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...Hogan, I do not believe that I want to hear any more. I have listened to the case very fully. It has been fairly argued on both sides. It does not make any difference whether it is Mr. Silas Strawn...
...attorney for Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago, Mr. Hogan had just argued for a permanent injunction to keep Western Union Telegraph Co.'s Washington office from delivering to Senator Hugo Black's Lobby Investigating Committee all telegrams sent or received by the potent firm of Winston, Strawn & Shaw. Mr. Hogan's argument was that by subpoenaing wholesale all the telegrams sent or received in Washington between Feb. 1 and Dec. 1, 1935, the Senate Committee had violated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution which guarantees the people security "in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable...
...days later Justice Wheat made legal history by signing a permanent injunction forbidding the surrender of the Strawn telegrams to the Senate Committee...
...With the Strawn action as a lead, newshawks investigated, soon turned up a surprising set of facts. The Black Committee, it developed, had seized the Feb. 1-Dec. 1 telegrams of some 1,000 firms, organizations and individuals. Some of this booty had been obtained by the Committee's own subpoenas, of which it had issued more than 2,000 to Western Union and Postal Telegraph offices throughout the land. Others, it was reported, had been secured for it by the Federal Communications Commission, whose clerks were said to have copied off more than 13,000 messages in Western...
Above courts of law was exactly where Senator Black promptly declared himself to be. Securing postponement until this week of a hearing on making the Strawn injunction permanent, he arranged for a legal representative of his Committee to appear beside Western Union as "a friend of the court." On the Senate floor he cried: "In my judgment, if any judge ever issued an injunction to prevent the delivery of papers summoned by this body, the Congress should immediately enact legislation taking away that jurisdiction from the courts, for Congress creates the jurisdiction of those courts. If I had any idea...