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When the 13th impeachment was voted by the House last month (TIME, March 16), Chairman Hatton W. Summers of the House Judiciary Committee declared that Senate proceedings in the twelfth impeachment, of California's Federal Judge Harold Louderback in 1933, had been "the greatest farce ever presented." At one point 93 out of 96 Senators were absent from performance of their rarest and highest Constitutional function. Washington still believes that Judge Louderback was acquitted partly because many a Senator declined to vote guilty on evidence which he had not heard. Last week, stung by Chairman Summers' rebuke...
...himself become the 13th man in U. S. history to be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.* He was U. S. District Judge Halsted Lockwood Ritter of Florida. As in the last two impeachments voted by the House (Judge George W. English of Illinois in 1926 and Judge Harold Louderback of California in 1932), the charge, in effect, was skulduggery for private profit in bankruptcy cases...
Rasped Chairman Hatton Sumners of the Judiciary Committee arguing for impeachment: "The last case of this kind we took to the Senate [the Louderback impeachment] resulted in the greatest farce ever presented. At one time only three Senators were present, and for ten days we presented evidence to what was practically an empty chamber. . . . Quit talking now, boys, and behave. ... An impeachment in this case will be notice to the country that the time has come when a corporation seeking refuge in Federal Court is not a signal to crooked lawyers to flock in and feast on the carcass...
...Acquitted California's Judge Louderback on five impeachment charges...
Judge. Sitting for the first time in 20 years as a court of impeachment, the Senate concluded its trial of Federal Judge Harold Louderback. charged by the House with abusing his judicial powers in bankruptcy cases. Evidence against him was diffuse and contradictory. His own vehement denials of wrong-doing were impressively detailed. Of the five counts against him. he won easy acquittals on the first four. On the fifth, a catch-all charge of general misconduct, 45 out of 79 Senators found him guilty. That was not enough to convict. The prosecution lacked eight votes of the necessary...