The Prescott daily news., 1913-08-13
FRIENDS AND OPPONENTS sTRlV- ING TO GET FULL STRENGTH
 IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
CLOSE BATTLE IS INDICATED
SuIzer Awaits Action of Assembly Be- fore Giving Out Statement- Charged With FaIsifying His
 Campaign Account.

hour for considering the resolution to impeach Gov. Sulzer found his friends and foes in the lower house of the New York legislature jockeying for time to recruit their numbers and to gather in the two score and more ab- sentees from the last session.
 Encounters preliminary to the real fight on the floor of the assembly in- dicated the inability of the governors opponents to muster votes sufficient to carry through their program of i'm peachment.
 Telegraph and telephone wires throughout the state were alive with appeals to absent members to hurry to Albany and align themselves on the question.
 possibility of failure to procure the 76 votes necessary to impeach, directed that every absent member be peremp- torily summoned to Albany. Repub- man Schaap, leader of the handful of Progressives who have espoused the governors cause, worked no less as- siduously to swell the numbers of their followers.
 The entire program of impeachment was imperiled by the absence of II men relied upon by majority leaders to gather under their standard. This was indicated by the vote, when but 65 of the 149 assemblymen cast their votes with Levy. A majority of the elected members is necessary to i'm peach. Although 75 votes constitute a majority of the house as it now stands, 76 votes are needed inasmuch as the full membership is 150.
 One member, Alfred J. Kennedy of New York, has resigned since elec- tion.
 A corporals guard of assemblymen sat smoking in their seats when the hour for meeting arrived. Over on the senate side of the capitol the mem- bers could be counted on the fingers of one hand The senate planned to mark time till after the battle in the lower house,
 Governor Awaits Action.
 Gov Sulzer, heavy-eyed from his long vigil sauntered over to the capi- tol a full hour before his customary time and sought the seclusion of his private office. The usual chat with the newspaper men was omitted, and the governors secretary announced that there would be no word from the governor till the assembly had voted on the impeachment resolution.
 eff the vote is to impeach," said the secretary, MT. Sulzer will have noth- ing to say, but will reserve his an- swer for the impeachment proceed ings before the senate. Should the resolution to impeach be defeated, the governor will give out statement setting forth his side of the contro- versy in it's entirety"
 Because of the probable closeness of the vote on the Impeachment reso- luton and because some Democrats feel that the assembly should not at tempt to rush it through, it is possible that the assembly will defer its ac- tions for several days-possibly a week.
 The conclusions of the Frawley committee, embodied in its report to the legislature, are that Gov. Sulzer falsified under oath his campaign con- tribution account, diverted some of these contributions to the purchase of stock, speculated in stocks at the time; that as governor he was ear nestly pressing legislation against the New York stock exchange, punished legislators who~opposed him by veto- ing their bills, traded executive ap- proval of bills for support of his di- rect primary measure and did every thing in his power to conceal proof and obstruct the Frawley committees efforts to to bring it to light.
 "We submit to the senate and as sembly," the report recites, that the