My dear Mr. Kellogg:
I very much like your proposition to Governor Fuller, and shall be glad to become part of a committee who is pushing in that direction. I had already sent telegrams along that line both to Governor Fuller and to President Coolidge a week ago. I am enclosing copies of each.
I have talked the matter over several times with Raymond Robins who, with his wife, are visiting Mary [Dreier] at Southwest Harbor, which is on Mt. Desert Island. I imagine he does not wish to have the fact published, but he has seen both President Coolidge and Mr. Borah in regard to the case, stressing the appointment of a commission, and he feels that having told them both that he would be perfectly satisfied with this action, that he cannot now do anything more about it.
I never signed a petition for a commission which I felt was a mistake, so that I feel quite free to urge other lines, but I have every confidence in the plan for getting at the files of the Department of Justice. Senator Borah, as you know, is very legalistic and devoted to the Constitution, but he might be willing to urge Governor Fuller to lengthen the reprieve until the Legislature of Massachusetts could amend what is obviously a very curious law, which does not permit the Supreme Court to pass upon the facts of the case. I am sending you a copy of the telegram I have just wired to Senator Borah.
Will you please make my peace with the National Committee and believe that I will do anything you ask of me in the direction of saving the men?
Faithfully yours,
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