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Show MOONEY CASE BEFORE SENATE Senator Phelan Commends President for Asking Respite for Bomb Plot Defendant. TRIAL WAS A FAIR ONE Poindexter's Speech a Reflection Reflec-tion on California Courts Mooney an Unworthy Man. , Washington April 23. The case of Thomas Mooney, convicted in the San Francisco bomb plot, had the attention at-tention ot the senate again today with Senator Phelan of California defending defend-ing the regularity of Mooney's trial. Senator Phelan commended President W llson for asking a respite tor Mooue from Governor Stephens. Referring to the address yesterday of Senator Polndexter of Washington, who said Seattle labor leaders were fomenting a strike in behalf of Mooney, Senator Phelan said tb.' labor la-bor press had charged that Mooney was being "railroaded " and that his conviction was "a legal outrage." "This is not true," said Senator Phelan. Phe-lan. "There was nothing irregular in the court processes. He bad a fair trial." When Senator Phelan said he thought Senator Poindexter had reflected re-flected on California's courts in con-nectlon con-nectlon with Mooney's trial, the Washington senator said that he was entirely mistaken and that he, Senator Sena-tor Poindexter, had defended the Cali- fornia courts. President's Anneal Justified. The president's appeal in behalf of Mooney, Senator Phelan asserted, was justified in order to vjndicatc the United States and regularity and fair q of Mooney's treatment in view of "the doubt of his guilt credited in the minds of many people." Senator Phelan said Mooney wa.- "an unworthy man" and that th- newspaper of which he had been editor "had been threatening threat-ening President Wilson with assassination assassin-ation " "It is not foi as to try this case in the senate," Senator Phelan continued. "Both myself and the junior senator (Senator Johnson) have been asked to bring It up with a mow to a eon gressional investigation, but we re- lUed." The report of the labor commission headed by Secretary Wilson, which in ve utrated the Mooney case vouched tor the fairness ot Mooney's trial. Senator Sen-ator Phelan said. Ho said the reports re-ports that Mooney had not been fairly fair-ly treated had spread even to Russia and had hampered the American mission's mis-sion's efforts there. A motion by Senator Phelan that the Wilson commission's report be printed in the record was defeated by the senate, sen-ate, however. The California member asked that it be printed as "an answer to Senator Poindexter's address, but both Senators Poindexter and Smoot disclaimed that any reflection had been madp upon California's judicial Trnrese f ' No Sympathy for Mooney. Senator Pbelan declared that in labor la-bor circles there is no sympathy for Mooney and that he is regarded as "a very dangerous man because of his previous record." "I believe Mooney and his associates associ-ates were victims of their cupidity and1 they were bribed by German monej to perpetrate this crime, " the California senator asserted, adding that he regretted re-gretted very much that the labor interests in-terests of the country should have a misconception of this crime." |