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Sitting in the Senate Chamber of the Oklahoma Legislature, corn cob pipe between his teeth, Governor J. C. Walton attended his impeachment trial. Five lawyers defended him. Members of the State House of Representatives directed the prosecution. The members of the Senate sat as a Court of Impeachment...
With 22 charges the State House of Representatives of Oklahoma passed a bill of impeachment against Governor J. C. Walton. The charges varied from placing his private chauffeur on the payroll of the Health Department to attempting to prevent a meeting of the legislature, and to accepting a bribe of $6,000 for approving a legislative bill. Except on one charge, that the Governor refused to permit the capital punishment laws to be carried out (he has pardoned and paroled almost 300 prisoners), the vote on every count was heavily against the Governor. On the capital punishment charge the vote...
...soon as the first charge was approved and transmitted to the State Senate, that body passed a resolution suspending Governor Walton and making the Lieutenant Governor official head of the State. Mr. Walton took the suspension question to court. The State Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that he must stay suspended...
...Oklahoma, the Lower House of the Legislature made preparations for impeaching Governor Walton (TIME, Oct. 1, Oct. 8). With about 90 out of 107 legislators against the Governor, there was little doubt that the House would demand the Governor's removal. The Investigating Committee held its sessions in secret...
...special election the Legislature secured the right to meet. Then Mr. Walton, seeing resistance vain, went the Legislators one better ?he ordered them to meet, but specified that it was to devote its power to-annoy exclusively to the Ku Klux Klan. At any rate, the Legislature was called for Oct. 11, with the Governor preparing to fight for his place in the halls of the law givers and the courts of the law definers...