A couple of Washington lawyers were examined on the 16 th , but little that was pertinent to the case was obtained. Secretary Welles testified to having urged the President to ask of General Emory the meaning of the movement of troops in the Department of Washington. On April 17 and 18 the defense offered to prove that the President's Cabinet concurred in the opinion that the Civil Tenure bill was unconstitutional, and that Mr. Stanton and Mr. Seward wrote the message vetoing it. The Senate ruled that the evidence was not admissible. The same day, April 18, the defense closed their testimony, and the arguments of counsel began on April 20.
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