Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1909 — JUDGES ATTACKED AGAIN [ARTICLE]

JUDGES ATTACKED AGAIN

Missouri Member to Ask Congress to Impeach McPherson and Philips. Washington, May 7. Formal charges of impeachment against Federal. Judges Philips and McPherson of the western district of Missouri, are to be filed by Representative Murphy of that state. Incensed over a telegram to Attorney General Wickersham from Frank Hagerman, attorney for eighteen railroads, in which Hagerman characterized Murphy’s resolution as “an outrageous tissue of misrepresentation,” Murphy held the attention of the house with a repetition of the charges which he had made in his original resolution. His colleague, Mr. Rucker, corroborated all that he said in denunciation of the action of the two judges in connection with Missouri’s two-cent passenger rate la'v,- and remarked that Judge Philips ought to have been impeached twenty ago. Makes Injunction Permanent. Kansas City, Mo., May 7. —Judge Smith McPherson in the federal court here continued in force the temporary injunction recently granted by Judge John F. Philips restraining Siebert Jones, circuit attorney of St. Louis, from prosecuting the suit filed by him seeking to restrain the railroads of Missouri from charging a three cent passenger rate.