The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-01-14
SENATE DECIDES
FATE Of JUDGE
IN CULM DUMP
Archibald Found Guilty On Five Ont
Of Thirteen Counts
Against Him.
STRIPPED HIM OF HIS OFFICE
Crooked Jurist Puts On Bold Front
and Claims to Have Done
No Wrong.
STRIPPED HIM OF HIS OFFICE

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eral Official to be impeached by the
United States senate since the adop-
ton OF the federal constitution. OF
the, other eight on y two were found
guilty. These were John Pickering,
United States district judge. 1904,
and West II. Humphrey, also a fed
erai Judge. whom the Senate re-
moved from office in 1862.
The alleged irregularities of Judge
Arehbold were first brought to the
attention OF the government by Will
liam r. Boland, president of the Ma
rion Coal Company of Scranton. Pa.
Mr. Boland laid his grievance
against Archibald before President
Taft himself and he had little diff
Guilty in convincing the chief execu-
tive that his charges should be in
yestigated
Attorney Genera, wickersham was
directed Blythe President to make a
thorough investigation into the az
fions OF Archbafd white on tiG
bench. The former appointed one
of his assistants, Wrisley Brown, to
make the investigation and to con-
duct the hearing for the government
before the House Judicial Commit
tee.
On May a, 1912. the investigation
was begun. The hearings were pub
lie, and on July s, 1912, Chairman
Clayton OF the House judiciary Com
mittee presented unanimous re-
port remanding that Judge Archibald
be ''impeached for misbehavior and
for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Archibald Summoned to Senate.
The House voted the impeachment
of Archibald on July a by vote OF
222 to 1, and on July Is, 1912, the
House submitted its impeachment
charges to the Senate. The Senate
was sworn in on the following day
as a court of impeachment, aud
Judge Archibald was summoned to
the bar of the Senate.
But the upper House was SO in
numbered by pressing legislation
that it was not until December B,
1912, that the impeachment trial be-
gan.
Perhaps the most sensational wit
ness against Archibald was William
p. Boland. He testified that because
he had refused to discount a note
of Archbald's for $500 which had
been .peddled' around Scranton.
Pa, the judge overruled a demurrer
in his case. He also accused Arch
bald of being influenced by the rail-
roads of Pennsylvania.
Another serious charge in the i'm
parchment of Archibald was in con-
nection with a trip to Europe taken
by Archibald and his wife, all the
expenses of which were paid by
Henry w. Cannon, a New York
banker and a director in a number
of railroad companies.
Accepted Gift From Lawyers.
Mrs. Archibald went on the wit
ness stand in behalf of her husband
and exp aimed that Mr.. Cannon was
her cousin and that he had given the
Archba DIS this trip to Europe as a
gift to her. 1t was brought out that
Judge Archibald had accepted gift
of $500 from attorneys participating
in his court to help the judge on his
trip.
Some of the other charges against
Judge Archibald were:
That he attempted to sell the stock
of the Marion Coal Company to the
Lackawanna Railroad For his eff
forts in this regard it was testified
that he received "a valuable con-
sideration."
That he wrote to Helm Bruce, at
torney for the Louisville & Nash
Vile Railroad, for additional evil
dence in case before the Commerce
Court which had been closed ant
given to the judges for decision.
That he figured as the payee of {
note for $4,000 by w. w. Reisingel
of Scranton five days after he had
rendered decision in an insurance
law suit. lin which Reislnger was I
marty and Beneficiary.