Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-10-01
S !, I / GIFT TOLD OIL
/: scHIFF3 TEsTIFIEs GOVERNOR
ASKED HIM FOR MORE. But
& THAT HE REFUSED. Ri
MONEY PERSONAL PRESENT
Henry Morsenthau Declares That He
Placed No Restriction on $1,000
s%s Donation to ExecutIve-Banker
Bars Identification. .

5ss Albany, N. r, Sept 26.--The high
Y court Of impeachment swept away
William Sulzsr's last defense on tech
&nicalities by a vote of 40 ito and
\ sent the governor to trial on actual
facts. Questions Of law will be set
tied after the taking OF testimony.
AZ Here are the striking points
brought out in the evidence on
Wednesday: rs II 1s.
sss i BY JACOB SSCHIFF That Sui
xer5 asked him for campaign CON
tribution and on receiving $4,000
asked for more, which Mr.. Schiff re-
fused. The witness said he, Sulzer,
could have lad this money at any
I time and for any purpose" thus seri-
ously damaging the contention that
sSulzer committed larceny or misap-
@propriated the gift. The money was
given to Louis "A. sarecky for Sui
ger. ISL ~ "a n 4 Y VI r
2. BY HENRY MORGENTHAU-
That he handed Sulzer personally
check for 81 600 out Tof foolish
impulse of generosity. He said Sui
zer demurred at first, but took the
check Morgenthau admitted that he
would not have made the contribution
had Sulzer not been running for gov
ernor. M * "a
81 ] s.. BY THOMAS GOODWIN paying
teller Of the Farmers Loan e Trust
company, where Sulzer kept one of
his accounts That he received over
II fiftyy checks while Sulzer was can
\ didate for governor, Goodwin iden-
tilted Sulzer's signature on q number
4 OF deposit slips, but absolutely re-
fused to identify the name William
@Sulzer''' signed to the checks Of
ssAbram il. iElkus for $500 and of =. A..
Rspalding for 500. These checks en-
tered into the |! Boyer riswold stock
transaction which the defense al.
sleges was made by Mrs. Sulzer The
refusal is important for the defense.
4 Good Twin made it, he said, because
he had been told by Attorney Koran
for the bank to identify no signatures
not on the paper Of the bank, Al
though ordered by a the presiding
Judge that this admonition was ir-
regular and improper, the teller still
declined to make Identification Of the
signatures as having been written
4 by Sulzer. "a y. l5is#s3 # 3! Y !. n
important witnesses was participated
In by Presiding Judge Cullen and
many members Of the court, as well
rs by the attorneys on either side.
Il Judge Cullen, after delivering his de-
cision, asked for a vote omit and was
sustained by 49 to III Every member
Of the court Of appeals voted with him.
mmediately}a after Austen G. Fox for
the defense had concluded his argu-
ment against admitting the three most
important articles OF impeachment
Justice Cullen announced his decision
and the vote was AIKEN sSs3,
AS soon as the court, by an over
$$whelming vote. sustained him. j. ~.
Kresel, for the prosecute called the
secretary of state, Mitchell May,
George Van Nance, the clerk Of, the
assembly, and P. p. McCabe, clerk
of the senate, to prove that! Sulzer
had been duly nominated and elected.
Harvey d. Human, for Sulzer. began
to attack the impeachment violently,
5intimating that it had been ordered
4 by Murphy. He was cut short by
Judge Cullen, who said: ~ II
Our vote has esta blished the regu-
slarity Of the impeachment" z5
Alfred ]. Wolfe, the commissioner
of5deeds, who took the affidavit Of the.
governor as to the correctness OF the
campaign list, was the first witness Of
Importance, as the defense admitted
what Kresel expected to prove by the
first three man called. 4