The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-08-14
GOV. VIM. SULzER
IS |MPEACHED
BY VOTE OF 70 TO as NEW YORK
EXECUTIVE. is oUSTED.
WIFE TRIES TO SAVE HUSBAND
Assembly Has An All Night Session,
Vote On Custer Proceedings Not
Coming Until 5:t6 O'Clock
This Morning.

Albany, N. Y, Aug. 13.-With three
votes more than enough, Governor
William Sulzer early today was i'm
peached by the assembly for alleged
connection with his campaign funds,
after an all nights session. Await
ing until Tammany men arrived. the
vote was taken at 5:16 this morning,
resulting 70 for impeachment and 40
against. The impeachment came
close upon the heels of the most SEN
sational feature of the Sulzer-Murphy
war when Mrs. Sulzer told certain
senators that she was responsible for
the Sulzer stock market deals and
that the governor knew nothing about
lit. She sought to shoulder all the
blame, but Tammany leaders say that
lit is only the act of a loving wife
willing to do anything to save her
husband. Tammany marked time
throughout the long night and waited
until it had the required 76 votes. 1t
was 2:30 a. m. that minority leader
Harold Human sprung the real SEN
sation, asserting that Mrs. Sulzer had
said she used the campaign funds in
stock deals to raise money for house
hold expenses, without the knowledge
of her husband. Senator A. J. Palm
er confirmed the story. Then Hin
man moved that the assembly ad-
journ until it could hear and consider
the statement of Mrs. Sulzer, but this
was voted down 70 to 40. Friends
of Governor SulZer admit that they
did not know what to make of this
eleventh hour attempt to save him.
After Humans motion was voted
down time was killed until 5:16 when
the roll call on impeachment came.
SulZer is not yet removed from office.
4 The appointment of Lieutenant Gov
lernor Glynn as acting governor will
not come until the Impeachment COM
mittee of the assembly reports the
charges against the governor to the
senate. which will with the Court of
Appeals as court try Sulzer Just
before adjournment the house select
ed committee to notify the senate
of the impeachment.
| The committee appointed by the as
sembly to prepare the articles of i'm
parchment against Governor Sulzer
appeared at the capital this afternoon
bringing with them the formal charges
against the governor, in not more
than five thousand words, and were
prepared to lay it before the commit
tee as soon as it is called to order.
SulZer is not only charged with max
! ing false reports of his campaign
/ funds, but with a felony in that he
induced witnesses not to testify be-
fore the committee and with the mis-.
use of his campaign funds He is
also charged with using his Office to
effect the stock market and with CO.
ercing legislation with threats.
1t is feared here New York may
! have two governors as soon as the
! impeachment proceedings are laid be-
fore the senate. This act will make
! Glynn acting governor and Sulzer is
expected to refuse to recognize him.
Both sides may then call upon state
troops to uphold their Offices and
trouble is feared.
| Wife Takes All the Blame.
Albany, n. Y, Aug. 1S.-One over
shadowing sensation in the remarkable
conflict that Is raging over the i'm
parchment of William Sulzer was the
story last night that the governors
wife had offered to fling herself be-
tween him and his accusers, perhaps
to sacrifice herself to save him.
/ Stn 10 hA nj.
tai by Senator Palmer of Kingston,
who came from a conference with Mrs.
Sulzer at the executive mansion. The
story, told by Senator Palmer to AS
semblymen Vale, Sweet, Norton, Sena-
tor Henry w. Walters OF Syracuse and
others, was that Mrs. Sulzer insisted to
him that II was she and not her hus-
band who had signed the name of Will
! liam Sulzer to the checks turned up
! by the Frawley committee, that she
had signed and deposited checks for
him for years and done business in his
name, feeling that her business in
stinct was better than his.
Confirmation is Refused.
The statement of the governors
| devoted wife. which might save him
| from conviction before the senate i'm,
parchment court II repeated there. is
that she believed her husband had no
knowledge whatever of the checks she
deposited or of the transactions into
which they entered.
When this remarkable story was
put directly up to Palmer he at first
refused to confirm or deny II, insist
ing that the questioner ask Mrs.
Sulzer.
When told that Mrs. Sulzer had re-
tired before the interviewer reached
the capitol, with his exciting nara
tive. and that the governor refused
| IN hermit her IN he disturhed palmer