The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-12

state that viii nave a rev spoken
words to deliver. For what / will say,
will present sufficient proof, and I
will show that Mr.. Conner is not. as
he pretends 10 be. the friend of the
people as opposed to the corporations.
do not intend to make a vicious, per-
sonal attack on Mr.. Conner but I will
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itself to a single thing, save the punish
ment of Sareczy and Colwell by the
| ado option of this report. Why all this talk
about Impeachment? We are not voting
to impeach the governor. All we want
to do now is to adopt the report of the
| committee"
The vote on the question of adopting
| the report of the several preliminary
sSirmishes and roll calls was 65 to 35
81 democrats and three republicans voted
in favor of the motion. OF the 35 men,
bers voting against the motion, 10 were
| democrats, Is republicans and one pro-
| gressive.
Introduces Resolution
After the announcement of the vote
Mr.. Levy introduced his resolution to
| impeach, and then moved to lay the res
olution over for consideration at II o'clock
today.
| Minority Leader Hindman, supported by
Assemblynlan Bibbs, democrat, urged
more delay. He wanted a weeks time,
a. least. Mr.. Gibbs turned to face the
majority leader and thundered his opin
ion of the assembly man of his own party.
IF William Sulzer were the greatest
wretch that ever crawled this earth,' ne
said, you are not giving him a square
deal l blush for my party and its lead
ership to have to say So"
| A substitute motion, calling for q
| 1a1a f1a anfa-
ment resolution. was lost by vote of 20
to 62 and the assembly adopted the Levy
motion to consider the Impeachment res
| olution at its session this forenoon. Ahe
vote on this motion was "a to 80
! Senator Duhamels of Brooklyn created a
breeze in the senate, followinfi the read
| ing of the F'rawley report, when he prac
| tically accused the committee of "ap-
pearing to have crucified' the governor.
Says "What Is Not True
| Senator Frawley, chairman of the in
vestigating committee, jumped in his
place and exclaimed:
when the senator makes the state
ment that this committee has crucified
the governor he says what is not true.
want to say that no man in this state is
more frienly to the governor than r.
Loud laughter in the galleries here
drowned the rest of Senator Frawley's
sentence and the presiding officer raped
loudly for order
| Senator Duhamel replied that he did
not wish to impute dishonor to the
| committee, but insisted there should be
more evidence. He moved that the re-
| Fort be reconsidered with instructions to
| take additional testimony on both sides.
1T is the first time that an attempt has
been made to place such stain upon the
| state he pleaded. II am not satisfied
4 tlaa ie-
TO impeach the governor,
Half dozen other senators argued in
| favor of accepting the report and a mo-
ton TO that effect prevailed
| general report was current among
senators and assemblymen early this
morning that friends of Governor Suizer
were endeavoring to obtain an injunction
lto estop the legislature at its session to-
day from consideration of impeachment
proceedings. The report was impossible
OF verification and could be traced to
no particular source.
The conclusion Of the Frawley commit
tee, embodied in its report to the legisla-
ture, are that Governor Sulzer falsified
under oath his campaign contribution ac-
count, diverted some of these contribu-
tionsr to the purchase of stock, speculated
in stocks at the time that, as governor,
he was earnestly pressing legislation
against the New York Stock exchange,
punished legislators who opposed him by
votoing their bills. traded executive ap-
proval of bills for support of mis- direct
primary measure, and did everything In
his power to conceal proof and obstrl tt
the Frawley committees efforts TO bring
Il to light.
Action Demanded
1--WE submit to the senate and assem-
bly,, the report recites, that the facts
stated are sufficiently serious in character
and so violative of the laws of the state
and the rules of fitness for and conouct
In high office, that the public interests
demand some action In reference thereto
whether through the exercise of powers of
the legislature or by referring facts and
evidence to other duly constituted officers
charged with duties in respect thereof.
ut Is recommended that the legislature
take steps to punish for contempt in re-
fusing to testify Louis A. Sarecky, who.
acted as Mr.. Suffers confidential secre-
tary during the campaign. and Freder-
icl l.. Colwell who is alleged to have
been the governors representative in some
of the stock transactions. Mr.. Colwell is
referred to as 1.-THE friend and dummy
of William Sulzer in certain Wall street
dealings
Withheld Truth
During the time OF these hearings and
Inv estgations,' the report proceeds, VIII
liam Sulzer, as governor, has done every
thing in his power to withhold the trc.l
ana obstruct the production of evidence
and the course of justice. At this instance
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