Brief, pithy, non-controversial was the annual report of Attorney-General William DeWitt Mitchell. Like his predecessors, he requested special legislation from Congress which would permit a husband and wife to testify for (and against) each other in criminal cases; a grand jury to sit after the end of the court term; a consolidation to be made of all U. S. legal activities within the Department of Justice. For himself he asked littleremoval by Congress of the present restriction which prohibits the Department from employing as a special assistant any lawyer who in his private practice...
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