The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-06-10
TECHNICALLY PREVENTS
IMPEACHMENT OF DAYTON
NELLY STARTS TO RECTTE
USUAL FORM But LACK OF
QUORUM PREVENTS.
Action Taken Just at S O'clock.
Point Of NO Quorum Sus-
tained-Try Again Friday.
Intelligence Bureau
NAahlnZfnn ID q lima q

"
As the hand on the big gold clock
over the speakers rostrum pointed s
O'Clock 70 the very second. Represen-
tatlve Mansfield NJ Nicely, Of the Sec
ond West Virginia district. started 20
recite the words tina. have constituted
the form OF Impeachment ever since
president Andrew Johnson was ar
raigned AZ the bar of the congress-
which were expected 10 start without
Nrther delay. the much talked of Inn
parchment trial of Judge Aston Cor
don Dayton. Judge Of the United
states court for the northern district.
of West Virginia
10 would have taken considerably
less than five minutes 10 have ac-
compllshed the undertaking. but they
wer denied Judge Dayton's accuser
When he had proceeded far enough
Tor the members OF the house present
10 grasp the gravity OF Che business
IN hand, there VAS "A profound silence
In the chamber In striking contrast TO
a noisy day OF filibusUring tactics
while the house sat as a committee
OF the whole considering the sundry
civil appropriations bill Then the
voice OF Republican Leader Mann was
heard raising the point. mo quorum"
which was sustained by Speaker
lark and a motion to adjourn pre-
Waited All Day.
All day Neely had waited for the
opportunity to move Impeachment
only TO be thwarted at the last mo-
ment lie had arranged with the
Speaker To be recognized just as soon
as the House. as a committee OF the
whole. rose. and that far his program
OF action was carried out When that
time arrived. exactly at O'Clock.
Neely was standing in the aisle on
the ar Democratic side. close down
toward the Speakers rostrum
a
adjourn, but withdrew the motion
upon Neely's pleading that he would
only take minute"
Leader Mann raised the point OF no
quorum. but at Neely's request that
ne only wanted a minute. he agreed
not to press II. Mann did not know
what was coming. evidently.
Then Neely began: by virtue OF
my onice as n representative in the
congress of the United States. I i'm
peach Alston Gordon Dayton. Judge
OF the United States for the Northern
District of West Virginia, Of high
crimes and misdemeanors"
insist on my point Of no quorum. %
shouted Mann.
The Speaker hesitated The point
OF no quorum Is insisted on" he said
IL Is very apparent that there is no
quorum present" and he so ruled
And that Is as far as the Impeachment
iIoteeuinES against Judge Dayton got
so tar as the lower branch of Congress
is concerned.
Try Again Friday
stopped by a parliamentary techni-
chlity. representative Neely was plain.
" disappointed that he was not al.
lowed TO complete the job that he
set out TO do to-day. lie said that he
would undertake IL again on Friday.
and continue at IL until he had com.
pleted II. The reason for not making
the try again tomorrow or Thursday
Is that ne is due to deliver an adj
dress at the commencement exer-
cises of Salem College. and he left
for there tonight. and will not 70.
turn here till Friday morning. lie
offered TO cancel the speaking en-.
(conrinusd on Page EiRht)