Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 5 March 1927 — Page 4

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a cabinet member, appeared in court [* as an old man, broken in health and spirit. Harry Daugherty, once a powerful maker of presidents and a member of the cabinet, is prematurely uged with the worry of defending his official acts. Edward L. Doheny 1 is undef the care of a physician and . stands Io lose a little matter of twenty-one millions by reason of the cancellation of his Elks Hills oil re- ! serve lease by the supreme court. J Tou can do your own moralizing.— > Wabash Plain Dealer. » „ , j Chief among the characteristics of I the present session of the Indiana general assembly is the devotion with which any and all pay increase bills, have with few exceptions, been passed and with which new courts and I offices, always naturally with splendid salaries, are created. Indications are that the state tax bill, already enormous during the first two years of the Jackson administration will be higher than ever. Republican campaign talk last summer and fall of economy and tax reductions is disclosed to have been so much bunkerino, I spun out to catch the unwary voter land the gullible. At any rate, additions to the cost of government go merrily on—and the end is not yet.— Goshen Daily Democrat. q . ♦+♦+♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY + ♦ From the Dally Democrat File ♦ ♦ Twenty Years Ago This Day. * ++++++++*+«+*++« March s—Mrs.5 —Mrs. Morrison writes interesting letter from Monterey, Mexico. | Miss Mary Helm celebrates her seventh birthday with a party. I Surprise last evening for Mr. Fred Sellemeyer on his 54th birthday. I Fire destroys row of .sheds at the Decatur Egg Case plant. Plans announced by a. 11. Dell and Fred Hoffman to convert buildings on Madison dreet into residences. Sam Shamp called to Akron, Indiana by serious illness of his father. I Bluffton.. Geneva and Celina Traction Company incorporated for 330,000 1 lans submitted for addition to St. Joseph school and the Sister's home, j -° ♦♦♦♦♦+♦+♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦ ♦ OF RADIO ♦ *+♦*++++++♦♦♦♦♦+ SUNDAY’S F|VE BEST RADIO FEATURES CFCA —Toronto 435 M, pm. —Relay choristers. WEAF—New York 492 M, and 13 stations hookup 6:20 —Capitol theatre WEAF—New York 492 M and 19 ttons hookup. 8:15 pm.—London string quartet. WCX and WWJ De it 2:30 pm.— Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Detroit, Symphony orchestra and chorus. KGO —Oakland, 361 M, and KFI, KPO. 4:45 pm.—Alfred Hertz and San Francisco symphony. o_ .... ——- MONDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WJZ New York 454 M, and hookup. 6 pm - Roxy and his gang. WEAF —New York 492 M, and 10 station hookup 9 pm.—Opera “Martha.” WJZ —New York 454 M, 7:30 pm. — Hadley's orchestra. WCCO—Minneapolis-St. Paul 116M,— , 9 pm.—University program. KDKA — Pittsburg, 309 M, 5 pm. — Dinner concert. o THE GREAT WAR 10 YEARS AGO (Dy United Press) In his inaugural address President Wilson described the ciitjcal state of tiie country's relations with Ger- • many and appealed for patriotism t and united action. j “There can be no turning back,” he declared. “Our own fortunes as a nation are involved, whether we I would have it so or not. r “Armed neutrality is our stand, s Yet this may not suffice.” » —o i Chinese Students Flock u To The Cantonese Army II Peking (United Press)—More than 1,000 students have secretly left Pe- | king for the new Nationalist Capital at c "Wuhan", according to reports here, t It is said that fully a half of the I students have joined the revolution- » i a | ary army under General Chiang KaiI slick, while the others will a-:dst in e propaganda and other activities.

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"Just ! JfjA ty Edsa A. ftvesiyffj LONESOME Bitter the day Hut nothing is fair When your love's away; When love's not there. And long the night When he fails to write. Oh, mother and maid When your heart’s afraid Pale is the flower Only love can ‘cure In your lonely hour. What you must endure. Changed all things aro When your love's afar. And men should know As they come and go For the birds may sing What it means to wait And ’he laughter ring, At a garden gate. '.Copyright 1325 Edgar A. dues, - ... - — Senate Prepares To Try Judge Clarence Dearth State Senate Assumes Jurisdiction In Impeachment Proceedings, Despite Opposition Os Attorney General Gilliom And Senator Nejdl; Prominent Attorneys Assert That Senate Has Power To Remove Judge From Office; Medico-Chiropractor Bill Passed By Senate.

