Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-22
Counsel for Defense and Com.
mittee Engage in Verbal
Warfare That Evokes DEM
onStration From Gallery.
NO"T "TEMPEST IN TEAPOT"
SAYS ATTORNEY OF PROBE
Members Of New York Stats
Assembly Under Fire Called
"Hired Agents Of a Group OF
Aliens" by LittIeton.

Albany, N. T., Jan. @l.-ihfesuSe-
ton of the loyalty of the five sus-
pended socialist assemblyinen was
asserted at their trial today before
the assembly judiciary committee to-
involve the question as to whether
socialists "can livpocritically mas
uuerade as a political party. strike
hands with every agency OF force
and revolution and still make simple
American people understand they
are not the sworn enemies OF their
country and ready to overthrow IT"
= This assertion was made by Mar
tin w. Litt1eton, who withdrew tenn
pofarily TODAY as associate counsel
for the committee to handle the case
of United States Senator Truman
H. Newberry of Michigan, in COM
nection with whose election charges
of fraud have been brought.
Taking the floor in the height OF
an oratorical battle in which coun-
sci for both sides unlimbered their
heaviest artillery, Mr.. Littleton de-
clared the present investigation will
not prove "a tempest in teapot"
Conspires With Soviet.
He charged that Trotzky and Les
nine are attempting installation inI
America of the soviet form of gcv-l
ernment and that before the waves
of public opinion stirred by this case
have subsidized "this country will un-
derstand that this so-called politi-
cal party is the agent and co-con-I
spirator with the dark forces of the
invisible empire. whose object 81
| forcible destruction of constitu-|
tiona1 government in America"
| Opposing a motion that charges
against the FIVE socialists be dis
missed, Mr.. Littleton declared that
"the representation with reference
to what these FIVE men did and what
they profess and what they engaged
to do stands out as plainly as any
thing can stand out-that they gave
their allegiance wholly and solely fc
an alien and invisible empire known
as the "Internationale".
Hired Agents of Aliens.
Mr.. Littleton declared that social
ist legislators could be ruled byE
aliens paving party dues, and that
"they are the hired agents OF Al
group of aliens, come to carry out
the plans of the higher agents as far|
as they can in the councils of a freel
government"
Despite a ruling by the chair that
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during the trial there was burst OF
applause from men and women who
filled floor and gallery when Mr.
Littleton. after denouncing the atti-|
tude of the socialist party toward
the war referred to remark by|
Morris Hillquit, chief counsel for1
the defense. saying:
| "Mr. Hillquit said yesterday that
what may be treason today, may be
the law of the land tomorrow 1t
will be the law tomorrow if you let
traitors write the law"
This later brought sharp obJection|
from Mr.. Hillquit. who declared Mr.,
Littleton's "reactionary, un-Ameri1
can statement invoked applause inl
this house to the everlasting shame
of those who participated. a
Objects to Influence.
did I make any misstatement!N
demanded Mr., Littleton.
NO said Mr. Hillquit, "the state
ment was absolutely correct, but.
what | object to is the inference"
II do not intend to have anything
go into the records that | made a
misstatement.' said Mr.. Littleton.
Mr.. Hillquit then named men fa-5
nous in history who had held views1
opposed to the majority, and added:
There are always initiatists. al
ways pioneers, and at first their
ideas shock those whom they strike.
We are preaching economic fre:-l
dom. 1t may sound traitorous to you,
but it is our right"
The second day of the trial
brought denial of three more pre-
liminary motions by the defense
bringing the total introduced and
overruled to six. Today's asked re-
instatement of the defendants during
trial; dismissal of charges because.
they do rot include cause for dis
| missal and production of specifca-i
tons ito which even the meanests
criminal is entitled"
Argument on these motions con-
sumed the entire day and delayed
until tomorrow presentation of evi-.
| iepre sA