Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-07-11

vote tor some candidate or candidates VINO will
30 elected, And who will rsPresent Aim in Con.
the wnslt thing. aAd it I'D nSkreqnire spro.
tra1eed epeech 60 show eAat ii NAs correct anu:
j1sa Itlneant that in Eentuchy, which haa
ntne voies, which he csnecasl Tor one msubsr,
Tor two. % tor four, or5for any member Ne
pieeses Mr to the nins. In the State OF YER
hasn't there are eAoo0 voters, OF these 4ae0O vote
with tho present majority in Congress- and
10000 with the minority. Under fair system
OF voting tho majority would be entitled to two
members, and the minority 70 one. Pennsyl-
Of 500, u. AT the last election the majority
Z vote was So9, 800. and the minority 1872 3il.
-sHoUsK -Messrs Hubbard and Barnum, OF
Connecticut, appeared and took the oath as
members.
Mr.. Robinson moved to suspend the rules TO
enable Mr.. Barnum to record his vota on the
passage OF the reconstru ction bill last Tuesday.
The Speaker suggested that there was no
precedent Tor member voting before he had
been qualified.
Mr.. Robinson saw the point, ana withdrew
the motion.
Mr.. Phelps ASKED leave to offer resolution
INQUIRE into the causes Of the present collapse
IN the ehipbutlding interest in America, &c.
Mr.. Allison directed.
On motion Of Mr.. Morehead. the Committee
expediency OF amending thu bounty act OF 18th
July, 1866, 80 a. TO provide that, in case OF the
death OF the colder after his discharge and
before his receiving the bounty, it shall be
Mr.. Fox asked and obtained permission to
record his vote against the reconstruction bill,
MT. Van Horn, IN. Y !, on Isave, introduced
loint resolution authorizing Secretary OF the
NAVY TO admit to examination Maurice Rice
Evans for. admission TO the Naval Academy
Of the Tesofutton-thei point being that the
young man, when he passed his examination,
was not the legal age. 500
Tine resolution was paused.
Mr.. Ward presented petition OF nine hundred
citizens OF Maryiand, asking Congress 70 pass
alaw abolishtng all distinction in suffrage on
account OF race or color throughout the
mittee. EssG So .a .E7a7sP -
The House resumed the consideration OF the
concurrent resolution offered yesterday by Mr..
Boutweli. providing for an Adjournment till
Mr.. Boutwell, said that as the aetion of Con.
gress on the proposed Impeachment Of the
President would stand, either for good or evil,
as q precedent, it was due TO the character OF
the House and to the high position Of the per.
son accused, that in this great proceeding,
which must remain in history after they had
an passed away, they should command all the
time necessary fer fair, just, judicial con.
slderation Of the question. They should not
let the matter be involved in the measures OF
next twelve months. They should see that
the time was free from all controversy about
other matters. q ~
Mr.. Pike asked Mr. Boutwell, to let an amend
ment be offered for an adjournment till Wed
nesday. 18th November. -
MIR. Boutwell, declined to do so. ss ~a
Mr.. Pike eaid be proposed that amendment
without any reference to the question OF I'm.
peachment.7 He did not believe the House
should hasten Its session one day in referen a
to that question. He did not believe that the
country desired to be involved in that cues
ton. The country wanted peace. 1t wanted
time to recover from the waste of war; So far
as concerned the punishment of the person in
the White HOUSE. it seemed to him that. after
having DESTROYED him POLITICALLY. the onIv
question now was whether they should naangie
the corpse. tLaughter.] He, for one, had no
disposition to attempt to excite the public sym
pathy in that way. He did not, in saying this,
mean 70 preclude himself from voting as his
judgment would direct, on the facts as thew
mightbe presented by the judiciary Committee.
concerned, he acted in consonance with the
sentiment OF the country, and certainly in con.
SONAR ce with his own sense Of rightwhen he
said that he should not vote for an impeach-
ment. But he placed his amendment on other
grounds-on the ground simply Of the advan-
tage Of Congress setting in November and De-
cember, rather than IN June and July.
Mr. Stevens (Pa.) said that there seemed to
be an idea growing In certain quarters of the
House tina, the President was an Innocent
man that he was Q suffering man, that the
country sympathized with him. and that Con-
gress had been wrong all the time It was
coming to be the idea In certain quarters that
1t wasvastly better to have man in the White
House who had persistently refused to execute
the laws, and who would refuse to execute
them, than man who would execute them n
he had the opportunity. When the gentleman
from Maine Mr. Pike) said that the country
did not want impeachment he must have
meant the country "away down East" So far
as the country about Lancaster was Concerned
there never had been any diffculty about it.
articles OF Impeachment should have been
reported long ago He did not believe that the
gentleman from Maine had expressed the views
Of ONE out OF every hundred Republicans in
the Judiciary Committee TO report at this ses
sion, at least partially, with leave to male
further reports Al the eext session, so that the
country might understand whether there was
any thing in the conduct OF the President thai
deserved impeachment.
MIR. Spalding gave notice that II the pre- yious
questioe were voted down, he should offer as
an amendment resolution similar to that
under which the present session was heId-for
Congress to meet ON 18th October, il there were
quorums in both Houses.
MIR. Pike alluding to Mr. Stevens remarks.
informed him that he, Mr.. Pike1 did REPRESENT
down.e east district and that the Constituents
Of such districts had almost the same rieht d,
be heard here as the constituents whom he
[Mr SteveA's] represented ,In reference to the
present occupant OF the presidential chair he
INF ikel had done his eDdeayor te SET the
public sentiment Of the Country right. 1t was
discharged the duties of his office: and it was
quite another Question whether Conrress
should enter on this game ofPresident- makino
He was entirely willing to leave that to the
Convention that would be selected in the
proper way, instead OF endeavoring to precip
itate movement here III ia vor of one man nr
another man-and 1t was that which, i'm his
Judgment, underlay tins most intense action
on the question of impeachment
Mr. Cromwell (Il1 assured the House that
that this subject could be passed over. II had
gone too far for the House to ignore the pro-
/ ceediDgs OF the Judiciary Committee. Tha
House had got to sift the evidence and to taxa
some action for or against impeachment He
knew OF not one district of country where the
people considered this matter as dead or mn
worthy the attention Of the House. The neonIa
had chafed under the delay. They were angry
that the House had not shown suffi cient enerev
IN tnq uiring into the merits OF the Controversy.
They were weary with the delay in huntlnr
up specialties and trifies when the glarIne
fact stared them In the face that the President
assumption Of complete legislative power. and
OF every attribute OF q despot
He could not conceive in what community
the gentleman from Maine (Nr. Pike) had
lived, that he could draw the conclusion that
the people would be satisfied with the igporin9
OF the q question Of impeachment. The House
could not ignore it, It must 20 on with the
matter now, or In October, or In January. and
the question had to be decided He could GER
tainly speak for the entire West, when he said
that the people demanded this action from the
House. He did not know, and did not pretend
to know, what influenced the judiciary Com.
mittee; but the people had begun to think that
II the committee had been finding in the course
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