The Washington herald., 1913-10-15
S[LER COURT
Still in KNOTS
No Headway IN STRENGTHENING
Out Faulty Impeach-
ment Article.
LONG DELAY IS LIKELY
1 No Decision May Be Reached Until
After Eleeiion-Assembly Is
Likely to Reeonvene.
LONG DELAY IS LIKELY

Albany, Oct. 1.-THE effort Of the court
of impeachment today to untangle the
snarl that has arisen over the faulty
articles of impeachment succeeded only
in making bad matters worse. After two
hours of secret session the court gave
up the job for the night. Tomorrow, un-
less the Judges Of the Court Of Appeals
Z agree to go to a vote on the articles as
they stand, they viii be sent back TO
the Assembly. This will give Gov. Sui
ger twenty days to answer. In other
words, IL will defer..the whole matter
until after the election. IL Sulzer's law
yers insist upon their rights. and al
though herculean efforts will be made to
get enough Assembly votes to adopt
amended articles, robody who values a
reputation as a prophet would predict
that II can be done.
through the locked doors of the Senate
chamber this afternoon this much is
clear:
Fate Rests ON Move.
The judges of the Court Of Appeals will
not vote to convict Sulzer on slovenly
drawn article of impeachment.
The testimony as to Sulzer's cam
paign collections will not figure direct
ly in the final vote so far as the judges
are concerned.
The judges desire full discussion be-
fore taking any vote at all, and while
they do not desire to dominate the
court they will oppose any action that
cannot be backed up by the law as
they interpret it,
4 There was talk tonight of overrul-
sllg the judges and going to vote by
Joint vote of the Republicans and Dem
ocrats. This is not likely to be done.
The opinion of the ten judges far out
weighs the opinions of the Senators,
who are eager to put the matter up
TO the judges for final settlement.
In the meantime. with the idea that
before tomorrow night the help of the
Assembly may be called for. the Demo-
cratic managers have sent Speaker
Smith to New York to start drumming
up a majority of the members. He left
in black mood, highly enraged that
after having got one majority together
she should be called upon to perform
the same difficult task at this eleventh
hour.
y Conrt Discusses Middle.
The court today heard John B. Stanch-
field for the prosecution and Louis Mar
shall and D. Cady Herrick for Sulzer,
argue on the right of the court to vote
on an article of Impeachment in which
there is an admitted flaw.
After the discussion. which lasted un-
til o'clock this afternoon, another
secret hearing was ordered and Judges
and Senators entered into an informal
discussion of the puddle.
One thing loomed clearly forth from
the deliberations and that was the fact
that the fate of Sulzer now appears to
hang solely on the decision as one article
of impeachment and that one with a
fault in it Only the determination OF
the court to override the ten judges can
send Sulzer to final test for the things
he did before he became Governor of
New York.
At the conclusion of the secret session
the Tammany men csmS down State
Street with gloomy faces.
Tonight the telegraph wires were
whIrring with dispatches to different
parts of the State sounding sentiment
BY morning the leaders will know just
how much OF job it is going to be to
get the necessary seventy-six members
here. If il looks too hard, renewed ef-
forts will be made to get a vote on the
articles as they stand.