You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday March 16, 1915
Washington D. C. - House Judiciary Committee Gives Judge Dayton Slap on Wrist
Fannie Sellins
Judge Alston G Dayton, the judge who sent the beloved union organizer,
Mrs. Fannie Sellins, to a West Virginia jail will not be impeached:
The evidence shows many matters of individual bad taste on the part of Judge Dayton—some not of that high standard of judicial ethics which should crown the federal judiciary—but a careful consideration of all the evidence and the attending circumstances convinces us that there is little possibility of maintaining to a conclusion of guilt the charges made, and impels us, therefore, to recommend that there be no further proceedings herein.
This was the report of the committee after many hours of testimony had been presented to the committee regarding the prejudicial conduct of the this judge, particularly with regards to his dealings with the United Mine Workers of America in the state of West Virginia.
Below our readers can find a portion of the testimony of Mrs. Fannie Sellins before the house sub-committee charged with investigating the conduct of Judge Dayton. Regarding the judge's opinion of her her work for the U. M. W., she testifies:
I know that one remark he said was there would be no more Mother Joneses springing up in West Virginia, no more women of her character; and he said
no self-respecting American woman would be affiliated with such an association.
From the Chicago Day Book or March 13, 1915:
Judge Alston G. Dayton
RESPECT OF COURTS,-The house judiciary committee, in the hours of perturbation over the pork in the different barrels, gave that federal judge, Dayton, of West Virginia, a gentle slap on the wrist. It dropped the impeachment proceedings, holding that, while in some instances his conduct had been "reprehensible," there was little possibility of maintaining the charges to a conclusion of guilt. The minority report, recommending impeachment, was rejected.
Uncle Sam is acquiring quite a collection of fellows on the federal bench who are quivering under Scotch verdict. It's elevating the judiciary.
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From the United Mine Workers Journal of March 11, 1915
Judge Dayton Escapes Impeachment
Washington, D. C, March 4.
By a vote a 11 to 4 the full Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives voted today that the evidence submitted did not warrant the impeachment of Judge Dayton.
The report concludes with:
The evidence shows many matters of individual bad taste on the part of Judge Dayton—some not of that high standard of judicial ethics which should crown the federal judiciary—but a careful consideration of all the evidence and the attending circumstances convinces us that there is little possibility of maintaining to a conclusion of guilt the charges made, and impels us, therefore, to recommend that there be no further proceedings herein.
The sub committee at first reported to the full committee only a statement of facts, with no recommendations, and upon the committee insisting upon a recommendation, retired and Congressmen Gard and Danforth signed the above recommendation. Chairman McGillicuddy refused to sign this, and submitted the following minority statement:
I concur with my colleagues in the findings of fact, but I do not concur in the recommendation that no further proceedings be had, as it is my opinion that the evidence taken by the sub committee and the findings of fact, above made, warant further proceedings looking toward impeachment.
The full committee adopted the Gard-Danforth report by the following vote: For impeachment, McGillicuddy, Maine; Igoe, Missouri; Taggart, Kansas; Thomas, Kentucky. Against impeachment: Beall, Texas; Webb, North Carolina; Carlin, Virginia; Floyd, Arkansas; Gard, Ohio; Dupree, South Carolina; Graham, Pennsylvania; Danforth, New York; Volstead, Minnesota; Plumley, Vermont; Nelson, Wisconsin.
To report, as a "findings of fact," practically finds Judge Dayton guilty of the charges, but decides against impeaching him. The report bears all the evidences of having been hurriedly compiled, as much evidence is not even referred to, and there has plainly been no attempt to connect up links that made chains.
All who are aware of the facts consider that the report has been the result, not of evidence, and the vote of the committeemen has been based not upon the evidence, but upon other considerations. A powerful lobby, representing the big interests of the State, has been working for nine months, with the result that congressmen voted against the impeachment regardless of the evidence.
From the House Sub-committee Hearings, February 15, 1915:
(Note: the name of Mrs. Sellins is misspelled in the record.)
