St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-16

| TAO q judge than the same words did
when applied to an ordinary citizen, but
| The held that there had been no evidence
| submitted to show that Judge Ives had
been guilty Of anything approximating
the construction of Justice Brewer
Judge Ives was in a district in which
crime was rampant, and criminals
were defiant and boastful of their abil-
1ty to escape punishment. Judge Ives
had right to grant immunity to any
criminal by whose aid he could reach
| the greater and more persistent of
tenders. The speaker made the point
| that the court was empowered by
| law to entirely suspend sentence. Why.
then, could he not commute or sus-
pend a part of the punishment or pen
| atty as a means of reaching other and
greater criminals. He cited authorities
| to establish the correctness of this
position.
1t would: be a grave, a serious and
an inexcusable mistake to impeach
Judge Ives on merely technical
| grounds, where so little had been shown
| to establish the theory of intentional
| wrong. He was surprised, he said, that
| in this attempt to impeach Judge Ives
| so little had been submitted in the
form of evindence to show an intent to
| do wrong, and so little to show even
technical errors. There were few
judges Of the district court who had
been upon the bench for any length of
time but had made errors, and if we
| only knew 1t there were many good
| judges who had made more mistakes
| than Judge Ives.
Mr.. Johns followed Mr.. Cant, simply
| correcting the statement that he had
admitted there was no evidence of
moral turpitude, and Mr. Jones' ex-
planned the statement of Mr. Gibbs
that he JoneS was willing at one
time to agree not to impeach. He
| said Mr.. Gibbs was anxious to agree
on verdict to dismiss the impeach-
ment proceedings, and find that Judge
Ives was incompetent, intolerant and
arbitrary, and he had been willing to
| sign this verdict at that stage of the
| proceedings.
FIEG STRIKES HARD.
There was some dispute as to wheth-
| er others should speak for the minor
ity, but without waiting for the settle
ment of this question Mr.. Feig, who
| mad been chosen to close for the ma
| Jorlty, launched into the discussion
from his point of view. It was in
| comprehensive, he said why a mem
| Der of the judiciary committee who
| mad not heard one single sentence of
the testimony, should have signed the
| minority report. He objected to the
| statement that East Grand Forks was
! a sink hole of iniuuity, when not q
word of evidence was before the house
| or the committee to show that East
| Grand Forks was worse than any other
| town in the state
The language of Judge Ives letter to
| Sprague granting immunity to GRIM
inals was not immunity to one or a
| dozen, but to hundreds, if necessary. in
order to imoeach and convict the
officials who were his personal and
political enemies. He was ready and
willing to grant immunity to all of the
criminals of the district in order to use
| them as instruments to punish the
officials who were his enemies.
referring to the contempt proceed
| ings in the Russell case, he declared
the incarceration and subsequent per-
secution of Russell to be a most fla
| grant and corrupt official act, for which
there was no justification or excuse.
This man had been jailed upon the un-
supported charge of the court and had
been given no chance for his liberty
Some of the minority had cited author
tiles comparing this case to certain
proceedings in which the Russian this
tie had figured. The comparison he
said was ridiculous. What was the
RUSSIAN thistle compared to human
rights and human liberty? If he want
ed Russian parallel the gentleman
should have invoked the precedent of
Russian atrocity and Russian oppres-
sion. The minority insist that no Inn
peachment could be had until a bad
/ motive were shown. They would have
us wait until Judge Ives came into
court and confessed bad motive, since
that was the only way to satisfy the
minority.
Concerning the expediency of i'm
peachment it need only be said that the
house owed the state a duty, and that
was to find for impeachment If the
evidence justified it, and then let the
senate do its duty. The expense
should not be considered; this was a
question of right and wrong, and no
mercenary motive should be permitted
to influence this house. But for fear
there should be any one who feared the
expense he read an estimate to show
that the expense would not exceed
$4,000, and this sum should not, he
thought be considered for a moment.
Citizens Of Fourteenth judicial district
went into court with fear, trembling
and doubt when their interests were at
stake, well knowing that not justice
but only malice, revenge and personal
ambition would govern the rulings of
the court. These citizens were reputa-
BILE taxpayers, entitled to ali the rights
of citizenship and it was the duty Of
this house to grant these citizens the
relief they asked.
SCOFIELD'S POSTSCRIPT. Il
Mr.. Scofleld closed for the minority
by agreement, repeating some dozens
Of variations on the sink hole of in
lQuity business at East Grand Forks,
putting Mr.. Juliar to sleep in the first
round, and pretty nearly everybody
else before he finished. Judge Ives, he
said, had been his intimate friend for
years, and he was satisfied that Judge
Ives was simply inspired by a noble
desire to eradicate the evils of the
community in which he resided.
He appealed to the house to protect
ouuSo Ives III his uecllnlnS years,
when this persecution was following 4
him.
Mr.. Dahl moved the previous ques-
ton, but withdrew the motion on the
request of Mr.. Feig, and Mr. Johns
urged that many members had gone
home on the supposition that no vote
would be taken.
Mr.. Jacobson said members had no
business to be absent, and insisted on
the previous question. Mr.. Feig tried
to induce Mr.. Jacobson to withdraw
the call for the previous question, but
he declined to do so, and Mr. Feig
ripped out with, "All right, then; I'll
demand call of the house and hold
1t until every man is present"
This was vigorously cheered, and the
call of the house was ordered.