The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-07
MURPHY WANTS tn
|MPEACH JUDGES
Missouri Congressman Is Deter
mined i'm Effort to Push
His Charges.
SUSTAINED IN, POSITION
BY HIS COLLEAGUE
Mr.. Rucker Says Judge Phillips
Should Have Been In
peached Years Ago.

WASHINGTON. May 6.-At the con
clusion Of a lengthy statement IN
| the house today regarding his rcsolu-
tion of inquiry into the Official con
duct of Federal Judges Mcpherson and
| Phillips. of the western district of
Missouri, Representative Murphy OF
that state announced that he would
present formal charges of impeach-
ment
Mr., Murphy brought the matter mp
as question of personal privilege He
had read some ncwspap per dispatches
TO the effect that Frank Hagerman. at
torney for eighteen railroads had tclc.
graphed the attorncy-ee OF the
United States, alleging that the charges
in tho Murphy resolution wcrc SAN
outrageous tissue of misrepresentation
by ono who had no knowledge of the
facts
Mr.. Clayton of Alabama, p member
OF the judiciary committee, objected
saying the argument was not one of
personal privilege
Sustained By Speaker.
Speaker Cannon ruled that Mr..
Murphy was within his rights, and
could contjnur. but he had not pro
ccedcd far when Nh Henry of Texas.
another member OF the Judiciary COM
mIticc, stopped him with an inquiry AS
10 whether he did not intend formally
TO bring IN charges of impeachment
The Missouri member. however. did not
give direct answer, but continued
his recital Of tho charges contained III
his resolution, He called on Mr. Rucker.
has colleague, TO substa aDtIatc what he
was saying.
AIr Ppola,. Ala
Judge Phillips should have been i'm
peached twenty years ago.
Several times Mr. PAYNE. the ma.
.!orlty leader, objected. sa wing that Mr.
Murphy could not yield fore debate.
Later he again objected on the ground
that Mr. Murphy was travelling outside
the issue raised by the Ua2crman telc-
gram and the preamble of the resolu.
ton
=, Again, in passing on the resolution,
SSPeaker Cannon ruled in favor Of Mr.
Murphy, remarkine that '.Thc tclc-
gram is pretty broad
Murphy Stands Firm.
Continuing. Mr.. Murphy denied tbat
the state o. Missouri had not been ac.
corded every courtesy in the rate cases
as was stated in Mr. Haeerman < tele,
gram. The state, he declared had no
knowledge whatever of the first iniunc-
ton in those cases.
am asking the congress of the
United States, !" he said, "to give back
10 us that government which YOU
handed TO ms when Won admitted us as
a state in the union by requiring
The federal Judiciary in the western
Hlstrlct OF Missouri to proceed along
orderly and decent lines in The exeru.
tlon of the law The house tbnn nd.
lourned. and Immediately thereafter
MI. Murphy notified members of the
Judiciary committee that ne would at
once present formal charges of i'm
parchment against the two Judges.
KANSAS CITY, MAY CO have
nothing TO say at this time. aud will
make no statement until Representa-
tlFc Murphy presents his charges of
lmpeac achment, said Judge Phillips
when shown the Washington dispatch,
Judge Mcpherson also declined TO make
statement Later Judge Phillips said:
II lmpcachme PROCEEDINGS are
lhaugurated, / shall answer those i'm.
Putations against me in a legal manner.
snail welcome the investigation OF Il
congressional committee should i'm.
peachment charges be made. But if
no such proceedings arc started. 7 shall
reserve The right to make pnbIir
statement later, It ! should see fiji Ia
DO so; answering an ihc charges in
cluded IN the resolution of Congress.
man Murphy