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Q The New Inquisition
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1 SPEAKING on the radio on March 6th——three
W weeks ago tonight—I told of the organization of
i the Committee of the United States Senate with
l Senator Black as Chairman to investigate lobby-
ing activities. At that time I told how your ·
telegrams—if you sent any to Washington or
n 5 received any from Washington last year-—were
l pawed over hy Committee investigators acting
  with the unwarranted connivance of the Federal
Communications Commission and without any
A consideration for the conhdential or private
natureof many of the messages. I stated the
A facts as to this illegal procedure—a statement
A I now desire to repeat and emphasize as follows:
NX 7 "LAST FALL agents of the Black Committee
HE-N you have finished with this went to the Washington offices of both the West-
pamphlet please pass it on to some ern Union and the Postal Telegraph Companies
_ _ . b and demanded the right to go through copies of
fmnd or acquaintance who might 8 all telegrams on file in those offices. Agents of
interested. cutting his llllehlloh lo the the Companies were confused as to what to do.
membership blank on page 16. They were afraid to decline to grant the de-
mand and yet they were conscious of the rights
V of their customers which made compliance im-
Q possible. Therefore, they stalled for time until
they could confer with their superior officers
’ and get instructions. Before a decision had
been reached, agents of the Federal Communi-
A l cations Commission, accompanied hy agents of
the Black Committee, came to the Washington
{ offices of the two telegraph companies and de-
_ manded under the authority of the Communica-
tions Commission access to all copies of mes-
¤ sages in the said offices.
“Because of the control of the Communica-
tions Commission over the affairs of the tele-
graph companies the representatives of the lat-
‘ ~ ter did not dare refuse and this summary de-
mand was consequently complied with. For a
space of weeks the agents of the Communica-
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 t1ons Comm1ss1on, in conjunction w1th agents of tannins if any irregularities existed under. the
the Black Senator1al Comm1ttee, went through i Th- .
_ aw. IS statement can onl be 1nt d
y erprete to
the files of the Wash1ngton telegraph offices and ,
_ _ _ mean that no telegrams were exam1ned for any
made copies of such messages as they desired. th . . , _
T _ o er purpose. That 18 a defimte fals1ficat1on
he telegraph compan1es do not know what f th f . . _
messa es were co ied The co ies made were 70 C act. The Commlssmu States that us
_ turncg Over to th;) Black Commgttcc ” agents copied only about 65 telegrams. It fails
‘ to say that it compelled the tele h
• r grap corn!
pan1es to copy many thousands and turn said
' FOLLOWING this statement of facts I showed n copies over to its agents for use by the Black
that the Federal Communications Commission A Committee. And then the Commission makes
is an arm of the Executive Branch of the gov- r one of the few definite statements in its entire
ernment answerable only to the President; that i report in the following language:
u¤d€1` the Act ¢I`€3t{1'1g It auth0mtY 18 Swan to “The assertion that has been made that every tele-
compel the product1on of p&p€1'S, books, Gm-, gram passing through Washington between the dates
but only to further a more efficient wire and covered by the Senate Committee’s subpoenas was
radio communication service; that it has no mad by the C°111mi¤Si0¤’S employees, is without
. . . ‘ · ••
power to proceed or 1nvest1gate in regard to f°lmd°u°” m f°°t‘
matters not directly related to the purposes for This sentence from the Commission’s report
which it. was formed; that it cannot be used as is a striking example of the old Army game. It
a searchmg agency by the Black Committee or is the setting up of a straw man only to knock
any other Federal body merely because informa- him down. Who made the “assertion” cited by
tion has been forwarded over the w1re systems, the Commission that every telegram between
and that the action of the Commun1cat1ons the dates in question “was read by the Commis-
Commission taken at the instance of the Black sion’s employees”? I certainly did not. Nor
Committee was clearly illegal and wantonly have I heard of anyone else who did. I said in
V10I&t1VC of the protect1on afforded all c1t1zens my rad1o speech of March 6th that all telegrams
under the 4th Article of the Bill of R1ghts. passing through Washington between specified
dates were subject to inspection by the agents
THREE DAYS aitor my radio sPccch__namc1y’ of the Commission and the Black Committee-
on hiarch 9th...S€natOr Borah of Idaho intro, that these agents copied or had copied for them
duced and the Senate passed a resolution call- whatever th€Y P1€¤$€d- 110 111¤t¢61‘ how private
ing upon tho Federal Communications Commis- the messages or how wholly unrelated to the
sion to report to       what part   matters under 1HV€St1gatIOn•   assertion I
had played in the seizure or copying of tele- n IWW I`€P€at and €1¤P}1¤S1Z€·
grams and by what authority it had acted. The `
requested report was submitted on March 17th- BUT PERHAPS the crowning attempt at pub-
Instead of an accurate, straight-forward account ‘ ]io deception may bc found in this quotation
of what had transpired and the part of the from tho (jorninioaiong roporti
Communlciitmus C°‘¥‘m“’S‘°" In thc P*°°°d}“°· “After the Commission’s employees had completed
the report 18 ilued wlth ha1f'n`E1thS auf? cvasmns their inspection, the telegrams were examined by the
tles1gnecl to g1VC an erroneous lmprcsslon. TIIG Senate Committee investigators pursuant to the Sen-
Commiggigu gtgtgg that gugh tglggygmg gg were atc Committee’s Sllbpoontls. The Senate Committee
Examined by its agents were inspected to dC_ inyestigators desired for the use of the Senate Com-
4 uuttee copies of certain telegrams, the originals of
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 which were covered by their subpoenas. At the re- S C H d b b h d
quest of the Commission’s employees copies of these O- _a c_ Su Pfmnas _ ecause t ey were ragnete
telegrams covered by the Senate Committee’s sub- Whleh It was Impossible for the telegraph Cem'
poenas were made by the telegraph companies and pan1es to comply with even if they had not
the copies so made were turned over to the Senate gcnjed their ]€ga] effect.
