The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-06
FORTIETH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION.


duced resolution. which p.ssed SssrGcIng th the
ency OF reporting bill authorizng loan aud issue
amer twenty years, and payable In forty years
In sod 70 Se psceS In s wt9 % sne
in navy, setting apart from the navy pension fund
5OOOo nucleus 70 be increased by ayearly charge
from the pay OF navy officers.
0nsT SssolIiioIs l were introduced and the Senate
House or Representatives.
memorial Of the Chamber Of Commerce OF New York,
COnstitutionaI Contention OF Louisiana piSyinE for
The Speaker stated that the regular business in
0 9s0eT vas as me proposes Improvement Of the Prss
from Ma MassachssetIs Mr. Boutwell,, had the floor for
Mr. Schemes tonlol appealed to Mr.. Boutwell, to
@ m me Sr1Sg 70 y9ss ISoH ~ & ns S d exported 6y
pe9Dg the act which givss authority 70 the Secretary
glad TO SSceGs to Inc request but he ihOushs nom nom
pretty long debate that subject and i Il were
MI. Hooper (Mass.) appealed to his colleague to let
him offer resolution promising that II ii gave rise
MT Bontwsll said he unwilling TO refuse his col
leagues request but thar the gentlemen around him
MT Hooper pressed his request g SITTING that he
MI. Boutwef consented to yield the floor for ten
MT Hooper then proposed ,G osT resolution de-
OF revenue annually collected by taxation shall not
exceed three hundred millions OF dollars, and in
bill modifying the Internal revenue taxation AS
TO reduce the revenue from Internal taxation and
revenue TO $500 and instucting the Cbnmittee
Guiding interest ON the public deb' In appropriations
Er. spSiding tohiol said he did not know that he
shond pc opposed 70 the Teso uton pms ne Wished 20
discuss II and therefore he should object to It's being
The resolution was not received, and there were
impatient cries from many members for the regular
order of business.
Tne House then resumed the consideration OF the
Mr.. Boutwell, continued his argument In support OF
the peachment resolution taking 10 up where be
eject Of the phrase (hfgh crimes and msdemeanorsl
used in the Constitution. The phrase, he commended,
used in accordance with and subject 70 the rule
common law; and that rule was, that person ia
ofce could do an act c0ad 6oRos mofes contrary 70
subjecting the provision OF the Constitution to that
rule The result that neither the rreeident Vice
President other civil ocer Of the United states,
could lawfully do an act either oIcla or other. con-
trary TO good morals lin large and pu0c senBel
OF the ofice he holds. He illustrated and sustained
this position by reference 70 ne history OF impeach-
I'll The sth article on which he was approached,
Jury in baltimore, used language tending to bring
into disfespect the Government OF the State Of Mary
land; and, 80 the case Of Judge Pickering. OF New
| Hampshire, the 4th article on which he was inn
preached charging him with being intoxicated on the
Bench, and Invoking the name OF the supreme Being
| In most proiane and Indecent manner to the eVn
That article, he said contained not e ement OF
an Inc ica0le Onense and yet he found guilty on
H. and removed nom his oioo by vote o. II 70 y.
Offense was not npeachable II there were found IN
the proceedings OF ancestors array Of articles
against "a offender angle article that did Ros con-