The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-01-16
GUILTY" IS VERDICT
in ARCHIBALD CASE
Os
Judge of Commerce Court For
ever Discredited By Verdict
of United States Senate.

OF United States Senate.
Washington, jan. 14-"Guilty, on
five of the 10 impeachment counts
against him, was the verdict OF the
Senate in the case of Judge Rob
ert ". Archibald, of the
court, charged with misuse of his pow
er as a judge to his personal gain. The
Judge was convicted on the first, third,
fourth, fifth and 18th charges and ac-
Quilted on the second, sixth, seventh,
eighth, ninth, 10th, 18th and 18th.
On the ninth, 10th, 11th and 18th
the Senate voted mot guilty and
guilty" on he 18th.
This remove him from office.
The vote on the first count was IS
against Judge Archibald n five in
his favor. The Senate hen proceeded
to vote on the other 10 articles of the
impeachment.
The vote on the first count was as
follows:
For Conviction-Ashurst, Bankhead,
Borah, Bourne, Brandegee. Bristow,
Brown, Bryan, Burton, Chamberlain,
Clapp, Clark, of Wyoming; Clarke, of
Arkansas; Crane, Crawford, Culberson,
Cullom, Cummins. Curtis, Dixon, Du-
Gronna. Hitchcock, johnson, of Maine;
Jones, Kenyon. La Toilette, Lippitt,
Lodge, McCumber, Mclean, MARITIME,
Myers, Nelson, Newlands, O'Gorman,
owen, Page, Perkins, Poindexter, Pom
rene, Reed, Richardson, Root, Sanders,
Shively, Simmons, Smith, of Georgia;
Smith, of Maryland; Smith, of Ari-
IONA; Smoot. Stephenson, Stone, Suth-
erland, Swanson, Thornton, Tillman,
Townsend, Warren, Welmore, Williams
and Works.
Against Conviction-Burnham, Ca
A~~n Mis-. --l D.. ,n~-- HLN
Will Be ousted.
The conviction upon the first count
came with an unexpected majority
against Judge Archibald, only two
third being necessary for a conviction.
AS the roll call preceded, senators rose
slowly in their places and pronounced
the word guilty in low tones.
As the vote on the first article was
announced, Senator Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, moved that the Senate go
n executive session. He said that
he believed a vote on the other counts
might be dispensed with or abridged
by secret elaboration.
Senator Culberson and Senator Pom
dexter objected that the Senate could
not vote on the articles in executive
session. After some discussion, Smith
withdrew his motion and the clerk
proceeded to read the second article.
Freed On Second Count.
Senator Bacon, WHO had presided
throughout the impeachment proceed
ings, asked to be excused from all i'm
parchment votes unless his vote was
necessary to a decision. On the Sec
n vote Senate Smith, of Georgia, al
so asked to be excused from voting.
Not guilty" was the verdict on TIE
second count. but conviction was voted
on the third and fourth.
With Judge Archibald as he received
tho vote oF tho Canofn 1f,ara NT,o A ,Dl
bald, his son, Hugh Archibald. and Mrs.
Hugh Archibald. The Judges wife sat
in the gallery early in the day, but
withdrew before the doors We're closed.
Hugh Archibald checked off the sem
ators as they voted on the first count,
ing the rest of the voting. Guilty on
the fifth and not guilty on the sixth
were the next verdicts.
The seventh and eighth counts lacked
the two-thirds vote necessary for on
viction, though a majority of the sem
ators voted guilty" on each.
History Of Case.
The impeachment proceedings
against Judge Archibald We're started
early in 1912, when complaint was made
to the Interstate Commerce commits
sion and later to Attorney General
iWickersham and President Taft thai
Judge Archibald had been concerned in
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tain favors in connection with GER
tain Goa lands and the settlement of
cases involving coal properties.
h House of Representatives called
on President Taft for a o p of the
charges against the ommerce court
Investigation through the judiciary
committee, which ended in the recon-
mendation that Judge Archibald be i'm
peached. Scores of witnesses testified
to the House judiciary committee be-
fore it adopted the articles Of impeach-
ment and the majority of them again
gave their testimony before the Sen
ate in the trial that has just closed.
The House voted to impeach Judge
Archibald July Z, 1912, and the impeach-
ment was laid before the Senate July
Is, 1912. The trial did not begin, how
charges accused him of having used
his judicial influence to secure favors
from railroads that were litigants, or
possible ~litigants before him, of hav-
ing accepted favors from lawyers who
practiced in his court and Of having
been guilty of other misconduct as a
Judge. Judge Archibald admitted prac-
tically all of the facts as to his nego-
tiations for culm properties, but in each
case he maintained that the business
negotiations We're innocent in them
selves and that he had not in any
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dered himself subject to impeachment
or indictment under the law.
Resume of Charges.
Briefly stated. the charges brought
against Judge Archibald were as fol-
lows:
First-That he influenced officers of
the Erie railroad, then a litigant in
his court, to grant him a favorable OPP
ton on its share of the Katydid culm
dump, near Scranton, Pa. Judge Arch
bald acknowledged his part in the ne
negotiations, but denied he 'wilfully
or unlawfully or corruptly, or other
wise took any advantage of his Of
fetal position to influence the rail
road officials.
Second-That he attempted to affect
a settlement before the Marion Coal
Of Scranton, and the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western rail-
road, of a case then pending before
the Interstate Commerce commission
on a basis that would have given him
a share of the fee earned by George
M. Watson, attorney for the Marion
Coal company. Judge Archibald de-
Cared he acted in the case only as
a friend of the Interested parties and
did not expect n compensation for