The Washington herald., 1913-01-05
ARCHIBALD TAKES
Stand TOMORROW
Judge Being Tried on Articles
Of ofImpeachment to Testify
In Own Behalf.
WIFE ALSO A WITNESS
Little that Is Important Develops at
Hearing in the'Senate
Yesterday.

Judge Robert w Archibald, of the
United States Commerce Court, who is
being tried by the Senate on articles of
Impeachment reported by the House of
Representatives. will take the stand Mon
day in his own behalf His wife, who
has been a regular attendant at the trial.
occupying a seat in the Senators gal
lery, also will be called as a witness
in behalf of her husband. 1t is under
stood that Mrs. Archibald will be asked
10 testify to the fact that Henry w.
Cannon. the New York banker. who is
her cousin, supplied the money with
which Judge Archibald and his wife took
the trip to Europe, which has been
testified to heretofore in the trial A
subpoena was issued for Henry W. Can
non. but it was reported that he was
on houseboat some where off the coast
Of Florida and could not be served, and
Judge Archbald's lawyers finally asked
that his name be taken from the list
of witnesses.
Yesterday probably was one of the
most uninteresting days in the results
that has vet occurred in the trial. A
large number of witnesses were called,
but their testimony for the most part.
related to details and was mainly cor
roborative. Judge Martin Knapp, of the
Court Of Commerce. was asked a ques-
bald. manifestIy intended to establish the
fact that Judge Knapp wrote that por-
ton Of the opinion in the Louisville and
Nashville case, which was covered by
the suggestions of Helm Bruce. at
tOrnev for the railroad. to whom Judge
Archibald wrote after the arguments were
closed. asking him to elucidate certain
points. The question was objected TO by
the House managers and the objections
"A LAT however Sem
ator Hitchcock Of Nebraska propounded
a qaestiun from the floor whether Judge
Knapp knew that the witness or any
Of the other Judges of the Commerce
Court We're aware that Judge Archibald
had been in correspondence with the
Louisville and Nashville attorney. Judge
Knapp replied that they had no knowl-
edge of il.
judge Nhitmcr Mentioned,
Allan W. Cockrell a special examiner
with the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. testified that he was called in
hv Commissioner y. II. Meyer TO make
the memorandum OF charges by w. p
BOland against Judge Archibald. which
later furnished the basis for President
Taft to order an Investigation by the
Attorney General. Mr.. Cockrell admitted
that he made the memorandum from
memory some time after Mr.. Boland
made his charges. The witness was
asked why he omitted in the memoran-
dunn the charges which BOland made
against Judge Whitmer, of the United
States District Court for the Middle Dis
triCt of Pennsylvania, in connection with
the same litigation which Judge Arch
bald considered. 1t has been testified to
heretofore in the case that BOland
charged that Judge Whitmer had not
treated him fairly in the case, and on
the witness stand Boland declared that
Whitmer had not acted properly. But
the House managers made A strong OBJ
lection to bringing in the name Of Judge
Whitmer. and We're finally sustained by
Senator Bacon. who was presiding. The
Senator declared that the bringing in of
Judge Whitmer might lead TO another
impeachment case, and he intimated that
the Senate had its hands full already.
George +. Browncn. general counsel OF
the Erie Railroad. who testified that he
was a citizen of New York. testified that
he never heard anything more about the
negotiations for the purchase from the
Erie of the Katydid Culm dump after
Judge Archibald made his call on him in
New York. The object of this testimony
was 10 show that the negotiations were
not halted as a result of the investiga-
tion. and that Judge Archibald did not
persist in his efforts to get the property
from the railroad.
CharleS r Holden, OF Boston, was an
other witness who was interested in
acquiring culm property, and he testified
that the negotiations were not interrupt
ed by newspaper publicity while an in
vcstigation was under way.
w. w. Rissinger, of Scranton, told the
Senate that the 81, 800 note discounted for
him, on which Judge Archibald was in
dorser. was for the benefit of the wit
ness and that Judge Archibald got none
of the proceeds.
Joseph P. Jennings. Of Moosick. Pa.
an expert on the value of culm property,
declared that the value put fupon the
Culm dump, which Judge Archibald
sought TO acquire, by the government
expert. Rttenhouse. was about twice
what 1t should have been.