TESTIMONY OF MRS. FANNIE SELLENS, OF CHICAGO, III.
Fannie Sellins
The CHAIRMAN. What is your full name, please?
Mrs. SELLENS. Faimie Sullens.
The CHAIRMAN. Where do you live?
Mrs. SELLENS. Chicago, Ill.
The CHAIRMAN. What is your business, if any, or what position do you occupy?
Mrs. SELLENS. I was employed by the district counsel of St. Louis to go out among the
miners and different organizations and help to support our girls on strikes.
The CHAIRMAN. Now, at the time of this labor trouble here in West Virginia, were you
here?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. What part did you take in this strike or what was your connection with it?
Mrs. SELLENS. The strike was settled with the garment workers while I was in Pittsburg
and while I was in the office I had made acquaintance of one of the men at Colliers, a
Mr. Smith, and he invited me down there, and I went down there, and went among the
residents of the houses and found conditions terrible; one family especially, an English
family—an American family—that had six little children and not one had any shoes on
and then I went back and reported what I found in Collier. Later on I went to
Steubenville, Ohio, and went among the families there, and then I went to Toledo, Ohio.
The CHAIRMAN. Confine yourself to conditions in West Virginia and not in Ohio. Now, just
what did you have to do with the strike or persons engaged in it here in West Virginia?
Mrs. SELLENS. I did not know that there was an injunction served against me. I had
never seen it, and after the strike was called down there I still continued to go down?
The CHAIRMAN. Down where?
Mrs. SELLENS. In Collier, W. Va., and Clarksburg, W. Va., and Wellsburg, W. Va. That is
where the three strikes were going on; and I never remember doing anything outside of
delivering clothes and shoes and furnishing a lot of provisions for the people down there.
The CHAIRMAN. Let me understand. At some stage of the proceedings there were
injunctions?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. Or restraining orders against you?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. And you had notice of that?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. And you were brought into court?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. In Judge Dayton's court?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. Now, after you were brought into court what was done?
Mrs. SELLENS. The first time that I went to Philippi that was on Mr. Bittner's case, and we
were sent back. Why, I do not know.
The CHAIRMAN. What were you called to court for?
Mrs. SELLENS. Contempt, I guess. I do not know. To answer for that injunction.
The CHAIRMAN. That was what you understood the charge was?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. You were one of the defendants in that contempt proceeding?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. Was there a hearing in your case before Judge Dayton?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. Down at Philippi?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir. The first morning I remember that we went down there we were
all called into court.
The CHAIRMAN. Let me ask you what you were charged with doing.
Mrs. SELLENS. Really I do not know. There was nothing ever read to me and no papers
telling me-
The CHAIRMAN. No, but that day you were in Judge Dayton's court charged with
contempt you must have been charged with violating some order of the court.
Mrs. SELLENS. I thought I was forbidden to go down to Colliers, and for that I thought I
was going to be punished for going down there.
The CHAIRMAN. That was what you understood?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir; I thought I went on company ground, or something. I never did
know what it was.
The CHAIRMAN. How long did your hearing cover?
Mrs. SELLENS. I can not tell, but every time the organizers went down I had to go down
with them.
The CHAIRMAN. What was the final result of it? Was there any sentence against you?
Mrs. SELLENS. I was sentenced for six months.
The CHAIRMAN. Did you serve any of that?
Mrs. SELLENS. I served very nearly three months until the Flint Glass Workers went on
my bond for $3,000.
The CHAIRMAN. You do not know what you were charged with violating in the injunction?
Mrs. SELLENS. I never did know, outside of what went on in the court room. I know that
was the charge read to me when I stood before him for sentence.
The CHAIRMAN. Who was your counsel?
Mrs. SELLENS. Mr. Palmer.
The CHAIRMAN. Now, did you observe Judge Dayton's manner, what he said in court
when you was there?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, indeed; I certainly did.