By Walter A. Shead Written for the Daily Democrat Indianapolis, Iml., Mar. 5. —Despite a more or less sarcastic letter from : Arthur L. Gilliom, Indiana attorney I general, opposing such a move as void. 1 and an attempt by Senator James J.' Nejdl (Rep. Lake) reactionary leader, to dodge the issue, the Indiana state' senate Friday, by a unanimous vote, | assumed jurisdiction in the impeachment proceedings against £harles W. Dearth, judge of the Delaware circuit court, and named a committee of five members to report at 2 p. m. Saturlay, on the method of procedure to be followed by the senate in the trial of the case. The opposition of Nejdl who asserted that the senate should refuse to accept the articles of impeachment as returned by the house, however, was' Hie sole opposition voiced in the senate and a half dozen lawyers, led bySenator Curtis G. Shake (Dem. Knox and Daviess) asserted that it was clearly within the power and the duty of the senate to proceed as required by the statute of 1897 and set a day for trial. | Such prominent attorneys us {senator William I’. Evans of Marion county, former Marion county prosecutor, Senator William F. Hodges of Lake county. Senator Shake, Senator Carl Gray of Pike and Gibson counties and senator Denver C. Harlan of Richmond were in accord that the authority of the senate to take jurisdiction jn the case lay in section 9, article seven, of the state constitution. Attorney General Gilliom bases his opinion on section 12. article seven of the constituliou, which the senate lawyers assert is clear outside of the question at issue and does not apply to the senate, but to the supreme court. Following the filing by the board of managers of the house of the action and the governor immediately asked Gilliom for an opinion as to the appointment ol a judge at Muncie to succeed Dearth. Under the statute. Dearth is automatically suspended from the house of 11:35 a. m. Friday, at which time the articles of impeachment were filed with the president of tile senate. Gilliom’s reply to the governor included his original opinion that the legislature did not have the power to impeach. Mr. Gilliom said: "If there, were a reasonable doubt as to the validity of the attempted legislation for the removal of judges by impeachment, 1 would advise the appointment of a judge on the theory that the present judge is suspended from office during the pendency of these proceedings. But an intelligent and unprejudiced consideration of the constitution, especially in the. light of the interpretation given it by the supreme court, cannot, in my opinion, leave a competent mind in such doubt. Since it is entirely clear that the said provisions are in direct conflict with section 12. article 7, of the constitution, 1 must advise that no suspension from office has resulted, and no appointment can be made.” Gilliom closes his opinion to the governor witli the sarcastic sentence as follows: “Such restrictions were placed in the constitution by wise men and were solemnly adopted by the people under salmcr counsels and on broader and deeper consideration than were in exI hibition when the impeachment in question was voted. For the goVer- ■' nor io appoint and the senate to approve the appointment, of a judge for said court under these circumstances ■ would, in my opinion, involve a clear J disregard of the constitution and ■ 'would be an utterly void act." i! In direct coutrudicliou with the j opinion of the attorney general are

