The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-05
Tho impeachment Question and the Pre-
sidency.

s1dency.
From the Herald
There are wheels within Wheels curious
complication, upon the impeachment question,
as it appears. For instance, it is given out
that majority of the Republicans on the
Judiciary Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives are preparing report with the
opinion that the evidence taken is sufficient to
call for the impeachment and removal of Presi-
dent johnson, and that to this end they will
ask for an October session of Congress. Next
it appears that minority of the Republicans
on this committee, three out of the seven, will
content themselves with resolution CEN
suring the President. 1t further appears,
from one of our special correspondents, that
sold Thad Stevens" if no one else will,
intends to bring the House to the direct test
on a square and unqualified impeachment
resolution.
We may, therefore, expect at this July ses-
sion an intensely interesting and momentous
conflict among the Republican cliques and fac
tions upon this question of impeachment or no
impeachment. ''Old Ben Wade,'' President
of the Senate, has his supporters behind him
who desire to put him in the White House
chair now occupied by sandy Johnson" either
to keep 1t warm for Chief Justice Chase, or to
use its advantages directly in behalf of the
nomination of 'Old Ben" himself by the Re-
publican Convention of 1868. The conserva-
tive Republicans who are in favor of General
Grant, ron the other hand, desire, if possible,
10 hold President Johnson where he is, and
President Wade where he is, at least
till after the Republican Presidential
Convention of next spring. Mr.. john
son, as the dispenser of the spoils OF the
Administration, If he is not working for them,
is not working against the Grant men; but
in tha HOnSa i9
feared, would measure every ofice-holder's
and every ofhce-seekers corn in his own half
bushel, or in the bushel of Chief Justice Chase
Here, then, is the split in the Republican
camp upon the impeachment question, and
the result will most probably be the defeat of
the impeachment faction and the success of
the Grant Republicans in the retention of
Andrew johnson in his Office to the end of his
term, provided always that he tries no more
experiments against the manifest purposes of
Congress in any quibbling construction Of the
laws.
If the radicals are wise they will not attempt
the removal of President Johnson, which
would be killing the goose that lays their
golden eggs, but they will let well enough
Alone. If they must impeach somebody, let
them take up Attorney General Stanbery for
fine ''high crimes'' or 'misdemeanors" OF
avowing before the Supreme Court, as the
Government advocate against the Mississippi
Detition of Sharkey and Walker, that politi-
eaIly ON the questions at issue his sympathies
were with the enemies OF the Union, and for
volunteering his legal opinion as excuses tor
President johnson in unfaithfully executing
tbe laws of Congress; or let them haul up the
Sacretarv of State for his warning on that
famous Chicago pilgrimage, that we must
tska Andrew Johnson ''as President ol
King and for parading it on his late
trim 10 Boston, as a great virtue on the part o.
his P Fxcellency, that he had magnanimously
Tefraiued from pushing his conflict with Con
oress 10 Oliver CrOmwell's settlement; or they
might aragn that t atReT who
eat the President's bread and butter mus
support his measures" which is making
''Andy Johnson "every inch king" The
might even catch old grandfather Welle
under the jibboom, If they would only looi