Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16
PECK EVIDENCE ADMITTED
That of MOrgenthau Thrown
Out-MOtiOn to Send Case
Back to Assembly
Lost l6 to IL.

final vote probably would bc ;akcn at
an open session tomorrow afternoon.
No official information of this re-
port could be obtained, however, as all
the deliberations of the court to-day
were held in secret behind closely
guarded loors, the windows Of which
were covered with newspapers. No
record of the proceedings was kept,
and a ban of silence has been placed
Oh members of the tribunal.
When adjournment was taken, short
ly after seven o'clock tonight, W.
hours beyond the usual time, the
Judges filed out under guard and the
senators hurried from the chamber to
the streets, instead Of remaining to
discuss the case as has been Their
wont.
There was an insistent rumOr that the
case had progressed SO far as to have
reached an informal vote on the guilt or
innocence Of the Governor on the first
article of the Impeachment. This article
charges the Governor with classifying his
campaign statement. The names of only
32 of the 81 members of the court had
been called when it vas decided to ad-
journ, it was reported. Each member, it
was said, was given an opportunity to
express his opinion on the merits Of the
article, and the same procedure will be
followed at the open session tomorrow
afternoon.
1t was reported hat practically all the
members took the opportunity to present
their views to-day and that one senator
who is favorable to the Governor con-
Sumed nearly an hour.
DlSCI SSloN or orr ENShS'
None of the reports in circulation gave
indication of whether the question as to
the impcachab.lity of the offenses chars-
ed in articles |. II and VI, known as
the money articles had been formally
taken up by the court. 1t had been as
sumed that the motion of the defense to
strike out these articles would be dis
posed OF before taking the informal vote,
but it was said that the procedure
adopted to-day called for a discussion Of
the impeachahility of the oifenses in con-
|nection with this vote.
Each member, it is understood, will be
given the privilege of changing his in
formal vote at the public session to-mor-
row afternoon.
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of the impeachment charges should be
amended to include the testimony of
duncan W. Peck and Henry l.. Morgen-
than, or whether the Assembly should
bee asked to bring an additional article
covering the oifenses alleged in this tes-
timOny, was decided to-day when the
court voted to admit the Peck testimony
into the article as it now stands. Th-
decision was announced at a brief pub
lie session held in the afternoon after
the court had deliherated five hours. 1t
was rumored that the decision was reach
ed by a vote of Il to 16. Previous to that
there had beou a long discussion H. was
said. on the motion 10 send the testi-
monv to the Assembly This notion. II
was said was defeated nv a vot. of
~ 70 #
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| alleged offenses which If covered we're
committed after the Impeachment, they
should not apply with article ~, which
had to do with the suppression of evidence
before the Frawley Investigating commit
tee.
There was no public announcement
moreover, of the legal ground on which
the Peck testimony was held to be relc-
vant to article " and as no stenographer
was present to record the deliberations
the arguments for and against persisted
with their u%ttorance in SO far as the pub
lie was concerned.
The procedure of taking the final vote
as required by rules of the court is as
follows;
Each member will he called upon
Alphabetically to answer to each of