Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-24

pending, to decide that case in favor
of Peale
'Fourth-That through Judge Arch
bald, Mr.. Seager, one of the counsel of
the Lackawanna Railroad company,
vas given advance information of the
fact that the Peale case would be de-
cided against the Marian Coal COM
pany.
"All these charges, it will be seen,
related TO Judge Archbald's official
acts, except the third and that charged
that he had corruptly Influenced an
other judge in the final decision of a
case BY the evidence before the ju-
dietary committee of the house every
one of these charges was so complete
ly disproved that no reference is made
/ to any one of them in the report of the
committee or in the articles of i'm
parchment
The committee, however, has rec
commended the impeachment of Judge
! Archibald on Is other charges, only
/ two of which relate to the perform
ance by him of any judicial act, and
! in neither of the two excepted cases
| is it charged that he acted corruptly.
THE principal charge preferred by
the judiciary committee related TO
Judge Archbald's connection with the
attempted purchase from the Hillside
Coal and Iron company, Ga subsidiary
of the Erie Railroad company of its
! interest in the Katydid culm dump.
That Judge Archibald was interested
in the proposed purchase is not de-
MED. 1t is not claimed by the com
mittee, and we assume it will not be
claimed by any one, that the mere
fact that a federal judge is interested
in the attempted purchase of proper
ty from one who is or may be a liti-
CANT in his court, is a criminal Of
Tense, or is even, in itself, evidence
of a corrupt mind. In its report the
sole ground upon which the commit
tee relies in reaching its conclusion
that in this particular case Judge
Archibald acted corruptly is the evil
dence as to the value of the Katydid
culm dump. The committee assumes
that the interest of the Hillside com
pany in the dump was worth a great
deal more than Judge Archibald and
his associates were to pay for it,"
The statement then quotes the ties
timony of Captain May, manager Of
the Erie railroads coal properties, and
that of other witnesses, to show thai
Judge Archbald's profit in the Katydid
culm bank, had he been able to see
il, would have been Comparatively
small, about 81 1000, and that a portion
of that would have belonged to vii
liams, his partner in the deal. The
statement continues:
only two other culm bank transac
tions are referred TO by the commit
, tee. One of them had no connection
| whatever with any railroad company
! AS to the other, there is no evidence
! of favors asked or favors given, ant
} no evidence that the transaction, if i
} had been carried through, would
have been profitable. AS to these, a.
also with respect 10 the proposed pur
chase of coal properties from the lie
{ high Valley Coal company, the cas-
against Judge Archibald rests upon tn
] naked proposition that 1t is an i'm
: peachable misdemeanOr for fedora
Judge 10 have business transaction
| with litigants or possible litigants il
: his court.
/ I'm another article Of Impeachment
: Il is charged that Judge Archibald. 70
2 a consideration used his infiuenc
4 TO bring about a settlement of litiga