The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-07-01
TO GUST SCH|VELy
BY IMPEACHMENT
RESOLUTION ADOPTED UNANI-
MOUSLY BY THE HOUSE.
SESSION MAY BE PROLONGED
Senate Appropriates $40, 900 for Ex-
penses and Miscellaneous Bills
Are Presented.
SESSION MAY BE PROLONGED

Olympia-By unanimous vote and
without comment or debate, the low
er house of the legislature adopted
resolution impeaching James II.
Schively, state insurance commits
s1oner, and authorized the appoint
ment of a committee of seven mem
bers to formulate the charges.
This action was taken after it was
learned that the house bill abolish
Ing the Office of insurance commits
sloner had not succeeded in passing
the senate and was likely to be de-
deated in that body.
The impeachment resolution was
introduced in the house by Slayden,
OF Pierce; Renick, of King, and
Lambert, Of Whatcom. Warm per-
sonal friends of Schively who had
stood out in the regular session
against an investigation, voted 81
lently and deliberately for impeach-
ment.
After the charges against Schive-
ly have been formulated and accept
ed by the house and presented to the
senate by the house committee ap-
pointed as managers of the impeach-
ment proceedings, the house as a
body will have nothing further to
do with the impeachment trial. a.
quorum of the senate membership
is necessary at all sessions during
the impeachment trial. and two
thirds vote of the entire member
ship will be necessary to convict.
Penalty Is Removal.
The penalty for impeachment is
removal from Office and the emolu-
ments thereof. The senate sits as
court Of exclusive Jurisdiction and
there is no appeal from it's decision.
Sensational disclosures are ex-
pected when the hearing of the i'm
parchment proceedings take place.
Schively has openly announced that
he will make a clean breast of many
things which have been in doubt
| when he shall come face to face with
| the loss of his citizenship and the
| time.
The appointment Of committees
| to prepare charges in the house and
draft rules for the guidance Of the
| senate indicate the determination to
| At once get down to work and make
the greatest possible; haste in clear
Ing the statehouse of the rumors and
| charges which have been connected
with the different state departments
by probing to the bottom the charges
made against Schively in the open
senate sessions.
Appropriates $4,000.
Estimates expressed in debate
placed the length aof" the session from
three weeks to three months, and
one of the, first moves made after it
became known that impeachment
would prevail as the course oTsaction
was the increase by the senate Of
the appropriation of $12.ooof passed
by the house for legislative expenses
to the sum of $4,000. and the house
concurred in this amendment.
In addition to the length eof time
! required for the impeachment trial,
there is nothing to prevent further
prolongation in considerati0ny0 t mis-
cellaneous Legislation. Bills are ap-
pearing in both houses. Two have
been introduced in the iower'branch
and five in the senate, none of which
deal with matters OF Investigation.
Both houses passed bill making
the state treasurer custodian ,of all
the funds of the state collegea The
bill received but two oppostngfvotes
in the house and passed unanimous
ly in the senate.
Bills Introduced.
Bills were introduced in the sen
ate repeating the Wenatchee bridge
appropriation, amounting to $210.-
900, including interest; repeating
the upper Columbia river improve
ment appropriation OF $4,000; re-
pealing the exemption of supreme
! judges from the primary law pro-
/ visions; repeating the Metropolitan
Park bill-all measures of the last
session. relief bill for the Olym-
! pia National Park and the Duwam-
ish waterway bill.
The senate unanimously passed
the Nichols resolution, continuing
its present investigation committee.
1t reads:
.That the special committee ap-
i poipted at the last general session
i Of the legislature for the purpose OF
investigating state officers and instf-