Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-26
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The following are some of them:
For the muster out of all army Paymas
tiers, Commissaries and Quartermastera not
| on duty for the past three months.
One amending the act for the time Of
holding the District and Circuit Courts of
the United States in the State of Tennessee.
One for the reduction of all votes east
for members of the House for any person
known to be ineligible by persons casting
them.
| At twenty minutes before two o'clock,
| the Speaker called the House to order,
and the Doorkeeper announced the pres
ence at the bar Of the House of the COM
mittee which had been appointed to inn
peach at the bar of the Senate the Presi-
dent of the United States.
Mr.. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, standing
in company with his colleague, Mr.. Bing-
ham, then made report, az follows: 3.
Mr.. Speaker Ia obedience to the order
of the House, We proceeded to the bar of
the Senate, and proceeded in your name
and in the name Of This body, and all the
people of the United States, to impeach, as
we were directed, Andrew johnson, Presi-
dent of the United States, of high crimes
and misdemeanor in office, and We de-
manded that the Senate should take the
order to make him appear before that bedy
and answer for the same. | stated that
the House would forthwith, or soon, can
not say which, present the articles of i'm
parchment and make them good. To which
the response was The order shall be
taken"
On motion of Mr.. Ingersol the Senate
bill, appropriating $4,000 for the tempo
rary relief of destitute people in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, was taken up and amend
ed by Mr.. Wood, by making the fund dis
bursable by Freedmen's Bureau and Aid
Society jointly, and passed.
The Speaker presented a communica-
ton from the Secretary of War with re-
port from Major General Hancock as to
the riot in Marshall, Texas, on the 3lst of
December, referred to the COMMITTEES on
Reconstruction. Also the constitution .of
Alabama, as revised aud amended BY the
convention at Montgomery same refer
enoe.
The House proceeded to the considers-
ton of the Naval appropriation bill, which
passed.
Mr.. Washbnrne, of Illinois, from the
Committee, reported new rule declaring
that pending motion 70 suspend the rules
the Speaker may entertain one motion that
the House shall noE adjourn, bat that
after the result thereof il announced, be
shall not entertain any other dilitory mo
ton.
Mr. Washburne Of Illinois, asked leave
TO offer the following resolution
Resolved, That the following rules be
ordered When the committee to prepare
articles Of impeachment Of the President |
Of the United States report the said arti-
cles, the House shall immediatsly resolve |
itself into Committee Of the Whole thereon |
that the speeches in COMMITTEES Of the |
Whole shall be limited TO fifteen minutes |
each debate, which shall continue until the |
next legislative report 10 the exclusion |
Of all other business except the reading Of |
the Journal that at o'clock Ia the /
evening of said second day, the tive minutes |
debate shall cease, and the committee shall
then proceed TO consider and vote upon The /
amen1ments that may be offered under the /
I've minutes rule Of debate, bat no merely /
profornna amendment shall be entertained,
and that st O'clock in the evening Of said
second day, the said committee shall rise
and report its action to the House, which
shall immediately, and without dilatory
motion. vote thereon, and that ii the
articles Of impeachment are sgreed
upon the Honse shall then, immedi-
ately. and without dilatory motion
elect By ballot seven managers 10
condnct said Impeachment on the part Of
the House, and that during the Peadency