The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-07-11

Judge $500 and later a note for $500
was discounted for q judge and mot
Article s. That Judge Archibald used
his influence to help James r. Dainty,
Of Scranton, Pa, purchase a coal g
from the Lehigh Valley railroad while
the Lehigh had a suit before the corn
merce court.
seThe persistency with which Judge
Archibald sought these business favors
or property concessions from railroads
having litigation or likely to have hti-
CATION before the commerce court ndi-
Gates a well defined plan to use ms OF
fetal position and influence as q mem,
Der of such court for financial gain and
profit" said the committee.
His Notes Discounted.
Article z. That Judge Archibald fig
ured as a signer n the payee OF q
note for $4,000 by w. W. Reissinger. OF
Scranton, Pa, I've days after he q
adjudicated an insurance SUIT IN wnlcn
R%eissinger was interested and a
Articles 8 and 8. That Judge Arch
bald sent Edward j. Williams to Will
liam P. Boland to discount a note Tor
$500 signed by John Henry Jones While
suit before him.. Boland would not dis
count the note, which was discounted
in a Scranton bank and has been
paid. ~
Of 1910 Judge Archibald permitted Hen
his sntire expenses on a pleasure trip
to Europe. Mr.. Cannon was at that
time and still Is, a stakeholder and d.
rector in many railroads.
ut is claimed that Mr.. Cannon IS
a distant relative of Judge
To- zasa &t1 ooror1fffaa sRnf- low.
ever this may be, your committee re-
CARDS it as improper for a judge TO
fms obligate himself to an officer OF
numerous corporations likely to become
directly or Indirectly involved IN It'll
cation before his court.
clerk of Judge Archbald's court, col
lected $500 from attorneys practicing at
that bar"
Article 12.-Appointed j. B. Wood
ward, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa, a railroad
attorney. as jury commissioner OF his
court
This was calculated to bring h FED
committee said.
Penalty one of Shame.
Accompanying the articles of i'm
parchment Chairman Clayton presented
a brief to show that the actions Of
Judge Archibald described as "misbe-
| ldVlOr CdI10 WlIll1 l4lS ~ VI LIZ
constitutional provision for impeach-
ment which enumerates treason, br1b-
cry or other high crimes and miSde-
The penalty provided In successful
Impeachment cases is removal from Of
flee and may include a bar from ever
holding any office of trust or honor
again.
The Senate, which tries officials i'm
peached by the House, has been called
upon to act as an impeachment court
eight times In the past. One trial was
was acquitted; another of a cabinet
officer, Secretary of War w. Belknap,
acquitted; a senator, William Blount,
of Tennessee, who resigned; an asso-
ciate Justice in the supreme court Of
the United States. Samuel Chase, ac-
quilted; and four United States judges,
John H. Pickering, of New Hampshire,
removed from office; James H. Peck, of
Missouri, acquitted; West H. Humph-
reys, of Tennessee, removed from Of
flee, and Charles M. Swayze, Of Florida,
acquitted.
History of Archibald.
Judge Archibald was appointed Uni
ted States judge for the middle dis
trict of Pennsylvania by President Nc
Kinley, on March 20, during a recess
of congress-. On December 27, 1901,
he was recommended by President
Roosevelt. He was commissioned a
United States circuit judge and as
signed to the ommerce court by Presi-
dent Taft on January 81, 1911.
The proceedings against Judge Arch
bald began when the House adopted a
resolution by Representative Norris, of
Nebraska, calling upon the department
of justice for a report on the investiga-
ton of the judicial conduct of Judge
Archibald. On May 8, last, President
Taft transmitted to the House the in
yestigation of Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Meyer and of Wrisley
Brown, special attorney of the depart
ment Of justice, and the recommended
lions of Attorney General Wickersham
that the charges be referred to the
House.
On May Z, last, Chairman Clayton
called the judiciary committee to con-
slider the Archibald charges. Testimony
was taken in open session until June
4. Judge Archibald and his counsel
We're present at all times.