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Show I All GIT H S Judge Archbald Says H , I His Judicial Record M I Is Spotless H 1 ., ; Washington, July 29. StUIn?r as a H court of impeachment, the senate to- H j, day adjourned after hearing Judge 1 Robert W. Archbslds formal answer H to the charge against him without de- H i elding If the trial shall so on this 1 Gummor or be postponed until fall. H Archbald. of the commerce court. In H I answer to tho Impeachment articles H brought against him by the house of H ; representatives, denied' to the senate, H j sitting as a court of impeachment. Hl t that he ever used his office or his 1 J j Infiiionce as n,Jndg0 for profit, that H he ever tindertcMc for a consideration H ' to compromise' litigation before the H I Interstate Confmcrcc commission. H f that he ever wrongfully need his po- H sition to obtain credit from litigants Hj before him H I Judge Archbald denied that at any H I time he had entered a scheme to buy I stocks of a gold mining scheme in 1 ( Honduras with V W Rlsinger by j endorsing & note for $2,500. Rlsinger Hl is part owner of the stock of the old H i Plymouth Coal company He admit- B ted having endorsed a note for Ills- H , ingcr but avers it was for the sole H purpose of accommodation and benc- H fit of Rlsinger and Rlacnger sccurl- H i tics of his endorsement. Hl ''' It was admitted that the old Ply- mouth Coal company was a litigant j. In the judgo's court, but the note H transaction had no relevancy to the 1 Judgo's Judicial action and that In the H court decision ho acted solely on bis 1 i judgment of the merits of the law H suits presented. If the note was pro- H ' j scn'ed to John T. Lcnahan, one of H ( the attorneys in the case for discount. H t tt was done without Judge Archbnld's H consent, the answer said. H ( j As to the ?500 Jones note, whloh H ' it was charged was presented to H Christopher G. Roland, with a re- H quept lor discount tor Judge Arcn- H bald while one of the Marian Coal H company cases wa pending in his Hj court, .Jutlgo Archbald answered that Hl t he never consented t-hat tho note Hl should be presented to cither of the H !j Dolands with a request on his part Hj for discount that such things were H " J done entirely without his knowledge. f I' j Ah to the charge t.bat the 1500 note H 'J I of his own. madfc to John Henry H h I Jones, was presented to discount to i I Charles Von Strode, president of a H ? i bank In Scracton, and a lawyer. Judge H v Archbald answered that he made the A note entirely for the accommodation 1 of Jones and had no intention of im- 11 properly using his influenrc as a H J Judge to induce Van Stork to dis- H t The charge that Judge Archbald H had received large gifts of money H from Henry V. Cannon, a cousin of H his wife and a director of the Great H Northern railway and other corpora- H tlons was denied, although admitted H v that tho judge made a trip to Itah at H ' Cannons' expense Tho judge a erred K I' he had no Information that any cor- H . ' poration in which Cannon was Inter- H , ested might come before his court |