The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-05

were entitled to compensation. he
thought it was only right they should
be
Mr. Rountree thought it very prop
able they were, but said they had not
cared to raise the question.
Judge Connor thought it would De
exceedingly dangerous to make any eX-
pertinent in such an important case. ne
considered that the House Of Represeh-
tatives of the people of North Carolina
ought to remain in session during the
trial. THE decision Of the Supreme
court CT Kansas, he said, may not be
law. lone swallow does not make a
summer. If there should be shadow
of doubt. the proceeding becomes IN
volved in painful embarrassment. The
unexpected is always likely to happen
The old beaten path is the safest, IN
dealing with a constitutional question OF
such grave import. I am opposing the
immediate passage of this bill, not be-
cause the thing ought not to be done,
but because ] do not see my way clear
to say it ought to be done.
Mr.. Rountree asked if it was not the
universal immemorial custom of parlia-
mentry bodies to authorize committees
to act for the entire body.
Judge Conner said a committee could
certainly be empowered to investigate
for the entire body. He went on: 1T
behooves the dignity of North Carolina
that her representatives should be at the.
bar every moment of the proceedings,
in case anything should develop which
would necessitate some action on their
part. 1t would be great inconvenience,
thing
it is our duty to see it through 1t
ought to be shown that it is not a
'tinkling symbol or sounding brass to
say that we are the representatives Of
the people.
whether or not the Assembly should
sit or not. but whether the members of
the Court OF Impeachment should be
paid the four dollars a day or not.
Judge Connor said he had not the
slightest objection to that, if it was
legal to do So but that the bill referred
to the court sitting alter the adjourn
ment. He moved if there was no OBJ
lection, that the bill be referred to the
Judiciary Committee Mr. Rountree did
object.
Mr. Craig said he did not think there
requiring the House TO go before the
Bar of the Senate during the trial. The
active duties of the House ceased, he
said, when we went to the Bar OF the
Senate some days ago. This House has
no duties to perform in the impeach
ment. 1t has chosen a Board of Manag
ers to conduct the trial"
Mr. Rountree said that the only ne
cessity for this would he # the House
should wish to prefer new charges and
formulate additional articles.
Mr.. Craig said the articles were now
in the nature of true blu that had
been found and was now in the hands
Of another court. over which they had
no control. 1T seems tC me unreason-
able to ask the members Of the House
to stay here without pay. Able and dis
tinguished lawyers have investigated
the matter. and there is no doubt that
the court can draw their per diem, sit
ting after the adjournment"
Judge Graham said it was a matter
of the gravest Importance and had
given the managers much trouble The
majority at first did not think we had
the right to pay the members of the
Court if Impeachment. After looking
in the Constitution of our State and
others, we came tos the conclusion