New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-10

for the residue of the term, or until the
disability shall cease. But when the
Governor shall. with the consent OF 'he
Legislature, be out Of the state IN tiihe
of war, at the head of military force
thereof. he shall continue commanoer
in chief Of all the military force OF the
state"
Tammany leaders and legal ADVISES
said Yesterday that the words OF MS
removal from office" in the seo'ioi'
quoted made il clear beyond any arsu-
mont that the word Impeachment
which precedes the other phrase refers
specifically to the action of the Assem-
bly I'm voting the impeachment Dec"use
the verdict Of guilty on impeacniile"'
would carry with it removal from once.
To Tammany, which has conducted
this war on Sulzer TO the present Grll4-
cal moment. the fact that Lieutenant
covernor Glynn will become acting
Governor Immediately upon the Votlhs
of the Impeachment is important De-
cause the Tamrlany leaders are willing
TO admit that they would fear Suizer
retaliatory attacks if he were oacheu
into such a corner and still held the
power of the chief executive
Will Act with Dispatch.
1t was this argument whlch Oioue''
Tammany leaders to the decision yes
terday TO put through the REMAINING
moves in their war on Sulzer with all
possible proper speed. and on TINS a0-
count the proposal to allow the Gov
ernor the further opportunity OF an IN
vitation from the Assembly to explain
the accusations brought against MN
nv +he Frawley committee was as
carded.
Article 6. Section 10. Of the state
constitution, entitled Trial OF I'M
peachments," provides that a MAJORITY
of all the Assemblymeu elected must
vote TO impeach as preliminary 10 the
trial of a Governor before the court OF
impeachment. OF the 100 members OF
the Assembly 1O4 are Democrats OF
whom less than a score have stoou
with the Governor on the CHIEF ISSUE
he has raised against the Tammahy
maiority-the direct primary question.
on the presentation Of the evidence
disclosed by the Frawley committee IL
is not believed that many even OF these
twenty men will stand with Sulzer'
and entirely apart from the partisan
standpoint II is equally certain mat
there will be many votes against Sui
ger from the minority. AS only sew
enty-six votes are necessary IN the
present Assembly to find for impeach-
rnent. that part of the programme Is
looked upon as a foregone conclusion.
OF the fifty-one Senators two are
no longer In office. Franklin Roose-
welt is now Assistant Secretary OF the
Navy and Stephen ]. Stilwen is
orisoner in Sing Sing. Thirty-one Sen
etors are Democrats, and to all prac-
teal purposes they constitute a Solo
Tammany vote AS in the Assembly, II
is equally certain that there VIII be
votes against Sulzer from Senators not
involved in the Democratic Sulzer-
Murphy war, and, in addition, convic-
zion under the impeachment proceed
,ngs REQUIRES a two-thirds majority Of
those present"
Sympathy for Governor.
SO certain are the Tammany inves-
tigators who have acted as the scout
ing party for the war between the Gov
ernor and the boss that Sulzer is
doomed that their attitude yesterday
had changed from that Of the almost
yloating and relentless pursuers Of the
Governor to an attitude that harbored
more than a tinge of sympathy.
II was as If the chase was over. its
excitement a thing of the past, and
nothing remained but the butcher job
Of killing the hunted thing. Tammany,
exultant on Friday at the manner in
which the Frawley committees aston
lshing disclosures had got the Governor
In a corner. apparently began to con-
sider for the first time the solemn re-
suit Of its work.
Levy IudJOIAly lSdOCi VI VIC <1SoCiAA-
bly,. who by reason Of that position
must take the initial step in the pro-
ceedings by moving in the Assembly
for the impeachment expressed IT
when he said that Sulzer had been
his Congressman for over fifteen years
Frawley, whose committee has un-
earthed the evidence upon which the
action will be based. put 1t that he had
known Sulzer. man and boy, for over
twenty years"
But both declared, In the same
breath, that Sulzer had brought 1t on
himself, and that he had no one but
himself to blame for his predicament.
Other Tammany men limited that the
campaign fund exposures of the Fraw-
lev committee as TO Suffers run for
the Governorship could be duplicated
many times over If the finances Of his
Congressional campaigns could be
traced out-through all Of which he
posed always as "a poor man"
Aftermath Of tho Fight.
AS to the aftermath Of Impeachment,
one prominent organization man called
attention yesterday TO the concluding
sentence Of the state constitutions pro-
vision as TO the trial of impeachments,
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