Show Will ABANDON RIGID ENFORCEMENT OF THE MANN ACT i Doc Dee A A 4 A shAkeup in the Immigration f service PI vice h rc involving Invoking Inspectors who ho h o ha wc bc been n assigned to lode lode- de detect detect de- de violations of the Mann slave act was as 11 late te yesterday nn anti and simultaneously a statement was m mado d. d b by United States District Attorney Clay Allen that ho believed white slave slavo prosecutions were cre It at t an e end d co except ept in iii International cases s. s Th The reorganization reorganisation of or the Immigration on ons s service lIco followed the visit h hero hrc re of M Special Agent Richard Taj Taylor lor o of the tue immigration In Washington D. D C. C whose whoso ar Ill arrival arrival ar- ar rival prece preceded ed that of f Commissioner General Gen Con oral eral of Immigration Anth Anthony ny now Inspecting immigration stations on the Pacific coast I Immigration Commissioner White declined de dc- de- de dined to comment on the tile Seattle changes which Include the assignment of 01 Jn ors irs Thomas M. M M Fisher flaher anc and ane George 11 II Pu Patterson t tern 1 wh who sho ha have worked exclusively I I Ion on luit Iu cases cose lo to re regular work watching incoming r r and trains for undesirable aliens alleon The reorganisation tion also Hisa Thomas Thom s L 1 Lynch who ha has been doing work In In- connection connection- with white slave l cast cas and anti Is now ns- ns signed to Incoming boats Special A Agent ent Taj Taylor Talor lor while not com com- comI I miffing the administration to the restricted restrict restrict- cd ed policy of or prosecutions of Mann act violations I lt is said ald to ha have have- made it plain In conversations with federal officials that personally ho he believed belle the Mann act Im had been beon too rigidly construed and that man many actions brought under it Jt were without real merit Further r. r evidence of a change in policy to toward ard white slave prosecutions was contained con con- tamed In District Attorney Illon's statement state state- mont ment that it was his opinion the wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale prosecutions under the act acl would cease for Cor the pr present at least and th that lt the department of Justice would confine itself to cases Involving foreign coun cOlin tries Most Moat of or the actions brought hero have been for transporting women from one ne state to another Commissioner General ar arrived arrived ar- ar rived here hero from Vancouver r. r B. B C. C last night |