The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-17
.SWAYNE'S BOARD BILLS
CLAYTON ARGUES FOR JUDGES
 IMPEACHMENT.
MT. Maddox of Georgia, Urges the Farmers to Form Trust, and "Fight the Devil
 With Efre.o


 With Fire"
 Washington, Jan. 16.-Debate on the Swayne impeachment case in the House today was exhaustive, dealing with many of the legal phases of the charges against Judge Swayne. The Senate resolution fixing Wednesday, February as the time for counting the clec toral vote for President and Vice. Pres ident. the proceedings to take place in the hall of the House of Representa- tives. was adopted. A resolution was agreed to providing for the collection of additional cotton statistics by the Census Bureau.
 The Burleson resolution directing the Director of the Census to collect and publish additional statistics relating to cotton was reported by MT. Crumpack- CT, of Indiana, amended so as to pro- vide that the statistics of the consump- tion of cotton, the surplus of cotton held by the manufacturers and the quantity of cotton shall be summarized September 1 each year, so as to show the cotton production and consumption of the preceding year.
 MT Livingston (Ga.), charged that If cotton reports were made at the time stated, "a break" in the cotton market would result upon each occasion that such reports were published.
 In most emphatic terms MT. Maddox (Ga-) declared that cotton farmers should protect themselves by forming trust and withholding reports from the government. Everybody he sad. was in some sort of trust against the farmer and that he must fight the devil with fire. AHer some further discussion in which the resolution was favored by MT. Williams (Miss) the resolution was agreed. The legislative. executive and iudi- cial appropriation bill was sent to conference with Messrs. Bingham (Pa.), Littauer (N. Y) and Livingston Ga. j.. conferees on the part of the House. Consideration of the Swayne inn peachment charges was then resumed, MT. Clayton (Ala,) speaking in advo- cacy of them.
 MT. Clayton, discussing the expense account of Judge Swayne argued that a strange evolution had taken place by which it was sought to excuse the Judge from a plain violation of the | law. He produced q circular whi h had been addressed to members and which bore the caption ''Swayne Not Alone" and insisted that it should not be considered in reaching a conclusion in the case because it was not q part | of the evidence.
 T repel, he vehemently declared. | the charges that the judges of this country arc guilty of putting mp at boarding houses at $1.25 d day. charg- ing up $10. and pocketing the SS.75."
 Replying to questions by Messrs. Smith, (KyD and Bartlett. (Ga) MT. Clayton said there had not been the slightest intimation by Judge Swayne or his counsel that other judges u r II n ft,n they might have expended less He protested against what he character ized as this wholesale indictment against the Judiciary of the country" Responding to an inquiry by MT. Long worth. (Ohio) he said that the Uni- ted States would have d right to in- stitute d civil suit against Judge Swayne to recover the difference be- tween the money collected and the ac- tual amount expended. and expressed the opinion that an indictment prop 1 erly could be brought against him. l Mir. Clayton took up the remain ing eleven charges and said that all though the substantial facts were ad- mitted. the excuse factory" had been | put in operation as to each of them. | No other judge, he said, against whom | impeachment proceedings had been brought had been confronted with such a number of specifications of miscon- duct as Judge Swavne.
 l MT. Brantley, (GaD supported the majority report of the committed. He confined himself to a discussion of the l legal phases of the case, maintaining that impeachment proceedings were not made possible by the constitution | for the purpose of punishing delin- quent official but for the protection of the people. In hIs opinion 1t was the | duty of the House to send to the Sen ate complete picture of Judge Swayne's official life, therefore he was in favor of all the articles of impeach- | ment.
 MT Lacey, Gowa.) spoke for fifteen minutes on the S10 a day proposition involved in the Swayne case, saying he did not favor impeachment on this ground If this man goes out for this reason, he concluded, the other judges | pursuing tho same practice must go too. Secretary Shaw had said, MT. Lacey remarked, that half of our judg- es took the full amount of their ex- pense allowances. But you can't in- diet nation" he concluded. In many of the cases he said judges had filed expense accounts for $10 q day in To- caltttes where 1t was known the hotel rates were not more than SS to $4 a day
 Mir. Gaines (Tex.) answering Mir Lacey. said he was wilnng the judge should write down "so many eggs, so many miles, SO many cigars. SO many cocktails or anything else necessary to hold court, to be paid by the gov ernment"
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