The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-13

She thought she could help him by
taking off his shoulders the worry OF
money matters She said she deposit
ed all campaign checks and admitted
that she had used some of the funds
because the household was in need OF
money.
Hoping to help out, she said, she
had Invested in some railroad stocks
and used some of the campaign
money in this way.
Crying as If her heart would break,
SO the story goes, she said that she
did all the specializing and passion
ately declared that Governor Sulzer
was telling the truth the other day
when he said he had never heard OF
the brokerage firms or the stock deals
mentioned in the Frawley committee
testimony She said the governor
knew nothing of them until she con-
fessed to him, after the newspapers
printed the evidence. Mrs. Sulzer de-
clared that Matthew T. Horgan, sec
rotary OF the Frawley committee, was
fully aware that she endorsed the
governors checks and deposited them.
Morgan and his wife at that time
were practically members of the
Sulzer household and she asserts
Horgan advised her as to financial
matters. At the time of Suffers
nomination she explained Suffers fin
ance were at an extremely low ebb.
Suffers financial obligations amount
ed to more than $4,000 and some OF
them were pressing As a climax to
her story, Mrs. Sulzer declared that
she and her husband had been under
system Of constant espionage ever
since his nomination and said that
her bank books and many important
papers together with Suffers love let
/ tiers written to her before their mar
rage had been stolen. When Min
GRITTY Leader Hinman told OF Mrs.
Suffers stors to the assembly in his
effort to obtain delay. the effect was
| instantaneous.
The body was galvanized into in
slant attention, and the effect Of the
long uninteresting hours of filibuster-
ling changed as If by magic. Human
launched into an attack of the i'm
parchment resolution. ut is not a
dignifed document" he declared. lit
is such a resolution as any police
court clerk might prepare
4 To this Assemblyman Cuvillier re-
torted that he was willing to take
things as they Stood without quib-
bling over language.
/ why, IL the Frawley committee
had reported all that 1t discovered
about Governor Suffer- he said, I'VE
! would have revolution
| Let's have anything. 30 long as we
get through" bawled sleepy member.
i The Tammany members poo-poohing
the story OF Mrs. Suffers confession
said that it was just 'slick move to
save the governor at the last mo.
ment," but declared that it would not
work.
| Then they ignored the confession
!, !by voting down Humans motion te
Iadjourn and thereafter the fight was
Interesting only to the actors In the
drama. 1t was certain today that
there would be bitter contest of the
i governor when the Impeachment
reached the senate. Aaron ]. Levy
Tammany leader in the assembly
who prepared the resolution and IL
, chairman OF the committee Of i'm
parchment. declared that Governor
Sulzer automatically would be sus
Ipended and Lieutenant Governor
lGlinn become acting governor wher
the articles OF impeachment reached
the senate.
Friends Of the governor took an en-
Itirely different view. They asser
that Sulzer would be governor unit
! the senate passed on the charge.
preferred by the assembly.
They pointed out that the presen
constitution of the state of New
York does not cover the point. 1t!
] provisions regarding Impeachment ap
ply only to the removal OF judicial
; officers.
4 The old constitution provided foi
automatic suspension of the governo