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governor, for example, by the partisans of the governor

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to make sure that a tribunal is selected that will be

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favorable to his cause and the House will certainly want

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to see that a tribunal is selected that will be favorable

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to its cause and it will put the Court of Appeals, it

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seems to me, under the most unfortunate kind of political

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pressure from the two contending sides.

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The trial will not be less political in the

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true sense of that term solely because it is held before

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ten judges than it would be if it were held before the

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Senate of the State and finally be a political trial,

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being a case in which the judgment must be by the nature

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of the case a political judgment to remove a high elected

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official from office, it seems to me, then, that the

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people of the State should be the place where the buck

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stops and if they feel that this was a good decision by

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the body, they have a way to demonstrate that they believe

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it to be and if they believe it to be an unwise decision,

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they have through the election process a means for

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demonstrating that they believe it was an unwise decision.

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If a governor or a lieutenant governor or comptroller or