Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-22
Impeached Governor Expected
to Tell a Sensational
Story at Trial.
NO MORNING SESSION
OF THE COURT IS HELD
Novelty of Proceedings at Albany
Attracts Law Students From
All Over World.

ALBANY. \. Y, September 22.-There
was no morning session of the superior
court of impeachment today The
senators and Judges were ordered to
report promptly at O'Clock for the
resumption OF argument by Attorney
Marshall OF the Suizer counsel on cer-
tain points raised by him touching on
the constitutionality of the adjourn
ment of the assembly last July, the
failure of assemblymeu to receive noti-
fcation that on reconvenipg the as
sembly would consider impeachment
charges and the constitutionality of
the impeachment itself on the ground
that it was brought while the assem-
bly, was in extra session.
hearing in the case of James A. Gar
rison, suffers graft investigator now
imprisoned for contempt of the as
sembly, was announced for this after
noon at Troy.
Case Attracts Students.
While attorneys and newspaper men
are working their way through the
impeachment trial a small army of
representatives of law schools and uni :
versities- from all over the world is
following the case closely and pre-
pairing exhaustive reports.
These men are attracted here because
of the few precedents which attorneys
have to cite in cases of impeachment
Not since 1906 has there been an i'm
peachment case in England and only
seven are recorded in the United States.
Many points which are being covered
in the Sulzer trial never were raised
in previous cases. Long weeks have
been spent by attorneys for both sides
and members of the court of appeals
in studying every phase of all past
impeachment cases.
Force Murphy to Testify.
Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany
Hall. whom, Gov. sulzer accuses Of hav-
ing instigated his Impeachment, will be
forced to take the witness stand prac-
tically in his own defense before the
Impeachment trial Is over, in the opinion
of the governors close friends.
They say the governor will take the
stand, and that his story will compel the
attorneys for the Impeachment managers
to call the Tammany leader. What reve-
lations the governor may make is un-
known. All attempts to interview him
or his expected testimony have been
futile. But his friends profess to know
that no influence can prevent him from
testifying. in event the constitutional OBJ
jections raised by his attorneys TO pre-
vent the case from coming to trial are
overruled.
The governors counsel would not dis
cuss the possibility of Mr.. Murphy or
any one else being called as a witness.
Made Charge of Conspiracy.
II was. however. recalled that at the
tine Of the governors so-called break
with Murphy last June. the governor
publicly charged that the Tammany lead
er was behind a conspiracy to blacken
my character because ] refused to do his
bidding"
A growing spirit of confidence is mani
fest among the Sulzer adherents The
fact that the board of managers is at
tempting to pass additional articles of
impeachment is asserted by the gov
ernors followers to be an admission that
they fear they have not established a
case. The board of managers laugh at
this assertion, saying they feel 1t is only
just that all the evidence they have
against the governor should be produced