I know that one remark he said was there would be no more Mother Joneses
springing up in West Virginia, no more women of her character; and he said
no self-respecting American woman would be affiliated with such an association.
The CHAIRMAN. What evidence was introduced at that hearing against you?
Mrs. SELLENS. Detectives employed from the detective agency at Pittsburgh by the coal
operators.
The CHAIRMAN. What did he say?
Mrs. SELLENS. He said I made speeches at meetings to incite them to riot.
The CHAIRMAN. Yes; what else?
Mrs. SELLENS. Every one of those meetings were open meetings and the police were in
our meetings many, many times, and I had never been arrested or censured by any of
them.
The CHAIRMAN. What I want to get at is, what was the evidence against you, if any,
besides the fact that you had made speeches in those meetings?
Mrs. SELLENS. Because I had assisted Mr. Gates in paying out the sick benefits.
The CHAIRMAN. As a matter of fact, you were distributing supplies and sick benefits
among the strikers and their families?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir; I did. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. And did that appear against you?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. In Judge Dayton's court?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. Who testified to that against you?
Mrs. SELLENS. The operators and the superintendent and those detectives.
The CHAIRMAN. Did they testify that you had been distributing sick benefits?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. As I understand, those were benefits contributed by the strikers
themselves to assist their needy members during the strike?
Mrs. SELLENS. It was money that was contributed, by the men that were working in the
different mines and was contributed to the office, and through the office we got the
money; and the clothing and the provisions that I got was with money distributed to me
by the labor organizations of Steubenville, Ohio, and different cities.
The CHAIRMAN. Was there any charge brought against you or any other evidence
introduced against you except those things you have spoken of?
Mrs. SELLENS. I do not know only what those detectives testified I had made
inflammatory speeches.
The CHAIRMAN. You say there was nothing except you had made speeches?
Mrs. SELLENS. That is all.
The CHAIRMAN. Which were claimed to be inflammatory?
Mrs. SELLENS. That is all.
The CHAIRMAN. And that you had distributed the sick benefits?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. Did you hear any other remarks of the judge made there outside of what
you have testified to?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir. I heard when Mr. Howard got up—it was a night session, and Mr.
Gates was about getting through and Mr. Howard had the papers charging points outside
of the contempt cases, and Mr. Palmer objected to our answering to those charges
without being prepared, said we came there to answer to the contempt charge—and said
that Mr. Howard was forcing Mr. Gates, an ignorant man, into a trial, and Judge Dayton
said: "Mr. Palmer, you are a liar, and if you make another statement like that I will
disqualify you to proceed with this case and call upon your associate to continue it."
The CHAIRMAN. You say you heard this Judge Dayton make that statement from the
bench?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir; and the other night in Parkersburg I did not blame Mr. Palmer for
not making those remarks. Those were the very remarks made. It was my second day in
any court room, and I did not know what to make of it.
The CHAIRMAN. Anything further?
Mrs, SELLENS. Concerning the foreigner, when he asked for an interpreter, even Mr.
Palmer tried himself to interpret, even as little as he knew of the language, to make the
judge understand what Mr. Hoblock and the other man was going to say, and about
wanting an interpreter, and Judge Dayton from the bench even broke in on the attorney
and asked Hoblock and the other foreigner why they did not stay in their own country,
and he said, "Because you make a better living in this country," and censured them for
joining the organization.
And the morning that Mr. Hoblock was arrested no one knew
anything about it. I always was at the hotel. I went with Mr. Stickles and Mr. Coleffe. I
never went myself to any of those meetings but always went accompanied by the
officers. They called me up from Parkersburg, I think it was, and told me that the men
were down there and to get an attorney. I called Mr. Palmer up and he said he could not
go down there, and I don't know what happened to them. I know they didn't have any
attorney furnished by us. I don't know whether they had anybody or not. But before we
could get anybody down there to help them they were sent to jail. All of them were sent
except one man, and he was allowed to come back, although he had committed the
same offense the others had, to tell the strikers that these men were railroaded to jail
and the same thing would happen to them if they didn't get out of there and go away
from the strike.
