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Show OUSTER MOVE IS ft EUGJFRAMEUP OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR DECLARES DECLAR-ES CONSPIRACY IS RESULT OF EFFORT OF PROTECTION Senate Court Resumes Its Investigation Investiga-tion Into Paroles and Pardons Par-dons During Administration Adminis-tration Oklahoma City, A concerted conspiracy con-spiracy by Oklahoma house and senate sen-ate members to drive from office Governor J. C. Walton because of his opposition to the Ku Klux Klan was charged Friday by the suspended executive. exe-cutive. "This entire impeachment business was started when I suspended the right of habeas corpus and summoned troops to protect citizens against the Klan," was the governor's version, coincident with summons served on commercial telegraph companies to produce as evidence telegrams exchanged ex-changed between legislators since September 1. In support of his charge, which is to be the backbone of the defense, Walton hopes to present : 1. Records and membership rolls of the Ku Klux Klun, which N. C. Jewett, grand dragon of the realm of Oklahoma, has been summoned to bring before the senate. 2. Telegrams exchanged by legislators, legis-lators, particularly a "shower" sent to the capital by klansmen urging that tlie "goods" be "delivered." 3. Testimony of some 150 or 200 Oklahomans to outrages attributed to the klan. Meanwhile the senate court resumed resum-ed its exhaustive inquiry into pardons par-dons and paroles granted during Walton's Wal-ton's regime. . It was having its difficulties, dif-ficulties, however, in expediting matters. mat-ters. At times proceeding dragged so that one member felt justified in formally for-mally giving notice of his intention to "go downtown and buy a Christmas Christ-mas tree and set it up in the chamber for we'll certainly be here until Christmas." One of the governor's staff of attorneys at-torneys either the suiave Martin, fiery Judge Riddle with his flowing locks and high pitched, whiny voice, or rotund, good natured Warren Snyder, Sny-der, with spectacles down on the tip of his nose was promptly on his feet with an objection whenever a witness' testimony swung into a realm damaging to the respondent. The fact that Chief Justice Johnson John-son had to refer each objection to a vote of the court, which almost invariably in-variably went in favor of the prosecution prose-cution delayed matters. |