This aspect of the affair never seems to have addressed itself to the conscience or the heart of the Attorney General. He coolly declared that it was no part of the business of the Department of Justice to look after the families of those who commit crimes or render themselves subject to arrest. But he overlooks the fact that none of those whose arrest he authroized were proceeded against upon any theory that they had committed any crime. that many of them. because of their citizenship or because they were obviously innocent. if aliens. would be entitied to their discharge without Aelay and that delay must necessarily ensue. considering the number to be taken. and that even among those held a large number would eventually be released for want of evidence to justify deportation or because their innocence was established. It seems quite likely from the meager records kept that at least onehalf of those taken were discharged upon the preliminary Inquiry. Questioned about the amount of the bail in which the prisoners were held. the Attorney General indifferently remarked that bail was fixed by the Department of Labor. the intimation being conveyed that having regard to the line which separated the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice from that of the Department of Labor. the subject of bail came exclusivelywithin the field of the latter.
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