The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-14
WILL USE EVERY Eff
FORT TO HOLD PLACE
Articles of Impeachment
Presented to Senate Yes
terday Afternoon

III. McGlynn claimed authority, bade fai
to-day to be thrown out of gear by thei
rival attempts to direct it. The head
of many departments divided into two
| groups, one under the leadership OF Sui
zer, adhering to his contentious that hi,
impeachment yesterday was unconstitu
tlonal and prepared to continue in obedi
ence to his instructions as if there hat
been no impeachment the other holding
that SulZer ceased to be governor wher
the Senate received the articles of i'm
peachment, marshaled under the stand
ard of Glynns ready to carry out hi.
orders and ignore any which the i'm
peached governor might see fit to issue.
Never in the history of the state has
its army Of employees been more demor.
allied. The great seal of the state oil
New York was still in the possession this
| forenoon of Governor Sulzer. notwith.
standing the claim of his opponents that
It legally passed into the custody of the
| lieutenant-governor yesterday.
Although Sulzer and counsel planned
to ignore the impeachment formally for
time on the ground of unconstitution
ality, the governor will make spirited
defense before the court of impeachment
which meets September Is. The govern
or's wife, the star witness for the de-
fense, was seriously i'll at the executive
mansion to-day.
As soon as the articles of impeaeh
ment, adopted at an early hour yester-
day morning by the Democratic ma aiority
in the assembly, were presented to the
Senate shortly after o'clock in the aft /.
ernoon, Lieutenant Governor Martin Fl.
Glynn announced his intention of occu-
pying the executive chamber.
Friends OF Governor Sulzer declared
that the governor intended to continue
in office and use every weapon in his
power to maintain his position on the
ground that the assembly had no con
stitutional right to consider impeach.
ment at its extraordinary session.
Some asserted that the governor would
60 as far as to summon military pro-
lection if necessary to prevent the lieu
tenant governor from occupying the ex-
ecutiye chamber.
Judge D-Cady Herrick, who will act
as chief counsel for the governor at his
trial, said that talk of resort of force
is the merest rot"
He will meet the charges against him
in an orderly and dignifed way" said
Judge Herrick, "and will do nothing un-
becoming the dignity of the state. He
will engage in no physical scramble to
assert his rights to discharge the func-
tions pertaining to the Office OF gov
ernor.."
Counsel for Governor Sulzer,' said
Judge Herrick last night, "have no de-
sire to be interviewed or try the mer-
its of his case in the newspapers or
have no desire to make statements in his
behalf. They have advised the gov
ernor to refrain from making any state
ment at the present time, likewise his
wife. We have engaged in his defense,
not for William Sulzer, but as a pro-
fessional duty to the governor OF the
state, and to preserve, so far as il can
now be preserved, the good name and
fame of the state.
After an examination of Mr.. Sulzer
in relation to the transactions disclosed
by the Frawley committee, we are salts
fled that there has been only partial
revelation of the facts so far, and we
are satisfied that he has been guilty of
no wilful wrong doing. We ask the
public, in his behalf, for suspension
of judgment, until all the facts can be
disclosed before the proper tribunal, and
in an orderly way"
Impeachment Read To Senate.
At 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon the
Senate met and l5 minutes later the
of managers, in whom is en-
trusted the duty of prosecuting the trial,
were solmenly ushered into the Senate
chamber. They stood in the center aisle
while Assemblyman Levy, in dramatic
tones, read the eight long articles of inn
peachment, consuming fully half an hour.
The senators listened, lolling in their
seats with seeming Indifference. Most
of them had already read the articles in
the early editions of the evening news
In the galleries throngs of spec
tat0rs, more than half of whom were
women, watched the proceedings with
eager attention.
Senator Wagner, majority leader and |
president pro tenn of the Senate, then de- |
clared the articles of impeachment "here !
by received and announced that he |
would summon the court of impeach- |
ment "to meet at the capitol in the city |
of Albany on the eighteenth day of Sep |
While the court was thus summoned !
to meet on the assembly committee OF
last night that the actual
trial of the governor would probably not I
begin until few days later as it would
be necessary at the outset to appoint
/ committee to formulate rules of pro-
,edure and arrange other details of the
trial
The Senate also passed the Blauvelt |
short election bill over the governors /
reto and it became law by the precise I
two-thirds vote, "a. BY the
same vote the Senate passed over the
veto the Brown bill increas-
ng the membership of political state
committees to $50 and providing for
graded extra voting representations
lased on party strength. This bill went
% the assembly.
Senator Frawley chairman OF the com.
nittee which investigated the governors
fund, after introducing bill
providing for the leyying of a direct
tate tax on property of sixtenths of