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Show IS UNFIT FOR JURIST ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT PRESENTED TO HOUSE BY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. Jurist Is Accused of Using High Office Of-fice for Personal Gain Manager Selected to Prosecute Case. Washington. Chairman Henry D. Clayton of the committee on judiciary of the house of representatives, Monday Mon-day presented to the house articles of impeachment against Judge Robert W. Archibald of the United States court of commerce. Mr. Clayton's re port was unanimous from his committee. commit-tee. It constitutes the niuth impeachment impeach-ment of a judicial or cfvil official of the-United States since the foundation of the government and is the first since the impeachment trial of Charela Swayne, of the northern district of Florida, who was acquitted on February Febru-ary 27, 1905. "The conduct of this judicial officer of-ficer has been exceedingly reprehensible reprehen-sible and in marked contrast to the high sense of judicial ethics and probity prob-ity that usually characterize the federal fed-eral judge," says the committee in summing its findings of misbehavior against. Judge Archbald. His business transactions while a judge on the bench were held to unfit un-fit him for further service on the bench, and a resolution was presented impeaching him and holding him for trial before the United States senate. |
