The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-18
Midnight Scheme to Defeat
Impeachment Court Not
Tolerated.
ONLY TWO ABSENT
Crowds Denied Entrance to
Gallery and the Senate
Chamber.

ALBANY, n. Y, Sept. 18-William
Sulzer. governor of the state of New
York. at the outset of proceedings de-
signed to remove him from official po-
sition, defied the high court of i'm
peachment and declined to recognize
its authority to sit
This action came after forty-eight
members of the senate and nine judges
of the court of appeals had solemnly
constituted themselves court to try
the governor.
The members had been sworn, the
court had decided that all nine of the
present members of the court of ap-
peals should sit as judges, counsel for
Governor Sulzer had objected to the
sitting of the members of the Fraw-
ley committee as part of the court,
and the preliminary organization had
been completed.
suIzer Objects.
Then it was that Chief Judge Cul.
len decided that Governor Sulzer be
called to the bar. And then it was
that Sulzer, offering through his coun-
sci merely formal appearance which
did not recognize the court to sit,
failed to respond to the call.
In these circumstances the court
adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning. At that time a committee
of three will report the rules for pro-
cedure and a great legal contest will
be formally put into motion.
The court as it is constituted con-
tains a total of fifty-seven members
Two-thirds of these will be necessary
for a conviction. The judges of the
court of appeals will not first express
their views but will vote upon each
proposition as individual members of
the court.
The high court of impeachment of
New York. met at 11:52 o'clock today
to hear the charges against William
Sulzer. Crowds thronged the corri.
dors and complained because they
were denied entrance either to the
gallery or the senate chamber. They
loitered about evidently thinking that
the rules would be changed and they
eventually would have an opportunity
OF hearing the impeachment proceed:
ings
AS the first of the senators came
along this forenoon, it became known
that midnight-hatched plan to delay
the court would not be tolerated. Man.
ager Levy, chairman of the board
named to prosecute the Sulzer
charges, confessed the failure of the
scheme. The assembly will not make
any addition to the impeachment
charges today" said Mr.. Levy. This
change of plan which had been made
at 3 o'clock this morning left the as
sembly with no reason for coming
down at the early hour it had fixed
for convening.
Crier Opens Court.
This is the way the Sulzer court OF
Impeachment was opened by the court
crier:
Hear ye. Hear ye! All persons
having business before this high court
for the trial of Impeachment held in
and for the state of New York, may
draw near, give their attention and
they will be heard" .
When the chief judge came to his
place he took the gavel and said
The assembly of the state having
presented to the senate articles of i'm
parchment against William Sulzer
governor of the state, the president
pro tempore of the senate, in accord
ance with the law, had summoned the
senators of the state and the judges
of the court of appeals to convene al
this time and act as a court of i'm
parchment. The first proceeding in
order will be to call the roll and see
that a majority of the senate and court
of appeals are in attendance as re-
Quired to constitute valid court
Two are Absent.
The roll call showed all except
Judge Gray and Senator Fitzgerald
present.