Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-04-06
FOR IMPROVEMENTS.
Report of lawyer Committee ON CharRes
Against Nebraska State O0aoers.

Report of lawyer Committee ON Charge
Against Nebraska State O1doers.
LINCOLN. Neb., March 31.-Impeach.
ment proceedings against three state
officials and two ex-officials are at last
in full blast and the most sensational
trial ever known in Nebraska's history
since the impeachment OF Gov. Butler
will soon be in progress. The long-de-
layed blow fell shortly before noon
Thursday, when the advisory commits
sion on impeachment reported to the
house that all the evidence had been
read and it was the unanimous opinion
of the three eminent lawyers that i'm
parchment proceedings would lie
against every member of the state
board of public lands and buildings
and that in justice to the state such
proceedings should be at once insti-
tuted The report was adopted by the
house this afternoon and the senate at
once, ON being notified, entered the
joint convention at 4 o'clock to prepare
articles of impeachment
The only point on which the lawyers
differed in making their report to the
legislature was with reference to the
condition of affairs at the Lincoln in.
sane asylum. Judge Pond held
that there was nothing to show
that in that case the board had
received any notice of the crooked
ness that was going on and could not
be presumed to be guilty in the alb
sence of such evidence. The other
members of the commission held, how
ever, that the board could not have
been ignorant, and, if not in collision,
had been grossly negligent and derelict
in their duty and were therefor
culpable. Judge Doane (dem.) and w.
L. Green (pop.) in their report said:
eve have heard read all the testimony taken
by said committee which has been submitted to
us and have carefully considered the same, and
In our opinion there is sufficient testimony
taken and reported by said committee to war;
rant the institution OF impeachment proceed
ings against j. G. Allen, secretary of state; A.
B. Humphrey, commissioner Of public lands and
buildings; G. H Hastings, attorney general,
and J. L. Hill, ex-treasurer of the state.
1.-The testimony shows a systematic and con.
t1nuous plundertng Of the state by one of the
contractors for furnishing supplies to the hos
ptal for the insane and in the accounts rem
dered to the board of public lands and buildings
for Material furnished and labor applied in the
construction of an addition to the penitentlary
known as the new cell house, and we recon-
mend that suit be commenced at once against
such Of the fraudulent contractors as are
financially responsible to recover back the
amount which they have so fraudulently OBJ
tanned from the state; also that suits be com.
menced against such OF the parties as the testi-
mony shows were implicated in the frauds as
aiders and abettors thereof, while in the service
OF the state, and the securities upon their bonds
in cases where bondswere given"
Judge Pond, the repu blican member
of the commission, in separate report
which favored the beginning of i'm
parchment proceedings. qualified his
statement by saying: IF said testimo-
ny be accepted as accurate"