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sent of the managers, they were stricken

| sent Of the managers, they were stricken
out.
Judge Connor then said: Painfully and
regretfully ! have been forced to saw
| that the conclusions reached in this artf-
Gle are true. Ny mind has been forced
to that conclusion, and l am compelled to
vote accordingly"
| Mr.. Zachary moved the adoption of arti-
J Gle 5.
Mr.. Blythe, Republican, of Henderson.
then rose and said in part: Il have not
at any time believed that these judges
are guilty, and l have not found a bit
of testimony proving it. AS | have be-
| fore protested, | now again protest
| against this proceeding. Many of you will
regret your action in making this page of
| history that we are now printing. wish
| to have my vote recorded upon the pages
of the journal of this Legislature and
| this history"
The article was then adopted.
Mr.. Rountree moved that the articles
| be adopted as a whole. Judge Connor
asked if that was necessary. The further
| reading was dispensed with. Division was
called on the vote. Fifty stood to vote
aye, and twenty-six to vote no.
Mr.. Winston then moved that the COM
mittee Of the whole arise and that the
chairman report to the House that the
committee of the whole have had the
, articles under consideration and recom-
mend that they be adopted The commit
report to the House.
The question then came up on the
adoption of the committees report Mr..
Masten called for the ayes and noes. Call
sustained. Result of vote:
Those voting for adoption were: Allen
of Wayne, Ardrey. Bannerman, Barco,
Barnhill Beasley, Blalock, Blount, Brad
sher, Britain, Carraway. Craig. Curtis,
Daniels of Vance. Daughtridge. Ellen,
Fields, Garrett, Gattis Graham, Harris.
Hayes, Jenkins, Lane, Lawrence. Nc
Kthan, Mann. Mauney, McCulloch Nc
Iver Morgan, Morphew, Nicholson
Owens of Tyrrell, Pearce, Pearson, Robin
son of Anson. Rothrock. Rountree. Sea-
well, Simms, Smith, Stewart, Taylor,
Thompson. Ward, Welch, Whitaker of
Forsyth, White of Halifax White of
Jones, Willard, Wilson, Winston and
Zachary-50.
Those voting no were Baldwin, Benbow
},
lison (Rep), Burnett (RepD, Galloway
(Rep.) Carson (Rep), Coleman (Rep.),
Connor, Dean (Rep), Duncan (Pop),
Ebbs (Rep), Gather, Hood Isben (Rep.).
Mastin (Rep), MacFarland (RepD. McIn-
tcsh (Rep). Mclean, Morris, owen OF
Sampson (Pop). Patterson, Payne (Rep.)
Petree (Rep) Reinhardt, Sheets (Rep.),
Stevenson, Watts, Weaver (Rep), Whita-
kpr 0f
Mason. voting AYE" paired with DuIs
voting no"
Mr.. Britain, explaining his vote.
stated that he was present at the com
mittee, and was excused from voting on
that occasion. He had not wevered in his
opinion, however. When the question
came up in the House on the resolution.
he paired with Mr. Baldwin, the latter
gentleman being opposed to the resolu-
ton. newspaper report had him as
voting no and Mr.. Baldwin aye errone-
ously. ~ have been, Mr.. Britain said.
in favor of the proceeding all the time.
Judge Connor said there were two of the
articles he could vote for. (Referring to
the first and ffth.1 The others he could
not support, and so he was compelled to
vote no on the adoption as whole.
Mr. Daughtridge said he was not
present when the Craig resolution was
acted upon in the House. and he desired
to be recorded as voting aye
Mr. Winston then sent forward the
following resolution: THAT a message be
sent to the Senate, informing that hon
orable body that the House of Represen-
tatives have adopted specific articles of
impeachment against David NJ. Furches. !
late Associate Justice, now Chief Justice.
and Robert NJ. Douglas, Associate Jus
tice, of the Supreme Court of North
Carolina, for high crimes and misde-
meanors in office. and that the House
have elected the following gentlemen
managers to conduct such impeachment:
Messrs. Allen of Wayne, Craig, Graham
Rountree. Nicholson, Shannanhouse
Spainhour, Seawell and Hayes. and have
directed said managers to carry to the
Senate the articles agreed upon by the
House, to be exhibited in maintenance of
the Impeachment against said David NJ |
Furches and Robert NJ. Douglas as afore- |
said, and that the Senate be res9ectfulIy |
asked to name the hour when such artl-
cles of impeachment shall be presented to
the Senate by the managers heretofore |
electd by tn House."
IN reply to this. a message was re-
ceved from the Senate to the effect that |
the managers of the House would be re- |
ceived - 9:15.
At that hour, in accordance with a reso- |
luton introduced by Mr.. Winston the |
two by two, headed by Judge
Allen, and followed by the Speaker, |
chief clerk and members of the House.
two by two, proceeded to the Senate
chamber and submitted the articles of i'm
peachment.
~ THE SENATE.
A brief message was received from |
the House at 2:10 announcing that that |
body had passed the articles of inn !
peachment against Chief Justice Fur
,hes and Associate Justice Dougles and |
was ready to present the articles to the |
Senate.
Senator London introduced resolu |
ion informing the House that the SEN |
ate would receive the articles at 2:15. |
This was adopted.
on motion of Senator London the |
light side of the Senate chamber was
set apart for the exhibit of the articles
IF impeachment. The impeachment |
managers from the House, attended by |
Ia Io,s Ii of hot