Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-14
JUDGE LOSES OFFICE
Senate DEGREES Punishment
for Archibald.
REMOVED AND DISQUALIFIED
Climax of Ninth Impeachment Trial
in United States.
ACCUSED ASSERTS INTEGRITY
Efficiency of Constitutional Processes
Declared by Chairman CLAYTON to
Be Proven by the Result.
REMOVED AND DISQUALIFIED
ACCUSED ASSERTS INTEGRITY

The Senate therefore do order and
decree and it is hereby adjudged.
that the respondent. Robert W. Arch
bald, circuit judge of the United States
from the third judicial circuit and
designated to serve in the Commerce
Court, be and he is hereby. removed
from office: and that he be. and is
hereby, forever disqualified to hold and
enjoy any Office of honor. trust or
profit under the United States"
With this proclamation of the judg-
ment Of the Senate by Presiding Judge
Bacon. senator from Georgia. came the
climax of the ninth Impeachment trial
in the history of the United States. 1t
was only the third time in the repub-
lies life that such sentence has been
imposed by the upper house Of Con-
gress, sitting as court of impeach-
ment. District Judge John Pickering
of New Hampshire was removed from
office in 1903. and District Judge West
H. Humphreys of Tennessee was re-
moved from Office in 1852.
Convicted on Five Charges.
Upon five of the thirteen articles of inn
parchment the Senate by twO-thirds
vote found Judge Archibald guilty. Upon
the other eight the judge was found not
guilty, in some cases, however, ma
jority voting guilty Conviction on
any one of the thirteen articles was all
that was necessary to cause the removal
of Judge Archibald from office. There
fore. his punishment was fixed by the
vote upon the very first article. upon
which he was found guilty by vote. of
Us to ).
Judge Archibald, with his wife, heard
the verdict of the Senate as he sat be-
hind a guarded door in committee room
on the gallery floor in the Senate wing
of the Capitol. He waited to learn the
votes on All the articles and the final
judgment of the Senate. Then he left the
Capitol with the announced intention Of
going at once to the family home in
Scranton.
II have always known that l have done
no wrong, and the vote of no one makes
it otherwise, he commented.
OF the three men convicted by the Sen
ate on Impeachment charges, Judge
Archibald is the only one who appeared
in the Senate and made a personal de-
Tense.
Senators Explain Their Votes.
In many cases senators filed state
ments. printed in todays Congressional
Record, explaining their votes. Senator
Root said in his statement:
Il have voted that the respondent is
guilty under articles !, p ;, ). and ID.
because / find that he used the power
and influence of his Office as judge of the
Court of Commerce to secure favors OF
money value for himselfrand his friends
from railroad companies. some of which
were litigants in his court, and all of
which were under the regulations of the
interstate commerce commission, subject
to the review of the Court of Commerce.
/ consider this course of conduct, and
each instance of it. to be a high crime
and misdemeanOr.
Removed and Disqualified.
At the close of the voting on the
thirteenth article Senator O'Gorman
of New York asked the Senate to adopt
an order that Robert W. Archibald "be