Committee investigators by the Commission’s em- I am Speaking tonight through thc courtesy
I .” . . .
P Gyms of the Columbia Broadcast1ng System. It IS
My listeners will observe that in the above _ subject to regulations of the Communications
quoted extract from its report, the Communica- Commission. Save for the fear that I .might
tions Commission constantly refers to the sub- trespass upon the courtesy extended by the Co-
poenas of the Senate Committee as if those sub- _ lumbia Broadcasting System, I should character-
poenas had been responded to by the telegraph ize in far more definite fashion this wilful], de-
companies and telegrams produced thereunder. liberate and considered action of the Communi-
The fact is, as stated by me on March 6th and cations Commission in response to a Senate
now repeated, that the subpoenas taken to the resolution.
Washington telegraph offices by agents of the
Black Committee were not honored b the man-
y . . THE UNITED STATES SENATE, by its
agers of those offices; that before any decision _ _ _
. unanimous adoption of the Borah resolution,
l1ad been reached by the telegraph companies _ _ _
. . showed 1tS desire for the truth respecting the
as to whether they would relinquish under so-
. . . charges that there had been a wholesale search
called subpoenas copies of messages 1n their _ _
. . into and a wholesale seizure of telegrams. I be-
files belonging to their customers, the agents of _ _ _ _
. . . . IICVC that a majority of the Senate must st1ll
the Federal Commun1cat1ons Comm1ss1on ap- t t t h h Th f I h
peared with agents of the Black Committee and ` gan t Ot gc t e INR ' _ lcfc Ore Free t C
on the authority of the Communications Com- Gina B 0_ eppom _ a Specm mvcsugatmg Cem`
. . mittee, of impartial senators, of both part1es,
mission demanded access to the {iles of mes- _ _
. . and that that committee call before 1t, and take
sages of the telegraph companies. Neither at _ _
. . . . . the sworn testimony of, Dr. Irvin Stewart, a
the t1me the Commun1cat1ons Comm1ss1on sent _ _
. . member of the Federal Commumcations Com-
1tS agents to the telegraph companies, nor at the _ _ _
. . 1*31581011; lVlr. Robert T. Bartley, Director of the
time copies of telegrams were made and turned , _ _ _ _ _
. . . . Telegraph D1v1s1on of that Commission; the
over by the Commun1cat1ons Comm1ss1on to the ·_ _
· . Washington supermtendents and attorneys of
Black Committee, had the subpoenas presented _
. the two telegraph companies, and of the R.C.A.
