| Show MIGHT WORK HARDSHIP Houso Judiciary Committee Gives a Hearing Regarding Important Bill Washington May 4Time 1 House Judiciary Ju-diciary committee today gave a hear Jiuj upon the Senate bill Introduced at the suggestion of AttorneyGeneral Gvlggs to provide for the removal to the proper district for trial of persons per-sons indicted for offenses against the United Slates The bill was prepared to cover the cases of Benjamin D Greene John F Williams and i and Edmund H Gay nor and Michael C Connelly who were indicted by the grand Jury of the Southern district of Georgia for con spiracy to cieirauu Lime uimeu tates In the contracts for the Improvement of Savannah and Cumberland sound The indicted persons vere arrested in Now York but Judge Brown refused to allow their extradition to Georgia on technical grounds pertaining to pro ceduie in New York Col W W Dudley the first speaker speak-er contended that such a bill applying apply-ing to civil as well as criminal cases might work great hardships especially I to railroad and other corporation officials offi-cials If indicted outside the district In which they were resident they could be arrested and disgraced though innocent in-nocent and he urged that If the legislation legis-lation was to be enacted It should be carefully safeguarded In criminal cases like the Carter case he admitted the circumstances might be different Chairman Hay said the real question ques-tion Involved was whether It was good policy to remove a person Indicted from one jurisdiction to another upon th esimple presentment of an Indictment Indict-ment Col Dudley expressed time opinion that It would be against public policy and did not think Cite business interests of the country should be subjected to the dangers that lurked In the bill Abram J Rose followed Col Dudley While he was the attorney of the Gay nors and Greene ho said he did not come especially as their attorney but to call attention to some things of which he had peculiar knowledge He declared that the District Attorney bad eight witnesses and many documents In the Gaynor case before the United States Commissioner In Now York If evidence had been presented then showing probable cause all this dlffi nultv would have been overruled and the demand for the enactment of such a farreaching law done away with TIme testimony in the case of CapU Carter was public properly and ho claimed therefore that there was no reason why It should not have been produced before the United States Commissioner rho contention of the AttorneyGeneral that the presenta tion of evidence would disclose the Governments case he said would not hold Mr Rose dilated upon the hardships hard-ships which might result to defendants If they must be removed when valid and legal reasons might be set up to show time faultiness of indictments Mr Rose in tin cours of his remarks re-marks declared with emphasis referring refer-ring to the GaynorGrecnp case These men never can be convicted on the indictment in-dictment for two reasons First there was no conspiracy second th United States never was defrauded Whrn Mr Rose conehided the committee com-mittee adjourned until next Tuesday wbrn Cal Dudley awl Mr TJoo will submit formal brief t |
