The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1925-12-10
LIBERTY AT ISSUE
IN WH 1ER CASE
SAYSM. .NAPeoOD


of Justice Bailey In the Wheeler case
has to be nAins On Headings alone
and is nezs epstruction of law.
Prom the point = view Of public af
fairs, however, ii has certain import
ant aspects.
II the law turns out to be such that
q new trial is hsld and this time in
the District, it VIII be prime illus
tration Of the power Of an admins
trative department to punish people
III does not like by dragging them
around the eouatry ard making the
same trial technically look like q DIFF
ferent trial merely BY inserting some
detail supposed to take place in the
District.
Sargent Says 1t
The Attorney General probably did
not have the Wheeler case in mind at
all when few weeks ago before the
American Bar Association he spoke of
the oppression used by administrative
law officers Through such power over
technicalit;es.
Ii, however. he had been thinking
Of nothing but the Wheeler case in
his description Of the tendency could
not have fitted more aptly what the
Department of Justice Daugherty ap-
pointees have been doing to Wheeler
since that daring individual first be-
gan to show up their regime,
! hold no copyright on this obser-.
vation of the analogy of Mr.. Sargent's
speech to the punitive methods of the
Daugherty regime ! hope | violate
no confidence when | say the speech
has been very carefully pondered by
the type of Senators who interest
themselves in our historic principles
of freedom, such al Walsh and Borah.
One trouble with a prosecutions of
this sort is its tendency to spread. 1t
may be that Secretary Work acted in
dependently Of this whole controversy,
when he, immediately Efter the nsw
attack of the Department Of Justice
on Senator Wheeler, created d regula-
tion that If it had only existed before
before the acts alleged In the indict-
ment, instead of after, would have
been most convenient for the Daugh-
erty case. Yes, 1t may be indepen-
dent Of this little melodrama, but is
it?-
Aid to Daugherty
Ii the law, when 1t has been passed
upon by Justice Bailey, shows that
the case has to be tried again, and
this time in the District, it will help
the Daugherty end of the long fight In
several respects.
Ut win cost Wheeler = lot more
money unless this cost is made up by
the Wheeler Defense Society. It will
give the prosecutors TIA advantage
of working In an atmosphere satu-
rated with government influence, often
subtle and unconBcio1n- II will drag
the defendants away from their
friends and surroundings, use Of
power which the colonies put high
among their charges against George
the Third.
Perhaps the department also thinks
1t may postpone ths evil day when
the relations between Donovan, Stew
art, and George Hsves have to be
shown up. Sooner Of later, in the
Senate or in court, those relations
will be fully spread out, no matter
how the department wriggIes.
Fancy the scene In the office Of the
Attorney General. There sits Hayes,
with debt hanging over him to the
Government OF more than $500, 900,
with q motion pending In that very
office to disbar him from practicing
before the Treasury, md with a mo-
tjon filed to disbar him from practice
in New York State.
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