0194 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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"The President ( of the Board Dr. Westmoreland) then addressed
the Board at length on his reasons for thinking that the Sec-
retary should be requested to resign, the subjects dealt with
being too numerous and too lengthy to be included here in their
entirety. After the President's address, the Board adjourned
and reassembled again at four O'clock in the afternoon, at which
time Dr. Harris' side of the controversy was heard."

" The Secretary not having been present at what transpired
following this was not in a position to take note as to the
proceeding, but was informed by the members on adjournment that
it was their wish that he should still continue as Secretary
and Director of the Laboratory."

"The President then made a short statement in support of
his protest against the Secretary, and reiterated some of the
charges made at the previous meeting, and in addition, made ob-
jection against the Secretary's action in sending out antitoxine
No. 64, which had been shown by tests made in Washington to be
of less potency than it was originally labelled and also condemn-
ing the Secretary for replacing Dr. Paulin and person-
ally taking up the investigation of the malarial epidemic around
the pond of the Central of Georgia Railway Company. The President
then stated that he would publish the charges against the
Secretary if the Board did not take such action regarding them
as he thought right and proper. At the conclusion of the Presi-
dent's address, a talk was made by Mr. Doughty, in which he took
exception to the former's attitude, and insisted--"

" At the conclusion of the President's address a talk was
made by Mr. Doughty, in which he took exception to the former's
attitude, and insisted that every member of the Board wished
to do what was best for the State Board of Health and the people
of Georgia, and that everyone connected with the Board of
Health should be willing to bow to the decision of this body. He
deprecated strongly the idea of giving to the press charges
the publication of which could do no good, and which could
only result in harm."

" On the President and Secretary being recalled an hour later,
the President pro tem. Dr. Benedict, read the following resol-