Des Arc citizen., 1866-11-10
CONGRESS AND IMPEACHMENT T

The th;rty-ninth congress (second ses- sion) will reassomble in the national capi- tol on the first Monday in December next, and its constitutional term of existence will end on the fourth of March ensuing It will De what is generally known as the short session, during which very little business can be expected beyond the ap- propriation bills and some tinkering of the tariff, the national bank and currency sys tens and internal revenue laws
 The Herald thinks the attempt to i'm peach the President will be made, and produces the following charges from a late speech by Beast Butler:
 1. An attempt to bring congress into public hatred, ridicule and contempt
 ?. Wrongfully using the power of ap- pointment, and disregarding the preroga- tives of the United States senate ill the appointment of men whom that body, in pursuance of constitutional authority, had tried and rejected.
 5. For declaring peace in the insumee- tionary states without the consent of con- gress. daa a9.4W
 4, For corruptly using the pardonine power e4
 5. For failing to enforce the civil rights bin. r0.
 6. For complieity in the New Orleans riot. e
 The Herald has the following com ments on these charges;
 But what is the case made out against President Joenson by Gen Ben Butler First, that Andrew Johnson has been guilty of the attempt to bring congress into public hatred, ridioule and con tempt" We presume this has reference to some of the unfortunate speeches deliy- cred by Mir. Johnson in his late unlucky pilgrimage to the shrine of Senator Doug las at Chicago; but there is some pallia- ton for those speeches in the provocations of certain radical leaders and stumpers leyeled at President Johnson. They railed at him, and he paid them in their own coin, only he forgot to discriminate between congress and its railing radicals. Buffers second charge of >wrongfilly using the power of appointment amounts to nothing. In this business Mr' John son, wisely or unwisely, has only followed the examples of his predecessors from the time of General Jackson. The third charge that he was guilty of high crime or misdemeanor in ''declaring peace in the insurgent states without the consent of congress" is simply absurd, as is the fourth, in regard to the exercise of the pardoning powers. The fifth, flor failing to enforce the civil rights bill," remains to be proved. and the sixth .sfar compile ity in the New Orleans riot" is not sus- tained by the facts. If as good, it is no better than Alr. Johnson's charge against the radicals of congress that they melted the New Orleans riot and this brings us to the end of the budget of Butler
 Upon these charges or. something like them, we expect the attempt will be made to impeach the President at the coming session of congress We undertake to say however, that no bill of impeachment will pass the house, aud that ii put to the test it will hardly receive more than forty or fifty votes or the strength of the extreme radical faction
 As usual, the Herald winds up with an urgent appeal in behalf of the constitu- tional amendment, of which it has for some time been a devoted admirer.-E Memphis Appeal.
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