The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-07-02
TO GUST SCHIVELY
BY IMPEACHMENT
RESOLUTION ADOPTED UNANI-
MOUSLY BY THE HOUSE.
SESSION MAY BE PROLONGED
Senate Appropriates $4,000 for Ex-
penses and Miscellaneous Bills
Are Presented.

er house of the legislature adopted
a resolution impeaching James H.
Schively, state insurance commits
sioner, and authorized the appoint
ment of a committee of seven men,
bers to formulate the charges.
This action was taken after it was
learned that the house bill abolish
ing the Office of insurance commits
sioner had not succeeded in passing
the senate and was likely to be de-
feated in that body.
The Impeachment resolution was
introduced in the house by Slayden,
of Pierce; Renick, of King, and
Lambert, of WI atcom. Warm per-
sonal friends of Schively who had
stood out in the regular session
against an investigation, voted ST.
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 APP
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 a
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
besmirching of his name for all
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 ano
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 of 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 or action
was the increase by the senate of
the appropriation of $4,000 passed
by the house for legislative expenses
to the sum of 1000, and tn house
concurred in this amendment.
In addition to the length of time
required for the impeachment trial,
there is nothing to prevent further
prolongation in consideration of mis-
cellaneous Legislation. Bills are ap-
pearing in both houses. two have
been introduced in the lower branch
and Ave in the senate, none of which
deal with matters of investigation.
Both houses passed a bill making
the state treasurer custodian of all
the funds of the state college. The
bill received but two opposing votes
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 $780,
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
it's present investigation committee
1t reads:
THAT the special committee ap-
pointed at the last general session
of the legislature for the purpose of
investigating state officers and insti-
buttons is hereby authorized to con-
tinue said investigation and to re-
port their findings to the governor
not later than April /, 1910. Said
findings shall be made public with
in fifteen days after the report of
said committee to the governor"