The Prescott daily news., 1913-09-18
HIGH COURT OF IMPEACHMENT
 OF EMPIRE STATE ASSEM- BLES TODAY.
DISCUSS RULES OF CONDUCT
Mode of Procedure to Be Fixed Before Actual Trial Begins-Chief Judge Cullen Presides-
 Prosecution Ready.

Albany, N. Y, Sept. 1S.-For the first time in the history of New York state, and for only the eighth time In the history of the country, chief ex- ecutive today faced trial for high crimes and misdemeanors" when a majority of the state senate and ma jority of the court of appeals opened their sittings as high court of i'm peachment with Chief Judge Edgar NJ. Cullen presiding.
 After taking the oath to try i'm partially and fairly the case before the court the judges and senators en- tered into discussion of rules for the conduct of the trial. There are no precedents in New York state for the trial of a governor and the only guide the court has is the constitution of the state, precedents established ill other states and the records of fed eral amendments. Therefore, the court must thresh out the question of rules to govern the conduct of the trial before it can get down to the actual work for which it has been called into being.
 Prosecutors Are Ready.
 The assembly board Of managers, of which Aaron J. Levy, majority lead CT of the assembly, is chairman, is full ly prepared to proceed with the pre- sentation of the evidence, to be made by special counsel.
 al hafnrn hn court, after the rules have been agreed upon, will be the filing of an answer by attorneys for SulZer. Besides be- ing a general denial of all the charges. this answer will probably conclude with the prayer that the court of i'm peachment dismiss the charges on the ground that the impeachment was found when the assembly was in eX- traordinary session. Gov. Sulzer main- tains that being in such extraordinary session. called by him for the purpose of considering certain legislation, the assembly could not legally take up matters other than those for which the chief executive summoned it into session.
 With Sulzer on trial the battle be- tween New York's Peoples gov ernor" and Bammany Hall the polit- ical organization that made him, and is now setting out to break him, will near its end It is a political quarrel that will go down in history.
 The court of impeachment will not be affected in any way by the feeling of popular sympathy for Suzer It will be cold calm proposition of whether Sulzer was or was not guilty of malfeasance in office. A question of whether as charged by the assem- ply, he did or did not speculate in Wall street with campaign funds and of whether he did or did not fail to give a true and correct list of his cam paign contributions in his sworn statement of campaign receipts and expenditures
 Pathetic Touch Expectct.
 It is possible that a dramatic. per haps pathetic, touch will be given the proceedings by the introduction of the hame of Mrs. Sulzer It is said to be likely that Mrs. SulZer will stand by the statement credited to her in which she is alleged to have said that it was she who speculated in Wall street with campaign funds. without the gov ernor's knowledge. If this is to be the Sulzer line of defense, Mrs. Sul- ger will be forced to make very hu- initiating admissions upon the witness stand, an ordeal that would be very trying to her and a proceeding which even Sulzer's worst enemies would prefer to avoid.
 The assembly board of managers. which has charge of the assembly's end of the case, is composed of Aaron J. Levy of New York, chairman: Pat rick J. McMahon. Thirtyfourth dis trict; Abraham Greenberg, Twenty. sixth district; William J. Cillen, Sec ond district; Theodore H. Ward. Eff. teenth district; l. " Fitzgerald Sev- enth district; Tracy D. Madden, First district; Thomas K. Smith, Third dis trict, and Herman F. Schnirel of On tarlo county. Smith and Schnrel are Republicans. AEnn nna