The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-01-30
THE JUDICIARY

of the United States Commerce court there is a
valuable lesson The verdict that he had prost
tuted his Office for private gain put him outside
the pale Of impartial judge and put his useful
ness a judge at end His worship of mamon
and desire to get money apparently worked to his
undoing. One of the speakers in the case spoke
of him as follows:
Mr. President and Senators, under the first
article of impeachment it is charged that Judge
Archibald used his influence as United States
Commerce Court Judge to from the Erie
Railroad Co., the culm bank known as the Katy
did culm bank.
In the first place, Mr.. President, there is
general charge that this judge has been guilty
OF culm dump mongering from the time he be-
came a Commerce Court judge until the time he
was overtaken. l have list of letters here that
the Judge has written about culm dumps. There
some so or go of these letters, believe. No
body knows how many personal conversations
there were; nobody knows how many phone calls
there were. l really do not see how this high
court Judge could have done much judicial work
the bench and attended to all these numer
GUS culm dump transactions with the various
litigants in his court with the idea that he was
probably not worldly wise, as some of the wit
nesses said and / guess he not; and he
began to trade and traffic in what? In money?
No Did he have any experience in the coal
business? No. He never owned washery.
do not know that he a culm dump He
never mined coal. He had no financial standing.
What was he traficking in from the beginning
Of his career, just after he was put the Com
merce Court bench, when the railroads UNI
der his jurisdictions, until the present time? He
had nothing to traffic in except his influence as
Judge.
Senators, you can read this testimony from
end of IL To he her and that is he only
conclusion that you are driven to, because | say
again he had no experience in coal dumps; he
had knowledge of coal property; he had no
financial standing. All that was left him to make
gain for himself was traffic in that sacred infu.
ence derived from the office of Judge. Paul, in
writing TO his beloved Timothy, from many years
of ripe experience said:
And having food and rament, let us be
herewith content.
But they that will be rich fall into tempta-
ton and snare, and into many foolish and
hurfu lusts, which drown men in destruction
and perdition,
For the love of money is the root of all
evil"
"The Judge seems to have adopted as he
went on the Commerce Court bench and the
district court bench old Ben Johnson's advice
where he says:
Get money; still get money boy,
No matter by what means"
Or as Pope says in his imitation of Horace:
Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place. d"
The Judge has sorey violated the propreties
of his Office in order to make these advantageous
contracts.
But Notwithstanding the result the trial
brought out in bold relief the character of the
American Judiciary and while one of the number
has mDeaChed he 10 IL
look upon in general. Here is one of the tributes
paid by OF the speakers:
| yield to one in my reverence and
spect for the splendid judges who have illumined
and adorned the annals of our judicial history.
When the roll OF the names of Marshall, fancy,
Miller Brewer, Harlan, and Fuller is called. my
pulse quickens and my blood warns because
am one of their countrymen and have to share
in the heritage of their fame" but what far
cry 1t is from of these greatmen to the re-.
spondent at the bari Can you imagine that any
OF these, during the widest and most indiscreet
moment of their lives, would ever have descend
ed from their high position to the low plane Of
dickering and trafickng for private gain with
parties who had suits pending in their courts'
Mr.. President the history OF the American
judiciary is glorious record, which makes ev-
cry citizen of this country proud ut is a heri.
tage priceless in value and belonging to us all
Lapse of years but adds to reverence for
Marshall and Story, Kent and Miller, fancy, and
Field Amidst the conflicts OF parties and prn.
ciples which ragged SO furiously around them,
they we're calm and Just in wisdom and CONVEX
sation declaring the law they believed II to
be, with an independence which knew no fear.
Around some OF them clouds and darkness gath
cred, but they passed away"
AS some tail cliff that lifts Its awful form