Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-08-15
Two governors
HOLDING THE fort
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ize expenditures of any of the state
money.
Backing up Acting Governor Glynn
are the legislators, the comptroller,
the state engineer and survey, the
state excise commissioner, majority
of the state conservation commission,
the board of agriculture, the state
fair commission, the canal board, the
state commission of prisons, the
fiscal Supervisor, the board of chart
ties, the board of efficiency and
economics, the board of claims. the
state superintendent of elections, the
fire marshal. the public service conf
mission of the First District, the tax
commission and the board of trus-
tees of public buildings.
| Acting Governor Glynn finding
himself hampered this afternoon by
lack of possession of papers and
records, consulted with the Attorney
General.
| Plans were discussed for making a
demand on Governor Sulzer for all
state papers and books necessary to
the use of the acting governor.
Governor Suffers lawyer prepared
for presentation to the acting COVER
nor formal protest against his ac-
ton in taking the office of governor
This is a legal formality to bulwark
the governors contention that he re-
mains governor pending his trial on
the Impeachment charges.
Governor Suffers Impeachment
trial will cost the state 100000 it
was estimated today. 1t is expected
to last a month.
Each senator will receive extra
compensation while sitting as i'm
parchment judges. They will get $40
a day each for these services and an
additional $40 day each for their
services as senators. Consequently
each senator will collect $3.50 a week.
This alcne will amount to a little
more than 900 a week.
There will be stenographers' fees.
large mileage charges for witnesses.
and it is not improbable that high
sist Assemblyman Levy in his prose-
cution of the case.
1t is probable the Legislature would
have to reimburse Sulzer in and for
the large outlay of money he will
make for counsel.
Although Governor Sulzer and his
Counsel-a group with wide reputa-
ton as lawyers of ability-planned to
ignore the Impeachment formally for
the time being on the grounds that it
was unconstitutional, the governor
will make a spirited defense before
the court of impeachment, which
meets September Is. At this meeting
it is expected preparations will be
made to begin the trial OH September
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ness for the defense. was in state of
collapse at the executive mansion this
forenoon. TO friends who visited her
= bedside yesterday she declared hys-
: teriCally that she alone is to blame
t for bringing on her husband the
. mountain of trouble he faces. spec
S ialist on nervous disorders is in con-
V slant attendance upon her.
t Her illness has affected the COVER
: nor deeply.
y When he learned the serious ma
ture of her ailment last night. he de-
V Clared he would never permit her to
D take the witness stand at his trial
e Friends expect to dissuade him from
D this. however, should her condition
: improve sufficiently. as they believe
/, terially strengthened when she tells
|. her story to the court
y Mrs Sulzer. far from acting with
: intent to do wrong, was entirely un-
II conscious OF the gravity of her Offense
d when she bought stocks with part
). of her husbands campaign contribu-
!. tiOns," asserted close friend of the
}. Sulzer family today. "On the con-
e trary. she thought she was doing d
sensible thing. Her husband was in,
y volved in debt when he began his
) campaign for the governorship. He
4 fhad saved nothing during the years
81 he was representative at Washington
+ He. is not a business man and his wife
thought she was entirely within heI
s rights in providing for the future b,
b putting away something for rainy