The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-28 00:00:00

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

On the 7th instant the House of Representatives
assembled to take the final vote on Impeachment.
Mr. Wilson, of lowa, chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, withdrew his motion to lay the Im-
peachment Reports upon the table, and the distinct
proposition was brought forward after a discussion,
in whi,;ll the object of the impeachers was to ob-
tain delay by dilatory motions. " Resolved, that
Andrew Johnson, President of the United States,
be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanours."
The vote upon this resolution was—Ayes, 57 ; nays,
108. The forty Democrats in the House voted, of
course, unanimously against the proposition. The
following are the names of the persons voting affir-
matively :—Messrs. Anderson, Arnell, Ashley, of
Ohio ; Boutwell, Bromwell, Broomall, Butler,
Churchill, Clarke, of Ohio ; Clarke, of Kansas ;
Cobb, Coburn, Covode, Cullom, Donnelly, Eckley,
Ela, Fansworth, Gravely, Harding, Highby, Hop-
kins, hunter, Judd, Julian, Kelley, Kelsey, Law-
rence, of Ohio ; Loan, Logan, Loughbridge, Lynch,
Maynard, A.l'Clurg, Mercur, Mullens, Myers, New-
comb, Nunn, O'Neal, Orth, Paine, Pile, Price,
Schenck, Shanks, Stevens, of New Hampshire ;
Steven; of Pennsylvania ; Stokes, Thomas, Trim-
ble, Trowbridge, Van Horn, of Missouri ; Ward,
Williams, of Pennsylvania ; Williams, of Indiana ;
and Wilson, of Pennsylvania.
Every Democrat present voted nay, and among
the Republicans who voted against the resolution
were John A. Bingham and Judge Spalding of
Ohio, General Banks, Oakes Ames, and Dawes of
Massachusetts, Jenckes of Rhode Island, Poland of
Vermont, Blaine of Maine, General Garfield of
Ohio, Van Wyck of New York, Wilson, of lowa,
and the four Washburnes. Twenty-two members
were absent, of whom 19 were said to be against
and 3 for impeachment. The result as given
by States is as follows :—Maine, 1 aye, 4 nays ;
New Hampshire, 2 ayes, 1 nay ; Vermont, 3
nays ; Massachusetts, 2 ayes, 7 nays ; Rhode
Island, 1 nay; Connecticut, 4 nays; New York, 3
ayes, 20 nays ; New Jersey, 4 nays ; Pennsylvania,
9 ayes, 11 nays; Delaware, 1 nay ; Maryland, 1
aye, 4 nays ; West Virginia, 2 nays: Ohio, 5 ayes,
13 nays ; Indiana, 6 ayes, 4 nays; Michigan, 1 aye,
4 nays ; Kentucky, 5 nays ; Illinois, 6 ayes, 7 nays ;
Wisconsin, 3 ayes, 3 nays ; Minnesota, 1 aye ; lowa,
2 ayes, 4 nays ; Missouri, 7 ayes, 1 nay ; Tennessee,
6 ayes, 1 nay; California, 1 aye, 2 nays ; Nevada, 1
nay ; Kansas, 1 aye, Of the 108 votes against inim
peachment the majority were Republicans, being 62
of that party to 42 Democrats. On the 9th inst.
General Butler introduced a resolution to refer the
purchase of Alaska to a special committee. 73 Repre-
sentatives supported the resolution against 82 nays,
giving the Government the narrow majority of 9
The House adopted the Senai:e bill to make equal
rights among the whites and blacks compulsory in
the district of Columbia, enabling negroes to hold
office and sit on juries. Mr. Ramsay, of Minnesota,
brought forward a bill to revive the reciprocity
treaty with Canada. The bill provides for an ad
valorem duty of five per cent. on all importations
of articles of Canadian production ; for assimila-
tion of the excise duties of the two nations ; for
freedom of navigation in the great lakes, the St.
Lawrence and its canals ; for extension of equal
privileges to Canadian and American vessels in
American ports ; for freedom of the fisheries ; for
the extension of a common system of laws, patent
rights, copyrights, postage, &c., over both coun-
tries ; for the cession of the North-Western Terri-
tory to the United States upon payment of
$6,000,000 to the Hudson's Bay Company, assucup-