The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-05-12

To-day at noon the Senate will proceed to
vote, without debate, on the articles of i'm
peachmept against the President of the United
States. There are eleven articles and fifty
three Senators (MaIyland having but one),
so that the ceremony viii necessarily be long
and tedious. Mr. Wade may decline TO vote,
though his right is unquestionable, and there
may be one or two absentees; but fifty times
at least on each article the Chief Justice
must repeat his monotopous question and
iIty times the answer must be recorded. Ii
will be six O'Clock before the formalities are
completed. Ii the President should lie
found guilty Of any of the crimes and
misdemeanols charged, the Senate will prob
ably pass sentence at onca and the official
oath win be forthwith administered to his
successor.
The articles Of Impeachment charge l..
That on the 2lst of February the President
unlaWfully issued an order for the removal of
Edwin N. Stanton from the office of Secre-
tary OF War. 2. That with intent to violate
the tenure of-offiee act he on the same day
unlawfully issued letter of authority to one
Lorenzo Thomas. 3. That he unlawluly
appointed Thomas TO be Secretary of War
dd interim without the advice and consent Of
the Senate. 4. That he conspired With
Thomas by intimidation and threats to
preEent Stanton from holding the office Of
Secretary OF War. 5. That he conspired
with Thomas and others to prevent the
eyaoptinn of tIa taouro-of offi 40 ocf q Vhat
he conspired with Thomas to seize by force
the property Of the United States in the
War Department. 7. That he SO eonspired
with intent to violate the tenure-of-ofice
act. s. That on the 21st Of February,
he issued his letter Of authority to Thomas
with intent TO control the disbursement OF
the moneys appropriated for the military SER
vice. 8. That on the 22d of February he in
stTucted Gen. VIM. III. Emory, commanding
the department OF Washington, that the law
requiring military orders to be issued through
the General of the Army was unconstitu-
tional, with intent to induce Emory to disre-
gard the law and to enable himself to pre-
vent Edwin NJ. Stanton from holding the
Office of Secretary of War. 10. That at va
rious times and places he had attempted to
bring the Congress OF the United States in
to contempt and disgrace by uttering in1am-
matory and scandalous haraneues. IL. That
on the 18th OF August, 1866, he publicly de-
ciared IN Washington that the Thirty Ninth
Congress was not Congress OF tie United
States but of a pant OF the States, intending
to deny that the legislation Of that Congress
was valid and binding, and that in pursuance
oil that declaration lie subsequently attempt
ed TO defeat the authority Of the Senate ex-
ercised in the restoration of Edwin NJ. Stan
ion to the Secretalyship of War, to defea
TIE law Of Congress requiring military or
ders TO be issued through the General of the
| Army, and to defeat the execution Of tht
act OF Congress providing Tor the more eff
| cient government of the Rebel States.
A two thirds vote on either of these arti
cles will insure the conviction of the Presi
dent, and two-thirds of the entire Senate will
| be thirty-siX. The Democratic vote, count
ing Dixon and Doolittle, is only eleven. Th'
| full Republican vote is forty-two. Their,
must accordingly be seven Republican vote
| for the President on every article to secui
his acquitial, This is unlikely enongh pri
m2 .Jiteie but it must be remembered further
more that twenty-nine Senators voted ON th
2lst Of February for a resolution whicl
| declared that under the constitution ant
laws the President had in their opinion n,
| power to remove the Secretary OF War an,
designate any other officer to perform tL
duties Of that Office dd interim. Seven NOR
votes will make up two thirds of the Sen
nate. Mr. Edmunds voted against the reso
luton merely because he bad one ol his owl
Of similar pufport, which he preferred. Th
| Republican Senators who did not vote wer
Chandler, Conness, Corbett, Fessenden, Fow
Ter, Frelinghuysen, Grimes, Howard, How,
Morgan, Nye and Sherman. Here then al
thirteen Republican Senators uncommitte
by the resolution. 1t is among these name
ifanywhere, il that we must look for the Pres
dents seven votes on the first three article
Are they there? 1t would be difficult, W
fancy, to point them out this moIning. 1t
worth while TO notice in conclusion, as a
indication of the value of the rumors currer
last week, that Anthony, Henderson, Ros
Spraoue, Trumbull and Van Wrinkle, all Dc
nounced as probable traitors" by the ragin
maniacs who furnish the sensational new
for certain newspapers, are not down on thi
list at all, and III point of fact voted for th
resolution.