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tracts. Third. To dissolve their organization.
While I have no doubt that jail is the proper place for his clients,
yet the New Haven criminal suit indicated quite clearly that it is impossible to
convict such offenders. It is a question whether the public would be better
served by going to an enormous expense and putting the magnates to great incon-
venience and distress of mind which would necessarily come about, or save the ex-
pense of the trial and obtain a verdict of guilty.
I went to dinner with Arthur Little to discuss the local situation
with Judge Samuel Seabury.
March 22, 1917.
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The Attorney General is here for the day and I have been with him a large
part of it. He lunched and dined with us, and we later went to see Henry Miller
in the "Great Divide".
Gregory told of the last Cabinet meeting. He thinks the President had
no idea of calling Congress together earlier than the 16th but was persuaded to
call it on the 2nd of April because of the unanimous opinion of the Cabinet that
he should do so. He said Burleson remarked that the people wished this country
to go into the war actively. The President replied that it did not make so much
difference what the people wished as what was right. Burleson answered that if
he were President and a situation like this arose, he would want the opinion of the
people back of him.
The President gave no intimation to the Cabinet as to what he intended to do,
but early next morning he called Congress for April 2nd. When Gregory telephoned
yesterday at ten o'clock to tell me he would be in New York today, he did not then
know that the President had made the call.
I spoke to Gregory about Stanchfield's proposal. He said they ought
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tracts. Third. To dissolve their organization.
While I have no doubt that jail is the proper place for his clients,
yet the New Haven criminal suit indicated quite clearly that it is impossible to
convict such offenders. It is a question whether the public would be better
served by going to an enormous expense and putting the magnates to great incon-
venience and distress of mind which would necessarily come about, or save the ex-
pense of the trial and obtain a verdict of guilty.
I went to dinner with Arthur Little to discuss the local situation
with Judge Samuel Seabury.
March 22, 1917.
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