The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-10
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Buffers Impeachment Report.

Republican Senators who voted for &C
quittal. 1t casts no suspicious upon
Mr.. Fesssenden, Mr.. Grimes or Mr..
Trumbull. The same cannot be said of
Messrs. Fowler, Van Wrinkle, Ross and
Henderson. It substantially demon
strates two facts: First, that prepara-
lions were made to secure a verdict at
all hazard, and by the use of money, if
necessary; second, that the votes of
Messrs. Ross and Henderson were given
under circumstances which rcomplicate
them with the men who proposed 20
purchase verdict. These two facts
are not connected by any direct testi-
mony, and to that extent the inYestiga-
ton has proved failure. The exact
truth in the case will probably never be
known, but the acquittal of Mr.. John
son at the Impeachment trial is histor-
ically polluted, until cleansed by some
powerful disinfectant of rebutting evil
dence. To posterity it will appear i'm
pure and dishonored, lift is left in its
present condition. WegiVe as briefly
and succIntly us possible, the leading
points of their report:
Early last November. when 1t was
understood that the Judiciary Commit
tee would report upon Impeachment,
paper was circulated by the order of
Collector Smythe, among the employees
of the New York Custom House, call
ing upon them for a subscription in be-
half tiof the impeachment of President
Johnson" It's not known what was
the exact sum raised, but 1t is believed
to have amounted to fifteen or twenty
thousand dollars. Collector Smythe
refused to tell what was done with this
sum.
ON the day when the opening argu-
ment of the Impeachment trial was
made, March 30,) General Egan,
formerly an Internal Revenue Collec-
tor in New York city, Immediately af-
ter calling upon the President, wrote
down the names of seven Senators who
were sure to vote for acquittal. These
names were those of the identical seven
Senators who SO voted. He afterwards.
won the bet which, on the strength of
this White House Information, he made
on that day. In his testimony he ex-
planned this coincidence as the result
of "Ruess work." Mr.. r. w. Newton,
New York broker, met Senator Hen
nv Wilson, on the first of May, and
congratulated him on the fact that
President Johnson, at dinner, the
day previous, was engaged In discuss
ing the character and standing of the
Senators, and declared that IL would
not do TO attempt influencing Henry
Wilson's vote by money or patronage.
Newton was u friend OF Collector
Smythe's and kept him informed of the
condition of things, and testified that
he remained in Washington in order tc
assist Andrew Johnson. The inference
of this evidence is that the subject OF
influencing the votes of the Senators
was discussed at the Presidents table,
and that the guess work" about them
WAS miraculously accurate.
James +. Legate, a Post Office agent,
in Kansas, was sent by Taylor, the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, who
has Just been implicated in the Usage
prominent actor of the New York
Democratic Convention, and an atlor-.
ney of the cheating contractors of the
Indian Bureau, the purpose of the err
rand being to get Legate's aid in So
curing votes for acquIttal. Ewing
referred him to Perry Fuller, u brother
in-law of Miss Winnie Ream, distin-.
guished also for his Indian contracts,
for his connection with the whisky.
ring, and for having boosted that he
bought a seat for Ross in the Senate of
the Kansas Legislature. Fuller inform
ed Legate that in order to secure the,
Presidents acquittal, Chief Justice:
Chase must be promised the Democratic
nomination for President, and that the
vote of Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas
must be secured in order TO justify.
Ross. Fuller introduced Legate To-
Cooper, of Tennessee, formerly the
Presidents private secretary, but at
this time Assistant Secretary OF the
| Treasury. Cooper proposed TO raise
$40, 600 to buy PomeroyIs vote, by "set.
Ting" with some liquor men in New
York whose whisky had been seized.
Through some distrust of each other
this plan of raising money was aban-
doned. In this scene Ross and Ewing
appear procuring further leave of abb
sence for Legate from his duties, in or
der 10 remain in Washington, and OBJ
tain votes for the President. Cooper
acknowledges that they talked OF buy
inElPomeroy's vote, but declares that
with proposal from Pomeroy to sell!
his vote; and subsequently brought q
letter from Pomeroy TO the same effect;
Legate denies that he ever carried such;
letter, Pomeroy that he wrote iti
Gaylord, Pomeroy's brother-in.l law
while clerk In the Treasury DepRrts
ment, well acquainted with Pomeroy'S
handwriting, testified that he was of
| fered a thousand dollars to write let !
Ter and forge Pomeroy's name to it.
| Newton, the broker before spoken of
testified that he raised a hundred thou
sand dollars for "the use of the Presi-
dent" twenty-five hundred were raised
in the Baltimore Custom House;
Cooper testified that twenty-seVeu
hundred dollars were raised in Phila-
delphia; Woofley testified that five
thousand were raised in Cincinnati, and
twenty or twenty-five thousand dollars
| were for long timea unaccounted for
| by Woolley. This amounts In all to
nearly one hundred and ten thousand
dollars for the purpose of .'paying tho
Presidents counsel;2 oneof whom, the
ablest and most lfkelyto get the largest
| fee-Mr. Evarts-has boasted that ho
gave his services Rratuitously. Mr..
| Nelson and Mr.. StanbeI y are supposed
| 10 have defended Mr.. Johnson for their
personal love of him, leaving pretty
! large sum to be divided between Groes-
beck and Curtis. The Managers cam
not be very far wrong, when they
conclude that this large sum was not
raised for the payment of the Presi-
dents counsel. They also ran across
the track of other sums procuted in
different parts of the county, btt did
not follow them up, having already
discovered all that was necessary to
show what means were proposed and
probably resorted to. In this connee!
| uon comes In Woolley' 3 PLANTATION OF
the disposal Of the money for which he
could not account. The Managers find
some flaws in the final solution of the
difficulty, according to which WooEiey
being very drunk, handed the mon
ey to Sheridan Shook also very drunk
and neither of them knew anything OF
the transaction. Mr.. Van Valkenburg,
q friend who was present, took charge
the money, and had it put in the SAFE
of the Metropolitan Hotel, Washing