Show CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST LA OIS CHICAGO JURIST 10 13 UNDER FIRE BECAUSE OF HOLDING TWO POSITIONS ohio representative declares declare for impeachment peach m ment ent of federal judge on charges of high crimes crimea and misdemeanors on charges of it high crimes mill and in misdemeanors emen norm federal I judge K 11 landis of oe chicago wits was impeached in the house on oil february ll 14 11 l l by Ite representative welty democrat ohio because of ills his acceptance of the office of supreme arbitrator of u baseball while still 11 judge tito the olito ohio member swept aside an opinion of attorney general palmer that judge landis was within the lie law law and that there was ana no law making a crime the she opinion was rendered recently by the ettor attorney general on request of ir welty before proceeding mr welty refused it request by senator dial democrat youth mouth carolina to include in ili ilia alio general indictment attributed to tho the judge in refusing to send end to jail a youtie ottawa ill III amik 8 i clerk because of the belief that bin bank officials were responsible for tile clerks peculation by failure to pay film n R living wage dial also alio takes steps senator dial then lien announced lio he would file complaint against judge with the department ot 0 justice and later inter ilia jurist lit in tile senate describing lint him na as it freak fit find it 11 ernak ito io judge landis statement that tile bunk bank clerks employers were in ili it measure responsible for tho the youths theft of as tile tho most doctrine I 1 over ever eitard 11 and added that it if the action taken lit in pa rolling the ho clerk amounted to of such nets cs as those of III hie clerk it I 1 striking ut tit aliu lie foundations of our government there was no comment when mr welty concluded tho the reading rond lii of its ills indictments on ids his own motion a as Is customary itaco indictment was referred fer to tho the judiciary coin committee mItt less than a third of ho members present voted and scattering noca were leipard sherwood democrat ohio clapped lile hl lianda hands but otherwise there was no ns as to liow low the house felt r 2 y li 15 lip 3 7 4 1 trucks unloading some of president wilsons Wll Wil sona sons harril furniture ture nt at ills his ney home in ili of avlet troops in Petro petrograd grad 3 it 1 vf 1 Il president of the lie american international shipbuilding corporation turning over to frederick morris of tile shipping board the great key to lie HOR 1109 island shipyard |