Officials Impeached
SCANDAL IN OKLAHOMA Secret Session of House By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Received 9.15 a.m. OKLAHOMA CITY, Tuesday. TROOPS and injunctions failed to protect Governor Johnston from the insurgent Legislature, which met in a secret session in the early hours of the morning and preferred six charges of impeachment against him.
THERE are also charges against ■*» Chief Justice Frederick Branson, of the State Supreme Court, and President Cordell, of the Agricultural Board. The Senate is making secret plans to receive the charges from the House and suspend the officials pending, their
trial. The Senate has already formally resolved itself into a court of impeachment.—A. and N.Z.
A message which was received yesterday read as follows: The Governor of Oklahoma, who is fighting an insurgent Legislature, which is determined to impeach him on the ground of irregularities in public finance, has succeeded in preventing a session in the State Capitol, by dispersing the legislators w-ith the National Guard. He has obtained an injunction restraining the Lower House from receiving the impeachment charges drawn up by an investigating committee. The injunction also prevented the impeachment of any other State officials.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 227, 14 December 1927, Page 9
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