The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18

should be taken by judge as expense money.
 And any man who has the pretense of being a lawyer, and who has two grains of graw matter in his head, knows that that construction is right, asserted Mir. Palmer.
 'The utterance of the gentleman from Pennsylvania is characteristic or this entire prosecution and of his en- tire career in this case" retorted MT. Grosvenor. Tn the end of the prose- cution he will ascertain where the gray matter is.
 Mir. overstreet reported the postofice appropriation bill.
 Mir. Cochran (N. Y) lamented that the proceedings might not have pro- ceeded along non-partisan lines Strange as 1t may seem." he con tinued. the first partisan argument comes from outside the house. It comes from the bench itself" This, he said. was the reason for extending the operation of the Houses scrutiny. There was. he said. a vast difference between an impeachment and an indictment. a fact which the House seemingly had forgotten. No law of evidence binds an impeachment proceeding, as is the case with an indictment
 Too High or Too Low. Mir. Cochran took issue with the ma jority report of the committee on the expense account charges. That was matter too high or too low to warrant such emphasis. Tt is hardly necessa- ry to inqulre whether he eats corned beef and cabbage at 50 cents a plate or leg of lamp at sixty cents. How is the statute to be interpreted?. Is ne required to spend the whole $IJ each day or may he husband his re- sources and spend s7 one day when he may be suffering with dyspepsia and SIS the next in gluttony? 1T this p~ SO, he has still time. with the pleasure of Heaven to act himself even with the government. He could by consuming terrapin, canvas-back duck and other delicacies, bring himself up."
 MT. Cochran passed over the con- tempt charges as unimportant. He mentioned the charge of non-residence as a grave one and then reverted to the letter of Judge Pardee. which had been read to the House earlier in the day at the instance of MT. Grosvenor q did, not believe It conceivable that | judge would undertake to control the action of an independent body on | proceeding itself judicial Now, think of 1t, the monstrous spectacle of | judge, himself a member of the de- | partment which we are now scruti- nizing, stepping into this House with an attempt to control our action. When I state that I describe a specta- cle which ought to make us pause; 1 which indicates in a marked degree of decay of our constitutional sys- tenn.
 'tsir, suppose when the case of Sem ator Burton was pending before the Supreme Court of the United States. | the Senate had passed a resolution | declaring that Senator Burton was a model of virtue and senatorial courtesy and that his prosecution was an act of indefensible hostility on the part of some government department, would not thrill of horror have run through 1 the entire country? Yet how would such action by the Senate differ from this action of this judge attempting 1 to control this, the grand induest of I tbe. Satica. in dealing wffE a irhein6ey 1 of that iudiciaryT do not call at. tentioh to the character of the letter, but the character of the transaction itself
 1 Arralgnmenf of Pardee.
 How can this judge, Pardee, ever ask a man arraigned at the bar what word he has to say why sentence for an offense against the revenue laws should not be pronounced upon him?
 
 guage of Judge Pardee and say that the law imposing revenue duties was | immoral and should not be enforced7 Why cannot he say to Judge Pardee, 1 You must not hold me to a rigid com. pliance of a law which I think Is re- 1 strictive of human liberty?' Is this judge fit to administer justice again now that he himself has discredited | prompt and quick obedience to the t. l minister it@''
 And we have another judge." con- tinucd Mir. Cochran, with superior claim to enlighten our conscience, quoted by the gentleman from Ohio. as n man before whom we should all bend, coming in here, and sir, I say with little short of horror. that he comes in here with prejudiced lips and asks us to share htP perjury and his loyalty.
 "A Republican legislature should not impeach a Republican? What a tribute he pays to you, gentlemen on the other side!
 Are we to be diverted from a con- scientious dispatch of our duty by a man, clothed In the ermine of n judge. who turns that robe into the costume of harlequin and, dancing across this floor. invite us to perjure our souls and violate the constitution?"
 Mir. Cochran was followed by MT. Nevin. (C,hio) in a brief explanation of his position as a member of the judiciary committee who was opposed to Impeachment.
 MT. Lamar. (Fla.) repelled the charge contained in the Pardee letter that the State of Florida had a politi- cal grievance against Judge Swayne. The Pardee letter injected the political issuesinto the case Outside of this he knew the State of Florida had a good case against Judge Swayne. How ever, he said. he believed Judge Par dee to be honest and said he stood high in Louisiana and Florida.
 At 5:26 o'clock the House adjourned.