The Sentinel=record., 1913-01-14
PENNSYLVANIA JURlsT STRIP PED OF OFFICE AND PRlvI-
 LEeE OF FURTHER HONOR.
IS GUILTY ON FIVE COUNTS
Senate Votes Verdict and President Bacon of the Senate Imposes the Extreme Penalty-Sentence
 Effective at once.

Washington, Jan 13.--Robert w. Archibald of Scranton, Pa, for 29 years an occupant of judicial posi- tions upon the Pennsylvania state bench, the federal district bench and the United States commerce court, was today adjudged guilty by the United States senate of high crimes and misdemeanols" was stripped of his office and forever disqualified from holding positions of public honor or public trust.
 The conviction and judgment came as the conclusion of the impeachment trial that has been pending in the senate since last summer on charges that Judge Archibald had been guilty of misconduct and misbehavvior as d judge and that he had corruptiy used his judicial power to further the private interests of himself and his friends, in the acquisition of coal land properties in Pennsylvania Upon five of the thirteen separate charges brought against him by the house of representatives Judge Arch bald was found guilty. Upon the odh- CT eight, the senate voted him not guilty, the majority in some cases be- ing against him, put failing of the two-thirds necessary for conviction Any one of the five verdicts of guilty was enough to bring about the pun islhment imposed upon him.
 The end of the long fought strug- gle in the senate came early in the afternoon, when the vote was taken on the first article of impeachment With gallery doors locked to prevent the movement of spectators and an unaccustomed hus h prevailing throughout the chamber, sixty-eight senators rose in their places as their names were called and pronounced the word guilty. in almost inaudible tones. The vote on the first charge, that Judge Archibald had corruptly influenced officials of the Erie rail road to sell them the Katydid culm dump at Scranton, resulted in his conviction by d vote of 6S to 5.
 In a little committee room off the gallery floor, behind a guarded door, Judge Archibald, his wife and his son. Hugh, sat throughout the after noon. as the senate voted upon the charges against him. The first vote of conviction was carried to him by his son from the gallery. After sen tence had been imposed upon him, Judge Archibald and his family left the capitol to go at once to the fam fly home at Scranton.
 'I have always known that I have done no wrong and the vote of no one makes it otherwise" was his only comment upon the senate's action.
 Sentence was imposed by Senator Bacon, of Georgia, the presiding off cer, after the senate had by vote of 39 to 35 upheld a resolution of fered by Senator OGorman of New York, authorizing the full penalty, provided by the constitution.
 "The senate, therefore, do order and decree" said Senator Bacon, and it is hereby adjudged that the respondent Robert w. Archibald, cir cult judge for the United States for the Third judicial circuit, and desig- mated to serve in the commerce court, be, and he is hereby, removed from office and that he be, and hereby is, forever disqualified to hold and en- joy any office of honor, trust or pro fit under the United States"
 The sentence of the senate became operative at once and directions were given that the president and the house of representative be noti- fled of the verdict and the punish ment imposed.
 Of the ten men who have been i'm peached before the senate since the organization of the government, Judge Archibald is the third one to be convicted and the only one con victed who appeared to make a per sonal defense against the charges.
 Voting on the charges began as soon as the impeachment court had been reorganized at 1 o'clock On each of the articles, Senator Bacon. after the secretary had read the charge to the senate, put the formal question.
 Senators, how say you, is the re- spondent, Robert W. Archibald, guilty or not guilty as charged in this ar ticle?n
 As the roll call proceeded, replies of sseuiltv" came from all parts Of