The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-19
Seventeen Important Cases In
Nations History
SEVEN STATE GOVERNORS
Nine Federal OfficehoIders and
One President One Cover
nor of North Carolina In tie
List,
(By II. S.


New York. Aug. 16.-The impeach-
ment Of Governor William Sulzer. 4
New York. numbers the seventeenth
important Impeachment case recorded
in n history of the United States.
seven Of governors OF states and nine
Federal office holders, the latter being
called to answer before the United
States Senate. North Carolina figured
prominently in one Of these cases.
peached.
One President. andrew Johnson. has
been impeached. Congress and hs
Quarrelled over the appointment of a
successor to Edwin NJ. Stanton. whom
the President had removed from tho
office Of Secretary Of War The Chiet
Executive was formally charged with
illegally seixing property Of the gov
eminent when he attempted to force
his choice In charge Of the Depart
ment Of War. Congress was angered
by a series OF denunciatory speeches
made by the President, much as tho
New York Legislature was recently in
censed at Mr.. Suffers violent attacks
from the platform. The trial lasted
three n On May 26, 1868, a
vote was taken. The Impeachment
charge failed to be upheld by only
one vote OF the required two-thirds.
The first impeachment case started
in 1897. whom William Blount, who
had been q member OF Congress-, WAS
changed with melting the indian In
Louisiana against the Spaniards. He
refused to appear. asserting the court
had no jurisdiction, and was finally
found not guilty. !
John Pickering was found guilty oe
abuse Of judicial power as District
Judge OF New Hampshire, and Of in
temperate and immoral habits. and
vas expelled. Soon afterward, in
1905, Samuel Chase. Supreme Court
Justice, was acquitted of abuse Of
against It's state constitution. Jamea
81: Peck. a District Court Judge OF
Missouri. was found not guilty Of an
lmpeachable offence in 1881, after hs
had put q lawyer hostile to him in Jail
for t~wenty-four hours.
During h civil war West H.. Hum
pnreyA q District Judge OF Tennessee.
became q Judge OF h Confederate
States and was found guilty Of con-
spiracy. The case OF William w.
Balknap, Secretary of War, had a
dramatic turn when it was found that
Ills WIG WdS inc real one TO blame III
the armln out OF a trading post. He
then resigned to protect her. District
Court Judge Charles Swayne, %
FLORIDA, wa acquitted IN 1904 Of fall
slrying expense accounts. and on
January IL: OF this year. Judge Robert
w. was dismissed from the
United States Commerce Court.
No governor Of the State of New
York has ever before been impeach-
ed. The Governors who have been
1mpeached are: Charles Robinson, OF
; kansas. IN 1862; Harrison Reed. II
Florida, In 1868; William w. Holden.
OF North Carolina. in 1870; Powell
!. dayton. OF Arkansas, In 1871. David
: Butier, OF Nebraska, IN 1871; Henry
; =. Warmoth, OF Louisiana, in 1872.
ana Adelbert Ames, OF Mississippi. in
: 1915. Only two of these-Butler, Of
; Nebraska, and Holden Of North caro-
9 ilna-were found guilty and removed
several minor officials of New York
: state, including two Supreme our
Justices, have been impeacncd