The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-04-04
BY TELEGRAPH
CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, April 8.
BEAATE.

Ihe Chair Immediately after the open-
Ing, was assumed by the CHIEF Jus.
tice.
The proclamation was made In dpe
form and the Managers took their seats,
and the House appeared in numbers
about equal to the Managers.
me Journal was read; in the mean
tlme the galleries were tolerably filed,
Tor the hrst time with a fair sprinklinG
OF sable faces among the spectators
Mr.. Drake moved that The Senate
take up the proposition he offered yes.
terday to amend the Senate rules. and
asked vote upon it. The proposition
was read.
Senator Edmunds moved to strike
ont that part relating 10 the yeas and
nays being taken, by request of The
presiding officer.
Mr.. Drake had no objection to the
amendment of the Senator, and the
rule was adopted as amended.
Charles a. Tinker, TeeGLLed-Mr. But
ler.-Beiore interrogating Mr.. Tinker
will read single paper. The paper is
message of the President of the uni
ted States, communicating to the Sen.
ate the report OF the Secretary of State
showing the proceedings under the
concurrent resolutions of the two
Houses of Congress, ofthe 18th ofJune,
In submitting to the Legislatures of the
several States an additional article 10
the Constitution of the United States,
Senator ThRYer-What article?
Mr.. Butler-The 14th article. It is
dated June %. 1866. 1t is the same one
to which the dispatch related in the ex-
ecutive document of the first session of
the Thirty.ninth Congress. In order to
show to what the dispatch referred the
message was handedto the Presidents
counsel for inspection, after which It
was read by the Secretary,
The examination of the witness pro-
Nh6 lad mil h. IA
copy OF the speech of President John.
son, on the 18th of August, 1866, tele-
graphed from Washington to the Asso-
cisted Press.
James B. Sheridan, Stemo0rGpher, tes-
tifed-He reported the speech of the
White House. Aug. IS, 1866, which he
took down to the best of his ability in
short hand and wrote out, giving
copy to Col. Moore, the Presidents
private secretary. He did not recognize
the copy shown him in manuscript in
the cross examination by Mr.. Evarts;
the stenographic report in his note
book was wholly written by himself;
the speech occupied about 25 minutes
in delivery; 1t was reported from sound,
but attention was paid to the sense; the
portion written out recently was writ
ten out solely from the signs; he could
write out notes correctly after long
lapse of time.
Jas, o. Chaplain, Deputy Clerk of the
Supreme Court of the District of C0LtLnl-
bid-On September 18th, 1866, was en-
ployed in the Department of State; had
years, and was then engaged to
report the President's speech; trans
scribed from notes a portion of the
speech for the use of the Associated
Press, did not recognize the manuscript
shown him as being his own hand.
NrVsitf ha mi oh Of
his request; Mr.. Mcfarland wrote out
/ a literal report OF the speech, which the
Chronicle published next morning, that
paper being willing TO take u copy fur
nished by Col. Moore; the report of the
| Chronicle was accurate, with the ex-
ception, perhaps, of few words.
Cross . ELdmtned-By Mr.. Evarts-
Took photographic notes OF the entire
speech; wrote them all out, but do not
know where the manuscript now is;
when he read the published speech did
not have his notes before hun; never
has compared them or his written out
manuscript of 1t with the printed
Re-direct-The copy of the Chronicle
before him contains the speech referred
Mr.. Butler asked if it was a correct
Mr.. Evarts objected. It was itnpos-
sible for witness to tell from memory.
Mr.. Butler claimed that having twice
rewritten it, witness could very we'll
remember 1t, and his testimony was
competent.
Mr.. Evarts argued In reply, main
tanning that the original notes must be
produced, and said the President had
not been allowed the usual oppor-
tunity of correcting his speech which
all Congressmen use.
Tinker being TeeulLed-Produced a
copy of the Presidents speech, worded
as having. been sent over the wires by
the Associated Press. Sheridan recog-
nized a portion OF it as his own hand
writing. There are corrections in this
copy; did not see them made, but be-
lieve they were made at the White
House.
Cross -Eramined-Has corrected the
paper which is in his own handwriting;
only these pages were written from his
/ own notes; this was done by himself,
| but he has never since completed them.
Re.direct-The copy before him was
| substantially a correct transcript.
| Francis Smith, Official Reporter of the
House of Representatives., testified d-Has
been stenographer for Il years; was
one of those employed by the agent of
the Associated Press TO report the
speech referred to; produced his notes;
wrote out a portion Of the speech and
delivered the one by one to Colonel
I Moore. @
Q.-Who corrected themF A.-Col.
Moore. Had stated he wished to revise
them: not to make any substantial
change, but to revise the phraseolOgy.
Witness selected from the copy sent by
telegraph a portion written out by him
sell.
Cross. ErGmfned-B Mr.. Evarts-The
manuscript was corrections made sub
stantiAlly, but he had to correct the
ungrRmmatical expressions.
CEGphnUI Teedued-RecogniZe the
Cross .e1GUGined-In his variations
from strict accuracy he made the
meaning clear and corrected grammat-
| ical errors.
Col. g. ~. Moore, PresEdenPS Private
1 Secretary, testifed-ThGt he WAS ap-
| pointed paymaster, with the rank OF
Major, in November, 1865; in 1865 was
made Private Secretary of President;
before that tune he had been Assistant
| AdjutRnt General; he heard the speech
| of August Is; made some corrections
1 did not change the substance in any
case, but altered the Language; exam
lining the manuscript he found no page
in which his writing predominAtes; he
made no correction or change without
direction or authority of the President;
/ the manuscript rs revised was handed
to the agent OF the Associated Press;
| the President never said to witness he
had done wrong in making the correc-
! tions.
Mr.. Butler then proposed to read all
the various reports of the speech and
put them in evidence.
Mr.. Evarts objected, as the report of
the Chronicle Is not proved by authen-
1 tie ayfdpRHe at this mint