Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-05-22
The Vote on impeachment.
THE PRESIDENT ACQUITTED ON THE
NINTH ARTICLE.

On Saturday the Senate voted by a
, large majority that the President was
guilty on the 18th article of impeach-
ment, but as it required two-thirds for a
verdict of guilty, and as it lacked just
one vote of being two-thirds, it thus fail
ed. The Senate agreed to vote first on
the last or 11th article as last vote
that being understood to be the strongest,
or the one that would command the most
votes. As the interest in this trial has
been great, we give below most of the de-
tails of the vote, taken mainly from the
Washington correspondence of the N.
Y. Tribune:
AT about twenty minutes to twelve
Senator Conkling, pale from his sickness,
entered and was Immediately surrounded
by his friends. At twelve the chief;jus-
tice took the chair and the Court was
opened. While the messenger had gone
to inform the members of the House that
the Senate was ready to receive them,
one last effort seemed to be made by the
impeachers and their opponents. Sena-
tor Thayer addressed Mr.. Ross, Dixon
consulted with Fessenden and then has
tened to Anthony. Mr.. Sumner left his
seat and held brief dialogue with the
chiefjustice. Mr. Williams then sus-
pended these conversations by moving
that his order to vote first on the eleventh
article should be considered. The motion
was adopted and while the yeas and
nays were being called, Senator Howard
wrapped in a shawl, lettering, and scarce
ly able to walk, was brought into the
Chamber, supported by Messrs, Chandler
and Drake. As he fell into his seat, the
clerk called his name, and he feebly an
swered Yea" Trumbull, who sits di-
rectly in front of Senator Howard, turn
ed round to shake hands with him. When
the name of Mr.. Ross was called the an
swer came distinctly NO" and a whis-
per ran through the galleries, Ross is
gone" Wade answered " Yea," the first
time he had voted during the trial BY
this time all the managers for the House
we're in their places, solemn faces all, in
which the galleries could read no encour-
agement. Mr.. Stevens with one unvary-
ing look of contempt, and Butler looking
as he faced the mob in New York, or de-
fled the Mumford gang in New Orleans,
and all this while Mr.. Ross tore paper.
Then the members of the House entered,
headed by Speaker Colfax and Mr. Wash
burne, and took their places. The coun-
sci for the President were all present with
the exception of Mr.. Curtis.
Mr.. Howard rose, and in scarcely
audible voice asked permission to cite his
argument. The Senator from Michigan
was sustained by the force of his will
only. Mr.. Edmunds then moved to pro-
coed with the vote. Mr. Fessenden rose,
desiring that 1t should be postponed half
an hour in courtesy to Mr.. Grimes but
learning that that Senator was in the
Capitol, he withdrew his amendment.
Senator Grimes was then half carried to
chair on the right of the chiefiustice
and helplessly sank into it, evidently
very i'll. Trumbull, Fessenden, and Hen
bricks had one more brief constitution.
and Mr.. Ross was still busy tearing paper
into tiny bits. His hands went like
spinner's. The motion to vote at once
was carried without division, and the
chief!ustice rose to warn the galleries
that persons who should violate the rules
prescribing silence would be arrested and
removed. The galleries, who had be-
haved very well, looked at the three po-
llcemen in each aisle, and resolved to be-
have better. Then the clerk read the
eleventh article, to which nobody listened,
and Mr.. Henderson improved the oppor-
tunity to run over once more to Mr.. Ross,
who was in this battle like the bridge at
Arcola, now trodden upon by one army,
and now trampled by the other.
And now came the moment for which
loyal men and women had waited and
prayed, which rebels and copperheads
had struggled to avert, the moment when
the Senate of the United States should
vote to support Andrew johnson in his
usurpatlons, or to remove him from the
office which he disgraces, the suspense of
three months was to be ended.
In this death-likc silence chiefiustice
Chase rose. The hand in which he held
the written question trembled, and his
voice faltered as he repeated it. Mr..
Anthony stood up" Guilty" he replied,
and faint murmur answered from the
galleries. Mr.. Anthony had been doubt
e | by some, though not of late, and the
impeachers took new courage to know
that he was right. Mr.. Senator Came
ron" said the chiefjustice, and the tall
senator from Pennsylvania sprang from
his seat. Cool as he had been, his earn
estness was excitement now. As the
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