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JANUARY 27, 1905 11 The Commoner. A Republican House Should Not Impeach A Republican Judge $ Under date of Washington, Jan. 17, a correspondent for the New York "VYorld says: The introduction of politics into the impeachment proceedings against Judge Swayne, of Florida, today caused a severe attack to bo made on Judge Don A. Pardee, of the Federal Court of Appeals, by Representative Clark, of New York. Gen. Grosvenor, of Ohio, in defending Judge S'wyne read a letter he had re ceived from Judge Pardee in which ho exonerated Judge SNvayne and said a Republican House should not impeach a. republican judge. The letter was dated New Orleans, March 24, 1904. Judge Pardee expressed surprise that the house committee on the judiciary had voted, "six democrats and two re publicans,' to present articles of im peachment against Judge Swayne. He reviews t.e circumstances of Judge Swayne's appointment and his conflict with democrats of his district, and concludes: "1 have written this long letter be cause I really feel that without the po litical prejudices against Judge Swayne there would be no impeachment, and that in justice to a Southern judge who was a republican before he wa3 ap pointed, and who was appointed be cause he was a republican, as there are no republican congressmen from the south, some of the northern breth ren ought to look carefully into the case and be sure that an impeachment ought to be voted before putting a judge to the disgrace of an impeach ment, consequent expense, trial , and tribulation' to himself and family, re sulting therefrom." Mr. Cockran first took issue with the majority report of the committee on the expense account charge. He said: "It is hardly necessary to inquire whether he eats corned beef and cab bage at 50 cents a plate or leg of lamb at 60. How is the statute to be in terpreted? Is he required to 3pend the whole ?10 f ach day or may be hus band his resources and spend $7 one UjHffff . ...- i A rt i I ii. fe .' day, when he may be suffering with dyspepsia, and $13 the next in glut tony? If this bo so, he still has timo, with the pleasure of heaven, to eat him3dlf even with tho government. He could, by consuming terrapin, can vas back duck and other delicacies, bring himself up.' Mr. Cockran then reverted to the let ter of Judge Jtardee. "I did not believe it conceivable," he said, "that a judge would undertake to control the action of an independent body on a proceeding itself judicial. Now, think of it the monstrous spec tacle of a Judge, himself a member of the department which we are now scru tinizing, stepping into this, house with an attempt to control our action. When I siate that, I describe a specta cle which ought to make us pause; which indicates in a marked degree a decay of our constitutional system. "Sir, suppose when the case of Sena tor Burton was pending before the supreme court of the United States, that the senate had passed a resolution declaring that Senator Burton was a model oi, virtue and senatorial courtesy and that his prosecution was an act of some government department. Would not a thrill of horror have run through the entire country? Yet how would such action by the senate dif fer from this action of this judge at tempting to control this, the grand in quest of the nation, in dealing with a member of that judiciary? I do not call attention to the character of the letter but to the character of the trans action itself. "How can this judge, Pardee, ever again ask a man arraigned at the bar, what word he has to say why sentence for an offens against the revenue laws shall not be pronounced upon him? Could not a criminal quote this language of Jude Pardee and say that the law imposing revenue duties was immoral and should not be enforced? Why can he not say to Judge Pardee, 'You must not hold me to a rabid com pliance with a law which I think is re strictive of human lioerty. Is this judge fit to administer justice again, now that he himself has discredited prompt and quick obedience to the law by a judge who is 3Worn to administer it? "And we have another judge," con tinued Mr. Cockran, "with superior claim to enlighten xur conscience, quoted by the gentleman from Ohio as a man from before whom we should all bend, coming in here, and, sir, say it with little shore of horror, that he comes in here with perjured lips and asks us to share his perjjiry and his disloyalty. "A republican legislature should not impeach a republican! What a tribute A $1.00 PAIR ttf FREE TO TRY IFYOU HAVE RHEUMATISM s"lrulla?.:i0i?o"!?irM.iS .he pays to you gentlemen 'on the other nmrivei"i vm.w , ...-... ........ 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Are we to be diverted from a conscientious discharge of our duty by a man who, clothed in the ermine of a judge, turns that robe into the costume of a harlequin, and, dancing across this floor, invites us to perjure our souls and violate the Constitution?" Mr. Lamar, of Florida, repelled tho carge contained in the Pardee letter that the state of Florida had a political grievance against Judge Swayne. How ever, he said, he believed Judge Pardee to be honest ana said 1 1 stood high in Louisiana and Florida. An agreement was reached to vote on the Swayne impeachment articles tomorrow at 3:30 o'clock. A Deal In "Wash Stocks" New York, January" 7. -Although the Jackson, lUch. Bend no money, only your name. J next meeting before United States Commlssiorcr Alexander in tho bank ruptcy proceedings against Munroo & Munroo will not bo held until ll o'clock on Tuesday morning, much will prob ably bo dono between now and' then to ascertain to what extent tho mauagc inout "of the National City bank was responsible for tho bank's alleged ac tion in leLdlng the brokers $GO,000 a day for eight days beforo tho Munroo collapse, with, .t is charged, no other security than the unindorsed demand notes of the insolvent firm, a firm that started in but a short while ago with ouly $l,G00 capital. As matters now stand, Pres.dent James Stillman of the National City bank is reported to have tried to minimize the practice of lend ing upon such "security" by shifting the responsibility upon Archibald G. Loomis, second vice president. ' Lootnis, it is reported, was chairman of the executive committee of the syn dicate got up by Munroo & Munroe to inflate the price of Montreal & Boston consolidated copper stock from 50 cents to $3.50. Tho inflation, it is said in .ill street, was done by a gigantic system of "washed sal 3," which means that the same house puts out large buying and selling orders among half a dozen brokers, who do a phenomenal business amori themselves, without letting any outsider dispose of any stock at the inflated prices. As Second Vice President Loomis son was an ofllcer of tho Montreal and Boston copper company, the elder Loomis may, so it is said, have con sidered himself perfectly safe in let ting Munroe have a $60,000 National City bank check each morning, with the understanding that it should be canceled each afternoon beforo the close of t.io bank. When asked recent ly whether he intended to resign, Loomi3 said: . "Why should I resign? 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There is war in the Standard Oil camp because of the revelations in the bankruptcy case against the brokerage firm of Murroe & Munroe, which show that Loomis was the head of the syn dicate which employed the Munroes to "wash" 7,000,000 shares of Montreal and Boston copper stock. The person from whom the report of this state of affairs came also de clared today that John D. Rockefeller felt keenly th- position that the Na tional City bank had been placed in by Loomis, and that when a meeting of the directors takes place next week he would insist upon a reorganization of forces. The informant said that Mr. Rocke feller waa bent upon having the resig nation of Mr. Loomis immediately, but that H. H. 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