by agents of the Black Committee to the tele- _ _ _
. . . h Communications Company and Mackay Radio &
graph companies been compl1ed wit . Not one _ _
_ 'lelegraph Company. I assert that such an 1n-
telegram was produced under them. St_ t_ in discl th Sc facts
, ve 1ga 1on w ose e : A
T _ _ _ V First. That headed, in each instance, by an
HEREFORE the fm§”`°SS1°” whleh the Cem' employee of the Federal Communications Com-
mumeeuens eemmlsslen attempts te make · mission, and acting under the power which the
that 1n producmg copies of desired telegrams to law gave that Commission, employees of the
thc Bleek Committee It was enly dome what the Black Committee for several months, beginning
, committee could have done through the use of in the fall of 1935 and ending in January, 1936,
then s°'eeHed sebpeenes ls whelly erreneeue continuously examined telegrams in the offices
C without foundation 1n fact, and indeed consti- of the telegraph companies in Washington; that
tutes a defimte pervers1on of facts. I refer to they demanded access, and were given access, to

 all telegrams sent out of or received in Wash- searches into and seizures of telegrams of the
ington, without specifying the names of the citizens of this country were carried on from
senders or the receivers. September, 1935, to March, 1936, there being
Second. That the description of the tele- no let-up in it until its crass unconstitutional
grams which the Black Committee called for character caused it to be checked by the Su-
was so worded that it was utterly impossible to preme Court of the Nation’s Capital. I submit
select those telegrams without having access to that these assertions are serious enough to re-
all telegrams. it quire the investigation which I ask the Senate
Third. That in one of the telegraph offices Q to promptly order and I assure you, my lis-
a Federal Communications Commission em-   teners, that everv one of these assertions will be
ployee was assisted part of the time by four and proved to a demonstration if the Senate orders
most of the time by seven employees of the such an investigation.
Black Committee.
Fourth. That more than 22,000 telegrams I CALL UPON the Federal Communications
sent from or received at Washington oliices he- Commission to supplement its report to Senator
tween February 1 and December 1, 1935, were Borah of March 17th by furnishing him with
copied, under the demand of the Federal Com- copies of the alleged subpoenas of the Black
munications Commission, and turned over to C0111111itt€€ ¤P0¤ which t}1€ C0111miSSi011 HOW
{hg Black Cgmmit[gg_ And I pgugg hgrc tg gm- HUZCIIIPIZS to jl1S'l11fy` its   3Cti0I1 811(1 to
phasize the fact that the Commission reported f¤1"€h€1` fu1’11iSh to S611¤t01’ B01‘6}1 copies of
to the Senate that it only copied 65 telegrams. all m€m01`¤11d¤ of tim C0m111iSSi0¤ mid its
Fifth_ That in additioh to tho Washington employees concerning or relating to the right of
office seizures, there were served on each of the the Black C0m¤1iU€€ to ¤¤€ thi? Commission in
Iwo telegraph companies over a thousand sub- this unreasonable and unlawful search. Like-
Pognag relating to othot oitioa oallihg, in gon. wise, I ask the Federal Communications Com-
CI-al [gyms, fgr all mgggaggg Agent gr rgcgivgd   IIIISSIOII to f'l11`l1iSl] to SCIl&`[0].‘ B01°81'1 copies of
Persona, firma oi- ccrpofations hamod in tho Sub. A all of its minutes that in any way relate to its
poenas, which subpoenas by their plain terms t action in this matter and particularly copies of
required that tclcgrams of the most private and the opinions rendered by its former General
confidential nature should be turned over to the Counsel, Paul D- P- SP€¤!‘m3¤» during tht? month
Black Committee of March or April, 1935, holding that such a
Sixth That tljousauds ef the telegreme de, search would be illegal and in violation of the
livered to the Black Committee under blanket S eensutuuenul guarantee against unreasonable
subpoenas, before the Court halted such actions, Seerenes and Seizures, as well QS _ eny etner
which wata plainly at a ntivata natnta having .s op1n1ons trenderedt by the Legal 1?1v1s1on to the
no relation to any subject the Committee was   C°mm‘S“°n OH this s¢¤·=¤·1q¤·=¤¤¤¤·
authorized to investigate, were placedlin sealed   SO FAR THE ONLY aitactiva check upon the
envelnpcs on which was endorsed then pmvatc unrestrained inquisitorial activities of the
· and Pcrscnal chamctem and that those cn` Black Committee has been that found in the
Vebpest in case after °aSc’ wcm °p°¤€d bY the Federal Courts. Once more we have reason
investigators of the Black Committee and the for thanking Gnd that thc fnnndata at this
¤=1¤2¤¤m¤i¤¤P¢¢*¢d· t Nation saw Ht to create a judicial branch co-
And 1“uY• I essen that tneee wneleeele ordinate with the legislative and executive
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 branches and paramount in its own field In “I .wiu State VFW fmnkli that in my judgment if
‘ any Judge ever issued an injunction to prevent the
calling tt halt upon tho eiicrt cf the Black delivery of papers that were sought through this
Committee to inspect the private telegraphic body by subpoena the Congress should immediately
mcs of a Prominent law £rm_H]€S including enact legislation taking away that iurisdiction from
confidential messages between attorney and the eonrts. Congress creates the Jurisdiction of those
client and between members of the firm and mum`
their wives—the Court merely fulfilled its con- _ The injunction was granted March 12th. No
stitutional function of protecting one of the basic bill liao been intrcdnced bY Senatcr Black to
constitutional rights of all citizens. It may be limit tho juriedicticn cf the Courts- It such tt
well to recall here that this same safeguard is the . bill Should be presented it is Prcdtctcd by Mt`·
one and only bulwark which protects all other A1`tl1¤1‘ Krcck cf tho New York Ttmo$» ouc cf
constitutional rights. It protects your right to the administratiorfs friendly newspaper com-
worship God as you please. It protects your mentators, that there would be no chance of its
right to speak your mind freely on public Pascago-
questions. It protects your right to vote. It
Protoott Your right tc tt trttd bY .lurY·» it You are B UT THE Black Committtee has done other
accused of crime, or are plaintiff or defendant things- It has, as thc Washington POS; editor.
