The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-13
Democratic Leaders Assert GOV- ernOr Is Automatically SuS- dendea From His Office
Diversion Of Campaign Funds And Making False Cath Re- gardIng Campaign GOntTibu- lions Charged

Albany, N. r., Aug. 13.-The1 jim peachment of Governor Sulzer by the assembly early today has raised a vii tai question as to whether, under the constitution, the governor will vacate his office pending final adjudication of the impeachment issue @by the Senate and court of appeals, sitting jointly as trial court.
 The indications are that MT. SuIzer will contest the theory of the opposi- ton that he becomes automatically barred from exercising the functions of office the moment the articles of Impeachment are formally presented to the Senate and that he will be disquaI- fled from resuming the duties of exec utive until the court of impeachment fails to sustain these charges
 This contention was given emphatic public utterance today by Judge Lynn J. Arnold, one of the governors coun- eel.
 Word was sent out to the waiting | newspapernen that the governor prob ably would have nothing to say dur ing the day. When Chester C. Platt, secretary to inc governor, was asked if any progress had been made in for
 nulating the governors legal program he answered, None that we care to speak of at this time.'
 The governor reached the capitol shortly after Il o'clock. He smiled cheerily to correspondents who greeted
  capitol and posed good natur edly for 9 battery of camera men.
 "Its fine morning, gentlemen he said.
 Lieut. Governor Martin H. GIynn came into Albany from his summer home at Cedar Hill aid went to his newspaper office as usual. He de- c1ined to comment on the situation.
 The fact that the various state de- partments and bureaus are divided in H. ,1T- the Democratic organization which Is seeking to depose him stimulates in terest in the complicated situation
 Governor Sulzer, according to d close friend, already has drafted, with the advice of his counsel, a letter enn- bodying his reasons for refusing to turn over his office to MT. Glynn in anticipation of such a demand i'm mediately following official reception of the articles of impeachment by the Senate.
 Never before in the history of New York state has governor been i'm peached The nearest approach to ft centered about George Clinton, the states first chief executive, in 1T91. An associate of the governor was con Victed of irregularities in land specu- lation and sent to jail. This snirched Clinton's name for time but he was never tried and subsequently, he lived it down and served his state there after for years.
 In all the United States only seven other governors have faced impeach- ment proceedings. These men and the results that followed were:
 Charles Robinson, Kansas, 1862, ac- quilted; Harrison Reed, Florida, 1S66, charged dropped; William W. Holden, North Carolina, 1870, removed; Powell Clayton, Arkansas 1871. charges dropped; David Butler, Nebraska, 1871, removed; Henry c. Warmoth. Louisiana 1872, term expired and pro ceedings dropped; AdeIbert Ames, Mississippi 1876, resigned.
 That clause of the New York state constitution which covers impeach- ment provides that if the Senate and court of appeals, which sits as a joint shall find the defendant guilty, the Judgment shall not ex- tend further than removal from office or removal from office and disqualiG- cation to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the state; but the, party impeached shall be liable to indictment and punishment according to law"
 Lieut.. Governor Martin IT. Giyun. upon whose immediate automatic as- sumption of the governorship lawyers were not agreed, today, is Demo crat and editor and publisher of the Albany Times. He is 42 years old, @ graduate of Fordham, served a term in Congress and in 1906 was elected state comptroller.
 Albany, Aug. 13-Wf1liam Sulzer, Goverior of New York, was impeach- ed by the lower house of the Iegisla.- ,ure at 5:16 o'clock, this morning. after an all night session by a vote of 79 to 45 on charges of having diverted campaign contributions to 1is private use and having made un- Ter oath false statements as to his campaign receipts.
 The declaration, late last night, by he governors wife that she had df- rerted some of the campaign contri- buttons to the purchase of stock be- ;ause she felt the household needed money failed to avert impeachment
 The assembly had been in continu-
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