The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-01

The so-called fred raids con-
Quoted by Attorney General ~.
Mitchell Palmer and his agents
were denounced today before the
Senate Judiciary Committee as .
shameful yielding to hysteria," by
Francis Fisher Kane. former United
States District Attorney at Philadel.
phia.
There was nothing IN tho 90.
called red agitation to show q
movement for the overthrow of the
American Government" Kane said.
RESIGNED IN DIsAGREEMENT.
Kane resigned his office after ha
had disagreed with Palmer as to how
the agents of the Department Of JUS
tice should proceed against SO called
reds" in Philadelphia, he explained.
II cannot imagine how any decent
man can defend bombing, burt can't
we handle these things fairiy-noe
make the innocent suffer with tho
guiltyr' demanded Kane. ~It Ii alb
horrent to think we have to 20 out,
big, strong government, and seise
these poor people and attempt To
dump them in foreign countriea.
Kane continued.
Kane said he was reluctant 70
testify, as he did not wish to be put
in the attitude of having any further
controversy with Palmer.
RESULTS FOREsEEN.
"The wholesale raids of last Jan
uary met with the results that might
have been expected" Kane continued.
"Out of some 1000 people arrested,
only a few hundred have been actually
deported, and while the Government
can be rightly blamed for needlessly
breaking into the peaceful lives OF
several thousand innocent people, we
do not have to bear the added shame
of a large number of illconsidered
hit or miss deportations.
THAT we have been saved from this
disgrace is due to the courage of As
sistant Secretary Of Labor Post, whe
refused to be made a rubber STAMP
of the Department of Justice, and the
conscientiousness and Independence
of Judge Anderson, who, in Massa-
chuetts, insisted upon carefully going
into the facts in the cases that were
brought before him, and as a result
found that constitutional rights had
been Violated and that there was no
evidence to sustain the contention of
the Government.
And IL the ant-Red hysteria which
seemed to'possess the people last year
has somewhat now abated, our thanks
are also due to such men as Mr.. JUS
tice Hughes. Senator Beveridge, Dean
Pound, Professor Chaffee, of the Har-
ward Law School, and others who
have raised a voice of protest against
the violation of constitutional rights
in the campaign of violence and re-
preston INDUCED in by so many of
our state governments"
PRESS CASE OF DEBs.
Denial by President Wilson OF a
communication of sentence for Eugene
". Debs, Socialist leader. did not dis
courage his friends from appearing
again before the Senate Judiciary
Committee today to urge amnesty for
him and others convicted of violations
of the espionage, draft and other war
time acts.
Nor did the fact that It was Attor-
ney General Palmer who recon-
mended freedom for Debs deter wit
nesses before the committee from
attacking the methods employed by
the Attorney Generals Office and the
Department of Justice In conducting
the so-caIied Red raids"
Kane was one of the aevcr~af
critics OF Palmer who testified today
before the committee. -
Charles T. Clayton, q washfnrtou
attorney, declared that IN the large
Industrial oenters at least 10000 per
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