Speech #520135490

Perhaps the most notable instance of what some people consider an abuse of the discretionary power of issuing warrants by wholesale. without any affidavit or information that the offense had been committed. occurred in the city of New York. It also occurred in other places on a less extensive scale. and it occurred in the city in which I live. I do not care to bring up these things again. but there was a mass of testimony taken both by the committee of the Hofse of Representatives and by the Committee on Immigration of the S3nate in regard to transactions which occurred during the last election in New York. It appeared that the United States commissioner in New York. who had most to do with the administration of the election laws. by his own admission. extorted from him after some crossexamination. confessed that he. a judicial officer of the United States. had received from apolitical organization seven or eight thousand dollars in order to aid him. as he said. in the execution of his office under the election laws. That was considered.