The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-11-21
SEEMS READY
TO SUBMIT TO
ARREST TODAY
Suddenly Makes Appearance
ut Courthouse, AnnOunc.
ing Expectation
LOSES COURT FIGHT
y. S. District Court Refuses
to Take a Hand in the
Proceedings
LOSES COURT FIGHT
LOSES IN COURT

OhI0UOUu6 wy NOS. SA-Nny
the Associated Press--Applica-
tion Of J. c. Walton. deposed
Governor, for = restraining orticr
to set aside the verdict of q sem
ate impeachment court by which
he WINS removed from office was
dismissed today by Judge John
II. Cote raj in United States Dis
trict Court here. Walton an
nounced an appeal to the United
States Supreme Court.
Oklahoma City, Nov. 2l.-(By the
A. P.-J. G. Walton, deposed gov
ernor. appeared at the Oklahoma
county court house at noon today and
announced that he expected to be
indicted by the county grand jury
and intended to be ready to submit
to immediate arrest. He said he did
not know what the expected indict-
mept would charge.
County officials advised the former
executive to return at 2 o'clock when
the grand jury is scheduled to re-
port.
All information obtained by the
legislative committee which forms
the basis of his impeachment and
removal from c1.ce Monday was
turned over to the grand jury recent
ly.
Oklahoma City, Nov. 2l.-(By the
Associated Press)-Opening his fight
to regain the Governors office. Gov
ernor j. c. Walton went into federal
court today to renew his plea for
government intervention in the pro-
ceedings Of the senate court by
which he was ousted from office.
The depOsed executive seeks re-
tFoactive injunction to set aside the
action Of the senate court and re-
store him to office on grounds TINT
he was denied the right of fair
trial.
He charges that majority Of
members Of the court were Ku Klux
klansmen, who acted in furtheranco
of conspiracy between the Klan
and the state Legislature to remove
him from office. The action today
is rehearing Of the former Gov
ernor's application which was de-
MED by United States District Judge
John H. Cotteral the day before the
Impeachment trial started three
weeks ago. At that time Judge Cot
teral ruled that the court had no
jurisdiction in the case.
Walton, it is understood, will file
a supplementary petition to the ORR
ginal application, citing events in
the closing days of the trial in an
Effort to show that the trial was un-
fair.
Should the court again rule against
him he has announced he will appeal
to the United States Supreme Court.
Attorney-General Short will ap-
pear as counsel for the legislature
and state officials, including Cover
nor E. M. Trapp, who are named de-
PENDANTS in Walton's suit. The At
torney- General declared early today
he would file motion to dismiss the
deposed Governors action as soon as
the hearing began.
Meanwhile the state legislature
prepared to 60 ahead today with
plans for a general clean up" Of the
administration and to consider at an
early date anti-Ku Klux Klan legis-
lation for which purpose the special
session was called by Walton.
The board of managers of the low
er house which prosecuted Walton at
his trial expected to file in the house
today n bill of impeachment against
Charles H. Ruth, supreme court
commissioner, and an intimate friend
of the deposed Governor. He will
be charged, according to the boards
announcement, with trafficking in
acts of executive clemency.