St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-12
CANNOT IMPEACH.
Committee Stands 9 to 8, but
Minority Expects to
Win.
E.lR. IVES Is ON THE RACK.
And His Enemies Are Closely
Pressing Charges Against
Him:
GIBBS AND DOUGLAS DEFEND
Final Hearing to Be Had This
Evening--Text Of TWO
Reports.
GIBBS AND DOUGLAS DEFEND

The majority and minority of the
respective reports to the house this
morning, and Notwithstanding the
fact that the reports were not prop
erly before the house for discus
sion upon their merits a good deal
was disclosed to show the temper
of the house upon the question of i'm
parchment. Members of the major
ity themselves admit that it will be
impossible to secure the necessary
votes to impeach.
Mr.. Johns, of the majority, threw
some hot shot into the camp of the
conservatives, declaring that the re-
port of the minority was the most
unique whitewash ever perpetrated
by a. Minnesota legislature. Mr..
Johns holds that Of the minority only
two heard the evidence, and those
who heard it were 4aymen. OF the
nine lawyers who heard all the evil
dence, he claims eight as favorable
to Impeachment, while those opposed
are nearly all laymen.
Mr.. Gibbs, the leader of the min
GRITTY, tried yesterday to change the
date of the special order, as Mr..
Douglas, who is to make the argu-
ment against impeachment, will be
absent from the city. His first mo-
ton was to set the date for Saturday
evening, and that failing, he moved
to make it last evening. Both mo-
tons being defeated, the hearing
will be had as per original motion,
Friday evening.
1t was proposed by the majority
that the two reports should be SUBJ
mitted and voted upon without de-
bate, but this proposition met with
strong and successful opposition. 1t
was finally agreed that Vac reports
should go to the printer without a
formal reading before the house,
and should be given a full hearing
this evening, though many mem
bers are of the opinion that it will
not be finished at one sitting.
The text of the majority report is
as follows;
To the Honorable House of Repre-
sentatives of the State of Minnesota:
Mr.. Speaker and Gentlemen: Your
committee on judiciary of the house of
representatives, to whom was re-
ferred the petition for the impeach-
ment of Frank Ives, judge of the
Fourteenth judicial district of Mime
sofa, with instructions to send for wit
nesses and papers, and to examine
into the truth of the matters in the
said petition alleged, and to report to
this house thereon, respectfully report
as follows:
Your committee decided to hold the
investigation in secret, and to allow
10 attorney to represent either party
in such investigation, but decided to
allow witnesses to appear for the re-
Spondent, as well as for the petition
ers. a large amount of testimony has
been taken, and numerous records of
the different counties constituting that
district have been examined and re-
ceived in evidence. The character and
standing of the witnesses examine
on both sides have been in the main
very good, and the contradictions in
the testimony have been much less
than might have been expected. The
matter is one of the greatest impor-
lance to the people Of that district, as
we'll as to the people of the state, and
the investigation has been quite full
and complete. and your committee
have examined forty witnesses rela-
tive thereto, and have given the mat
ter such careful consideration as its
Importance demands.
AS to specifications or charges in the
1
and 20. the committee find from the
evidence that the same are true, but
not such as would justify the investi-
cation of Judge Ives by the legisla-
ture, and not of sufficient gravity to
warrant their consideration at this
time.
AS to Specification No. 4, which is
as follows:
CONCERNING INDICTMENTS.
THAT at the general November, 1894
term of the district court in Norman
county, the said judge presiding, there
were seven indictments against one
Herringer, and also four other indict-
mentS against four other persons, all
residents of Ada, in said county. All
of said indictments were for unlaw-
fully selling intoxicating liquors with
out license therefor. That he, as
such judge, through Partially and dis
regard of the law, failed and refused
to impose on the said persons, after
they had pleaded guilty to said indict-
meHts, any penalty which the law pre-
scribes, but. in violation of the law,
and through an agreement with the
defendants, imposed as the only pen
atty and sentence upon each of them,
for each indictment to which they
pleaded guilty, a fine of $50''
Your committee find the charge to be