The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-25
TO PRESENT
TWO REPORT IS
Committee Cannot Agree on
Case Of Campbell.
TO MEET AGAIN TUESDAY
At That Time the Conclusions Of the
Body on the Legality of the House
Procedure is to Be Made
Known.
TO MEET AGAIN TUESDAY

The Senate Committee for Courts of
Justice will formulate its report, or rather
Its reports, on the first clause of the
Shackelford resolution. referring the
Campbell case to that committee, on next
Tuesday afternoon at o'clock. 1t can
be already stated with positiveness that
there will be two reports from that com
mittee-a minority and majority report
or two reports signed by six members
each One of these reports will declare
that In the opinion of the signers the
action of the House of Delegates on the
resolution to remove Judge G. j. Camp
bell, of Amherst has not been in &C
law. and that the defects in the record
OF the House to procedure and in the
resolution transmitted to the Senate must
be cured before the Senate may properly
and legally consider the resolution. The
other view is that there has been no
defect either technical or material, in
the action of the House, and that It's
procedure has been regular and that 1t
is legal for the Senate to act upon the
resolution as transmitted
Stood Five to Four.
or the nine members of the, committee
present OH record yesterday afternoon five
favor one report and four the other.
Three others were absent, and their posi-
tons with regard to the two resolutions
have not been made known. Upon the
position Of these three members hangs
the question as to which view shall be-
come the majority report of the COM
mittee on this clause OF the resolution
of reference, and which the minority re-
port, or, In tho event that six sign each
report, who will be the slgners in each
case.
There were present at the meeting of
the committee Mr.. McIlwaine, chairman;
Messrs. Byars. Watkins, Bruce, Cogblll,
Walker, Harvey, and Messrs. Opie and
Bryant were present a portion of the
time the committee sat and recorded
their attitudes on the conflicting views
of the questions at issue. Five, or GER
tainy four, Of those recorded subscribe
to one view, and four or five to the other.
Messrs. Whitehead, Hartman and Sears
were not present.
-Four of the nine members record
ed yesterday are believed to take the
view already stated on the floor Of the
Senate by the chairman, that the proceed
ure has not been according to the law
and the Constitution in its application to
tNlS CuSe, liSoISlIlSf Tie lelLOPdl VI IL
Judge and the proper procedure thereto
necessary. Four others are generally un-
derstood to take,s.the other view; viz:
that the procedure of the House Is with
out flaw, and that the Senate may legally
act on the joint resolution as soon as
the committee shall have formula ted and
reported its conclusions upon the evil
dence in the case.
One Clause at Time.
The inference is plain that the commit
tee will report upon one of the two clauses
OF the resolution of reference, and thero-
after take up the latter one as to the
conclusions on the evidence in the case.
The committee in the language of the
E Shackelford resolution are required to
report iItheir conclusions upon the evil
dence taken and printed in the cause"
A difference of view is likely as to whe-
Their this requires the committee to re-
port their conclusions upon the legality
OF the printed testimony, or upon the
suf1lcency Of the evidence to justify the
adoption of tho resolution of removal.
The first construction is one more gem
orally held. But In either event 1t is be-
l!eyed that the committee will require
considerable time to formulate a report
upon this clause of the resolution. Even
IL it be determined that tho committee are
expected to report their conclusions upon
tho legality of the evidence as a whole, 1t
Will probably not broaden the scope Of
the committees work as much as If they
were expected to dissect the record In Its
consideration Of the matter. II, on the
other hand, the committee be expected
to report its conclusions upon the suf-
fieiency OF the evidence taken and print
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