The Washington herald., 1921-02-14
Dial and Welty Respond to Challenge
And Prepare for Battle Against Lands
Foes of Renowned
Judge in Congress
Take Up Gauntlet
Banker-Senator Declares
He Feels No Shame
For Profession.

Senator Dial. of South Carolina,
last night accepted the def issued
by Federal Judge X. NJ. Lands. of
Chicago, and announced that today
he will launch a fight in Congress
for impeachment of the judge. These
proceedings will be based on the
fact that the judge released Francis
J. Carey, a bank teller, who con-
fessed to the embezzlement Of S96,-
900, 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 SEN
ator Dial'S threat made in the SEN
ate on Saturday to have him i'm
peached was due to the fact that
me- Dial, is a banker and has only
the interest Of the banks at heart.
lie dehed the Senator to attempt TO
impeaCh him.
DiaI's Statement.
w neither l am a banker or not
has no bearing on the case" said
Senator Dial last night q may be
one thing and | may be another.
] merely want to say / am proud
Of what l am. Anything JudC,
Lands may say cannot make me
feel less proud"
In an address before the Ameri-
can Legion at Des MoiHes Saturday
night. Judge Lands declared that
the Senator'S background" led to
the attack upon him for "gIvIu.
fair treatment to $aO-a-month
bank clerk. who in a month, han
died millions"
The background" to which Judge
Lands referred is set forth in the
Senator's official biography publish
ed in the Congressional Directory.
II lists the Senator's business con-
ncctions as follows:
DiaI's Record.
Member of the law firm Of Dial
and Todd. Laurens. S. C.: promoter
Of the Peoples Loan and Exchange
Bank. Laurens; organizer and presi-
dent the Enterprise National Bank
and the Home Trust Company: or
ganizcd and interested in other
banks and financial institutions:
LaurenS Cotton Seed Oil Mill: Lau-
rens Glass Works; L.surens Cotton
Mills: 1.aurens Bonded Warehouse
Company Georgia Carolina Power
Company; Ware Shoals Manufactur-
ing Company; Reedy Ier Power
Company and Sullivan ,wcr Com
pany."
Senator Dial is reputed tn be ono
the the wealthiest members OF tho
Senate.
stand by NeIty.
Judge I.andis must either di-
vorcc himself from tn" fcsh-pots
or get off the bonch-he cannot
serve God and Mammon"' Repre-
sentative Benjamin +. Welty, of
Ohio. declared last night. in return
to the compliments" paid him and
Senator Dial by Judge Lands in
his speech at an American Legion
banquet in Dcs Moincs Saturday
night
"If Judge Lands was justified in
accepting a SALARY Of S42,5o0 year
from the baseball trust when at the
same time il had been proved an
illegal combine and fined $4,000
by the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia, then every other
Judge of the Supreme bench is jus
tilted in accepting the same salary
the Representative declared last
night
Case still Pending.
Representative Welty declared
that the case was still pending and
had been appealed to the Supreme
Court of the United States.
IF the baseball maCnatcs or any
other illegal combination have a
right to hire Judge Lands they
have a right to hire every other
Judge in the land" says Welty.
Representative Welty said that he
would ask tor an Investigation i'm
mcdiatcly Of the alleged Irregular
tiles connected with Judge I.andis'
acceptance Of a salary as arbitrator
for the baseball people.
He declared that he would invoke
an act passed by Congress two
years ago which prohibits the ac-
ceptance by a government official Of
q salary from A source other than
the government of the United
States.
Attorney General Palmer had in
formed him by letter, he said, that
CONTINUED on FACE TWELVE.