in o civil Sutt· ially states, “permitted a confidential telegram
Were it net fer the J udicial Branch cf the obtained through its fishing expedition to be
GoVorumoiit—tlio Federal Courts! with tho read in the House of Representatives, in defi-
Supreme Ccurt at thc toP"‘You¤ mY follow ance of legal effort to forbid such action.” Also
citizcuco would be subject tc duty laws cr 3otS through one of its investigators on February 12,
which thc tomPortu`Y whim cf thc Lcgi$lutiVo 1936, it warned the telegraph companies not to
or Executive Branches might dictate, no matter i notify their customers that the telegramg of
how oppressive OI ty1‘aI1I10l1S in their effect. Sugh customers have been gubpeenged, The
And unless I out WholtY mistaken cc to Public Post very properly adds this observation:
Scntimcnlo the People are awakening to this "Compromise with such an attitude is out of the
condition and tc tho crying Hood fcr tho uDtm' question. The lobby investigating committee has
paired maintenance of the safeguard and pro- challenged the right of the people to keep their
tectjtm gf the C0tu·tS_ private communications free from Federal inquisi-
Further, I confidently assert that if any ad_ tors. If the guarantees of the fourth amendment are
. . . . . to be upheld this challenge must be courageously
mlnlstratlon or any P°1‘t‘°“t Party goes before met. Instead of yielding to threats, the telegraph
the American otoototioto with an anncunced tu' companies should stand firmly on their constitutional
tention to limit or destroy the existing powers rights and force a showdown with senatorial investi-
of the Judicial Branch, that party or that ad- " satcrs inclined to run amuck-”
ministration will be overwhelmingly defeated.
THROUGHOUT the country newspapers of all
IT WILL- BE recalled that prior to the iujunm W sections and all shades. of political belief have
tion granted to the Chicago law firm of Winston, Vouicd Slmllar cxpmsswuo tts Press sf tim
Strawn & Shaw by Chief Justice Wheat of the nation has become aroused to the menace to its
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia own integrity involved 1n the methods pursued
stmt Bieek made no iouowing Statement on by dss Blsds csmdddss· is mr rsdss sddrsss
the Hom, of thc Senate on March 5th: of March 6th 1 pointed out that there are 11t-
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 1 I . k.” If th d people—that is sup-
erally thousands of confidential messages ex- :3;;:; of the Ng; gigijsacir privacy weuhfheve
enenged eeen Year netween newspaper Pun' been respected] This view is supported by the fact
lishers and their editors and their employees that the Black Committee has not called before it
and that such messages are an integral part of or seized the telcgramSL<;f Suchdivbrlgylng 01‘§¤i];i:;
the mechanics of a free press. S1nce that t1me next as t;eth‘::_mg;:1;I;1iin,§1;?gup° Tggniholc pep
. . ou or a ·
we have had conclus-1ve evidence that press mes- iormmcc has been petty and diSgi.acehil_
Sages have been ¤¤bJ¢<=t te Sernnnv at the nande i “I; is not to be wondered at that the victims of
of the Senate inquisitors. It is a notable fact this abuse of the Senate’s wide power have sought the
that in each case the newspapers are those protection of the court; Inball probaléility, however,
. . . . · · · v wee n
which have been cr1t1cal of the present admin- ev :g;:;tb:u££S;;°:;;di; gi; s;:§s;f° dixngy of like
v istratiou or of members Of the Senate Lobby American citizen, who must eventually see that it is
Committee. An illustration of the latter is the one thing honestly to investigate gmempte te in.
