Show WARM DEBATE Tf ij ON SWA LA CASE CASEIn L LIn In House Over ow Letter Imer of or Judge I Pardee Says Politics Politic Is At Bottom of It ItI I BOURKE SCORES HIM Describes s a l I WhIch hull I Ic c le in a It Marked Ia kc Degree Irce a Decay Of or Our OUt Constitutional System Jan 17 nn mat m fluent nt reached to vote on the Swayne nt articles tomorrow at lit tho tIme debate debato today was 1111 earned on OB lit ut high pressure for tor mol mor than luau live five hours Mr Grosvenor furnished l the he text for a u vigorous speech by Cochran by the tho reading rending of or a letter from Judge Pardee Portico of ot New Orleans deolar Ing lag that politics was at the bottom of ot orthe otlie the lie Impeachment proceedings The rite fart fact lid lidor of or a it judge Judco o inch a 1 letter Mr declared dramatically was wo a Il monstrous spectacle le leMr Mr Grosvenor Gr 0 O began begun his speech In behalf of ot Judge with tho the statement that he ho haul had never neer been so IO shocked as ns to 10 tho the tutus status of or the law pro profession i tr as ami lie ho had been at nt some of ot hit Ih expressIons of ot bad temper er and anti bat bad feel teel feelIng Ing that hind had been mauls made In the debat debate I who heave have argued for the have gln n out In advance that thai there wa was nothing to consider lr that hut was Wail not fbi contained In the report In tho the COliC case Yet I submit that list of or orthe the thie argument has not boon be on on ore lla lines H contained In the report Mr had rend read ft n letter front from Judge Pardee dated nt lit Now Or Orleans Orleans leans March 24 21 1904 addressed to Mr Grosvenor and marked personal timid confidential In It Judge Pardee expresses s surprise that the house hou e committee on the Ju Judiciary dl lary haul had voted six Democrats and atal two Republicans to present Impeach Impeachment Impeachment ment mont against Judge Ho lie ro ru lolIK the tho tit circumstances of ot Judge Swayne appointment In the tho early purl pun of or ties Harrison on administration and fol ral following oh lowing the election In Florida and It was wan generally believed that gross grons frauds had hud been perpetrated against the tho party Judge Swayne bud h d told him that It wa tIm tho desire of ot the tho administration that those guilty of ot thieve these frauds should hould be proceeded against This litigation had engendered nn an Intense feeling against Judge It was Wn th then n regarded an liS hazardous for Judge Swayne to travel about aboul tho lie district and from that time on all Judge JUde Swayne Swane was persona non grate grata to the Democrats In Florida Following this unpopularity tho the Utter letter continues Judge dis die district dIstrIct dietrict wan changed largely for tor the pur purpose pose of ot punishing him Tho change of oC tho the his tile being no It were w r ousted out ot of his hili district Mr Cochran Cockran N Y V lamented Inmon tell that tIm th proceedings might not have mv pro proceeded proc corded c eded along nonpartisan lines hues Strange ns as It may flay seem he contin continued ned u d the first partisan argument comet comes from outside the tIn house hou e It comes caines from the th bench Itself This ho he said ald was wall reason renson for tor extend lag Ing the operation of or the house scrutiny There Thero was he Bald said n it vast ost difference between an nn Impeachment and nn nit In a u fact which the house huse seem eem had No law lit of ot evi dence deuce binds nn tin Impeachment proceed Im In lag as nil la is th the case call with an nn Indictment Mr Cockran took issue with the major ity report of the committee on the lie ox 0 Demise account l charge Was uia a It matter too to high or too low to I warrant such emphasis It H Is hardly necessary to Inquire whether hether 1 ho he tats cats corn com beef beet and und cabbag at mit DO GO cents a I plate or log leg of ot lamb lumb nt mit 60 How flow Is U the tho statute to bo lie Inter Interpreted 7 Is 18 ho he required to spend the whole HO 10 each clIeh day or nay may ho husband his resources anti and spend upend 7 one day when whon he ho may bo ho suffering with dyspepsia slum sin and 13 the tho next In gluttony glutton If It this be bo KO so he h sill alii has hns time with tho thu pleasure of ot heaven to eat cat himself even with tho the government Ho Ito could by consuming terrapin e duck and amid other delicacies 11 bring himself up liP Mr Cochran Cockran referring to tho hue letter of ot Judge JUtO said wild saidI I did not lIot believe It II conceivable that thata a 1 judge would undertake to control the action notion of at an Independent body hody on all a II proceeding Itself Judicial Now think of ot It tho monstrous spectacle ot of a n judge himself n a member of ot u mu 1 depart department ment meat which we wo are now scrutinizing otc Into this house with an ate at attempt attempt attempt tempt to control our action notion I describe n It spectacle clo which ought to make us liS pause house llau ej which Indicates In a 1 marked l degree a II decay deC Y of 0 our constitutional system lIy tem Sir supposing that when the tha case calo of at Senator Burton was wets pending before thu tho supreme court co rt of ot this tho th United tes the senate had passed n a 1 resolution lag Ing that Durton Burton was oa n a I model of ot virtue and senatorial courtesy cOUr and amid that his prosecution was un 1111 mm act of ot In Indefensible indefensible defensible hostility on the tho part of at semite government department Would not a I thrill of ot horror heave havo run through the tho entire country Yot Zat how hots would such action by b the tho satiate differ from tram this thui action of ot this judge attempting to con control control trot this title the tho grant granI Inquest of ot tho Ito na an nation antion tion In III dealing den ling with a member ot or that judiciary I do not call attention to tit the char character actor acter of ot the letter but to o tho the charac character ter of ot tho the transaction tran Itself If A legislature should not Impeach a II Wheat What a 1 trIbute lie ho pays IIII to tho lie gentlemen gentl mon on tho the other side I Are wo we to 10 bl be diverted front from a 11 con conscientious discharge o of ot our duty by a aman I Iman man matu who clothed in tho lie ermine of o a Il judge turns that lint Into Inton ft a costume c of or Harlequin and dancing this floor loor Invites us to perjure ourselves and violate the tho Constitution 1 Mr Ind huh In defense of ot Judge Swayne charged that tho the whole proceeding was In Its It nature Mr Lumen Laman Fin Fla repelled tho time charge contained lit ime the letter hatter that the state of at Florida hint n a political grievance ance anco against Judge The Par Pur Joe duo letter Injected the political Issue Into tho the case Outside of or this thul ho he knew the tho state of ot Florida had hod a II good otis 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