The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-15
-ges. Then. of course, his salary

|
! will stop.
| Members of the senate whose regu-
| lar salary is 81 800 will for a short time
| receive pay at the rate of $12, 900 a year
| each. This will be during the time
they are sitting with the judges of the
impeachment. Under the law their
salaries are automatically increased to
$12, 2,000-the same as that of judges OF
the court of appeals, when they sit as
members of the court of impeachment.
Lieutenant Governor Glynn, on enter
ing his office at the capitol this morn
ing announced he would call upon Gov.
Sulzer formally to yacate his office to-
day. Preparations as if for a long
siege were made at the executive
chamber upon the arrival of Lieut..
Gov. Glynn at the capitol The locks
on every door leading to the chamber
and the governors private Office were
changed and an attendant was sta
toned at each entrance.
Feels Like Fighting.
''The only thing that is worrying me
is Mrs. Suffers condition" Governor
Sulzer told Col. T. W. Simons of Wash
ington, as they entered the capitol to-
gether today. "She is very ill and the
scalawags have brought her name into
the affair."
This was the first public reference
the governor has made to the state
of his campaign contributions without
his knowledge to invest in stocks. He
spoke in the presence of the newspa-
per men.
mons.
Yes replied the governor, "I feel
like punching the noses of the scala
wags who brought her into it." To
another friend the governor said:
IT can fight my own battle for my
self. 1t was wrong to bring a woman
into the case. I wish there was some
way we could keep her name out of it
from now on. She is very i'll and I
was up with her nearly all night
Included in Sulzer's refusal, ac-
cording to D. Cady Herrick, chief of
his counsel, is a proposal that Glynn
ment of the facts in the controversy
and submit them to the courts to de-
termine who is governor of New
York
Mr.. Glynn's letter is addressed to
Mr.. Sulzer simply as Hon. VIM. Sulzer,
Albany, N. Y. and is signed by Mr..
Glynn as acting governor and reads
as follows:
"In the performance of the duty
which has devolved upon me by arti-
Gle four, section six of the constitu-
tton, I officially demand that you de-
liver and surrender to me as acting
governor during the period of your
constitutional disability to act as gov
GTnOT, the use, possession ana OCcu-
pancy of the executive chamber and
offices and you likewise deliver and
to me the executive privy
seal of the state of New York; and
also all books, papers, records and
documents in said chamber or offices
or elsewhere in your charge, posses
sion or custody, relating to or in any
wise connected with or pertaining to
the executive department The bear
er hereof is authorized to receive your
q
Respectfully,
(Signed) MARTIN H. GLYNN,
Acting Governor"
Uncle Sam VIII Keep Out.
Washington, Aug. 15.-The federal
soon may be confronted
with the problem of determining
whom it will recognize as governor OF
New York Under the Dick law by.
which the national guard enjoys gov
ernment aid, acquisitions for arms, /
supplies and transporta- |
ton must be approved by the COVER |
nor. There is the possibility of this
questions coming up In connection /
with some militia maneuVers at Peek |
skill, N Y, in September. The war
it is stated, would not |
the responsibility of deciding
between Sulzer and Glynn, but would |
hold up New YorkS reQuiSition until
the state legislature or the courts de- |
cided the dispute.
Another way in which the question
might come up in more pressing
and one which officials regard
as probable would be in an extradition
case Should some foreign government |
ask for a person in New York state the
federal government would be compell- |
ed to call upon the governor and in
that way recognize one of the con-
testants White House officials, in
dignant at intimations that President
Wilson has expressed any opinion in
the Sulzer case. reiterate that the fed
ont will 1nUn1VPd-
There is every effort apparent on the
part of the executive department to
keep. out of the dispute.
Adjutant General Hamilton of the
New York National guard has been
here but it is disclaimed that his visit
had to do with the situation.