Word: warranto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friends of the Governor, realizing that the decision might definitely name him as having personally profited by the state fund deposit and loan, foresaw also the possibility of his enemies attempting to oust him from office on quo warranto proceedings. Such quo warranto (by what right) proceedings would have been based on the argument that Governor Small took oath as Governor while in possession of funds illegally secured during his term as treasurer, that, under such circumstances, he had no right to hold the office of Governor and should therefore be removed from it. If quo warranto action was instituted...
...avert this threatened unpleasantness, the Governor's friends introduced a bill giving the Governor as well as other state officials immunity from quo warranto proceedings. Critics questioned the constitutionality of the measure, but the Illinois Senate speedily passed it. Last week it came up in the House, on which occasion Representative Miller made his comparison between the Governor and Judas and his remark about hands reaching up to the shoulders. Despite these criticisms, the House passed the bill, 108 to 29, and Governor Small speedily signed...
...greater repercussions throughout the country than the Fundamentalist-Modernist row. Sabbath Associations last week sent representatives to Harrisburg, Pa., the state capital. These gentlemen spoke so intimately, so forcibly, to State Attorney General George Washington Woodruff, that he changed his mind from its former course, and immediately instituted quo warranto proceedings against the Sesquicentennial management...