The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-13
SULZER WENT TO BED
BEFORE VOTE WAS HAD
New York Assembly Stayed
Up All Night and Debated
the Resolution, Coming to
a Vote at Sis O'clock This
Morning


zer, governor of New York, was inn
peached by the lower house of the leg
islature at 5.16 o'clock this morning
after an all-night session. The vote was
70 to As. Governor Sulzer is charged
with having diverted campaign funds to
his private use and having made oath
to false statements as to his campaign
receipts.
The declaration late last night by
the governors wife that she had diverted
some of the campaign contributions to
the purchase OF stock because she felt
that their household needed money, failed
to avert the impeachment. The assem-
bly, adjourned at 1880 o'clock until late
in the day.
Governor Sulzer did not wait for the
final vote but went to bed while the
assembly still was debating the impeach-
ment resolution. The long articles OF
impeachment embracing the findings OF
the Frawley investigating committee in
substance lay ready for presentation In
the desk OF the majority leader Levy
hours before the organization entrusted
its impeachment resolution to a roll call.
With the adoption of this resolution
and the creation of the committee, head
ed by Levy, to prepare the articles, a
recess was taken. Levy and his asso-
ciates went through the formality OF re
tiring, re-appearing an hour later with
a resolution for adoption. The commit
tee also was named to aequaint the Sen
ate with the findings when that body
meets to-day.
In the light of the revelations con-
tanned in Mrs. Suffers declarations to
Senator Palmer yesterday afternoon, the
governors friends are inclined to-day
to view the ordeal which confronts him
with less apprehension than before the
impeachment By her assertion, she has
shorn the articles of impeachment of
many of their terrors, his friends de-
clare.
The Alleged Confession of Mrs. Sulzer.
When Senator Palmer, an old-time
friend, visited Mrs. Sulzer yesterday to
discuss other matters in which she is
interested, the governors wife is said
to have broken down. In tears she is
asserted to have told Senator Palmer
that the governor had known nothing
of the Wall street transactions laid at
his door by the Frawley committee, but
that she was solely responsible, and
therefore was entirely to blame for the
resultant impeachment proceedings.
1t was also said by friends of both
the governor and his wife, that during
the campaign Mr.. Sulzer gave Mrs. Sui
ger 5000 for personal expenses. She is
said to have told her confidants that
this sum was invested with Others in
the stock market. The governors friends
thought last night that this would ac
count for the 5000 payment to Boyer,
Griswold & Co., mention of which was
made in the testimony before the Fraw-
ley committee.
Since his occupancy of the executive
office, Governor Sulzer has declared he
has been subjected to continual espion-
age Spies invaded his household in New
York before his Inauguration, friends de-
clare, and followed him to Albany. Many
private documents belonging both to the
governor and Mrs. Sulzer have disap-
peared, among them being, according to
Mr.. Suffers friends, many which could
be used in substantiation of her story
concerning her alleged use of the gov
ernor's campaign funds. Love letters,
written to her by the governor during
their courtship, also have disappeared re-
Gently, these friends assert.
Mrs. Suffers alleged statement was
made the subject of motion by Mi
nority Leader Hinman shortly before ?
O'Clock that further consideration of the
Impeachment proceedings be deferred till
Wednesday. The motion was declared
defeated by an aye and nay vote.
The Articles of Impeachment.
The articles of impeachment, based
on evidence taken at an investigation by
the Frawley investigating committee,
charge that as gOvernor-elect, Sulzer
filed false statement of campaign con-
tributions with the secretary of state,
causing a great scandal and reproach of
the governor of the state and that in
making the statement ne was guilty of
willful and corrupt perjury.
Another article of the impeachment
alleges that Sulzer induced three men
TO withhold their testimony from the in
yestigators and in so doing was guilty |
of felony.
II is further alleged that the governor |
practiced deceit and fraud and used |
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