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May Possibly Move for Com
mittee Reference.
BUT THIS COURSE
is HARDLY EXPECTED
More Likely that; Fight Over DC f''n'ng g;
the Charges viii Be Along Lines ],
Made IN the House-Case Has
Been Of Great Cost to the
State-Talk Of Speedily
Ending About Capitol

4 Another interesting page will be turned
In tho Campbell Crawford story, but this
one will be on the floor Of the Senate to-
day, all the other proceedings, running
through months and months. having taken
place on the House side, either in the
main body or in the Committee for Courts
4 Of Justice.
1t Is around the Senate action that
the greatest amount Of public interest
prevails at this time. The resolutions
and reports formulated by the House
were passed by In the Senate yesterday
upon motion OF Senator Massin, Of Mel
son. who is looked upon as Judge Camp
BELLS closest friend in the upper branch.
This action Is not taken to indicate any
thing further than that Senator'S prob
ably desire night to sleep over and
think Of their probably action.
THE same fight had in the House on
Monday over the matter Is looked for
In the Senate to-day. Some one will
Mr.. Folkes In the lower branch. which
was finally Withdrawn, that the sDecitt-
cations upon which Judge Campbell be
finally tried be only those upon which
tho findings OF the committee were unan-
iInous.
II this shall be lost the next probable
move will be to strike out the specifica-
ton as to the liquor traffic at Amherst
Courthouse, and then the one as to the
cowhidng affair. On the former the COM
n,ittee Iof the House stood seven to SIX,
and on the latter ten to three, and the
House. by vote Of twenty-one to thirty,
refused to strike out either.
WILL HARDLY REFER.
It is said To be within the province Of
the Senate to refer the whole matter to
q committee for report, but 1t not likely
that such course will prevail as evil
IDENTIFY there is no desire on the part of
anyone to delay the final disposition Of
the case.
Should the Senate adopt the charges
as they went from the House, the mat
ter will come back to the latter body,
and Judge Campbell will be given the
constitutional notice that upon a certain
day and hour. not less than twenty days
from the final formulation of the charges
by the two houses, the General Assembly
will proceed to the consideration and
vote upon n joint resolution Of removal.
And 1t Is here that the rub" will come,
-Fifty-one affirmative votes are required
In the House and twenty-one in the SEN
ate.
WOULD MEAN yIND1CATION.
II it shall fall of passage in either
branch that Is q finality, and Judge
Campbell remains on the bench. This
failure will. of course, be construed by
his friends as yndication from the
charges against him. as 1t will mean that
there will not be the required constitu-
5tional number voting for removal In the
two houses. WA
J. It is being freely said that this will be
tho fate Of the matter in one branch or
the other. but those who are behind the
report declare that II members are ap-
sent in sufficient numbers to make the
vote unusually light. there Will be car
or Of either or both houses where there
shall appear such discrepancy. Upon the
question Of final adoption, If there shall
he a failure and 1t Is apparent that ~
is the result of the lack OF attendance,
I motion to reconsider will likely be
made and passed by. and then the hloion
for the call Of the House VIII 20 maue.
1T is construed by some that the ~
cused Judge has the right to counsel on
stha door Of the two main bodies. but
tbera has been no move looking to that
{ond and some prominent members OF
the House take the ground that the
constitutional provision on tnls suoJecs
extends only to the committees OF tlle
Legislature.
AT A HEAVY COST
The campbell-crawford Investigation
Inc had a whitening effect upon inc ~o'N
Of the General Assembly.
MI has been UP actively either peiole
thas Rouse Courts of Justice Comm'ttee
or before one OF the main bodies Hlore
thnn half OF the actual Legislative uay ~
since the middle of January and still "
Is not disposed Of by any means.
n IT'S cost In direct expense to the state
hos run far into tho thousands, to say
nothing of the Indirect expense IT mas
entnied. which Ia even far greater.
The result Ia that a serious condition OF
q fairs exists Mt the Capitol The at
tendance upon both branches daily Is
slim and the calendars are clogged with
important matters,
Day after day these bllls are passed
by, often because of slim attendance, but
in fairness It should be said that II IS
more often the case that the Campbell
matter is up. sweeping everything else
aside with the force Of n cyclone.
tt has been true almost from the In
cept!on of the fight over the famous AM
herst affair, that when It was IN N any
shape before either house or any OF tnelr
committees. that nothing else OF 'mpor-
lance was given serious consideration
about the Capitol, and many members
are regretting that 1t should nave col'le
in at this time to infringe upon ne Wost
important legislative work Or ne use'
It Is likely to remain undisposed OF toF
many days yet, from, present 'iia'ca t p'''''
Hon. Joshua lowering.