The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1921-02-16
WOULD IMPEACH
JUDGE LANDS
Alleged Statement Arouses Senator
Dial. Calling for Facts. Said to
Have Justified Embezzlement by
Young Man In Chicago,

cred a severe rebuke to Federal Judge
Lands, for having released on his own
bond Francis j. Carey, 20 years old,
formerly receiving teller Of the Nation
al City bank of Ottawa, ILL.,, who en-
bezzled $96,500 from that institution
and pleaded guilty.
Judge lands, according to news
paper stories, told Carey, whose sal
airy was 500 month, that such a
statement as to his salary was as
founding. He further said, "It puts
the responsibility entirely on the
bank. You were not getting any
more than the elevator operators in
the federal building and they are no.
toriously underpaid. Francis you go
home. III send for you again"
Senator Dial said Il have been
practicing law for over a third of a
century and that is the most outrag-
eous pronounccment that | have ever
heard issued from a court"
Senator Thomas of Colorado Of
dis Is perhaps the most conspicuous
crank now holding so high posi-
ton, and Senator Dial replied, "That
Is what | was going to say"
Senator Thomas, continuing said,
Judge Lands is enjoying outside
compensation Of an enormous
amount. He is sort OF supreme
arbitcr in the baseball world and
has assumed and is performing the
duties of that position and at the
same time assuming to occupy his po-
sition upon the bench In other words,
he is drawing two salaries, one from
the government of the United States
and prncely salary from the base
ball world"
AT this point the South Carol ma
senator paid his respects to Judge
Lands in the following terms:
III this pronouncomcnt is true. he
will only draw one salary in the
near future if | have any influence.
| have always had very high re-
gard for the bench and | am glad
to say that in this country they de-
serve it. We have had very few cases
in the history Of our country where
judges have not been an ornament to
the bench. But | say, if this is true as
Is quoted in the papers, and have
written to Chicago to ascertain the
90 no1 eon -
propose to bring the matter to the
attention OF the house of representa-
tiVes and ask that this Judge be i'm
peached
1T Is not his business to say what
directors shall pay the employees OF
their institutions. While 500 may ap-
pear small to him, yet there are many
people in the United States working in
positions OF trust who do not receive
any more than 800 and whether their
compensation is sufficient or not is no
excuse and no reason for them to put
their hands into the pockctbook Of
their employer and no reason why they
should be encouraged to steal, and
encouraged by such statements from
officials on the bench, If this article
is true.
say that any man who makes
that kind Of a statement Is not en-
titled to the confidence OF the peo-
pie and he should be impeachcd at
tho earliest moment. OF course I do
not know whether or not it is true
have written, as I have said, to Chi
cago, and hope to get report If
1t Is true he should be impeached no
matter who he Is. for he Is unworthy
OF the confidence OF any man in the
United States.
The duty OF the courts should be
to admin ster the law and not under
take to tell an employee or employer
what salaries they should be paid"
lDes Mones, Iowa, Feb. 12.-Federal
Judge X. NJ. Lands Of Chicago in a
speech before the Iowa American Lee
gion here tonight admitted making
statements similar to those Senator
Dial OF South Carolina, charged him
with, and asserted: II repeat that and
send 1t to Senator Dial with my com
Judge Lands sent his audience into
an uproar OF hilarity by his thrusts at
Senator Dial.
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