The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-05-15

Disgrsceful Scene in the Senate The
Impeaehnent Mob.
It is well-known fact that violent radi-
Gals residing in different portions of the
country have been summoned to Washing>
ton to aid in intilnidating the doubtful re>
publican senators. This mob is favored
with tickets Of admission to the senate gal
leries through the influence of the more
radical senator's and tho managers, where
it has not failed 10 demonstrats the char
acter Of its mission. The disgrAeeful scene
that occurred in the senate at the conclusion
Of the arguments Wednesday was briefly
reported BY Telegraph but not tho
half Of the whole truth was told. A apecial
to the Chicago Times gives the following
particulArs: -
Senator Wilson rose to submit motion
that the senate retire for consnltation.
He had scarcely time to address, the chair.
tlemen's galleries, few spectators COM
mesced to stamp their feet snd clap their
hands in approval of Bingham's speech.
Il vas promptly suppressed BY the cbief
justice, and it very quickly spread through
the entire galleries, increasing in volume
as it went around until it amounted to q
disordcrly uproar.
The chief Justice wrapped when it was too
late. He vas only laughed at, and hun
dreds who had remained silent till then
s,sv Al H., L. Al
senate chamber Bedlam. Some stood up
while they clapped, others kept their seats,
that they might be enabled to use both
hands and feet in the uproar.
w bile the noise was At Its lOudeSt, the
chief justice, in an angry tone, ordered the
sergeant alarms to clear the galleries, but
1t was manifest that without the consent Of
the offenders the order could not be exc
it; "He hasn't men enough - 'We
they meant what they said, and were de-
termined not to bs put out.
The doorkeeper attempted to enforce the
slow to move.
The senators beginning to get alarmed,
for really the scene began to smack of the
EACuCn ICtOIutOu, WuCu Tic CIUWu uSGu u
Uverawe the national assembly, Mr.. Grimes
angrily asked, after surveying the scene,
why the order was not enforced forthwith,
to which the chief justice, who seemed to
Dc getting quite nervous, explained ths.
the order would be enforced.
A volley Of hisses for Grimes came next
An attempt was made to get up more
violent insult in the way Of loud bah, y
and some hootings we're heard, such as the
rabbie sometimes deal out to stump speak
ers they don't like.
Trumbull quickly came to the relief Of
Grimes, with motion that the Offenders
be arrested as well as the galleries cleared
II would like to see you do it, shouted
several Of the retiring applauders in reply.
Mr. Cameron, amid the din and confu
sion, rose to hope that the galleries would
not be cleared. He did not believe it fair
to punish all for the offense of some, and
hoped none but those who had made the
demonstration would be put out.
Fessenden and johnson sharply called
Cameron to order, and insisted that the
clearance be proceeded with, at which
there was another volley of Kisses, and a
few more hootings, and the scene looked
more revolutionary than ever.
Meantime, in the corridors, a few hun
dred Of the elected had formed into a
crowd, and commenced singing, "Old
Grimes Is dead, that poor old soul" Be-
tween the verses the Iowa senator was lib.
orally and maliciously cursed and damned
as traitor and copperheaG. One man
attempted to make q speech against
Grimes, and the other renegaaes, but the
tumult was too great for him, and all
around him were too much interested in
the seng, which was thought to be pecu-
Harry appropriate and piquant.
Finally all were cleared but the report.
ers and the diplomatic gallery. The occu-
pants Of these thought themselves exempt
from the rule. The sergeant at arms
quickly dispersed these by sending the
posse to eject them. The British minister
at first demonstrated, then went out to find
the sergeant at arms, and then again tried
to secure the interposition of Sumner, but
all to no purpose. He and all his choice
company OF distinguished foreigners had to
leave. The reporters were the last and
most reluctant to obey. They insisted that
they had committed no offence, and ought
not to be interfered with. A few of them
shouted to senatorial friends TO know il
they too must go. They received in reply
a laugh, which they construed affirmative
ly, and which they responded to with loud
groan and mutteriDg comment that
.'This was he'll of way" The Tribune
correspondent protested that the loyal pres,
ought to pitch into Grimes. The Times
man swore like a trooper, while about
about twenty, who had smuggled them
selves into the gallery with the Herald re.
pOrters, joined in most unearthly moan,
supplemented with the remark from one oi
them that l wish some fellow would put a
barrel of nitro-glycerine under the damned
court, and explode it. !" A certain loyalist
among the representatives of the 4th es-
tate insisted on three groans for Grimes
and Trumbull, and was about to start
them in the presence Of the high court, but
just then a deputy sergeant at arms caught
him By the coat collar and lifted him into
an adjoining room.
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