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...supposedly on the recommendation of William Gibbs McAdoo, an undistinguished lawyer associated with the Treasury Department was appointed Federal Judge for the Eastern District of Illinois. Federal Judges are appointed for life subject to one qualification, "during good behavior," and subject to right of the House of Representatives to impeach and the Senate to convict a Judge of "treason, bribery, high crimes Or misdemeanors." The new Judge, George W. English, took residence in East St. Louis with his wife, his son. There he became intimate with one Charles B. Thomas, who had been a local judge. The eastern Illinois district...
...example, got Representative Weaver of North Carolina?the kind of man that can make a jury weep. Interminably, passionately, he went through the record to show that there was no proof that Judge English had committed any crime. It is more serious, said he, to impeach a man than to convict of crime. Without substantial proof of crime, there can be no impeachment. He pleaded with the House to remember "the wild pulsations of a father's heart," not to "tear the ermine from this, old father," to remember that...
Final Scene. When the three day debate began, most Congressmen from what little they knew, thought Judge English should be impeached. Then as they learned that nothing had been indisputably proved against him, many wavered. Finally, however, the able lawyer-Congressmen who led the fight for impeachment convinced the House: 1) That it must impeach if it had reasonable suspicion; 2) That it was entitled to consider the Judge's general course of conduct (not merely this or that separate offense). On these two grounds, it was clear impeachment would be voted. Congressmen trooped to their seats, the amazing number...
...week, big druggists to 25. Twelve-ounce bottles will cost about 35?. At 50?, drug store clerks in Minneapolis were the first to pass them out. Sale in Manhattan followed several days later. In Indiana, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union became hectic, threatening that "our Congress will impeach General Andrews and even Mr. Mellon." In no state was the President directly attacked...
Measures Defeated: 1) A much bruited bill forbidding Occidental dancing in Japan. 2) The Government bill reducing land taxes. 3) Several Opposition bills to impeach Premier Wakatsuki, who thankfully retired from the session to rest and pursue yet another of his hobbies: the writing of poetry. Once he wrote: I take a leaf from Yuan Hsien* Who even in poverty enjoyed sports; A lingering thought to Chen-pin,* Who, with high ideals and thoughts. Always refrained from self-laudation. As a statesman of fiery zeal I admire Clemenceau ; As a gentle-souled Premier, I respect Gladstone...