Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-09-25
Prosecution Says Governor
Committed Very Low
and Sordid Acts
COLLECTED MONEY
FROM WEALTHY MEN
Omitted, However, to In
clude Their Names or
Amounts in Report

Albany, N. ", Sept. 24.-At 2:fs
s'elock today Secretary Of State
Mitchell May, was called to tho
stand and sworn 40 the first wit
ness In the impeachment trial OF
Gov. William sulzer.
Albany, N. Y, Sept. 24.-Fnal deci-
sion on the defense's objections TO- IN
cluding the money articles OF I'M
peachment in the consideration OF the
Sulzer case, will. not be given until
I'll testimony has been taken me
court voted ~ to Z today to follow TINS
procedure. Those voting no were all
democrats.
Governor sulzer's answer to the
eight articles Of impeachment filed
with the court today entered gen.
eral denial to each and every one OF
them.
70 vote to reserve decision follow
ed an opinion delivered by Presiding
Judge Cullen, advising that the merits
OF the objections Of counsel Tor the
governor 70 the articles be not decided
at this time
II do not think 1t is wise," he said.
ito decide this case piecemeai. "
Judge Cullen said. 3,r
I'm a court. of impeachment vote
Of two-thirds is necessary to convict.
A,decision On this question would only
require q ajority vote. while e
I a4fi0vfty, greater tiian II one third,
4riieht decide the other way How
then. wilt the case abe dispobed rof?
shoiild prefer to have ample time 70
reject. on the Arguments here pre-
scented by counsel and to look up the
authorities cited. Therefore should
desire that this question. be left open
until the final vote on the guilt or IN
nocence. Of the respondent.
TN support Of that desire,1, under
the power vested in me by the rules
Of this, court. shall override the objec-
ton In prolorma, without any express:
sion Of opinion on the merits Of the
case"
IN accordance with the Judges
ryling, Majority Leader Wagner Of the
senate. moved that the final decision
be. left open and that the request OF
the RESPONDENTS counsel be denied
merely as matter of form, without,
prejudice to the merits of the question
being passed on at later date. Ihe
motion was then passed.
psfends sulzer.
6evAral members Of the court were
I absent when Attorney Austen G. Fox
resumed his argument In behalf OF
the sulzer contentious. He opened by
attacking the statement of Judge
Parker that the constitution permitted
the assembly to fmpeach at any time
for any cause.
"This attempt on the part OF the
managers to remove William Sulzer
for acts performed while he was q
private citizen" he said. ''is a novel
doctrine, never tried before In any
court Of justice, never broached IN any
constitutional convention, never sub
mitted to any English speaking people.
'Unhappily, q scant majority Of the
assembly, prompted by what motive
we shall not attempt to guess, are now
praying this august tribunal to do away
with the limitations with which the
wisdom OF our fathers has surrounded
the exercise of the great power to
accuse OF wilful misconduct In office.
s"It was to be expected that sooner
or later the popular branch, Of some
legislature acting in the heat Of politi-
cal excitement, possibly with a desire
Z to crafty the personal enemy OF some
powerful political leader, might seek
to overstep the we'll settled limitations
Of their lawful authority.
Show Too Much Impatience.
1--WE cannot shut our eyes to the
fact that there is today a large num-
Der Of our fellow citizens led by dis
tfnguished and popular leaders, whose
very political creed embodies an i'm
patience Of constitutional restraint and
who demand that the final test shall
be, not a judicial Interpretation OF. the
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