The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-16
ARCHIBALD GUILTY
 OF FOUR CHARGES
Impeachment Proceedings Against Commerce Court Judge Results in Conviction by Senate-Ex-
 Onerated in One Case.

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 misdemeanors" and was forever and forever disqualified from holding positions of public honor or public trust.
 The conviction and judgment came as the conclusion of the i'm peachment trial that has been pending in the senate since last summer on charges that Judge Archibald had been guilty of mis- conduct and misbehayior as a judge and that he had corruptly used his l judicial power to further the pri- vate interests of himself and his friends in the acquisition of coal land properties in Pennsylvania.
 Upon five of the 13 separate charges brought against him by the house of representatives, Judge Archibald was found guilty. Upon the other eight the senate voted him not guilty, the majority in some cases being against him, but fail ing of the two-thirds necessary for conviction. Any one of the five verdicts of guilty was enough to bring about the punishment i'm posed 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 pre- vent the movement of spectators and an unaccustomed hush prevail ing throughout the chamber, 6S sen- atOrs rose in their places as their names weer called and pronounced the word Guilty in almost maud ible tones. The vote on the first charge, that Judge Archibald had cOrruptly influenced officials of the Erie railroad to sell them the Katydid Culm dump at Scranton, resulted in his conviction by vote of 6S to 5.
 Insists He Is Innocent. , In a little committee room off the gallery floor, behind a guarded door, Judge Archibald, his wife and his son, Hugh, sat throughout the aft ernoon 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 sentence had been imposed upon him, Judge Archibald and his fam fly left the capital, to go at once to the family home at Scranton.
 T have always known that have done no wrong and the vote of no one makes it otherwise" was his only comment upon the senates ac- ton.
 Sentence was imposed by Senator Bacon of Georgia, the presiding of ficer, after the senate had by a vote of 39 to 35 upheld a resolution of fered by Senator German of New York authorizing the full penalty provided by the constitution.
 The senate, therefore, does order and decree" said Senator Bacon, and it is hereby adjudged that the ], respondent. Robert w. Archibald, circuit judge for the United States , for the Third Judicial circuit, and } designated 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 enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States"
 The sentence of the senate be- came operative at once and direc- tions were givn that the. president and the house of representatives be , notified of the verdict and the pun ishment imposed.
 Of the ten men who have been impeached 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 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, guil-
 ty or not guilty, as charged in this
 article?"
 : As the roll call proceeded replies < of Guilty came from all parts of the chamber. Each senator, under the rule, rose in his seat and gave l his verdict But many had to be l, asked to repeat their votes to make 3 their replies audible to the seere- s tary.
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