The CHAIRMAN. Who was that man?
Mrs. SELLENS. I can't recall his name, but he came from Parkersburg direct to me.
The CHAIRMAN. You do not remember the name?
Mrs. SELLENS. I can't tell the name. The names are so much alike I get them mixed up.
The CHAIRMAN. Can you get that name and furnish it to the committee?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. How long have you been a member of the United Garment Workers?
Mrs. SELLENS. Seventeen years.
The CHAIRMAN. Is your home in Chicago?
Mrs. SELLENS. My home has been in St. Louis, Mo., where I have an aged father. My
husband is dead, and for 18 years I have supported my father and my daughter, the two
of us, and for 7 years I have been a representative of the United Garment Workers,
traveling from one end of the country to the other, and I have never been arrested, and
no dockets will show my name as being arrested. I never was censured; in all the big
strikes I have gone through I never have been censured by a police officer.
The CHAIRMAN. During the seven years you have been connected with this organization,
and previous to that, your work was that of a garment maker?
Mrs. SELLENS. No; I was a garment maker up to the time of the first injunction. After I
went up to answer the injunction then I gave up.
The CHAIRMAN. When was that?
Mrs. SELLENS. Last winter when I went up there.
The CHAIRMAN. Up to that time you were at work as a garment maker all the time?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes.
The CHAIRMAN. Are there any other questions?
Mr. BELCHER. Mrs. Sullens, what was the condition of the families to whom you
distributed this help?
Mrs. SELLENS. They were in absolute poverty. They had nothing. There was one family
there—if I had been in this trial any place except Philippi I could have taken those people
out there to testify for me, but it was too big an expense to bear. I had taken two
leading ladies of Toronto, Ohio, and a preacher of Follansbee down there with me, and
one family—there were two families living in two rooms, that had grown-up children and
two babies, and one baby was perfectly naked when they put him in my arms, did not
have a stitch of clothing on him. And that evidence can be produced before the
committee to prove every word. I went to church at Follansbee. I had an invitation to
speak there in behalf of the strikers, and got clothing for them, Christmas money and
toys.
The CHAIRMAN. Is there anything further, Mr. Belcher?
Mr. BELCHER. No, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. Do you wish to ask any questions, Mr. Howard?
Mr. HOWARD. Yes, if you please. In sentencing you for contempt, Judge Dayton stated to
you from the bench, did he not, what it was that you had done for which he found you
guilty and sentenced you? That is true, is it not?
Mrs. SELLENS. You read the charges the other night.
Mr. HOWARD. Answer my question.
Mr. BELCHER. Answer his question.
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
Mr. HOWARD. And what he said to you appears of record. This is just about a half page of
the findings of fact in the name of Fannie Sullens in the Gates record. Perhaps you do
not know that, but I will ask the committee to refer to it. It was taken down by the
stenographer?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir; I believe it was. That is, not the first part of this that I have said
here, because that was given in the case where we didn't have any stenographer
present. At least I didn't see him.
Mr. HOWARD. Oh, no; I am now referring to the ground for the sentence. Judge Dayton
told you what things you had done?
Mrs. SELLENS. Oh, yes; the day he sentenced me.
Mr. HOWARD. That is recorded, and I will say to you I have it before me and there is not
in it anything to the effect that he sentenced you for distributing relief or funds or
benefits.
Mr. BELCHER. The record is not conclusive, I want to say, because of the evidence that
these things have not been put in the record.
Mr. HOWARD. No, there is no evidence that these things were not put in.
Mr. BELCHER- We know they were not.
Mr HOWARD. There is no evidence and there can be none that this that this record is not
an exact record of the judge's findings as announced to the defendants.
Mr. CHAIRMAN. The record, of course, will speak for itself, for whatever it contains.
Mr. HOWARD. You said you were sentenced for distributing benefits. I will ask you if it is
not true that the judge did not find you guilty and sentence you in no part for the distributing of benefits?
