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Proceedings in the Cases of the Impeachment of Charles Robinson, Governor, John W. Robinson, Secretary of State, George S. Hillyer, Auditor of
Proceedings in the Cases of the Impeachment of Charles Robinson Governor John W Robinson Secretary of State George S Hillyer Auditor of Author:Charles Robinson Title: Proceedings in the Cases of the Impeachment of Charles Robinson, Governor, John W. Robinson, Secretary of State, George S. Hillyer, Auditor of State, of Kansas General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Original Publisher: Kansas State Journal Steam Press Subjects: State bonds Trials (Impeachment) Polit... more »ical Science / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Court of Impeachment FIRST DAY. Court Chamber. Topeka, June 2d, 1802, 11 o'clock, A. M. High Court of Impeachment for the State of Kansas opened with the following proclamation by the Sergeant-at-Arms: Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The High Court of Impeachment is now open. The Associate Secretary, C. K. Gilchrist, called the Senate to order. The roll being called, the following Senators responded : Messrs Barnett, Essick, Holliday, Hubbard, Ingalls, Keeler, Knowls, Lambdin, Lappin, Osborn, Rankin, Rees, Roberts, Sleeper and Spriggs -- 15. Absent -- Messrs. Connell, Curtis, Denman, Hoffman, Lynde, McDowell, Morrow and Stevens -- 8. Mr. Osborn presented the credentials of Hon. John Hay less, Senator elect from the 1st Senatorial District. and moved that he receive the oath of office. Upon which, the ayes and noes being demanded, the vote resulted as follows : Yeas -- Messrs. Barnett. Essicks, Holliday, Hubbard, Ingalls, Keeler, Knowles, Lambdin, Lappin, Osborn, Rankin. Rees, Roberts, Sleeper. and Spriggs -- 15, and so the motion prevailed. N. P. Case, one of Counsel for the Defense, objected to Mr. Bay- less being sworn in as a Senator. Mr. Ingalls. -- No one can be permitted to debate the preliminary questions of organization but Senators, they being, under the constitution, the sole judges of the election and qu...« less