The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-03-27
IMPEACHMENT I!
Re-COmmencement of the Trial.
The Presidents Reply to the Charges.
A Delay of 80 Days Refused!
POstponensent of One Week Granted.

The time given to the President to pre-
pare his answer to the articles of impeach-
ment having expired at noon on Monday
last the Senate at that hour suspended all
legislative business and resolved itself into
the court of impeachment, Chief-Justice
CHASE presiding. At one o'clock the House
of Representative appeared in the Senate
Chamber in body, aud will continue 10 at
tend during the trial.
THE dents REPLY.
The Presidents counsel read his reply to
the articles of Impeachment. 1t fills five or
six columns of fine type in the daily papers,
and we cannot find room for it. The P-esi-
dent takes up the articles separately and
answers them. He questions the Constitu-
tionality of the tenure of office law, but de-
nies that it applied in the removal of STAN
TOM as that officer had been appointed by a
former President. Iu the subsequent
phases of the War Department difficulty, he
claims that he had no intent to violate the
Constitution or any laws of Congress, but
was acuated by the desire to bring the whole
question before the Supreme Court for ad-
Indication. In the matter of endeavoring to
influence military officers to violate the laws,
he denies the charge entirely. He, also, de-
nies that he made the speeches at Cleveland
and other places attributed 10 him. and calls
for proof the speeches be actually did make.
And lastly he denies that he ever intended
to set aside the authority of Congress or i'm
pair the respect of the people for that body.
MORE TINE DEMANDED.
Immediately after reading the Presidents
reply, which occupied an hour and half,
the Managers on the part of the House an
nouDced that they would be ready to present
their replication the next day al one O'Clock.
The Presidents counsel stated that they
had as yet no time to prepare for the trial,
aside from the getting up of the Presidents
answer, and requested, in writing, that the
Court would allow them thirty days more.
After long argument on both sides the
question was Put to vote and decided, (yeas
l2, nays 4l,) against the motion. The SEN
ate then adjourned till one o'clock Tuesday.
TUESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
The Managers on the part of the House
prepared their replication 10 the Presidents
reply, which is as follows:
Replication By the House of Representatives of
the United States to the answer ofAndrew
johnson, President of the United States,
to the articles of impeachment exhibited
against him by the House of Representa-
tives.
The House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States have considered the several an
swers of Andrew johnson, President of the
United States, 10 the several articles of i'm
peachment against him by them exhibited in
the name of themselves and of all the people
of the United States, and reserving to them
selves an advantage of exception to the in
sufficiency OF this answer to each and all of
the several articles of impeachment exhibited
against said Andrew johnson, President of
the United States, do deny each and every
averment in said several answers or either of
them, which denies or trayeses the acts in
tents, crimes or misdemeanors charged
against the said Andrew johnson in said ar
t;cles of Impeachment or either of them; aud
for replication to the said answer, do say that
the sid Andrew johnson, President of the
United States, is guilty of the high crimes
and misdemeanoors mentioned in the said
articles, and that the said House of Repre-
sentatives are ready to prove the same.
This was adopted on Tuesday morning
by the House of Representatives, yeas II6,
nays 36, strict party vote.
,HE TRIAL POSTPONED ONE WEEK.
At one o'clock in the afternoon the House
presented to the Court the above replication.
The Presidents counsel made another mo-
tiOn for postponement of ten days. The
Senate retired to deliberate, and on return
ing the Chief-Justice announced that the
Senate had agreed to allow the President one
week longer. The trial will therefore be re-
sumed next Monday, March 3O;h.