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Show (CORRESPONDENCE TRIBUNE. Washington, Jan. 30. Should the House o Representatives decide to impeach im-peach Judge Swnyiic of Florida, it . 1 would be the first proceeding of the kind t-ince 1S76, when Gen. W, "W. Belknap. Grant's Secretary of War, was brought h before the highest court for trial of ofTi- rial disdemcanurs. The last impeach-; impeach-; mcnt before that was the celebrated trial of Andrew Johnson. Impeachment cases are rare, and Congress docs not enter upon such proceedings lightly. It f mwiia 11 serious ofTense, and one for j which an offender cannot be punished j proceedings must originate in the Hoiipre. and tho Senate sits as the Judge and jury. While tho House begins the 1 and appoints the managers, the F real work must bo done in the Senate. Hi ; .i'? the enllri; body must give time to ; llf i'Jnl and other business be neces-I neces-I 1 htirily delayed. It has been a long time I '? ' .iln.ro the House has ever gone so for I, .is to take steps In the direction of Impeachment Im-peachment proceedings. Now a subcommittee sub-committee of the Judiciary committee is making an Investigation of the charges made by Representative La-i La-i mar but what the result will be no one .in say. There arc few men in Congress l ow who were members of the Senate. .ind Speaker Cannon was a member of ' th' House, but they are the only men I 1- ft who were a part of the prosecution II and trial court when Secretary Belknap I v as brought before tho bur of the Sen-D Sen-D ate. II It is tho opinion of Senator lSIkma I that a man must understand the Span- ish language and customs of the Spun- I iKh-AnierJcan people. In order to yet I rlong with thciiK It was for this reason that ho recommended the appointment II of Louis Sulzbacher as Judge of the'Su-I the'Su-I l .ntic court of Porto Rico. President. I McKinlcy made the appointment and sulzbacher has recently withdrawn the l signation that he tendered to Prcst- V dent Roosevelt because the President I urged him to remain in tho place. Sulz-I Sulz-I b .elier is a Jew. and years ago lie went I to Elkins, who was then )ractlcing law in New Mexico, and wanted to study law. "Vhnt do you want to bo a lawyer t foi ''" asked Elkins. "Why don't you go J out and make money like the rest of (l Miur race." s But Sulzbacher was persistent and rtudicd law, was admitted to the bar, ccurcd a good practice, and became very well oiY financially. It was then he applied to Elkins to get him a . place on the bench, so that he could leave a name I to his children. Since ho haa been in Porto Rico he has been very successful. Ho understands the language of the peo-' peo-' pie and knows the Spanish charactorls-k charactorls-k tks as well as the Spanish law. He has ( uceived letters from Justice Harlan and Senator Koraker commending his deci- t onr. and has -besides ..made .himself i popular with the people. I, ' When the army and navy general board was create many people won- dcrcd what it would do, the assertion 1 b 'ing made that it was purely orna-tncnlal. orna-tncnlal. It is found, however, that this h , . board takes up and disposes of many questions that come up between the two branches of the service. These questions grow out of the occupation of points in Cuba and in the Philippines, where it Is neccssnry for the army and navy to have joint control, or where both must occupy the same places. The questions arc purely military and it is best to have them determined by army and navy men. Heretofore tho Secretaries of tho two departments have had to meet and discuss these questions, and each has to rely upon the advice of some army and navy officer. Now, high officers of each service meet, dlpcuss and agree upon a method of procedure, and In nil cases the decision Is indorsed by the heads of tho departments. "People seem to havo rather limited ideas of Idaho," remarked Senator Hey-burn Hey-burn when asked if he lived In the Panhandle Pan-handle of that State. "I do live in what is sometimes called the Panhandle, but it is such a large region that we scarcely scarce-ly regard it as a 'panhandle.' It is not a narrow strip of land, by any means, liv fact, some idea of the size of Idaho may bo gained when we know that In areii it is 5003 pquarc miles larger than tho New England-States. It has large navigable streams, high mountains, vast plains, and an enormous quantlty of timber. "Its undeveloped mineral resources and wealth arc something beyond com- prehension, while it is now a rich mln-cral-produciifg State. Owing to tho great size of Idaho and. its? different altitudes, al-titudes, we have many varieties of climate. cli-mate. It is comewhat surprising that learned men are .so uninformed with regard to ' these important regions of tho great West." Senator Heyburn has a right to be enthusiastic about his