Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-07-04
IMPEACHMENT INvKSrieAruON.

hrP0rs of the sem mmittee of Managers.
We have briefly referred to the report OF the
managers of impeachment relative to the in.
naenc.s used in securing the rcquittal Of the
President IN the impeachment trial, which YVES
presented % the House Of Representatives yes !.
terday afternoon. 1t makes a pamphlet Of
iorty-eight closely printed pages. Owing TO
TIE crowded state Of our columns we are ena.
bid TO give but brief extracts from the interest.
ing review OF the te timony AIKEN by the com.
mittee. The report IL introduced with the fol.
lowing statement:
glance at the testimony will show so great
a reeklessness Of statement, prevaric.t ton and
evasion, and attempts on the part Of many OF
the WITNESSES most nearly Concerned IN the
transactions under exam nation, and such an
evident desire IN answer TO the questions put
10 thfm-to disclose such facts only as the fear
CT being involved in q criminal prosecution Tor
perjury forced upon them-as TO reader tue
taklng OF evidence necessarily q close and otter.
ames tedious cross-examlnation. In spite OF
al these hindrances to the discharge Of their
duties, your committee believe that they have
been able to elicit facts and circumstances
which, carefully examined and maturely con.
sidered, will develop the hct that there was
srestantial ground for the inquiry ordered by
Relative 10 the raising Of money for tapeach. .
ment purposes, the report states that u paper
was passed through the New York Custom
House taxing employees s. Per head. The pa
Per was headed, I'VE, the undersIg Igned gratu-
itously appropriate the sums opposite our
names for the cause Of our country, and are
-
son" The last words were added to the paper
by Collector Smythe- Smythe refused TO tell
the committee what was done with the money
so collected.
Ralph W. NeYourn, Of New York, testiii s
10 the raising Of elOoooO for the use Of the Pres
jdent.
IL also appears from the testimony Of E. H.
Webster, Collector Of the Port of Baltimore,
that 2-5O0 was raised among the employees of
the Custom House, and others in that city, os.
tensibly TO pay the Presidents counsel. From
the testimony Of Mr.. Cooper il appears that
s2,7o0 was raised in Philadelphia for the same
avowed purpose, and that he received $50 from
New York from a source which he does not
disclose. OF this fund Mr.. Cooper was treasu.
rVr. Woolley testifies also that he received
$500 from samuel n. Murphy, Of Oincin-
matt, for the same alleged purpose Of paying the
Presidents counsel: but from the evidence the
mony was false a. TO the object with which
tnat money was procured The COMMITTEES
Itwopld seem 70 be established that raisin Z
money for the President's counsel was like tie
phrase Chase movement only q means TO
procure the scqaittal OF the President Your
committee have only given these sums as sam.
pies Of the money which may have been raised
In other parts Of the country. IL n not rea.
sonable 10 suppose that the raising of money
either for counsel or corruption. or both, w q
confined 70 portion OF thsoGiceholdefs Of Bal.
tinore, PhiIA0slpAia- New York, and Cincin.
Presidents gift there were many more, inter.
ested in the question of his acc initial, thm thoa6
only in the cities named, 80 thai your commit.
tee have not thought II probable u expend
the fact Of raising money elsewhere, which
uYou 4 htSle Ye1aection upon the testimony al
ready adduced, is self-evident sss
General Eean, formerly Collector Of Interns
Of March st was Known W he PgsssdsRt ths