Mrs. SELLENS. I don't know what else I was sentenced for.
Mr. HOWARD. I will remind you. Did he not say to you that the evidence proved, as he found it to be, that you led a mob of 100 or 2QO men to a place above Wellsburg to head off the miners coming from No.3mine?
Mrs. SELLENS. Why, I could not help myself from his getting that evidence.They had a
hired detective who joined our organization, held up his right hand and swore obligations
to the organization to get in touch with our meetings, and at the same time was a
detective, and he came in the court room and said those things that I said were false. I
never did those things. They had no other evidence at all but the evidence of a detective
hired by the operators, a man who could not speak English at that time.
The CHAIRMAN. We could get along better if you would just answer his questions, and
any explanation you care to make you can make later.
Mr. HOWARD. The fact is that he sentenced you, among other things, for doing that?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
Mr. HOWARD. And did he not say he sentenced you because you advised the strikers to
knock the heads off of the nonunion men? Did he not say that?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir; he said that.
Mr. HOWARD. And did he not say he sentenced you because you had urged the men to
continue to disobey the court and the injunction?
Mrs. SELLENS. He said that, too.
Mr. HOWARD. And did he not say you broke your promise made on the 2d of December,
in which you promised that you would not disobey the injunction further, and he allowed
you to go? Did he not say that?
Mrs. SELLENS. He said all those things.
Mr. HOWARD. And is it not true that there was not in the findings of fact as found by the
judge anything finding you guilty of having distributed benefits to the families of the
miners?
Mrs. SELLENS. I don't remember if he said anything like that. Of course, he didn't.
Mr. HOWARD. On the occasion on which you say Judge Dayton used the words "You are a
liar" to Mr. Palmer, the clerks of the court and the stenographers and all the officers of
the court were present and heard it if it was said?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
Mr. HOWARD. Was the District Attorney of the United States Mr. Stewart W. Walker,
there?
Mrs. SELLENS. I can't remember. I don't remember whether he was or not. It was a night
session. (Mr. Belcher and Mr. Howard conferred privately with the committee.)
Mr. HOWARD. That is all.
The CHAIRMAN. Just one question. When you say that Judge Dayton said to Mr. Palmer
from the bench that he was a liar, what was Judge Dayton's attitude? Did he appear to
be in an angry mood at the time?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir; Judge Dayton was.
The CHAIRMAN. Was that a part of the colloquy between the attorney and the judge; and
were they both more or less excited?
Mrs. SELLENS. It seemed to me they were. I know Mr. Palmer turned very pale and
turned around to Mr. Oates and said something I didn't hear.
The CHAIRMAN. Well, we will not pursue that.
Mr. DANFORTH. In your case were you found guilty in contempt proceedings?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
Mr. DANFORTH. You were sentenced?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
Mr. DANFORTH. And that case is now on appeal?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. There was one thing I did want to ask: While your case was being heard
and the evidence taken down and the judge was making his rulings and findings was
there any time that the judge stopped the stenographer from taking down part of what
he said?
Mrs. SELLENS. I remember distinctly that our attorney objected to certain—what was put
to the witness by the opposite attorney. The judge said "I will attend to that later on."
And I remember also that Judge Howard made a motion after the trial that the evidence
in the case was to be kept in possession of the court, and the judge said yes, that it was
none of it for publication—newspapers or outside.
The CHAIRMAN. You do not quite understand me. What I mean is this: While your case
was being heard and while the judge was making his rulings or findings at the close of
the taking of the testimony, were there any times when he told the stenographer not to
put in the record or not to take down what he said?
Mrs. SELLENS. I remember in the first case that we went on that was done and towards
the last—you know we were there four or five times.
The CHAIRMAN. Then this was done some time during that proceeds-
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN (continuing) . You were before the court?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. And did it occur more than once that he told the the stenographer not to
do that?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. Do you remember now what it was that he told the stenographer not to
take down?
Mrs. SELLENS. No, sir; I can't.
