Show JUDGE IS UNDER ACCUSATION nON Peter PeterS S. S Grosscup Faces Impeachment Impeachment Impeachment Im Im- Im- Im if i Charges Are Sustained OLD RAILROAD LITIGATION Financial Interest in Case Be Before Before Before Be- Be fore Him Is Alleged in inStatement Sta Statement t Ya Washington ton Jan han 16 Sensational charges against t Tut Judge e Ps r S H Crosscup Grosscup Gross Grogs cup of the time P Federal crl court In Chicago wore rere made before the time Supreme court of or the time United States hero today by Henry 1 W. W Crawford and amid Charles Charle II IT I. I Aldrich J of or counsel to re registered stockholders in time the West test Chicago Railroad Rail Rall- Ral- Ral road roid company compan Tu Judge ge Grosscup p Is charged with wih having teen ben financially Interested tell In tho time case before him and to ha have ha appeared b by coun counsel el before the tho master appointed h by hy him to take evidence evi dence and to have Ignored tho the sworn challenge e of C petitioners that rho had I no Jera legal 1 right t to pass upon tho time points Involved He lie le is charged further with having participated in person and through agents in the time framing of ot ordinances In Chicago o which In effect ignored the time ruling of or the Supreme court of tho the United States State In tho the same samne cases several soy sev eral enal years ago and then to have had tho the cases referred to his own court for 11 adjudication Ii I ca t I 0 0 These charges cs arc included In papers on which counsel applied for tor a writ of or supersedeas to haze base an appeal from his hiM decision Time The application was made in inthe inthe the time formal way to associate Justice Da Day At this point however the time formal for for- mol mal proceedings stopped Justice Day refused to take the time case CaRe U up personal personally but referred It to the full Cul bench hench Mr 11 Aldrich ldrIch appeared he before fore time tho en entire entire entire en- en tire court and after aCer a brief discussion tho time court fixed next Wednesday as tho the date when It will wil hear arguments as asto asto 1 to whether it 1 will wil proceed with tho the appeal appel ap ap- ap- ap peal pel Time The action of or Justice Day In refusing to take up the time case on tho the original application and in n the time matter mater to tho the entire court la lan un n nI r In ordinary r canon tho time n an- an I to whom theto c U bus nH UlO mo are made f thorn without without with with- out out- out ro to th oter JustI Justly Jus Jus- UR- UR U tI l Day DaY av l 11 hl 1 ek ck In t o 09 kaAla A. A p 10 t l ar K t i r. r Ct lX ie it n l i t Y J i f case Ts HI gen generally crul orally conceded to mom that thal tho Limo entire to take the tho court will wil ho obliged up tip matter mutter and amid that Judge Grosscup Is in serious elous danger of ot Impeachment proceedings pro pro- should time the charges bo be partially sustained The Time concluding concluding- paragraph of oC the time long printed arraignment or of Judge Grosscup Crosscup filed tell b by the attorneys alone alono Is regarded as sufficient to en enforce en- en force COIce Impeachment proceedings should time the Supreme court sustain the application application tion ton of ot the attorneys for tor the petition petition- petton- petton ers ens The case grows out of ot tho tIme legal leal fight over o cr tho lines controlled b by time the Chicago Chicago Chi mi cago eago Railways compan company which was finally decided b by the court coutt In 1903 1003 According to the time papers filed Judge Ju se Grosscup has not only failed to crr carry out tho provisions pro o of that decision de do- but has hos actually taken an m active ac nc- ac- ac tive tivo part asa stockholder In formulating ing inK plans to ignore tho plain terms of oC the decision After reviewing briefly tho timo early enily troubles of ot the company and the final Cinal of oC the time matter mater b by hI tho Supreme court under which It I was held that the com company pan should continue continue con con- to operate its Is lines until its Is charter charter charter char char- ter laid had be been renewed and effort made In iii the time Interest of or a general plan of oC re re- re 0 organisation n i za I lon I 0 0 |