The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-26

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\ the floor, took their departure.
Patterson, of New Hampshire, next
J took the floor on reconstruction, and
I read long address relating to the
/ po 'itical situation at the South.
The Senate, on motion of Trum-
( bull, took up the Supplemental Re-
! construction Bill allowing the ma
jOrity of votes cast to decide elections,
and registered voters to vote in any
part of a State.
After debate, Buckalew's amend
ment, requiring a residence of 10 days
In the District before election, was
agreed to.
Williams offered an amendment,
adding words, or affidavit, or other
satisfactory evidence after the re-
quirement of the present action of the
voters certificate of registration.
Without this provision he claimed
that half of the electors would be
practically disfranchised. 1t was
agreed to.
Sherman moved, as an amend
ment, an additional section, as fol-
lows:
Be ii further enacted, That the
constitutional convention of any of
the States mentioned in acts of which
this is amendatory, may provide that
at any time of voting on ratifying the
constitution, the registered voters may
vote also for members of the House of
Representatives of the United States,
and for all elective officers provided
for In said constitution, and at the
said election, the officers shall
make the return of votes on the rati-
fieation or rejection Of the constitu-
tion shall enumefate or certify the
votes cast for members OF Congress.
Agreed 70 Bill passed.
The Chair appointed as select
committee, called for By Howard's
resolution on impeachment, Messrs.
Howard, Trumbull, Conkling. Ed
monds. Morton, Pomeroy and john
son.
Senate adjourned
HOUSE = Under call Of the
States at large number of bills and
Joint resolutions introduced, were re-
ferred, including the following:
To limit the liability Of the common
carriers between the States; for the
muster out of all army paymasters,
commissaries and quartermasters, not
on duty for the past three months,
to reopen the Land Office of Virginia
on the military district of Ohio, for
two local inspectors of steamboats,, at
Evansville, Indiana for granting
bounties to the 18th and 10th Regi-
ments of one year Indiana Noiun-
teers; for granting bounties and
land to the soldiers of the late war
for providing for a reduction Of all
votes cast for members of the House
for any person known to be ineligible
by persons casting them; relative to
suits in the T. s. Courts, supplement-
airy to the several acts organizing ter
rit6ries; bills amending an act to es
tablish and equalize grades IN the
navy; declaring the meaning of the
clause in the internal revenue
law; taxing railroad chairs, DC, $ per
ton; to divide Illinois into three Ju-
dicial Districts; to procure the com
pletion of the post office and custom
house, at Cairo; to authorize home
stead exemptions In Virginia; on
the military district of Ohio.
At twenty five minutes before two
O. clock, the Speaker called the House
to order, and the Door-keeper an
nounced the presence, at the bar, of
the House Committee which had been
appointed to infpeach, at the bar of
the Senate, the President of the
United States
Stevens, Of Pennsylvania, standing
in company with his colleague, Bing-
ham, then made a report, as follows
Mr. SPEAKER:-In obedience to
the order of the house, we have pro-
I ceeded to the bar of the Senate and
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name of this body and all the people
of the United States, to impeaeh,
as we were directed, Andrew johnson,
President of the United States, Of
high crimes and misdemeanOrs IN
Office, and we demanded that the SEN
ate shall take order to make him ap-
pear before that body anC answer for
the same, aud stated that the House
would, forthwith or soon, did not
say which, present articles Of i'm
peaehment and make them good, to
which the response was: Order shall
be taken.
The resolutions offered By iJriswold
on the 18th instant, In reference to
the rights of American citizens
abroad, came up, and were re'erred
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
On motion of Ingersoll, the Senate
bill appropriating $4,000 for the
temporary relief Of the destitute peo-
4 pie of the District of Columbia, was
taken up, amended By Wood, by
making the fund disbursable by the
| Freedmen's Bureau and Aid Society
jointly, and passed.
The Speaker presented a communi-
1 cation from the Secretary of War
( with a report of Major General Han