The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-04
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL PRO.
GRES SING.
The Examination of Wit
nesses Continued.


/
| report Of the Secretary Of state, showing
| the proceedings under the concurrent resO-
| luton Of the Two Houses of Congress OF
/ the 18TH OF June, In submitting TO the
/ Legislatures OF the several States an addi-
| tlonal article to the Constitution CT the
| United states. fH
Senator Thayer-W hat article?
Butler - The fourteenth article II Is
| dated June 18th, 1886. IL is the same one
/ tive document of the first session OF the
Thirty-ninth Congress.
In order to show to what the dispatch
1 referred, the message was handed TO the
| Presidents counsel for examination, after
which II was read by the Seer etary.
The examiE ion of the wi ness was pro-
ceeded with He Identified the original
copy OF the speech of Pr sldent Johnson
on the 18th OF August. 1865, telegraphed
from Washington to the Associated Press.
james y. Sherndon, stenographer, testf-
fed that he reported a speech or the Pres
idenps, made IN the East Room Of the
White House, August 18th, 1896 which he
took down, to the best of his ability In
short hand, and wrote out, giving "a copy
to Colonel Moore, the Presidents Private
Secretary. He did not recognize the copy
shown him by Mr.Butler, as his own but
swore TO having written out from his notes
afterwards, extracts from the speech,
which were then shown him IN manu-
script. n the crOSS~9x xaGninatfDn nv E,v-
arts, he said the stenographic report in his
note DooA was Whoily written by himself
The speech occupied about tWenty-ffve
minutes in its delivery. It was re-
ported from sound, but attention
also was paid to the sense The horizons
written out recently were written out soIe
ly rom the signs could write out notes
correctly, after a long lapse Of time. James
q. Ciephone. Deputy Clerk of tue supreme
Court Of the District OF COiumbia on Sep-
temoer Is, 1866. was employed in the De-
partmenC OF state; had been stenoara-
pher for about eight years; was then en-
gagged 20 report the Presidents speech: ne
Ire Speech for fq Phe Tae use 69lf5 o2 P9stlgn o
Press did not recognize the MANUSCRIPT
shown him as being bis own handwrit-
Ing; he might have dictated. At his re-
quest, Mr.. Mcfarland wrote out a literal
report OF the spe ech, which the Chg,0picfe
Pupilshed Ihe next morning, that paper
Delng wiling To take the copy furnished
by Colonel Moore. The report OF the
Chronicle was accurate, with The excep-
tion, perhaps, Of a few words.
Cross-examtned by EVarts-Toox pho
nographlc notes Of the entire speech
wrote them all out, but do not know
he read the published speech he did not
nave his notes before him; never has COM
pared them or his written out manuscrfpC
oI them with the printed speech referred
Butler asked ifi@ was correct report.
hvarts objected. IT was Impossible for
Witness To tell from memory.
Butter claimed that having twice re-
written ~ witness could very well RENE a
Der IL, ana his testimony was ompeteut
Evarts argued, in reply, maintaining
that the original notes must be produced.
aud also said the President had NOT been
alloWed the usual opportunity OF cOrrect-
lag MS speech. which all Con greSsrn en- 1sa
tinker being recalled, produced a copy
OF the Presidents speech, marked as nav.
ciated Pfess.
sheridan recognized a portion of il as
n own hand writing.
Tinker There are corrections in this
copy ala not see them made, but believe
they were made at tue White House
Cross examined IT, Has corrected the
papers which are in his own hand writing:
notes; this was done at the time bv him
sen, out ne mas never since compared
Re direct-The copy before him was snb-
stantlally q correct transcript OF his nott,s.
Francis smith, Official Reporter OF the
House OF Representatives, testified: Has
been stenographer for fourteen years:
was one Of those employed by the Agent
Of the Associated Press TO report the
wrote out portion of The speech and de- 4
livered the sheets, one by one, to Colonel
Q.-Who corrected them?
A.-COl. Moore had stated that he wish
ed TO revise them, not TO make any sub
sIantlal change, but to revise the phrase
ology. The witness selected from the copv
sent oy telegraph the foltcs written out By
Cross-examined by Evarts. The mann
script was correctly made substantially.
put he had to correct the ungrammatleal
Clephone, recalled - Recognized the
manuscript OF his report Cross xanin.
eo-ln his variations from strict accuracy,
ne made the meaning clear, aud corrected
the grammatical errorG
Colonel w. q. Moore. the Presidents
Private Secretary, teStified-He wa am
pointed Paymaster. with the rank of Ma
lOr, IN November, 1866; IN 1865 was made
fFVate secretary Of Tue Preside {: before
tnA1 lLle ne had been Assistant Adiutant
General; he heard the speech OF August
lSthi made some correction i'm the reports
wflLten iil, o9t 11 y tne tenographer, doing SO
WlthouI lne assistance of a memoranda;
did not change the substance ia any c3sa
but altered the language; in examining
the manuscript, ne nudS no page in which
his writing predoml mates; he maie no
change without the direction or aul hOrfty
OF TIE Preside5.t; the manuScrfDt aS re-
vlsed, was handed to the aqenf. 81 IN a.
sOciated Press; the President ueyar said n,
witness he had done wrong IN making
Butter then proposed Co read all the va.
rious reports of the speech, aud pct them
in tiIe evidence.
Chronicle was not proved by authentic evil
dence
At this point e - o'clocl) the Court took
a recess for Ia minutes.
On re-a>sGmbifng motion was made TO
adjourn the court from this evening till
Monday next LOSJ-I9 10 Is.
Butler then read the Associated Press re-
port OF ne Presidents speech. AZ its con-
Anthony made a motion that a reporter
OF the Associated Press be admitted TO the
The Chief Justice decided the motion to
be not now in order.
William II Hudson, Of the Cleveland
LedQef, testified: With the assistance OF
Mr.. Johnson I reported the speech made
By .he President IN Cleveland in Septem-
ber, 1865; have my original notes only;
part was reported Uer bdtinB; the words
which he did not use were employed ia the
synoptical portions.
Gross eXamtued-The paper for which L
reported vas opposed to the President. |
wrote my notes upon my knee, and omit
ted portions or he speech but gave the
diift OF them. I have not compared Il full
report with my notes. My notes were nOs
Rhonographical, out written in long hand
Inc synopucal portion as taken down was
again reduced for publication in making