The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16

JUDGE CULLEN FOR HID,
Friends Admit That Their Fight u
Well Nigh Hopeless and That
He VIII be I'M
peached.
IBy John Edwin Nevin, Staff Con


respondent OF the United Press.l
ALBANY, N. Y, Oct 16.-The re-
moval from the office to which he was
elected--governor OF the state of New.
York--of William SulZer was mathe.
matical certainty today. His oppon-
ents have the two-thirds vote needed
under the constitution. And they have
in addition the determination to put
through their program. 1t seemed
certain when the high court OF inn
peachment met at 1915 this morning
that the verdict would be recorded to-
hight. 1t was possible that 1t might
not be complete until tomorrow. But
the constitutional majority Of the
! court, 3S votes, was against the electe
ed governor.
The initial test vote taken yesterday,
showed one more vote than was need
ed to remove On this question. which
is that VIM. Sulzer filed false state-
ment of his monetary transactions fol-
lowing the last gubernatorial CAM
paign, the court OF appeals was divided
five against the governor to four in fa-
1 vor Of his contention that the court
did not have the power to pass upon
acts committed prior to his subscrib-
/ ing to the oath Of office. Among the
4 judges who upheld the contention OF
4 the governor was Edward M. Cullen,
the chief justice.
The real issue will come on the.
i fourth arsicle Of irnP achments This
declared the elected governor sup
pressed evidence by means Of threats
to keep witnesses from testifying be-
fore the legislative investigating COM
mittee. The acts complained Of in 1t
were committed after he became gov
ernor. The attempt to send it back 70
the assembly for amendment so that
1t would include the allegation that he
also tried to tamper with the high
court of Impeachment failed. But the
court by a vote of 46 to II, ruled the
original article was broad enough to
include the testimony of D. w. Peck.
Peck who Is state superintendent of
public schools, directly charged Sui
ger with attempted subordination OF
perjury He said that after he was
subpoenaed by the F'rawley Investigate
ing committee he went to Sulzer, told
him he had been called as witness
and asked him what he could say un-
der oath regarding cash contribution
of $780, which he swore he made to
the governors campaign fund Accord
ing to Peck, Sulzer said: Forget 1t as
will"
{ On this vote, already a matter OF rec
J ord, 1t was said by members of the I'M
, peachment court, Sulzer was certain to
be removed from office. The friends
/. of the governor who are handling his
i fight behind closed doors in the Inn
+ parchment court privately admitted
) before entering the court today that
their fight was we'll nigh hopeless
When the Sulzer impeachment court
recessed this afternoon 1t was ans
nounced that it would reconvene in
open session at o'clock this after
noon
1t was unoffcially stated that the
] court had disposed of all the articles
: OF impeachment At the afternoon ses-
:, sion 1t was stated the final vote on the
/ guilt or innocence of the governor
a would be recorded. Because Of the
S fact that most members of the court
! intended repeating for the record their
e arguments already in the record IL was
j. expected that the final disposition oi
O the case would not take place until
r, late today or possibly not until tomor
row