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Show IMPEACHMENT OF I IOWA GOVERNOR MEETS DEFEAT I DES MOINES, Iowa. April 17 Ef-j forts to Impeach Gov. W. L. Harding' for his part In the Rathbun pardon 1 case were defeated in the Iowa house! of representatives early this (Thurs I day) morning when, that body adopt-' ed a resolution censuring the chief executive. By a vote of 70 to 37, the house adopted its judiciary committee's minority mi-nority report for censure, after substituting sub-stituting it for the majority report, which recommended impeachment. Final action came shortly before 1 o'clock after nearly fifteen hours of heated debate, in which impeachment advocates bitterly assailed the governor, gover-nor, while speakers in his defense declared de-clared the pardon "an unwilful mis-lake" mis-lake" warranting only censure. Tliic ends the legislative investigation investiga-tion of Gov Harding's action in pardoning par-doning Ernest Rathbun, the young son of an Ida county farmer, who was convicted of criminal assault and sen-I sen-I to life Imprisonment The par don was granted last November. The house will next take up the recommendations of the judiciary in regard to A'tornel General H. M Hav-ner, Hav-ner, whose methods in obtaining revocation revo-cation -of the pardon in February, resulting re-sulting in commitment of young Rati bun to the reformatory, have been in vestigatcd by the committee. Both majority and minority reports also have been presented to the house in the case of Havner. The majority recommendation is for complete exoneration, ex-oneration, while the minority report declares Havner guilty of misconducl and recommends his censure |