Las Vegas optic., 1913-08-14
OFFICIALS KNOW NOT TO WHOM
TO TURN FOR ORDERS AS A RE
SUIT OF ACTION ON THE PART
or ELECTED EXECUTIVE
GLYNN CLAIMS The OFFICE
OFFICIAL SUMMONS AND ARTi.
Giles OF IMPEACHMENT sERV-
ED ON MAN WHOSE WIFE At
TEMPTs TO SAVE HIM

Albany, N. Y, Aug. 14.-Two claim
ants to the office of governor of New
York sat in the capitol today, each
asserting his right to the office anG
attempting to conduct the states af-
fairs from his own chambers.
William Sulzer, impeached govern
or, sat in the executive chamber On
the second floor of the building. He
is going to sit there every day. ae-
cording to friends, disregardiug the
Impeachment proceedings which ne
regards as unconstitutional
Martin H. Glynn, lieutenant govern
or. laid claim to the governorship on
the ground that Sulzer ceased to be
governor when the senate received
the articles of impeachment yester-
day.
The army of state employees is
demoralized. Department heads are
at a loss to know whose instructions
to follow
Mrs. Sulzer, star witness for the
impeached governor, is so seriously
i'll of a nervous disorder that two ad-
ditional specialists have been sum-
moned by wire to attend her
Governor Sulzer asserted emphat-
ically that he would not permit her
to take the stand at his trial for i'm
peachment, which probably win start
September 22 The articles of i'm
peachment, complaint and summons
were served on Governor Sulzer i'm
mediately after his arrival at the
capitol by Patrick 3. McCabe, clerk
of the senate. The governor received
McCabe in the presence of newspa-
per men and capitol attendants. He
shook hands with Mr.. McCabe and
took his stand behind his big flat
desk while the senate's envoy said:
Il am directed by the president Of
the senate to serve upon you sum
mons and complaint and articles Of
Impeachment"
Governor Sulzer took the papers,
grunted and tossed them, unopened,
on his desk.
"AlI right" he said. Then he posed
for a photograph with Mr. McCabe,
asked the newspaper men to be seat
ed and sat down himself at his desk
His private secretary stood beside
him and made the following an.
nouncement:
THE governor has been enjoined
by his counsel from making any state
ments. will say, however, in his
behalf. that illness of Mrs. Sulzer is
giving the governor considerable con-
cern. Her condition last night was
serious. The specialist summoned
from New York last night is here
and the governor today summoned
two other doctors from New York
to attend her"
Governor Sulzer then retired to his
private office for series of confer
ences.
Mrs Suffers temperature was 1O2-
her pulse ITO, her condition so seri-
GUS she can see no one, according to
a. bulletin issued this afternoon.
The complex machinery Of the
state government over which both
William sulzer and Martin H. Glynn
claimed sole authority, pade fair to-
day to be thrown out Of gear by their
rival attempts to direct it
Heads Of the many departments
were divided into two groups. One
Of these groups, under the leadership
Of sulzer, adhered to his contention
that his impeachment yesterday was
unconstitutional and prepared to
continue their obedience to his in
structions as if there had been no
Impeachment The other, holding that