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Show POST INSISTS ONJEFEKSE Federal Officer Under Fire Was Not Heard by House Rules Committee WASHINGTON, May 5. Assistant Secretary of Labor Post wrote Chairman Chair-man Campbell, of tho house rules' committee yesterday protesting against the closing of its Investigation Investiga-tion of his official conduct In alien deportation proceedings' without giving him an opportunity to be heard. Mr. Post charged that the houso immigration im-migration committee had withheld "impartial testimony which is believed to be favorable to mo," in presenting no review of some case in which decisions de-cisions have been made by him. Further, Fur-ther, he wrote that his "official Judgment, Judg-ment, save for criminal violation of law, may be challenged only by Impeachment." Im-peachment." Besides asking opportunity to testifying testi-fying and produce witnesses in his behalf, be-half, Mr. Post requested that the rules' committee require that definite and comprehensive charges against him he lodged with tho committee and that evidence, which he said had been kopt secret by the immigration committee, be included in ther ecord of the investigation. in-vestigation. Conceding the cancellation of 1,400 warrants for arrest, Mr. Post said that such action by him was necessary be-causo be-causo of "defects, failure or complete absence of proof or for other adequte reasons." After receipt of tho letter, Chairman Campbell reiterated that the committee commit-tee did not intend o call Mr. Post as a witness, but that ho would be heard whenever he presented himself. |