The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
SWAYNE IS ATTACHED BY
 PARTY VOTE IN THE HOUSE
(contlnue+ from First Paoe)


 he declared "reprehensible to the last degree.' Members of the House had been
 flooded through the mails with extracts from the public press in behalf of Judge Swayne. One metropolitan daily printed three-quarters of a page of ''garbled ex
 tracts of the testimony in the case and
 tnls has been mailed to members. In this
 Judge Swayne or his advocates had com
 mitted offense which, if it were a
 case in court, would be amenabe to court
 action.
 MT. Palmer said he was a republican and party man to the last degree, but the republicans had stumped the coun- try on the claim of honesty in official life. The people had endorsed this plat form by majority of 2,5OOOOO votes. We
 now have a chance to make good on that claim," concluded MT. Palmer. MT. Palmer asked for a vote first on the first three articles of impeachment, as relating to the false certificates of ex- penses.
 MT. Littlefield moved that these articles be laid upon the table.
 The speaker ruled that this motion had precedence.
 When the hour for the vote drew near the galleries of the House filed rapidly and when the voting began there was not vacant seat and many persons were In
 line for admittanee in the corridors. The Vote in Detail.
 MT. Littlefields motion to table the first
 three articles were lost Speaker Cannon
 had his vote recorded for the motion.
 Three democrats-Bell, California; Moon, Tennessee, and Thayer, Massachusetts,
 voted to table while twenty-four repub-
 licans voted against the Littlehed mo-
 tion They were: Bede, Minnesota; Cooper, Wisconsin; Darragh, Pennsyl- vania; Dayton, West Virginia; Driscoll, New York; Gibson, Tennessee; Haughen,
 Iowa; Holiday, Iowa; Sijenkins, Wis consin; Mccarthy, Nebraska; Olmstead, Pennsylvania Otjen, Wisconsin; Palmer, Pennsylvania; Pierre, Maryland; Flaw lsns, New York; Roberts, Massachusetts; Smith, Iowa; Spalding, North Dakota; Sherry Connecticut; Stafford Wiscon- sin; Thomas, Iowa; Wanger, Pennsyl- vana; Webber, Ohio; Woodward. West Virginia.
 Bourke Cochran and Goldfogle of New York voted present" as did Hughes of West Virginia and Wachter of Maryland, and Wilson of Illinois.
 MT. Palmer at once moved to adopt the first three articles and this was agreed to 165 yeas. 160 nays.
 MT. Palmer moved to adopt together the fourth and fifth articles. After the fourth article had been read. MT. Olm- stead, said he would object to their be- ing voted on together unless Mir Palmer would adopt an amendment to both arti- cles. MT. Palmer declined to accept the amndment which was a lengthy substi- tute, changing the form of the articles The two articles relate to the use of the private car of a railroad, for which Judge Swayne had appointed a receiver. Mir. Clmstead obtained permission to discuss Lis amendments and five minutes were al- lowed for MT. Palmer to make a reply. Accepted Car as Courtesy. MT. Olmstead said he believed the use of the private car was wrong, but the judge had not demanded the car, but accepted it's use as a courtesy from the president of the road. On a viva voce vote MT. Omsteads amendment was lost and MT. almer's motion to adopt ar- tices 4 and was carried, 162 ayes and l3s noes. The same motion was made with reference to articles and ', charg- ing Judge Swayne with non~esidence in his district Mr. Littlefeld secured roll call on his motion. Articles and were adopted, 15S to 137. Mr. Palmer at once moved the adoption of articles 8, 9, 10 and II, relating to the DaYis-Belden contempt cases. A roll call was not de- manded on this motion and 1t was de- clared adopted on viva voce vote. The same motion was made with respect to the remaining article, No. F, relating to the ONeal contempt proceedings and it likewise was adopted.
 MT. Palmer offered resolution empow- ering the Speaker to appoint seven mana gers in the present l-onse to conduct the Impeachment against Judge Swayne. This was agreed to without objection. He followed 1t with another resolution em- towering the seven managers to present the articles of impeachment to the Sem ate in the name of the House and of all the people of the United States. This resolution was agreed to without oppo- sition, whereupon the House at $40 o'clock adjourned.