New-York tribune., 1868-03-19


THE TROUBLES IN TENNESSEE.
Nv YKLHaAAPB TRIBUNE
WASHINGTON Wednesday, March Is, 1895
The Democrats and Johnson men who have been
foed in there TO corrupt members of the Senate.
and 10 get an expression of opinion from them against
impeachment. have engaged in the discreditable
werk of trying to influence Mr.. Chase. They appear
incapable of seeing that this is poor compliment TO
the Chief-Justce and no one entertans deeper con-
tempt for their maneuyers than Mr. Chase himself.
The friends and organs of the President all shout
ing in concert tonight for Mr. Chase as the Demo
cratic nominee in the next Presidential campaign.
TO give the report air of probability, they say
that Peoples Convention shall be called. and that
Mr.. Chase shall be nominated without platform If
he will act on the trial of Mr. Johnson in a manner
&C ceptable to them.
Mr.. johnson holds daily consultation Ewith ms
counsel They intend TO make fight as long and
desperate as possible and Will resort TO every legal
quibbe in the practice to protract the proceedings
The President wants TO get another good Repub
lican lawyer to act it'll William NJ EvaTts, and has
accordingly telegraphed for L. +. Sweat, one of the
lincoln Electors of Illinois
The President and his two daughters today at
tended the funeral OF William Sade coored late the
steward of the Executive Mansion. The flowers OH
the coffin were contributed by MI JohnsOns daugh-
NrS. he Mayor OF washington anu Aut dattHNihe
physicians together with other white citizens were
present Both white and cOlOred ministers OF the
gospel ofciated at the ceremonies. The pa-bearers
were in part white. The deceased steward, who was
deservedly respected by all who knew him, had ac-
oumulated considerable property.
The House Impeachment Managers held two meet
ings to-day and examined one witness, the Hon.
Horatio King, who was Postmaster-General under
Mr.. Buchanan. Mr.. King did not disclose anything
important though the Managers had been led to sup
pose that he was cOgnzant OF some of the Presidents
designs in his recent unlawful proceedings The
Managers are preparing themselves on the law points
which may arise the trial. They have yet
made no assignment of the parts which they
shall respectively take on the trial. and will not de-
eide that question until after the President shall
have developed his course on Monday next. The
Managers having been informed that claim agent
had received two hundred dollars a requisition
from Adjutant-GeneTal Thomas as Secretary Of war;
summoned the agent before them. His testimony
showed that such not the fact. 1t appeared
however that a claim for that amount was rejected
by Secretary Stanton, but allowed by Gen. Grant
when the latter was acting as Secretary, pending
the suspension of Mr.. Stanton, and not until now
was the money ready to be paid.
In the Senate to-day Mr. Edmunds called up the
bill, introduced by him time ago, to regulate
DlllS W tlio
return of the same to Congress. Mr. Bayard of Della
ware made a long speech against it, but no action
was taken, owing to the expiration of the morning
hour. At o'clock the bill to exempt certain manu-
factures from internal tax was taken up. The pend
ing question was on Mr.. Fessenden's amendment TO
allow drawback on imported articles used in ship
building After a vOluminOus debate the amendment
was defeated by IS to 25 Mr.. Grimes then offered
an amendment reducing the tariff on all imported
articles ten per cent. This, he said was the neces
sary complement Of the other provisions OF the DILL
without which the tariff would be still more onerous
than it now is The vote tins proposition was II
to 3d. The Alternatives were Messrs. Davis, Grimes
Henderson. Hendricks, johnson, McCreery Norton,
Patterson of Tennessee Pomeroy, Salisbury, Trum-
bull. and Vickers. 1t was Mr.. Sherman's intention
20 force vote on the bill to-day but at the request
of Mr. Fessenden he consented to an adjournment at
40, with the understanding that the final vote
should be taken tomorrow.
The House was engaged to-day manly IN CONSIDER
fp9 the motion which was submitted by Mr. Broomah
Yesterday. TO reconsider the vote whereby the Dll
guaranteeing a republican form OF governmental the
several States was referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary. The subject gave rise to an interesting
debate and TO sharp encounter of wit between Mr..
Woodward and Mr. Broomall Mr.. Woodward asked
Broomal whether Pennsylvania has republican
form of Government, and if he did not know that in
1887 the Supreme Court of that State de-
aided that the word freeman in the Con-
stitution means white freeman. MIR. Broomal
replied that he had known cases where the Court
turned itself upside down, and that, too, when his
colleague (Woodward) was member OF 1t. This set
the risibles of the House in motion. Messrs Mott,
Woodward, Beaman, Spalding, Lawrence lPennb
Stevens and Kelley spoke on the subject. Mr. Ste
yens read the introduction of his remarks, and had
the remainder read by the Clerk Judge Kelley in
his speech made the point that the trainers of the
Constitution intended that the Federal Government
should have the power to regulate the suffrage ques-
tion in the States whenever the State undertook to
abridge it, lie read from the Madison papers to
strengthen his position and TO show that such was
che opinion of Madison when the Virginia COnstitn-
tion was up for ratification
The Committee Reconstruction held another
meeting to-day for the purpose of considering the
question of the admission of Alabama. Yesterday,
when the bill was sent back to the Committee, it
was considered dead, but its friends have brought 1t
tosife again. The Committee agreed to amend the
hill somewhat so that it may meet the views of GER
tain gentlemen on the Committee and in the House.
The bill was reported to the House this afternoon,
and is to be called up tomorrow and pressed to
xote The following is the text in its amended form:
BILL for The Of the State Of Alabama representation in
whereas The people Of Alabama, in pursuance OF the
of an act OF Congress entitled An act for the
more efficient government OF the Rebel states passed
March 1867 and the acts supplementary thereto nave
framed a Constitution for state government "hlch IL
republican in form and ehereds at an eleeuon CON, ON
foepcing lth day of February, Ammo DOmh iotS
large majority Of the legal voters OF said state VOung
at sad election voted for the adoption OF SAID Const
non therefore enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representaves of the United States OF America IN Con
ress assembled that the said State of Alabama snail be
entitled 70 representation In Congress as soon as the
lature of said State members Of which were elected a
the election mentioned la the preamble OF this act shall
have duly ratified the amendment the Constitution OF
the United States proposed by the XXXIXth Congress,
and known as Article Fourteen, ~. ....., a..