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Because Mooney is a first offender, California's Governor Clement Calhoun Young is empowered to pardon him without the Supreme Court's recommendation, on his own initiative. But because the facts in the two cases are so intertwined, Governor Young was being guided largely by the Supreme Court's hearing in the Billings case. Last week he summoned MacDonald to Sacramento to hear him repeat his recantation...
...California, one Milton K. Young is running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination against Governor Clement Calhoun Young. In Massachusetts, Walter I. Butler, onetime welterweight boxing champion of New England, is out for the Republican Senatorial nomination against Villiam Morgan Butler, onetime chairman of the Republican National Committee. But in no State is the confusion of similar or identical names on a primary ballot greater than in Nebraska where a reform law prohibits any distinguishing mark or address after a candidate's name...
...pardon petitions of second offenders, refused to approve the release of Warren Billings, onetime labor agitator jailed for life for bombing San Francisco's Preparedness Day parade 14 years ago. Thomas Mooney, another agitator sentenced with Billings, was only a first offender. He could and did petition Governor Clement Calhoun Young directly (TIME, July 14). Last week the Governor shattered Mooney's immediate hope, refused him a pardon also...
Last week the Supreme Court of California dashed Billings' hope for release after 14 years' imprisonment when, after a long review of his case, it advised Governor Clement Calhoun Young not to pardon him. Because he was a two-time felon, Billings' application for pardon had, under the law, to be reviewed by the Supreme Court. Mooney on the other hand could and did apply directly to Governor Young. That official had declared that the essential facts were the same in both cases and that his action in each would be guided by the court...
Yesterday was Friday the thirteenth. Yesterday the Senate passed the new tariff bill by the slim margin of two votes. That was as expected. The prestige of the United States Senate is not what it used to be. The days of Calhoun and Webster are gone. Unfortunately, however, the power of the Senate remains the same...