Show ENTERS DENIAL SENATE SITS AS COURT Of IMPEACHMENT I Hears Formal Answer o oi of I Accused Jurist Then Adjourns JUDGE SAYS DEALS WERE NOT IMPROPER His Judicial Office W Was s Not No NotUs Us Used d Wrongfully or ot Corruptly I i I x t T I i- i i I 1 z l 1 M 1 II I I I I-I-I- I H i 10 WASHINGTON July JUIT 2910 29 10 I Sitting ns as a court of imp impeach impeach- 41 4 i ment the senate Renate toda today adl ad- ad 4 l- l ned after hearing Jud Judge e r rJ J- J JRobert Robert W W. Archbald's formal 44 4 4 1 answer to the charges against i i v him bim without deciding if the i trials shall scan go on on this summer summer or 44 4 4 be postponed until fall faU 1 1 I I I I I 44 I t I I H H- H WASHINGTON July 29 Judge Judge R Robert bert W W. Archbald of ot the commerce court onit In answer to the impeachment articles bro brought gh against him by th the house of ot representatives today formally denied to to the senate enate sitting as aa a a court courtat of at f impeachment that he ever used his hh office office CO or hi his influence as a a. judge fo for tor profit that be he ever undertook for tor a a a. consideration to compromise litigation before the interstate commerce commis commission s1 don sion n that he ever wrongfully used his position to to obtain credit from litigants before him or that ho lie had undertaken to o carry on a a. general tor profit or r speculation in IlL c coal a properties r l s 5 as charged hr d in the house Norie N Nd O e of o the thirteen h articles rH les of ohp im- im poa Judge ment e Archbald said said- said eon con constituted an impeachable offense a high rime crime or a a. misdemeanor meanor ae M Jc defined ned by bytho bytho tho ho constitution Judge Archbald admitted his pa pation on in fn ib the tho DOw now noted H Katydid culm ulm bank deal with Edward J J. J Wiliams Wil- Wil jams iams of Scranton a and d' d the Hillside Coal and nd Iron company and subsidiary o othe oi of the he Erie railroad which then had bad cases pending ending in his IDS court but he ho denied that hat he wilfully or unlawfully or corruptly cor rupt y took any advantage of his posh ion tion to induce the tho railroad officials to leal Loal with him and his partner Flatly Contradicts Lawyer The accuse accused jurist denied that ho at any fly timo time for a consideration a agreed recd to 0 assist G George or e 3 If Watson a a. ton on lawyor lawyer to settle nettle a case In lu which the he Marion Coal oal company was complainant complain comp ant nt 3 against the Lackawanna railroad before the interstate commerce commis commis- sion ion W W. P. P Boland and his brothers brother Christopher Chris Chris- Christopher opher and James are principal stock holder in the coal company and WilLam William Wil Wil- liam Lam P. P Boland was the tho author of some of f the tho charges on which the house judiciary ju- ju committee reported articles ot impeachment In reply to the charge char o that he and ani his lis is associates secured from the Lehigh Valley ralley railroad a lease on coal packer No o. o 3 owned by the city of hiS phia as trustee for the heirs of tho the late ito Stephen Girard reply was made hat the transaction did not involve unlawful un- un lawful awful or corrupt use usa of his office Some of this article was disputed The Tho judge fudge denied that he used his I wron wrongfully tully to aid Frederick Warlike in securing from tb the Philadelphia Philadel phia hia Reading railroad a lease of the Lincoln Id D coin culm dump or that he accepted hom rom wrongfully a promissory note ote for Alleges Charge Is Vague The Tho charge f that Judge Archbald used his bis is office corruptly or improperly to ring brine about the sale of Everhardt coal lands ands to tp the L Valley VaHey railroad sr or r the tho Lehigh Lehi h Valley VaHey Coal company was rue claimed to b bo be a vague e and its annulment annul annul- ment was waif a asked Judge Archbald denied dented that any time he ic e had entered a scheme to buy buy- stocks stock of a L gold mining scheme In Honduras with withA r. A p. p W. W by hy Indorsing a note for 2600 I Is hI part owner ow of the stock ock of ot tho the old Plymouth Coal company He e admitted having having- Indorsed a B. note for but avers It H wa W tJ for the sole putt 08 of of accommodation and benefit benent of and later sent him I of stock In a gold mining enter- enter rise a aS collateral securities of his hi In- In No ro Knowledge of ot Note Transaction It it was admitted that th t the old Plymouth Coal oal company was WIlS a 0 litigant In tho the but the judges judge's colOt note transaction lad ad no relevancy to the judges judge's Judicial action and that thal In the tho court decision he solely on his Judgment of the tho merits jf of t the tho lawsuits presented If the note WIlS vas as presented to John T Lenahan one oner of f r the attorneys In the case for discount It t was wan done dono without Judge Archbald's the answer said A AH Ai to the 1500 Jon Jones s note which It was ws a was as presented to G G. Boland oland with a request for discount for Judge Lidge Archbald while one of the tho Marion Marlon Coal oat company cases was x pending In hili hia court Durt Judge Archbald answered that he never ever consented l that the thc note noto should be pre resented presented to either of the Bolands BOland with 0 L request on his part for and th that ritt t If such n a thing w were r done It wt wu entirely without his knowledge e. e o. o As tho charge that a Ol note of or his hla own made to John Henry Henr wa Wn presented to discount to Chatles Charles von Strode prell 1 dent ant of a bank In Scranton and a lawyer law law- yer Cr Judge Archbald answered that thai heinde ho he homade made inde tho the note entirely for the accommodation dation of ot Jones and had no Intention of Improperly using bI his hi influence aa as ft a Judge to a Indue Vba yoza Strode to it u |