Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-02-03
LAWMAKERS MAY IMPEACH
MARYLAND'S ATTORNEY GENERAL.
BRYAN, CRITICISED, IS fAcEHoUs AT sENATE's EXPENSE
DUTY TRY
DAYs-sTATE NOTES.

The press of the country accurately
detailed what took place in the Mary
land Senate yesterday morning, and
the evening papers of Baltimore, par
ticularly displayed the events in such
a way that its Significance could not
seem TO have been lost, and yet the
published accounts must have convey
ed but a meager idea of the almost
terrible seriousness which character.
lied that session, for had this heen
clearly understood it is inconceivable
that Attorney General Bryan should
have joked over the matter.
That the situation is anything but a
joke. and that the Senate is not COM
posed of jokers, noone who was pres
ent in the upper house yesterday
doubts. and that it is far less of
a laughing business since the inter-
view given out by the Attorney Gen.
eral yesterday evening. probably no
man in Mary land except himself for
a moment disbelieves. IL is said that
Mr.. Bryan, as was yesterday charged,
has been guilty OF shameful neglect
of his duty" and If suoh is really the
case he is certainly liable to have
charges preferred against him in
the House and be brought before the
Senate for impeachment.
1t is said that he has given no ade-
quate reason for his inaction in this
very important matter during the two
years he has drawn salary to look out
for the States legal interests. and that
in addition to this it is his duty to be
On hand in Annapolis during the ses-
sion of the Legislature. as the legal ad.
wiser of members. The fact that the
session is already one. third over how.
ever, and that to fire him out would
occupy at least a week, If not longer,
will doubtless be his salvation.
1t was the opinion of many people
we'll informed on political matters In
Baltimore last night and here yester
day afternoon and this morning that
the time involved and the targets,
vastly larger than Mr.. Bryan, mp to
be shot at, are the only considerations
which will operate in his favor. The
votes are certainly ready, as far as
that is concerned, if the temper of
both houses yesterday on a relative
question may be taken for guidance.
On the other hand it may be that his
course will be decided as evinoin g
such utter Indifference that real saw
ing of time will be effected by i'm
peaching him and placing in his stead
an able and energetic attorney. But
that is doubtful 1t is said that he
will unquestionably be brought 10 his
senses, however, and be made to do
his duty from this time on.
Mr.. Bryan's interview, in part, is
as follows:
'There was not only nothing dis
courteous about my letters to the
President of the Senate and Mr.. Gur-
man, but there was nothing that any
sane man could imagine discourteous.
The Senate asked for certain papers.
| told them where they could get a
copy If they must have it before Mr..
Rhodes report could reach them. As
to the delightful implication that
should have copied all these doou
ments personally and carried them
personally to the Senate, that is, OF
course, nonsense. In the first place,
| write too bad hand. In the second
place, there is nothing in the Consti-
tuition making a messenger boy of the
Attorney General. Z"
Maryland history will probably mark
the events of yesterday with big red
letters, but the principal event was
the Senate debate, in several ways al
epoch. making one. From one point oi
Nl6W ~ was puAGAy sSHndtAObdAs IL " az
desperately earnest. yet withal shoi
through here and there with species
of grim humor, much to the same spe
cies of humor that history records a'
having deepened the tint of Frencl
revolutionary time, but above all j
was remarkable, from the fact that fol
once almost in generation. eloquenc'
and power had an appreciable effec
when the question under debate wen
to a vote. A coincidence worthy o.
comment is the fact that it was the
son OF the man. more than any one els'
responsible for the old order of things
where argument and right and reason
rarely prevailed to the extent of 1
single vote against the prearranged
leader marked plan-it was the son o
| the man then responsible for the ole
regime. who by these very means prob
ably Eshered in the new.
Until the opening of yesterday morn