those of Senator Shake. In speaking in regard to the act of 1897 and section 9 of article seven of the const!i tution, Senator Shake said: “The function of this body is to make law and not to determine the ( 'constitutionality of the statutes. This hotly in 1597 prescribed a course of . duty in a case of tills kind, and it is I not the function of this body now to i seek to evade this act unless we want to repeal that act. That act is the law of this state and binds the members of this senate just the same as it binds every other citizen of this state. There are three courses open —we must either violate, or repeal that act of 1897 or follow that statute. Unless it is repealed, it is the law and not having been questioned by the supreme court, it is presumed to be a constitutional enactment. “Can it be possible that the highest law making body in the state of Indiana and the highest type of citizenship would ignore one of the statutes of the stale? We cannot ignore these two facts —there is in force a constitutional statute, at least it has never been held unconstitutional, and there i laying at the bar of this senate a charge of impeachment in pursuance o fthat act. I intend, until it is repealed to follow that statute, because I it is the law of my state.” Senator Shake then referred to Article four, section 16; Article six. section seven and eight as giving the legislature all the power necessary for impeachment. According to a concensus of opinion, this is just another case of the “mirror of the law' getting himself into liot water, as he has done on numero'is • eccasions, in an effort to protect lite state administration and tiie Republican party from abuse or criticism. Notwithstanding GiUiotn's opinion, the senate has accepted jurisdiction, will try the case and an extra session of the senate is necessary as was predicted in these letters some weeks ago. One of the most important acts of tiie senale Friday was the passage of House Bill No. 39 by a vote of 35 to 15, the medico-chiropractor measure. The bill would apply the injunction law in the medical profession, would legalize all chiropractors or other methods of healing who were practicing on January 1, 1927, and give the chiropractors a member on the state board of medical registration. The house of representatives killed the Shake amendment to the constitution which would have increased the membership of the stale supreme court from live to nine members with ten year terms. The measure had passed the senate. The senate killed an amendment offered by Senator Alonzo Lindley, (Rep. Vermillion, Fountain and Warren) Io lhe measure providing for a two-cent lax rate for the state educational institutions. Tiie amendment would have proviiied for an excise tax for lite privelege of doing business in the state, based on receipts and capitol stock and was rewritten from the old Goodrich tax law of 1917. The measure was for the admitted purpose of saving the state tax rate, and was another of the many radical measures which have been offered during tiie session by the farmer bloc. The house killed tiie measure which would have codified the state elec- ' tion laws. The measure was backed ' by lhe state board of election commissioners and was supposed to be u 1 bi partisan measure. There have been a number of “joker” bills, however, ‘ presented in each house and the lower body was not disposed to take any chatic.es with a joker iu this law and : promptly killed It. -

BOY, 14, WOULD WED WOMAN, 27 Youth Is Insistent Despite Refusal Os Officials To Grant A License Canaan, Me., March 6. — (United Press.) — Fourteen-year-old Willie Buzzell. exscKoolboy, still wants to marry Mrs. Thelma Tibbett. 27-year-old divorcee —but he doesn't know why. "I don't know why 1 want to get married but 1 do," Willie told the United Press today, when questioned about his amazing romance. Willie and Mrs. Tibbets were to have been married long before thb(, but town officials refused to grant them the necessary license. "They say I'm too young to get married,” Willie said in a boyish tone. “Maybe 1 am. I don't know. Hut I want <o get married. I'm going to keep trying to get married even if they won't give me a license. “You know- a few days ago I asked the town clerk again for a license. Maybe they'll give it to me this time. Hil be married anyway no matter what I have to do. "Mrs. Tibbets is 'in love with me. Leastwise she says she is and she w-ants to marry me. She wants to go to court about it. 1 don't Want to but I will if 1 have to. I've got a right to get married if 1 want to. How can they stop me," Willie did not care to discuss his romance. In fact lie did not seem so romantic as lie did determined. He said lie contemplated no further action for about a week, pending the town clerk's decision on his second request for a license. o Germany Recovering, Australian Believes Sidney (United Press) —“In ten years time Germany will be industrially supreme”, declared John Brown, millionaire colemine and ship fwner of New South Whales, on his return to this city from a world tour. Brown said: “Today Germany is After the Grip Take Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery to Build You Up! Peoria. Ill.—“ Last fall I had a spell of the 'flu’ and it left me very weak. I doctored but could not regain my strength. Finally I decided to try Dr. Pierce’s medicines. I took the ’Golden Medical Discovery’ and the 'Favorite Prescription’ and I soon became strong and cheerful. I think these are wonderful remedies and I am glad to recommend them.” —Mrs. Mollie Schwinn, 308 Evans St. Ask your nearest dealer for Doctor Pierce’s medicines, ’a tablets or liquid, or send 10 cents for a trial package of any of Dr. Pierce’s remedies in tablet form, to Doctor Pierce’s Clinic, in Buffalo, N. Y., and write for free medical advice.

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