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Show IDAUGHTERIY IN HOT CRmCBM His Appointment Termed "Worst Blunder" of President YONKEKS, . Y. Mav 1R Tbe Woral Blunder" o! Pri ildenl E-Iardlns was the appointment of 1farr M Iaugherty as .ittorney (fen-ra I, Samuel Sam-uel Untermyer, counsel of tbe iock-woor) iock-woor) ledislatlve committee, declared in an address here cdnes.l;, , criticising crit-icising the administration for what h termed Its Inefficiency In going after the big criminals' trust-s and v.ar contract profiteers "H is hopelessly unfitted by training train-ing and temperament for that great office, which is In many respects the most Important, as It Is the most pow erful. In the government next to that of the president," Mr Untermyer de-dared de-dared II peculiarly requires a great lawyer, a trained executive end a man free irom political contact environment. CNEQ1 1 1 ENFOIU EMEXT "The Idea of placing it the head of that depurtment. of all others, a political po-litical manager as a connecting 1 1 r I-between I-between the administration and big business fairly makes one's blood boll, no matter who the man may he. Ai president who waa a lawyer would n ' have done it That appointment hadi put Its stamp .n the present admin-j titration. ! i Speaking before the lunwoodie chapter of Masons on "Law enforce- nunt. Affinst Big and Little Crimln- als," Mr. Untermyer declared It was' "not an exaggerated figure Of speech I .. siv that the administration of justice jus-tice has broken down" and asserted that "the reproach of the unequal enforcement en-forcement of the laws as between the rich and poor is not without an element ele-ment of Justice." The attorney general came in for criticism when Mr I'ntcrmjer wa discussing, under the head of "Pig Criminals" the trade and open price associations he uncovered while conducting con-ducting the Lockwood committee's ln- veatlgatlon into the building trusts. , "It Is more than a rear since these cases were brought to the uttention of j the department of Justice." he snid. "Prosecution has been begun on less than a half dozen of them. There Mt 0 dozen or more Important ones on which the department has taken DO action whatever. "Meantime, the statute of limitations is running against these offenses; tho witnesses ami proofs are scattering and the chances of successful action are diminishing day by dny." |