Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-18
SCORES ATTITUDE ASSUMED
BY GR0SvENOR
JUDGE sTIRs PROCEEDINGS
Letter From New Orleans Jurlst
Charging Politics Is at Bottom
Of Case Causes Lively De-
bate In Congress
BY Associated Press.

WAODlNOlOAN, Jan. IL w WI eA
agreement to vote on the swayne i'm
Teachment articles tomorrow at $3.50
o'clock the debate today was carried on
AT high pressure for more than five
hours Mr.. Grosvenor furnished the
text for very vigorous speech by
Pourke Cochran by the reading of a
letter from Judge Pardee Of New Or
leans, declaring that politics was at the
bottom of the Impeachment proceed
lngs. "The fact of judge transmitting
such a letter." Mr.. Cochran declared
dramatically, "was a monstrous spe-
tacle.'
Mr.. Grosvenor asserted that there
was no ground presented for impeach-
D1ent in the report of the committee.
The other defenders of the Florida
judge during the day were Messrs.
Lacey of Iowa, Nevin of Ohio, Moon OF
Pennsylvania and Crumpacker Of In
diana.
Mr.. Lamar of Florida closed the de-
bate for the day, reviewing the senti-
nlent OF his state and the record of
Judge Swayne. He declared there was
ample ground for Impeachment.
Grosvenor Scores Debaters
Mr.. Grosvenor of Ohio began speech
in behalf of Judge Swayne with the
statement that he had never been SO
shocked as to the status of the law pro-
fession as he had been at some of the
expressions of bad temper and bad feel
ing that had been made in the debate.
Gentlemen who have argued for the
prosecution have given out in advance
that there was nothing to consider that
was not contained in the report of the
oase.s Yet submit that nine-tenths. of
the argument has not been on lines
contained in the report"
Mr.. Grosvenor had read letter from
Judge Pardee, dated at4<New Orleans,
March'5, 1904. addressed to Mr.. Gros-
venor and marked personal and con-
fldentialY.
In it Judge Pardee expressed surprise
that the house committee on the judi
ciary had voted for ''six Democrats
and two Republicans to present i'm
parchment against Judge Swayne."
He reviewed the circumstances of
Judge Swayne's appointment in the
early part Of the Harrison administra-
Florida, and it was generally believed
that gross frauds had been perpetrated
against the Republican party. Judge
Swayne had told him that it was the
desire of the administration that those
guilty of these frauds should be pro-
ceeded against. This litigation had en-
gendered an intense feeling against
Judge Swayne.
Charges Political Jobbery
1t was then regarded as hazardous
for Judge Swayne to travel about the
district, and from that time on Judge
Swayne was persona non grata to the
Democrats of Florida.
"Following this unpopularity," the
letter continued, Judge Swaynes dis
trict was changed, largely for the pur-
pose of punishing him. The change of
the district resulted in his being. as it
were, ousted out of his district"
He says that Judge Swayne imme-
diately set about obtaining a new
residence within his district, which
took four or five years.
Judge Pardee thinks it is IAN ex-
traordinary hardship on Judge Swayne
to hold him to a very rigid compliance
with the alleged spirit of section 155
ny removing his residence, when con-
gress saw fit, as matter of punish
ment, to change the limits Of the dis
trict for which he was appointed. Being
satisfied, as I am, that the original
motive Of the prosecution is based on
political ground and that district limits
were changed to his prejudice, do not
think that Republican house should
vote against him."
He next refers to an act of "a par
tisan legislature" in Florida passing a
resolution calling for the impeachment
of Judge Swayne on the ground of his
absence from his district or incompe-
tency, Judge Pardee says that from
his acquaintance with Judge Swayne he
considers the charge of 'incompetency''
an outrage. He then refers to the
O'Neal case with the comment that 1t,
too, was cause of increasing the un-
popularity OF Judge Swayne.
Mr.. Grosvenor read kilograms giving
him permission to make the letter pub
lie. A clash between Mr.. Grosvenor
and Mr.. Palmer resulted from Mr.. Gros-
venor's justification for taking $40 a
day expense money.
Mr.. Cochran of New York lamented
that the proceedings might not have
proceeded along non-partisan lines.
There was. he said, vast difference
between an Impeachment and an indict-
ment; a fact which the house seeming
ly had forgotten. No LAW of evidence
binds an Impeachment proceedings as
is the case with an indictment. Mr..
Cochran took issue with the majority
report of the committee on the expense
account charge. That was matter
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