The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-07-10

% TIE kstydid caln hank TIE commit
tee assumes that the interest OF me
Mn side company IN the dump waz
worth great deal more thAa Judge
Archibald and his associates are 10 pay
for IL"
The statement then quoted the test
nlony 81 captain May. manager OF the
f.rie Railroads coal properties and that
S aS WITNESSES 20 show that Judge
Asreheaids proat In tn. Katydid-Clum
would have been comparatively small
s+.VOO and that - portion OF that would
have belonged 70 Williams. his partner
In the deal. The statement:
only two other Clum bank trans
actions are referred to by the commits
zee. one OF them had no connection
As 10 the other. there IL no evidence OF
iavors asked or favors given and no
evidence that the transaction. 10 II had
oeen carried through. would have been
respects to the proposed purchase OF
Soai properties from the Lehigh Valley
Soal Company. the case against Judge
archibald rests upon the naked propo-
eltion that IL Is an impeachable INSIDE
Ineanor for Federal Judge 20 have
BUSINESS transactions with litigants or
possible HtigaDts of his court
A. IN another article Of Impeachment
\ is charged that Judge Archibald for a
INTERPRETATION p,ns used his influence to
Nhlch the Bolands. in various forms
we're engaged in with the Lackawanna
railroad Company"
Another article OF fmpeachn,en, %
passed upon the charge that Judge Arch
paid agreed and consented" that the
s?Oo note above referred TO endorsed by
MIN should be presented to the Hollands
Tor discount at a time when they were
interested in litigation in his court
Mhen tnls note was Offered for discount
Juuee hrchbaid had no connection with
the case OF Pearle VS.. Marian Coal Com
pany except In overruling a demurrer
which had been filed by that company
TO the complaint and in appointing an
examiner 10 take the Testimony. There
Is nothing nj the evidence TO Justify the
inference that Judge Archibald author
lands for discount because they were in
terested. as stockholders in Marian Coal
company. In the case In which that com
pany was defendant
Judge Archbald's position was ,hat
OF an accomplishing endorser The in
ference OF the committee that Judge
Arehosld received or was to receive the
proceeds o.. this note or any part OF such
proceeds is not justified by anything in
the evidence. and IL not true in fact.
IN discussing the charge relative to
the correspondence by Judge Archibald
with the attorney Of the Louisvi,ie &.
nashville Railroad Company. the COM
mittee report entirely ignores the fact
That the attorneys letter correcting tho
testimony OF a witness in the case was
pasted into the record obviously bv
Judge Archhaldl for all the world to
- '-'t hiN Witch obiulon dIterWard
rendered by Judge Archibald assumes
mat the testimony was correct as IL
originally stood.
New charges appear in the articles Of
Impeachment which were not developed
1y the testimony before the committed
for example II Is made ground OF i'm
peochinent that Judge Archibald took a
Trip 10 Europe at the expense Of MIR
henry W Cannon. who had large cor
poratee connections. The commttte
says: IL is claimed that Mr.. cannon e.
a distant relative OF Judge Archbald's
WIFE
The slightest Investigation would
Mrs. Archbald's first cousin: and thas
the occasion and object OF the trip was
the making OF n visit. at Mr.. Cannon's
Italy"