State, which is' the ninth in s?Ir,c, although it has not attained tho population possible. for so great an area. One reason why Western West-ern men are so anxious that the Lewis and Clarke exposition should be a suc- come out and see the wonderful Reeky Mountain region and the Pacific Norlh-w Norlh-w tn. . It is a pathetic "talc of JaJi bin Ydrls that - Secretary Root 1ms sent to Congress Con-gress with a claim against the Government Govern-ment for the loss of a boat in Jolo harbor, har-bor, which was run down by the United SfatosGovernment launch Ogden. Secretary Sec-retary Root says that JaJi bin Ydris is a loyai Aloro, and as there Ih no fund from which to pay the man, the papers are submitted to Congress to sec If he can be paid for ills boat. In telling his own niory JaJi bin Ydris says that while in the harbor with his boat, the Panco and crew, he saw the Ogden steaming toward them. They shouted "Launcjio Panco, launcho Panco," but the launch ran etraight Into them. Some of the crew were hurt and the Panco w-as a wreck. Here is what occurred according to JaJi bin Ydris: j "The Ogden steamed away, leaving us drifting on the wrecked boat, though we shouted to her crew to save us. She returned about an hour afterward, and finding us still afloat, demanded the surrender of our arms. We compiled, and were then taken aboard her. I acked the captain of the launch if ho would save my goods or tow my boat, but he said he could not do so, being in haste to get to .Jolo. I asked why he ran into my boat, and he replied. 'Did you not jee our lights' I answered, 'Yes,' and then he asked: 'Why didn't you get out of our way7' I said; 'How could I do if There was not enough wind.' He answered that I would be put In jail for not going out of his road after seeing his lights. I replied that it was the duty of a steamer to go out of the road of n sailing vessel, not for the sailing vessel to go out of the road of the steamer, as a nailing vessel was helpless without wind. The Ogden took us to Jolo nnd landed ut there, and I reported to the commanding ofilccr, Maj. Sweet, what had happened. Our arms were returned to us." Army officers give Jajl bin Ydrls a good churactcr and substantiate his statements. Now will a just Government Govern-ment recompense him for the loss of the Panco. He wants $1004.25 Mexican. The right of a lawyer to accept a case whether he believes? in the Justice of it or not la an old question, and is usually settled according to the convictions of the lavye r himself. Two recent incidents inci-dents havo arisen in which lawyers have taken big cases and their action has brought the matter sharply to the attention of tho public, but more especially espe-cially has it been discussed by Senators and Representatives. John G. Carlisle, former Speaker, former Senator and farmer Secretary of the- Treasury, has taken a case coming' from Virginia courts in opposition to the Virginia law disfranchising negro voters. Carlisle Is a Southern man, a Democrat, and Is supposed to be imbued with the ideas which prevail In that section -Southern men generally regret that lie has been called into the case' on that side, but lawyers say that an attorney cannot iv-fuc iv-fuc any cuao that he is asked to prosecute prose-cute or flfonc!. The ether Incident is that of W. E. Rorah of Jdaho. Borah has been engaged en-gaged by Senator Smoot to defend WHK.-1 o (.mo iu ,1. seai in inc unucu States Senate. Borah was a candidate for the Uiilted States Senate when senator sen-ator Heyburn was elected. He was the anti-Mormon candidate, and fought the Mormons In Idaho with all the vigor he ro.'f ?ssod. He was a part of the ar.tl-Mormon machine which 13 waging a bitti r cuntcsl In Idaho, and is opposing oppos-ing Hi-yiJuri:. Borah wrote to a friend in Washington concerning Ms acceptance accept-ance of the Smoot case. Ho said that he had 1.0 doubt that it would mean his political Placement. He expected lo he a caiijfd&te for the Senate upon- the expiration of Oir-. term of Senator Dubois. Du-bois. IJe believed, according -o the latter, that his acceptance of the Mormon Mor-mon crse would be .disastrous to any political ambii,jnn he might have, but he said ilit his professional obligations were higher than his political ambition, and as a law jer he could not rcfus.; m.- case that he was recjuestcd to lakt Lawyers will generally agrej with Borah and Cailir.Jc that no case can be refused. AVilh .Senators and Representatives Represen-tatives who ccu'.inue to practice law, although they are in the Senate, th matter In ho.-ncwhat different. ThIr political pos.'Mor. would entitle them lo refuse to take ccsec that were direcl'.v epposec5. to their opinions. But then l hey wo':ld have a further excuse that their Congressional duties would nre-vtMit nre-vtMit them .riom ongaging in any case not to thi-ir lilting. ARTHUR W. DUNN. |