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Show SEHI1 OCCIS SWSOGSAUST TRIAL Move Made to Strike Out the Testimony Given by Girl Stenographer at Albany ALBANY. N. Y., Feb. 4. A sensation sensa-tion occurred today at the trial of the five suspended Socialist assemblymen, when, just before the luncheon recess Assemblyman Maurice Bloch, a mem-, ber of the assembly Judiciary commit 1 tee, silting as a tribunal, moved there be struck from the records as "obviously "obvi-ously impossible" the testimony yesterday yes-terday of Miss Ellen B. Chivers, IS year-old stenographer, that sho had ' seen Assemblyman Charles Solomon, a defendant, spit on tho American flag in the presence of a crowd. The motion mo-tion was denied by Louis M. Martin, committee chairman. Counsel for the assembly judiciary! committee which is trying the five suspended Socialist assemblymen on charges of disloyalty announced at the opening of today's hearing that they would seek to prove Assemblyman Louis Waldman, a defendant, had made the following statement on the floor of the Socialist convention in Chicago in 1919: , "If '1 knew we could sway the boys j after they got. guns to use them against the capitalistic class I would vote in favor of universal military training." John B. Stanchfield made this an nouncement in connection with his proposal that a witness in Milwaukee identified by the opposing counsel as J. E. Harris, formerly city editor oi ine lUiiwauuee L.eauer give jus testimony tes-timony by deposition. The witness, who is said to have "covered" the Chicago Chi-cago convention Is unable to travel to I Albany because of the serious illness of his wife. Seymour Stedman asked what the prosecution sought to prove by the witness, asserting the defense might be willing to admit the fact and save expenditures of $1,000 which would be incurred if the testimony were taken by deposition. When, however, he was informed what the prosecution sought to prove, he agreed to the taking tak-ing of the deposition. oo |