Word: impeachment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...votes. Mr. E. C. Shoemaker was the first to argue in favor of the negative. He asserted that to carry the proposed change into effect it would be necessary to amend the Constitution, which would be at once difficult and dangerous. The House of Representatives has the power to impeach a president or a member of the Supreme Court, and why should it not have the right to deliberate on the case of one of its own members? Mr. R. T. Paine, Jr., emphasized his colleagues remarks and spoke of the success of the court decisions on controverted elections...
...effort will be made to impeach the testimony of Mrs. Dunmire, an important witness in the Guiteau trial...
...class for at least two years. This is, in substance, the history of German instruction in Harvard. And precisely herein is found the explanation why comparatively so little German is learned at College, though so much of it is taught. Far be it from the writer to impeach either the ability or the good-will of the present members of the German department. On the contrary, whoever knows these gentlemen at all, will agree with him that Harvard never possessed such a strong corps of able and energetic instructors as at present. The fault lies in the system, or rather...