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Show ARCHBALD TESTIFIES Friendship the Motive That Induced Him to Enter Into Coal Deal W ashington. .Ian G. Friendship for hi6 Scranton associates vviih whom be had lived and worked for vears was the motive that led ludije Robert V Archbald of the I'nited States commerce com-merce court to negotiate with of n -Iclals of the Erie and Lehigh Valley railroads over the settlement of coal land matters, and that induced him to 'endorse certain notes, according to ,th statements made by the accused jurist today when be took the staini ! before the impeachment court oi the senate to testily in his own behalf. ; Fudge krehbald followed his wife i upon the witness stand Tie repeated repeat-ed I v denied that any improper motives mo-tives influenced his actions, or that ! he hail sought to use corrupt ly his I power as a federal Judge to Induce the railroad officials to do certain things. Mrs Archbald. in telling of the trip I to Europe which he eDjoved at ihe expense of Henrj W Cannon, a director di-rector in the Great Northern and other oth-er railroads, said Mr Cannon ivaa her cousin, that thc two families had J been intitnato for vears and that the Invitation to the Archbald's to go to Europe in 1910 came to Mrs. Archbald j personally She gave the senate the letter from Mr. Cannon. This and other letters Jhur passed between Mr Cannon and Judge and Mrs Archbald Arch-bald were filled with discussion of the trip and with personal exchanges to emphasise the close relationship that existed. Admits Association With Williams Fudge Archbald admitted his associations asso-ciations with Edward .1 Williams of Si ranton In negotiations for the refuse re-fuse coal dump owned jointK by a subsidiary of the Erie railroad and b tin htm of Robertson and Iaw He admitted that lit had talked with Second Vice President Richardson Richard-son ami Qenera Counsel nrownell of I ithe Erie, in an effort to expediate si decision as to whether the Eric would grant an option on its part of the (lump but he denied that he had tried I or intended to Influence them to act1 in hl8 favor. .Fudge Archbald declared he had no Interest whatever In the settlement of jthe case of the Marian oa! company of Scranton against the Delaware, Lackawanna Western railroad He ; went to officials Ol the railroad in th.v ' I ase he :iid ,,s a representativ e Of Ceorge Y Watson, an attorney for the coal company, and C. G Roland, one of the owners of the coal eoin-pan.v. eoin-pan.v. He had io thought oi reward) for his efforts, he said and no pur- I pose to influence the railroad to make a favorable settlement lie denied thai he had tried to get credit from litigants or possible litigants liti-gants In his courts He de lared that he never had attempted to con-teal con-teal his Interest In tlx KnPdirl culm dump deal, or In the settlement of the! Marian Coal company case. In dec Archbald sairl he had written I a letter to Helm Bruce, an attorney for the Louisville & Nashville rail-road rail-road as to the evidence that had been presented in the case of that road against the interstate commerce commission, tried beforo the commerce com-merce court, Tndge- Archbald declarod certain ' points in tho evidence were not cleai,! and that he had written to Mr. Bruce to ' I ear them up The points B SSU4 he said had no part In the settlement ' of the case Members of the senate asked If he, had shown the correspondence to other oth-er member of the commerce court or Informed Them of It .Tu,?p Uohh-ild , said he had not Senator Ree, naked if be thought proper for a judge in ' passing on doubtful points In Id, , ... to ask the opinion only of the ,nur ney likely to coincide with his own v lews "No, i do not" said indco irchbald No -Silent Party" Agreement He declared he had no knowledge of the making of the "silent partv! agreement In the orrice of William P Boland In Scranton, through which It I appeared that the Katydid dump was I controlled by B i Williams v p Boland and a 'silent partv,"' known but to a few persons. Represi ntatlve Sterling of the house! managers fought against allowing1 .Fudge Archbald' attorneys to ask him direct question an to his motive In going to the railroad officials In the various coal land deals that form ihe ! baela of the Impeachment charges Hgalnst him. Senator Bacon, presiding over tb ' impeachment court, ruled direct questions ques-tions out as Improper, but permitted the attorneys to ask Judge Archbald his motive. In the cate of the deal Involving the Erie railroad he said if was the desire to expediate a decision deci-sion as to whether or not the option ;on the Katydid dump would be i.en. in the Ijckavvanna case, it was as a friendly act to George M. Watson and I C G Roland |