The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-12
IMPEACHMENT OF SULzER IN
 DOUBT TODAY.
Assembly May Defer Final ACriOn For
 Several Days
Deputies Armed With Summon SeS, SCOur Hotels To Line
 Up Absent Members


 Albany, Aug. 12.-When the hour came for the meeting of the assembly today to take up the matter of the,pro- posed impeachment of Governor will liam SuIzer on charges of "wiIf1II and corrupt conduct in office and for higf1 crimes, and misdemeanors. there was ooubt If those favor1ng that action
 would be able. to muster the necessary 76 votes to carry the resolution An peals by telegraph to members who were absent from last nights session had not met with the general response the antf-Sulzer leaders had hoped for. The constitution requires not less than a majority of all members elected to vote articles of impeachment and last nights vote showed il less than the required number in favor of the F'raw- ley report.
 Governor Sulzer was at his office to- day full hour earlier than usual and at noon, after a conference with his counsel, summoned six Democratic as-t semblymen who voted last night for the adoption of the FraWIey committee report. The governors purpose in SO doing was not made clear.
 When four of the asseua ab1vuer, reached the governors office in re- sponse to his summons, Governor Sul- ger sent out word that he had changed his mind and did not want to see them Another aasembIyman refused to go to the executive chamber except upon -fhe governors written request.
 -Assen1'blyma Campbell the feth man included in the invitation, was closeted with the governor and his counsel for 10 minutes. When the interview ended, MT. Campbell de- clined to discuss it asserting 1t was confidential. A fellow member said. however, that the subject of the in terview was the constitutionality of the impeachment proceedings.
 Later spokesman for the gover- 1ror said that the sumFnoning of his four opponents tO the executive cham Der was due to a messengers error. The men MT. Sulzer wanted to sec were four champions of his cause These assembIynen were then sent for and they called on the governor.
 ''The governor will have absolutely nothing to say in any event till the assembly acts,'' said Chester c. P1att, MT. Sulzer'S private secre etary- Even then, if the vote is to impeach, he will have nothing to say but will reserve his answer for the impeachment pro oeedings before the Senate Should the resolution to impeach be defeat ed,S the governor will have something to say. He will give out statement setting forth his side of the contro- versy in it's entirety and supplement- ing at length his brief statement of Sunday night in which he denied point blank the charges made against him by the F'rawley committed"
 Because of the probable closeneGs of the vote on the impeachment resolu- ton and because some Democrats who have indicated that they would sup port the measure feel the assembly should not attempt to rush it through it is within the range of probability today, that the assembly will defer it's action for several days.
 ed that they would support the measure let it become known, this morning, that they would prefer to act with deIibera ton and avoid the possibility of the charge made on the floor Of the assembly last night, that they are ''railroading and janrnfng through a measure which could not pass unless it were raflroaded and damned through
 The resolution under consideration. today, based upon the report of t-e F'rawley legislative committee. sus- tains the contention in that report that Governor Sulzer has been guilty of fraudulent report to the secret1ry of state of contributions received by him in the gubernatoria1 carupaigns that he converted to his private usot cnuDaign contributions; that he en- gagged m stock speculatiOns at the time when he was governor and was press ing legislation hostile to the New KorE stock exchange; that he urged wit nesses to refuse to testify before the Frawley committee and used his Of-. flee to reward those who favored his policies and punish thoss who op- posed him.
 The Senate will mark time until the assembly has an opportunity to form Ulate it's program
 An hour after the time set for the found the situation in the as-l chamber practically unchang-9 ed Speaker Smith glanced over the I ovvs of euT,ty seats ano ~ventured the opinion that *t would be late in inc day before a. vote on the i1nPeach- n<ent resolution would be reached
 Meantime, a dozen deputy sergeants-. at-arrns armed with summonses, fer retted out the absentees at their ho- tels The gathering in the governors a office was swollen by the arrival or Republican and Progressive members and a number of Democrats who voted last night against the organization After a short interview, Minority Leader Hinman and Assemblyman Gibbs left the executive chamber by e rear door,
 .eThe governor wanted to express his thanks for our support last night" Mr. Hinman said.
 There was much discussion today az to the exact application of the claus8 in the constitution relating to the functions of the lieutenant governor. which specifically prescribes that tho lieutenant governor shall become act ing governor ''in case of the impeaeh- ment of the governor or his removal from office"
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