seizure of the complete telegraphic file of the iiuenee 1egislation’ and quite another thing to seek
HV6 Ilewspapers in the Northwest controlled by by a Qreckless and 111-opnsidgreii use of the for;
. · onen s 1
v H‘ C°w1"” °f S*i°k“"°’. v“*"“g‘°“· The $Z'§ZSr,”?§”§’rZ“rZ`1.'°iEa¥ri'?. iglrsirlgsszirgtsr Black
N cw York He,-ald`T"bune’ m_a news St0ry_ Pub` has been doing seems clear enough, not only from
1i¤h<=d March 19**1 ¤=¤¤¤¤¤¤s that Seizure rrr. acts but from his extraordinary explanations of
stated: them. The `injunction is a tempting form of relief,
“ _ ’ I but we believe the fate of the Nye investigation,
It IS klmwn th?t_ M1" Cowles papcfs hmm been after its fishing activities had passed the high mark
critical of the policies of Senator Lewis B. Schwel- of absurdity, provides a sounder precedent for deal.
lenbach, Democrat, of Washington, a committee ing with the Black hugahooy
member.”
. . 'd 1 l ` ed b the
I leave 1t to my hsteners to guess why the mes-   E-lis BEEN ria: ¥iwP1X;1;§;au Lgbcrty
. . 1 ee
sages of these particular papers were singled out ac ,0mm . f h
. . League 1S one of the particular targets o t e
for mspccuom New Inquisition. The protest I voice is not on
account of the League. The League is a quasi-
SUCH TACTICS as I have mentioned are the public organization. It has voluntarily filed
opening wedge to censorship of the press. They complete financial statements with the Clerk of
strike at the very foundation of one of the es- the House of Representatives. All receipts that
sentials of constitutional self—government—a h8V6 Wmc to It from as 22*133 ¤¤¤t¤b¤¤¤s
_ press that is free of all official influence or members have bt-=<=¤1¤=¤¤=d· Every cent tha? has
coercion. been paid out for any purpose has been item-
The Baltimore Sun, one of the outstanding med' Ffh? pemtmu Off}? League Eu mitts?
.   s a e
liberal newspapers of the country, made the fol- of lcels anon m every ms ance as can
I . . . . publicly. The effort has been made to let the
owing comment 1n 1ts 1ssue of March 18th: .
largest possible number of people know where
“Wn°n nnegmms of i“‘nvid“¤1$—¤°m¤ of them ‘ we stand and why. Instead of trying to hide our
communications between lawyer and client-—a1·e Views Wo have Prooloimod thom from tho house
seized under blanket subpoena, when telegrams from Th L h th- t com: ai It will
a publisher to his employes in Washington are taken tOpS' fz caguc as no lng F) 8 ° , ,
over by a Senate committee on a speeious pretext, gladly give the Bleek Cemnnttee anything It
it is clear that the decent limits upon governmental has that may be desired. The League 1S not
P°“'°" h“"° b°°” °x°°°d°d- The °°¤V6¤ii<>¤¤l 1'¢PlY _ protesting on its own account, even though it is
of Senator Black to all protests has been, 111 effect: very Suro it would novol. havoo aroused tho on_
These are bad people who insist on “working in
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 tagonism of the Black Committee if it had
favored instead of opposed the unconstitutional
acts of the Roosevelt administration. But we
maintain that acts of the Black Committee and ·
of the Federal Communications Commission
under the direction of the Black Committee
have definitely violated the Fourth Article of
the Bill of Rights which protects you and me
in our "persons, houses, papers and effects 5
against unreasonable searches and seizures.” Q
And we challenge the power of a Senatorial
Committee to ignore the restrictions of the Con-
stitution.
This provision of the Bill of Rights expresses
, the guarantee of the right of privacy. For cen-
turies its meaning has been summarized in the
saying, "Every man’s house is his castle.”
To paraphrase the immortal words of Wil-
liam Pitt, the elder-—-“The poorest man may in
his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the
Government of the United States. It may be .
frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow
through it, the storms may enter, the rain may
enter—but the President of the United States
V cannot enter. All his forces dare not cross the A
threshold of that ruined tenement.”
THREE WEEKS AGO I suggested that my
radio listeners utilize the resources and facilities `
of the American Liberty League to formulate a p
national petition of protest against this tyran-
nical invasion of fundamental rights by the
Black Committee and the Communications Com-
mission. In response to that suggestion peti- j
tions bearing many thousands of names have Y
been received at League headquarters in Wash- A
ington. They are still coming in increasing ,
numbers. Once more I invite my listeners to
take part in this mammoth protest. If you wish
to be numbered among those who desire to ex-
press themselves, write the American Liberty
League, National Press Building, Washington,
D. C., and copies of the petition blanks will be A
sent to you at once. c
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