The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-24

had done and not what it was feared they
would do
To his thinking the judges had not yet
done anything to be impeached for, and
the reasons assigned by the prosecution
for this extraordinary proceeding Would
be laughed at even in a magistrates
court"
Here he summoned to his aid the
shadowy form of the late Chiet Justce
Faircloth" and made the startling an
nouncement that if the lives of his clients
were 'blighted," then "the name OF FAR
cloth will be forever damned.
Having flung to his hearers this pleas
ant thought Mr.. Busbee grew suddenly
tender of heart, and announced his for
giveness of the sins of those who had
not thought as he had. He declared that
! 1.-The little ribald license OF the press
beats unnoticed" around his proud head,
! for I'VE know that it meets with the con-
| tempt and disapproval of the managers
| for the House."
| Having laid this fattering Junction to
| his soul Mr.. Busbee swan again OUT
| into the sea of politics. He begged Sen
I ators, in considering the case at issue,
| to forget the party to which they De
| longed declaring that when we nave
| entered these sacred portals the oDilSa-
! tions of party fall from the back OF Sen
! ators as naturally as the burden slipped
| from the shoulders of Pilgrim at the foot
| of the Cross
The speaker said he dwelt on this phase
| of the question because II believe that
! if this unseen but powerful microbe,
| which predominated in the House, can
| be eradicated verdict will already have
been secured
Then he took up a report of the john
/ son Impeachment trial and read the rea-
| sors assigned by the FIVE Republican
| Senators who in that trial voted against
| their marty. This all sounded fine and
biob hut Mr.. Busbee forgot to tell his
| auditors that after this these me1i
| though at that time among the leaders
/ AZ their party, were never again heard
| Of politically: that though the Johnson inn
| peachment verdict has ever been held
4 righteous and just, the FIVE Republicans
who deserted their party in that crisis
| nv that act dug their political grave
1t would hardly have been proper for
! Mr. Busbee to have told this in MS
| speech. but IL is none the less an IN
/ 1--WE have been told that party neces-
| sitv requires conviction" declared Mr..
| Busbee loudly. Then in a stage whisper
| and with a COLLINS will git-you-if-you-
don't-look -out expression on his race
| asked: Have you not heard it?' Now
a little louder: Its been whispered
around. Has it not reached your ears
i Everybody else has heard II" Then he
told Senators they were not responsible
for the mistakes of the House; Let
the dead past bury its dead
Now with high piping voice that was
little short Of Shrek he threw TINS
challenge to the empty chairs and vacant
galleries: stand up and say TO me TINS
/ dav. Does any man within the sound OF
NV voice believe that if these men were
of the same political party as the ma
iority OF the House these proceedings
would have been instituted? Wouldn't
it be laughable to even suggest? No man
i can say it and speak the truth.
This Mr. Busbee seemed to think was
an abracadabra that would settle the
whole scope of politics And having done
that he would, he said, state 1.-The exact
facts" in the case and then discuss the
law.
The statement of facts was much the
same as that related by every one who
has vet spoken, except that he could
find no Irregularities in the proceedings,
defended the Auditor and Treasurer Tor
bringing the suit and praised Theophilus
Whites management of the Shellhsh IN
dustry
''The case white VS.. Auditory, was
submitted to the court simply to get the
courts construction of the law. The Au-
ditor said, / don't know whether you
! are entitled to $500 or $780, and he asked
the court to tell him. The treasurer
a and the Auditor consented to the juris-
1 MN hnsCi oh
ouimans county simply for convenience
IN get # heard by the court as early as
possible" ".
And as to this objection on the ques-
ton of venue, he said there wasn't a
LAWYER in the Senate who didn't know 1t
was "simply rot" AS he said this the
speaker was in his earnestness yelling at
the top of his voice, and Capt. Cooke, one
of his associates with that sense OF the
humorous for which he is famous, said
quietly: "A little louder, please
Mr.. Busbee lowering his voice.: II
won't do it,"
He now proceeded in a lower tone with
argument, reading a number of authori-
ties, and adding:
This action white VS.. Auditory is
lust like Bailey VS.. Caldwell and Gotten
VS.. Ellis The Treasurer and Auditor
asked instructions from the court They
received it, and but for what happened
. afterward that would have been the end
Of it,"
Mr.. Busbee now called attention to the
fact that somebody had been ''heaplng
obloquy'' on him about this case But
since he had saved the State $1,000 by
his lone argument in the Supreme court
he kuessed he could stand 1t, especially
as he had had many years practice al
standing it,
He declared that since the attempted
Impeachment of the judges in ONO one
hundred years ago not one single judge
had been impeached in America TOT ar
erroneous opinion, and that no man mad
ever been impeached in America for
case of this sort or anything like 1t.
And now he turned his attention to
Judge Clark. saying
They talk about putting the hands
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