The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-03-21
nd given as may be agreeable


be thereupon had and given as NAV be agreeable
to law and justice.
About forty members have entered their names
with the Speaker as candidates for the floor on the
] discussion OF the Impeachment articles. The debate
Viii accordingly, occupy ten hours. as each speak
er is limited by rule TO fifteen minutes. There will
be a session to night for debate.
The snal vote on the impeachment articles is
fixed for Monday afternoon At four O'Clock.
Butler, in the House. offered the following addi-
nonal impeachment article:
That said Andrew johnson. President of the
United States, unmindful of the high duties of his
office and the digniiies and proprieties thereof. and
of the harmony aud eourtesies which onght to exist
and be maintained between the executive and leg
islative branches of the Government, and designing
10 set aside the rightful authority and powers of
Congress and attempt TO bring into disgrace. ridi-
Guile, contempt, reproach, and TO impair and des-
troy the regard and respect of all the good people
of the United States for Congress and the legisla-
tive power thereof. etc. etc.
The House proceeded to vote on the articles of
Impeachment The seventh article was stricken
out rs being almost Identical with the fifth. The
remainder were then adopted. one by one, by a
strict party vote in most cases. The House then
elected managers to conduct the Impeachment be-:
fore the Senate. as agreed upon in caucus, in the
manner already telegraphed. The House then
adjourned.
New YORK, March 3-A Times specicl says
There seems to be a determination among the i'm
peachers in the Senate to press the trial of the
President to q very speedy close This is manifest
by the manner IN which they curtailed debate on
the rules to govern the Court. and the precedence
which they gave to Sll matters pertaining 70 the
impeachment in the Senate. An idea of the proba-
bic length of the trial has not yet been expressed in
the Senate, except by Mr.. Williams. OF Oregon. who
said in debate to-day that it conld not he complete
in two or three days, and would probably take less
than a week. Several have privately expressed the
opinion that it would not take two weeks. Mr..
Boutwell, says the testimony can all be put in in q
single day.
WASHINGTON, March An the Senate the Chair
unlimited a communication from Chief Justice
Chase relative to the rules adopted by the Senate,
expressing his dissent from the view taken by the
Senate that the Managers can be received or any
act done accept as a Court of impeachment, but he
is willing. If necessary. to be abide by their decis-
ion. 1t was referred to the Committee of Seven.
In the Senate. the Chair submitted a communica-
ton from Chief Justice Chase. giving his views in
regard to the manner in which the Impeachment
trial should proceed. He said he thought it I'M
questionable that the Senate should act as a Court
of impeachment He thought the Court should be
organized before the House presented articles of
impeachment. and that the Court. and not the Sen
ate. should tx its own rules to govern the trial, and
should issue its summons and process. He quotes
from the EtCierdiiSt to show why the Constitution
made the Chief Justice the presiding officer of the
Court, and thought that Immediately after notice
from the House that articles would be presented,
the Senate should have organized itself into u
Court and taken all necessary steps for proceeding
with the trial. He had been informed that the
case might be taken as a precedent. he thought it
his duty to present his own views on the subject
five minutes past one O'Clock. the managers
on the part of the House appeared, followed by the
members of the House. the latter ranging them
selves outside the bar of the Senate. The Speaker
of the House was invited to a seat beside the Pres
ident pro tenn, and escorted to his seat by Senator
Grimes. Silence having been restored, the Chairman
of the Committee, Bingham, said:
Mr.. President. The managers on the part of the
House of Representatives. by order of the House,
are ready at the bar of the Senate tn Dreseut arti-
cles of impeachment for the maintenance of the inn
parchment preferred against Andrew johnson,
President of the United States"
The President pro TEN said "The Sergeant-at-
Arms will make proclamation"
Sergeant-atArms- Hear ye! hear ye! All
persons are ordered To keep silence on pain of inn
~prisonment while the House of Representatives eN-
hibit 10 the Senate articles of impeachment against
Andrew Johnson. President of the United States.''
Bingham then rose and read the articles of i'm
p~eachment, the managers also. standing, with the
exception of Stevens.
At a quarter TO two the reading of the articles
was concluded and the managers and other men,
beers of the House retired.
Anthony offered an order that. during the pend
ing trial, no person shall be admitted to the gale
ries accept on tickets issued daily by the Sergeant
at-Arms-these not 70. exceed the number that can
be accommodated with seats leaving the passage en-
tirely free. Tickets shall be issued to all foreign
legations. each Senator to be entitled to four tick
cts, and each member of the, House to two the
Chief Justice and each Judge Of the Supreme
Court, two.
The House proceeded to consider the additional
articles of impeachment offered yesterday by
Jenckes, charging the President with unlawful in
tent and design to exercise and control the COM
mand of the army of the United States without
being bound by the laws establishing rules for its
government and regulations for the land and naval
force s-tre - X IA
Lawrence desired to offer a resolution directing
the managers of impeachment to present the first
four articles agreed upon by the House, and pro-
coed to ask Judgment of the Senate thereon, and,
if they find it necessary, afterward to present the
Bingham opposed the resolution, and the House
refused to receive 1t. a.efre
Jenckes' additional article was referred to the
of Impeachment. The House then re-
solved itself into a Committee of the Whole, and
proceeded to the Senate Chamber to present the
articles of impeachment.
Until their return the Chairman of the Commit
tee reported that the House had presented the arti-
cles, and been informed by the presiding officer
that the Senate would take action thereon.
CHICAGO. March 5-Before the adjournment yes
terdav the Senate resolved to constitute itself a
High Court of Impeachment at 1 p. NJ. to-day. to re-
ceive the managers of impeachment from the
House.
European.
BERLIN. Feb. 23-Hon. George Bancroft, United
States Minister, has signed a treaty with the North
German Bund, by which the latter agrees to fully
recognize and accord all the rights of exemption
from military duty of native Americans, to Ger
mans naturalized as American citizens. after five
years IN the United SCtcs- Inc Treaty was signed
on the 22d.
LONDON. Feb. 23-William Foster. member for
Bradford. has given notice that he will. on the 2Sth,
call the attention of the House OF Commons to the
state of the naturalization law and the right of self
expatriation.
The Independent Beige. of Saturday. has an edi-
torial on the prospects of - Peace in Europe 1t
expresses the general feeling of apprehension
which prevails. and says the vast military prepara-
lions now going on in France are of a character
and on "A scale which lead TO the conviction that
they are designed to meet other purposes than
those of national defenses-
A tremendous gale prevails on the west coast of
and Wales. The great break water at
unIl vheah a massive stone nier nine thousand feet