The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-08-21
TRIAL Of SULzER
SET: FOR SEPT. IS
6TATE OF NEW YORK NOW HAS
TWO CONTRASTING EXEC
uTIvES.
SULZER FIGHTS FOR OFFICE
lieutenant Governor Says He Will
Assume Duties as Chief Of State
Mrs, Suizer Breaks Down
Under the Strain.

Albany, N. Y, Aug. 15.-With Gov
ernor Sulzer impeached by the New
York assembly and the date of his
trial before the senate and the judg-
es of the court of appeals fixed for
Sept. Is. the spectacle is presented
of two men claiming to be governor
of the state of New York.
AS soon as the articles of impeach-
ment were presented to the assem-
bly,, Lieutenant Governor Martin H.
Glynn announced his intention OF &C.
cupying the executive chamber.
Sulzer to Fight.
Friends of Governor Sulzer declar-
ed that the governor intended to con-
tinue in office and would use every
weapon in his power to maintain his
position on the ground that the as.
sembly had no constitutional right
to consider impeachment at its ex-
traordinary session.
Some asserted that the governor
would summon military protection, if
necessary, to prevent the lieutenant
|
tive chamber
Judge Cady D. Herrick. who will
act as chief counsel for the governor
| at his trial, said that the governor
would meet the charges against him
in an orderly and quiet way and will
do nothing unbecoming the dignity of
the state.
HE will engage in no physical
scramble to exert his rights to dis
charge the functions Of the office OF
| governor"
No Definite Statement.
The lieutenant governor would not
indicate what action he proposes to
take except to say that there would
be mo circus or military maneuvers
about occupying the executive cham
bers; the law is supreme
The inaction of Lieutenant Cover
nor G1ynn in the matter was in the
face Of arguments given expression
both in the senate and in the assem-
bly, that at the moment the articles
of Impeachment were presented to the
senate Governor Sulzer automatically
ceased to be the chief executive. This
contention was based on an article
in the constitution which says that
Gin case OF impeachment of the gov
ernor the powers and duties
of the office shall devolve upon the
lieutenant Office
1t was held by the majority leaders
that the word Impeachment" CORE
sponded with the word indictment"
in criminal trial and that, therefore,
in the meaning of the law, the gov
ernor already stood impeached al.
though not convicted, and was, there
, fore, not now eligible to hold his Of
, fee.
, These arguments were placed be-
/ fore the lieutenant governor by the
Democratic leaders, but, nevertheless
Governor SulZer was not molested.
Upon leaving the executive cham
Der the governor went for an auto
mobile ride and then returned to the
. executive mansion, where he was in
! consultation until late hour With his
advisers.
, Mrs. Sulzer CoIlapses.
Albany, N. Y.-Mrs. Suffers condi
ton became so serious that Governor
/ Sulzer wired to New York for spe
3 cialist on nervous diseases.
= The governor then told his advis
! ers, it was said by those who claimed
e to have knowledge Of what occurred
= at the night conference, that unde
+ no circumstances would he allow Mrs
. Sulzer to testify at the trial.
a 1t was said, on the ether hand, tina
Mrs. Su]zer insisted Historically tina
she be allowed to testify in her hus
hands behalf