
socialists who know what socialism
lis were atheists or agnostics and that
70 per cent of the socialists in this
country were native-born Americans.
| Questioned by Chairman.
| Questioned by Chairman Martin
Collins said syndicalists. Industrial
Workers of the World, socialists and
so-called radicals all stood on the
foundation of internationalism. AS
an example he said that the majority
of L w, WIS were dues-paying men,
bers of the socialist party. although
the I. w. w. group as an organization
might not be a constituent part of
tho cocia1iat nartV.