Mr. BELCHER. I would like to inquire of counsel on the other side if they would allow me
to see the record containing the findings of fact in the matter.
Mr. HOWARD. I think we can give you a copy. You can use this now, and we can give you
a copy of this so that you can get it to-morrow.
The CHAIRMAN. Do you want to examine this witness any further?
Mr. BELCHER. Just in reference to this, there is some question.
Mr. GARD. You are out on $3,000 bond? Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
Mr. GARD. Who did you say went on your bond?
Mrs. SELLENS. The Flint Glass Workers—their national organization.
Mr. GARD. Who fixed the amount of your bond?
Mrs. SELLENS. Judge Dayton; and the bonds had to be cash bonds, or I would not have
been in that long.
Mr. GARD. How?
Mrs. SELLENS. The bonds had to be cash. They would not accept any property bonds.
They had to pay the money.
Mr. GARD. Did Judge Dayton require you to deposit $3,000?
Mrs. SE.LLENS. Yes, sir; in the bank; and it was hard on the organization to furnish the
money.
Mr. GARD. $3,000 cash deposit?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. The money is on deposit now?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
Mr. GARD. After you had been in jail how long?
Mrs. SELLENS. I believe I was there—well, I don't know—about a month when the appeal
was fixed up, or something like that.
Mr. GARD. How long were you in jail before you got out on this $3,000 bond?
Mrs. SELLENS. Altogether I think it was pretty near three months in a jail where no
woman had ever been kept before in that jail, amongst criminals of all characters and
kinds.
Mr. GARD. What jail were you in?
Mrs. SELLENS. Marion County—Fairmont.
Mr. GARD. Were there any accommodations for women there?
Mrs. SELLENS. No, sir. I was compelled to hang up a blanket that I had to cover me with
for any privacy at all. I could not walk and could not get any recreation. I could not walk
outside of the-door because it was all iron railings, or a gallery that ran around there,
and underneath there were prisoners, and the little girl that brought me in my meals had
to complain to the jailer that she could not come up without the folks putting looking
glasses underneath as she walked along that gallery.
Mr. GARD. Then you were required by this man sitting as judge to deposit $3,000 to get
out of there?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
Mr. GARD. That is all.
Mr. BELCHER. Mrs. Sullens, you were asked by Mr. Howard relative to the findings of fact
not containing any statement by Judge Dayton relative to the distributing of supplies. I
will ask you if you heard Judge Dayton say this in his finding of fact also:
"Aided in providing supplies for the camp at Colliers, using funds of the United Mine
Workers"?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir; he did say that.
Mr. BELCHER. Then you did hear that statement?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir. I didn't understand Mr. Howard's question, but he accused me of
buying supplies, not once, but many times during the trial, and he never referred to me
as anything but "that woman"—"that woman," all through the trial.
Mr. BELCHER. That part of it Mr. Howard did not read. You say he referred to you as "that
woman"?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELCHER. Did he do it in a hostile attitude?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir; he did.
Mr. BELCHER. Did he appear at times to be angry or violent during the progress of the
trial in your cases?
Mrs. SELLENS. In most of our trials Judge Dayton seemed to be aggravated and
disgusted with the whole thing, from the attitude that he took.
Mr. BELCHER. You mean disgusted with your side of it?
Mrs. SELLENS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELCHER. That is all.
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UMWJ of Mar 11, 1915
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Article on Judge Dayton
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Judge Alston G. Dayton: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress, Third Session, and a Special Subcommittee Thereof Designated to Investigate Charges Against Judge Alston G. Dayton, United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, Under Authority of H. Res. 541,
July 9, 1914-Feb. 26, 1915
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Hearing at Wheeling, WV
on Monday February 15, 1915
Members of Sub-committee of the Judiciary,
House of Representatives:
Rep. McGillicuddy (chairman),
Rep. Gard, and Rep. Danforth
John A. Howard, Esq., present on behalf of Judge Dayton
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