The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-08

cies OF Impeachment Have Been
Returned.
1.-The conduct of this judge has been
exceedingly reprehensible and in mark
ed contrast with the high sense of jul
diciaI ethics and probity that generally
characterize the federal judiciary, the
committee said in summing up its find
ings of misbehavior in office against
Judge Archibald.
His business transactions while
Judge on the bench were held to unht
him for further service on the bench
and a resolution was presented I'M
peaching him and haing him for trial
before the United States senate 1.-The
committee is of opinion that Judge
ArchbaId's sense of moral responsible
ty has become deadened,'' said the re-
port He has prostituted his high Of
fee for personal profit. He has at
tempted by various transactions to
commercialize his potentiality as judge.
He has hown an over weening desire
to make gainful bargains with parties
having cases before him or likely to
have cases before him. To accomplish
this purpose ne has not hesitated to use
his 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 forfeited
the condition upon which he holds his
commission and should be removed
from Office by Impeachment.
What Judge should Be.
"A judge should be the personifica-
tion of integrity, of honor and of up
rightness in his daily work and con-
versatiOn. He should hold his exalt-
ed office and the administration of jus
tice above the sordid desire to accum-
ulate wealth by trading or trafficking
with actual or probable litigants in his
court. He should be free and unaf-
fected by any bias born of avarice and
unhampered by pecuniary or other OBJ
legations
Tomorrow Chairman Clayton will
present a resolution providing for
the management of the trial be-
fore the senate. The full COM
mittee designated Chairman Clay
ton. Representatives Floyd of Ar
and Webb of North Carolina, Demo-
Gratis, and Representatives Norris of
Nebraska, Sterling of Illinois and
Rowland of Ohio, Republicans. man
ayers to prosecute the Archibald trial
before the senate. The charges against
Judge Archibald set forth in the thir-
teen articles of Impeachment, range
from his business transactions with
actual litigantS in his court to a trip
TO Europe which il was charged was
given the judge by Henry W. Cannon,
a railroad ma gnate and f1nancier in
New York. Favoritism to a railroad
1itirant also was included in the
charges and in the thirteenth count
of the Indictment under the headlnS
General Misbehavior OF Judge Arch-
bald' the committee reviewed the
charges and found that Judge Arch
bald grossly abused the proprieties
of his said office of judge, was guilty
of rnisbehavior and of misdemeanor IN
Office An epitome of the articles OF
in1peachment follows:
Articles of Impeachment.
Article Negotiated with the Erie
railroad company for the purchase of
+be Katvdid coal dump for Edward j.
XVifliams, his business associate.
s'In the opinion of your committe e,
9ransaction, under the circumstances,
vas reprehensible and prejudicial to-
tba confidence of the American people,
in the federal judiciary
Article 2.-Joined with George NJ
,4-a+soI7- of Scranton, Pa, in an attempt
~ sell the stock of the Marian Coal
rovonany to the Delaware. Lackawanna
and Western railroad company. This
company was owned by the Boland