The evening times., 1911-04-24
CASE MAY REACH THE EMO
WITHIN THE NEXT week
Costs Are Mounting Skyward ut the
Ratio Of 1880 Per Day-Win Reach
the $4,000 Mark Before the Court
Adjourns. 4.
(H. D. Paulson.)

noon there were only twenty
three senatorh present and court
was adjourned until 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning, when It is ex. =
pected all the absent members
will have returned to the city.
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Bismarck, N. D., April 24-That
this will be the final week of the now
famous John F. Cowan impeachment
trial, appears quite probable at the
present time. With only the rebuttal
testimony to come, and not great
deal Of that, and such rebuttal to be
followed Immediately by arguments
and the voting, general indications
are that by next Saturday night or
Wednesday of the following week at
the latest the impeachment case-the
first the state has had and the thir-
teenth in the history of the United
States-will have been closed.
No more exciting days in the entire
trial have occurred than will be- those
of this week. The interest will reach
its greatest point in the final argu-
ments of leading counsel for both
sodes, with George A. Bangs leading
the fight for the prosecution and
Tracy r. Bangs fighting for acquittal.
limited by rules of the court to FIVE
hours for each side. will be heard by
packed galleries and corridors, and
will easily be the most dramatic fea-
lures Of the. entire trial-a trial that
must 60 down In the history of North
Dakota az one Of the most remarka-
6nk hno 4
Naturally just now interest centers
about the rebuttal evidence of the
prosecution. About thirty-five sub
poenaes had been issued by the prose-
cution, and this means that there
will be between twenty and twenty
five witnesses placed on the stand,
that being about the ratio of witnesses
used in the direct evidence. Bismarck,
being 50 far from the actual scene of
the several incidents in the life of
John Cowan now under inspection at
the hands of the Impeachment court,
necessitates the bringing of no few
witnesses to the city whom tt is after
wards found cannot be used. There
were 156 witnesses paid by the state
who We're subpoenaed by the prosecu-
tion for the direct, but of that num-
Der only about seventy-five were ac-
tually placed on the witness stand.
The number for the defense not placed
on the stand was not so great, about
seventy-five being subpoenaed while
about f1fty-five were placed on the
stand.
Question Of Expense.
On the question Of expense, the ex-
penditures of the state up to this aft
ernoon in the trial of the, case is ap-
proximately $4,000, while up to Sat-
urday evening there had been paid out
by the state auditor the sum of $685.
529.63. The average daily expense of
the trial is $1,400 to $1,500, slightly
higher than had been anticipated.
The total cost of the trial will be ap-
proximately $4,000 unless it should
come to q close earlier than antici-
pated.
Tho average amount paid to the wit
nesses chat are subpoenaed is be-
tween $40 and $50, some going as high
as s75. This fs accounted for by
reason Of the large amount of mileage
that is paid, being five cents mile
each way, by the most accessible
shortest route to and from Bismarck.
These expenses are paid by the
auditor by authority of the resolution
passed by the state legislative assem-
bly, providing for legislative expenses,
the impeachment trial being consid-
cred as legislative expenses.
Voting Will be Interesting.
When the work of voting is COM
menced there will be an intensely in
soresting feature of the trial enacted.
Zach charge and specification against
Cowan must be voted upon independ-
emily; that is, every individual speci-
flcation must have roll call. There
are eighty-five specifications all told,
thus necessitating eighty-five roll
calls. The call on some of these will
be merely formal by reason of the
fact that no evidence has been intro
duced by the prosecution tending to
support them. The charges are there,
however, and must be disposed Of
through the roll call.
Should the senate cast two-thirds
vote. on any single specification, then
John Cowan' must be and is irnpeach-
cd. The court has it within it's power
to prescribe punishment. which pun
ishment may be disqualification from
ever holding renumerative public Of