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Show PLEA FOR PARDON OF EUGENE DEBS Petition Will Be Referred to Attorney General Palmer and to President. MAY GRANT RESPITE Debs Goes to Prison Immediately Immedi-ately If Wilson Does Not Take Action. WASHINGTON April 3 Application Applica-tion for a respite preliminary to a P" mil. n or pardon of Eugene V. Debs, th Socialist leadei sentenced to tenj years imprisonment for violation of' the espionage act, has been received at the. White House and will be rel erred er-red to AHornrv Oneral Palmer, The request is signed by Frank P Walsh, C'harh Kdward Russell and Allan Benson. It has been brought to the attention of President Wilson, it was learned today, but the attorney-general has been advised of its receipt Should a respite be granted, it vould Btay the execution of Debs ten year prison sentence until the expiration expira-tion of a stipulated time during which consideration would be given to a pardon. par-don. If it were not. granted. Debs would be remanded to prison imme diately upon fortification b the supreme su-preme court of its finding- upholding hi- conviction, which probably would be ;ibOUt Maj 1 The application for clemency to President Wilson is his last appeal. 00 |