The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-08
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WOULD l
 IMPEACH JUDGE ARCHIBALD |
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 ''such options. contracts and agree | 1nents were sought and obtained by
 Judge Archibald to such an extent
 that the exposure of the judges sew | eraI transactions, through the press,
 gave rise to a public scandal.
 l ''The testimony fails to disclose any
 case in which Judge Archibald in
 vested any actual money of his own
 in these several deals but shows that 1 he used his personal influence as a l judge in consideration of which he received or was to receive his share
 in the property or profits of the Ideal"
 The committee summed up it's
 opinion of such a course as having l grossly abused the proprieties of his 1 office as judge"
 '"The conduct of this judge" the committee reports in conclusion, "has been exceedingly reprehensible and in of judicial ethics and probity that
 generally characterize the federal
 judiciary. The public respect for the l judicial branch of our government has
 almost amounted to reverence. This confidence has been deserved and let 1 deserved to the end that an upright and independent Judiciary may be maintained for the perpetuation Of 1 our government of law.
 "A judge should be the personifica- ] ton of integrity, of honor and up- rightnessS in his daily walk and con versation. He should hold his exalt- ed office and the administration of i justice above the sordid desire to ac- cummulate wealth by trading or traf-
 licking with actual. or probable litf- gants in his court. He should be free and unaffected by any bias born of ayarice and unhampered by pecuniary of other improper obligations.
 Your committee is of the opinion
 that Judge Arehhald's sense of moral
 responsibility has become deadened. He has prostituted his high office for personal profit. He has attempted by various transactions to commercialize potentially as judge. He has shown an overweaning desire to make gain full bargains with parties having cases
 before him, or likely to have cases
 before him. To accomplish this pur-
 official power and influence. He has
 degraded his high office and has de-
 stroyed the confidence of the public
 in his judicial integrity. He has for feited the conditions upon which he
 holds his commission and should be
 removed from office by impeachment" The 13 articles of impeachment
 aim to enumerate as many distinct offenses upon which the committee
 asserts Archibald should be stripped of his judicial ermine.
 Article one cites Arch ba1d's alleged
 partnership with E. J. Williams, of
 Scranton, Pa, for purchase and slle
 of the Katydid coal dump, during the
 time that the Erie Railroad, owner
 of that dump, was concerned in liti-
 gation before his court.
 Article two deals with the Marion
 Coal Company deal, declaring that at
 the time of Archbald's alleged spec.
 ulation, the Lackawanna Railroad,
 owner of the coal company, was con-
 cerned in litigation before the com
 Article three cites the alleged
 negotiations for the purchase of a
 dump from the Lehigh Valley Coal
 Company, near Shenandoah, Pa. Article four deals with Archbald's
 alleged misconduct in litigation by the Louisville & Nashville Rail- road where he is charged with "sec-i
 retly. wrongfully and unlawfully" Communicating with an attorney of the road regarding witness.
 The fifth indictment cites the al- leged deal with Frederick Warnke, of
 Scranton, in coal land owned indi- rectly by Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company. charging Arch bald with wrongfully attempting 10 influence officials of the coal com pahy to grant WaFnke a lease. The cHaFge IS dlSO maue LuaL AEcHUdlu 'corruptly, wilfully and unlawfully' accepted as gift from Warnke a promissory note for $500, presum- ably for his services in the matter.
 Article six alleges Archibald i'm properly and corruptly. attempted to
 use his influence as a judge with the
 Lehfgh Valley Railroad Company to secure interest in the Everhart Coal Company, of Pennsylvania
 Article seven charges misconduct when Archibald was district judge at Scranton, in the alleged partnership between the judge and w. W. Rising er for purchase of stock in Hon. duras gold mining scheme. !.
 The charge was made that follow l ing this, Archibald ruled in favor of
 Risinger's coal company in a suit l then before him. The eighth charge alleged that, as a district judge. Archibald counter l signed a note for $500 with the ..cor- rupt' purpose of coercing W. H. and c. G. Roland, then IitigantS in his court, to discount it.
 l The ninth article concerned Arch- l bald's alleged action on another $500 note presented through John Henry count, Van Storch at that time being | an attorney in Arohbald's district l court at Scranton and shortly before l having secured verdict for his clients in one Of ArchDaloe6 decisions.
 The 10th article charges accept ance by Archibald at the time he was a district judge of large sum- of money presented by Henry w. Can non, then largely interested in cor porations concerned in litigation be- ] fore Archibald. The gift, the com mittee says, was made in order that
 Archibald might take trip abroad. 1 It's acceptance from an official of corporations liable to be interested in l litigation in his court" the article declares, twas improper and had 8 l tendency to and did bring his office l of district judge into disrepute.'' l Article Il cites another alleged money gift, subscribed by attorneys | in Archbald's court.
 Archibald appointed J. B. Woodward, general attorney for the Lehigh Val ] ley Railroad, then frequently before his court in litigation, jury com | missioner, Woodward continuing also l to act as counsel for the railroad. Article 13 is a general indictment against the judge for his general business of speculation and profit" while a commerce court judge and a denunciation of his alleged effort to compromise litigation before the in terstate commerce commission. The count cities that Archibald corruptly used his influence with officers of the Erie, the Lackawanna and other rail- roads to enter into contracts and agreements in which he was secretly | interested, the railroads then being