Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-02-18
LANDIS, Dial And WELTY
Issues in Quarrel Between Judge
and Congressman.
SENATOR NOT ASHAMED OF RECORD

SENATOR NOT ASHAMED OF RECORD
WeIty Wants to Know Why 1t Is That
If One Judge Can Be In the Pay of a
Defendant, That Is Being Prosecuted,
Why Not the Others.
Washington Herald, Monday.
Senator Dial of South Carolina, last
night accepted the def*issued by Fed
eral Judge X. NJ. Lands, OF Chicago,
and announced that today he will
launch Il fight in congress for impeach-
mcnt of the judge. These proceedings
will he based on the fact that the
Judge released Francis J. Carey, a bank
teller. who confessed to the cmbczzle-
ment of $4,000, which he buried in his
mothers backyard.
Judge Lands stated that as the bank
in which Carey was employed paid, him
only $50 per month. an inadequate sum,
it was responsible for his default
Judge Landis intimated that Senator
Diars threat made in the senate on sat
urlay was due to the fact that he, Dial,
is a banker and has only the interest
of the banks at heart. He delied the
senator topttcmpt to impeach him.
DiaPs Statement
"Whetl:cr am L banker or not mas
no bearing on the case" said Senator
Dial last might. Il may be one thing
and may be another. | merely want
to say that am proud Of what l am
Anything Judge Lands may say can
not make me less proud
I'm an address before the American
Legion at Dcs Mones Saturday night
Judge Lands declared that the sena-
tors background" led TO. the attack
upon him fnr giving fair treatment 10
a s90-a- month bank clerk, VINO III Il
month, handled millions.
The background" to which Judge
Landis referred is set forth in tl:e sen
ator's official biography published IN
the Congressional Directory. 1t lists
the senator's business connections as
follows:
DiaI's Record.
",1cmbcr of the law firm Of Dial and
Todd, LaurcnS, S. c.; promoter ol 'hc
peoplcs Loan and. Exchange l'ahk,
Luurens: organizer and president OF
the Enterprise National Bank ana inc
Home Trust company; organized anu
interested in other banks and hnanclai
institutions; Laurcns Cotton Seeo oii
Mill. Iaurens Glass Works; Laurens
Cotton Mills: I.aurens Bonded ware
house company; Georgia -Carolina lo"-
cr company; Ware Shoals Manuiac1ur-
ms, ron,r,ny: Itcedy River Power COM
nnv and Sullivan Power company.
Senator Dial is r6putcd TO be one o'
tbc wcalthit.st members of tie senate
Stand by Weity.
.",Judgc Landis must either divorce
himself from the ncsi-puts on get OIL
thc bcnch-hc cannot serve Goa anu
N,mnon," Representative Benjamin
1. yycltv. of Ohio, declared last hieh''
IN rcturn To the compliments pa'o
him and Senator Dial by Judge Aahn'S
in his speech ut the American Legion
h,nulrt in Dcs Mnincs Saturday night
"Ir Judge Landis was JUSTIFIED III 'o-
,.c,,;ur = salary of S4".5O0 year from
IN. baseball trust when at the Sa''ie
,imr il had been proved an illegal com
hine and fined $50OOu by the supreme
,.o,r, ur thr District Of Cnlumbia' theh
every other judge Of The supri me De'c''
is iustitlcl in accepting the same SUI
.,, " ,ho representative declared ias'
night.
Case Still Pending.
,.rn,e sentative Wclty declared tf'h'
,,,o ,.,sa was still pending and had been
,,,na,led to the supreme court VI ''le
United States.
"if The baseball magnatcs on any o'h-
~. illegal combination have u righl ~
h;ra rudep Landis they have Il flghl ~
hire every other judge in the aho'
says Wrlty. .,.,,+ 10
vour,.;rntativc Wcity said that ~
,ou,d ask fur IN Investigation lnElc-
,i,,.,v Of the alleged irregularities
connected with Judge LandiSs accep''
,,re Of a salary us arbitrator Tor '"'
baseball people.
H., d.rlar,d that he would invoke Ill
80, n.,s.;r1 hv congress two years aEo
,,,,,;,,,, n,.uhihils the accep;ance nl
,,vcrumcnt official nf = salary lr"''t =
,.,,,,r,n other than the government '"
the United States.
Attorney General Palmer '''' 80
formed him by letter he $'ld' '''''' '"''
act WAS not applicable to The JuaicE','
Inn, the representative said 'liai III
,.,,,d nevertheless ask for anothcr III
irrprelatiDn.
i uandis's Statement.