The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-29
S0L0N5 VOTE PASSAGE FOR
 CUSTER BILL
Memorial Asking Removal of Gruening Carries
 by 9-6 Margin

After all the hub-bub, accusations and orations of the past two days had died down. the Alaska Territor- ial Senate just before noon today voted passage of the Senate Mem crial No. One-asking for removal Iof Coy. Ernest Gruening.
 Vote on the measure was Yeas, I9-Cochran, Collins, Green, Rogge, Scott, Shattuck, Whaley. Walker, Coffey; nays. -Brownell Gordon, Gundersen, Lyng. McCutcheon, Ner- land; not voting, Butrovich.
 Much more oratory was heard this morning before the vote was taken as Senate members outlined the reasons behind their intended votes. The only new development was appearance, as witness, of William Horsman, known also as Doc Silvers." whose published affi- davit charging Gruening with poli- tical activities had been dismissed by the Governor as a fiction con- cocted by an ex-convict.
 Doc Silvers", local fisherman whose .'alias" derives from his former days as boxer and is a registered ring name, opened by labelling Gov Gruening a double barreled liar" over the objection of Senator Don Carlos Brownell.
 Silvers did admit that he had been held in jail here, under what he inferred were suspicious circum- stanres, but declared that the Gov ernors declaration he is an ex- convict from Idaho will be taken to the District Court in an action now being prepared by his attorney and in which Gov. Gruening will Le hailed to the bar as defendant
 Statement Refuted
 Silvers refuted the Governor $ statement that there was no at- tempt to have the fisherman ar rested on the basis of his affidavit
 The Governor tried fin every way in the world to have me arrested, , Silvers acclaimed. He added testi- mony that he had been called off the fishing grounds to the office of U. s. Attorney Lynn Gemmill, where he was accused of having been paid to make the affidavit; which, he avowed was made of his own free will because he thought the public should know what had happened.
 Called By Gopernor
 In regard to the Gruening state ment of being in Sitka on the day in question, the fisherman said the events related occurred when he was called to the Governors office at l:30 o'clock on that day, after Gruening had returned from Sitka.
 At the close of Silvers' testimony the moment was enliyened by 2 let's you and him fight" sugges- ton by Senator N. R. Walker The Ketchikan solon was suggesting that Silvers take on outspoken Gruen- ing proponent Steve McCutcheon.
 Carl Weidman. adother local fisherman who served at the time with Horsman on a union committee negotiating fish prices also testi- fled as rebuttal witness and bore out contentious of the "Silvers" af- fidayit. Weidman was a signer of a letter Gov. Gruening read yester- day as denial of Horsman's state ment.
 Weidman recounted having agreed with Gov. Gruening to sup port the election of E. L. Bartlett as Delegate in Congress and also saw Gruening pass pamphlets to Hors- man. Weidman, under question ing, added that, in his view, there was nothing wrong with the Gov ernor's talking politics to the two fishermen.
 Talk By Cochran
 During his one speech on the Memorial, which was the major address made by any Senator this morning, Senator o. D. Cochran
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