New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-15
SULzER PREDICTS HE
WILL Be ACQUITTED
"This Is a Trial, Not a Political
Fight" He Says, After
Seeing HerrlCk.
HE WANTS ONLY JUSTICE
Duplicate of Old Impeachment
Seal Employed in Justice
Barnard's Trial Adopt
ed by the Court.

Albany. Sept. IT. am going to he
acquitted" said Governor William Sulzer
tonight at conference with ex-Judge
ID. Cady Herrick. OF his counsel. concern
ing the impeachment trial. which will
commence Thursday before the state
Senate and the Court OF Appeals. sitting
as a court of impeachment.
The Governor commented on the a;ti-
tude OF some OF the Senators and de-
clared that this is trial; not political
fight" He said that justice is AL I
want" The statement follows:
IL am going to be acquitted | VIII
have a fair trial. I have said some hard
things about some of the Senators and
they have said some hard things about
me: but this is a trial. not a political
fight. They are both judges and Jurors,
and | believe most Of them are large
enough and honest enough to rise above
any personal feeling they may entertain
toward me because of what | have said
about them, and do me justice and mat
is all ] want"
An official seal has been adopted Tor
use by the court OF impeachment. II Is
fac simile OF the one used in 1872 by the
court Of impeachment for the trial Of
Justice George G.. Barnard Of the Su-
preme Court
The selection OF q seal for the court
puzzled Patrick T.. McCabe, clerk OF the
Senate. and was not solved until at
taches OF the Attorney Generals office
had devoted hours to research. Since IN"
earliest Impeachment trials the seal or
the court has been required on all the
subpnnas and processes Of the tribunal.
Mr.. McCabe had received many sub
ppnas 10 serve for the SulZer trial. but
was unable To learn what seal was neces-
sary. In consequence many important
documents were held up.
Mr.. McCabc finally appealed 10 the At
torney General II was learned that the
seal adopted by the Impeachment court
at the trial OF John G. Mather. Canal
Commissioner. In 1853 was very similar
TO that OF the old court FOR the trial ~
Impeachment and correction OF errors
which was abolished by the constitution
Of 1916. The seal Of tho court at Us sec
ond meeting for the trial OF Robert 6.
Dorm. another Canal Commissioner, in
1915. was the Senate clerks seal. The
seal OF a.. court FOR its third meeting.
for the trial Of Barnard. was referred TO
In the statute passed at that time. 49,
as that deposited In the Office OF the Sec
rotary OF State.
Writers since that time have stated
that the seal first used I'm the Mather trial
aud that used in the Dorm trial were
obsolete. and that the proper seal should
bc one bearing the arms 81 the state.
The whole question. therefore. turned on
what seal was used in the Barnard trial
Of 1872. Records Of the Barnard trial
were no, TO bc found until William l..
Phelps. Of Albany. appeared at the A.
tofncy Generals Office with subpoena
served on him .n the trial bearing The
seal. II was stamped upon red wafer.
ana is described az follows:
1.-THE field argent In the precise middle
chief a sun ia it, meridian or. below the
sun scroll bearing the words. New
York ana around the field the mscrip-
ton. Court Of the Trial 81 Gmpcach-
ments'"
Senator Bracket. OF counsel for the As
sembly impeachment managers. To whom
tho question had been submitted. decided
that this was the true seal OF the court.
and seal was made from the old copy
by direction Of Mr. McCaLe.