The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-09-18
STAGE IS SET FOR
PARCHMENT
SULzfR TRIAL
All Arrangements Made For
Meeting of High Court
NO DELAY is EXPECTED
Friends Of Governor Confident of
Aequittal But Opponents Say
He viii Resign

Albany, N. u. Sept. 1.-THE stage
is set for the opening, tomorrow
noon OF the trial of the impeachment
] of William Sulzer, governor of the
state of New York Everything is in
| readiness for the fall of the gavel.
| which will assemble the first high
Court of Impeachment ever convened
| in this state to pass upon charges
filed against her chief executive.
Gov. SulZer had one of his final
| conferences with his counsel tonight
| The Assembly board of managers
the members of which act as prose
cutors in the trial and their legal as
sistants discussed the method of pro
cedure on the morrow.
Members of the Court of Appeals
and the senators who jointly com
posed the high court, mapped out
their plan of action. Meanwhile. of
fetal Albany, and, in fact, the entire
state waited in anxious expectancy.
Friends of the impeached governor
renewed the assertions that he was
in good spirits confident of a verdict
which would clear his name of the
stigma cast upon it by the adoption
of the articles of impeachment by the
State Assembly. They were no less
certain that he had no thought of
resigning and thus escape the ordeal
of what promises to be "a lengthy
trial.
On the other hand, his opponents
were free in expressing the opinion
that after the legal preliminaries had
been swept away and the taking q.
testimony had begun the governor
would surrender his office rather than
face grilling cross-examination
which probably would search out the
lnnermost- secrets of his life.-
from the governors camp came no
lntimation of his defense. There
were only surmises. These, in effect
were that his counsel first would at.
tack the validity of the impeachment
on the ground that the Assembly had
no authority to adopt the articles |
whlie assembled in extraordinary |
session, and that efforts would be |
made to prevent senators who served |
on the Frawley committee and those |
who may be called up TO testify from |
sitting as judges
II the preliminary objections arr |
oyerruled-and 1t is the general |
opinion tonight that they will be
It is understood that the governor |
VIII base his defense upon the claim |
that whatever he may have done
prior TO his inauguration last January
none of his acts while executive con
stitutes a high crime or a INSIDE
meanoc.
The belief that the preliminary lep.
al commodities will be quickly dis.
posed OF and the trial itself begun
quickly is strengthened by the asser.
tlon tonight of Chief Judge Edgar NJ
cullen OF the Court of Appeals who
VIII preside over the deliberations of
the high court.
anticipate no delay either i'm the
opening or the course of the trial" he
leclared. Il expect we shall be able
10 decide the preliminary legal que.
mons that may be raised within a few
hours and proceed with the taking of
testimony possible on Friday morn.
MS"
The procedure to be followed the
hours the court will sit. ihe order nj
'oting, whether the three designated
Judges will sit and other details
'udSe cullen said would be decided
ipon by the court as soon after re.
as possible. A committee
both of judges of the court
ma OF the Senate. he added. probab.
would be appointed to attend to
hese matters and the committee re
'ort presented for possible revision
nd adoption.
Ohder an emergency message from
Acting Gov. Glynn. the Legislature TO
lght passed a bill appropriating SIS.
90 to defray the expenses of the i'm.
eachment proceedings. There was
ut one negative vote in the Senate. {
nat OF Senator Wende of Buffalo. a ,
'ulzer supporter. The vote in the !
Issembly was So to 20.