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Show WILL INVESTIGATE POLICE INTERFERENCE WITH PUBLIC GATHERING New York, March 9. A commltteo on free speech and public assembly, which will study the scope and tho limits of the rights of' fro espeoth and assembly in .connection with a survey sur-vey .being made of social and Industrial Indus-trial progress ot the United States during the last generation, has been appointed by the National Civic fed-, oration, It was announced todaj. Alton Al-ton B. Parker of this ctty is chairman chair-man of tho committee, .. The study of, tho cpmmlttoo will .bo, taken both frsm tho ulanapoh.t of tho individual citizen and ot tho pub-lie pub-lie order and wolfarp, according to tho announcement which in outlining" tho committee's duties continues:. It will Investigate the extont and tho grounds and Justification or otherwise other-wise of police Interferences with public gathorlngs and frcertop. of speech and it will obtain tlio views of tlio best qualified legal experts and political scientists on tho meaning mean-ing of tho constitutional guarantees and tho circumstances which should Justly bo regarded ns marking tho" lino between liberty and license |
