Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-02-26
HOUSE.

Ouu9T Ln6 CHI OF the OLAtGS y large
number Of joint resolutions were intro
duced and refused, including the follow
ing:
For the muster out Of all army Pay
masters, Quartermasters and COmuis-
sioners not on duty for the past three
months.
Amending the act changing the time
Of holding the District and Circuit Courts
of the United States 10 Tennessee.
For the reduction of all votes for men,
bers of the House, or for any person
known to be ineligible by the person east
ing them.
At twenty minutes before two o'clock
the Speaker called the House to order, and
announced the presence at the bar Of the
House OF the committee which had
been appointed to impeaoh, of the bar Of
the Senate, the President Of the United
States.
Stevens, of Pennsylvania, standing in
company with his colleague, Bingham,
then reported a. follows:
"MY. Hpedker; In 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
aIl the people OF the United States, we
~impeached, as we were directed, Andrew
Johnson, President OF the United States,
of high crimes and misdemeanors in Of
flee, and We demanded that the Senate
shall AXE order to make him ap-
pear before that body and answer for
the same, and stated that the
House would forthwith, or s0on, I did
not state which, present articles of i'm
peachment and make them good, to
which the response was, I the order shall
be takeB.'"
On motion of Ingersoll, the Senate bill
spprOpriating SIS, 900 for the temporary
relief of the destitute people OF the Die
trict of Columbia was taken up, and
amended by Wood, by making the fund
disbursable by the Bureau and Aid So
eiety jointly, and passed.
The Speaker presented a communion
ton from the Secretary Of War, with the
of Maj Gen. Hancock, rs to the
riot at Marshall, Texas, on the 2Ist of
December. Referred TO the Committee
Reconstruction.
Also, the Constitution Of Alabama, as
and amended by the Convention
at Montgomery, likewise referred,
The House then proceeded with the
consideration of the naval appropriation
bill. which was passed.
Washburne, of Illinois, from the Com |
on Rules, reported q new rule, de-
that pending q motion to sus-
pend the rules, the Speaker may enter
lain one motion that the House shall |
now adjourn" but that after the result
is announced he shall not enter
sin any other dilatory motion.
He also asked leave, and offered the
Glowing:
RcSolUed, That the rules shall be sus-
as hereby ordered, viz: When
he Committee to prepare the articles OF
impeachment of the President of the
United States, report the said articles, the
shall immediately resolve itself
nto Il Committee of the Whole thereon.
md that the speakers in the COMMITTEES
hall be limited to fifteen minutes each,
which debate shall continue until the
leXt legislative report, to the exclusion of
III other business except the reading of
be Journal, and e. 3p.m, Of said second
lay, the fifteen minutes debate shall
ease, aud the Committee shall then
,roceed to consider and vote upon the I
mendments that may be offered, under !
be fifteen minutes rule OF debate, but no '
aeTely pro GeD1o amendment shall be !
n~tertained and that at 4 pm. of said !
scOnd day, the said Committee shall !
ise and report its action to the House,
,hi0h shall Immediately and without {
ilasoTy motion, vote thereon, and that /
the articles Of impeachment are agreed
pom, the House shall then Immediately {
nd without dilstoFy motion, elect by !
Slot even managers, to conduct said /
on the part Of the House. I
ad that during the tendency OF said 1
solutions in the House, relative TO said /
9peaehment, and thereafter, no dilatory .
lotions snail be received, except one I
lotion each day that "the House DO
DIV ADJOURN I
Tue resolution was adopted, q
Boutwell, offered q resolution that the '
'mmittee appointed TO prepare aud re 4
articles o; impeaehment against the =
and the COMMITTEES on Recon. {
s%u0tlOB, bs severaily authorized 10 sit J.
ring the sessions Of the House. II
The Senate's amendment to the House y
declaring the railroad and bridges of y
g New Orleans, Mobile and Chatta-
Ogs Railroad y post road, was concur I
I in. n