Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-08
LATEST KILOGRAMS.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Senate.

SeItalR.
WASHINGTON, May The court
opened at noon. After some debate the
doors were closed and the galleries cleared
Of all spectators and reporters.
Mr.. brakes proposition to amend the
twenty-third rule, so that the fifteen min
utes allowed each member for debate shall
be for the whole deliberation on the final
question, and not on each article Of inn
parchment, was agreed to.
The Senate then proceeded TO the con-
sideration of the additional rule proposed
by Mr.. Summer on the 10th Of April, rela-
tive to questions to be put to each Senator
on the final vote on the articles of I'M
peachment Several amendments were
proposed, and finally, on motion of Mr..
johnson, the whole subject was tabled by .
vote of % to IL.
The Chief Justice said it wonld place
him in an embarrassing position TO frame
questions, and he should like to have the
advice of the Senate on the subject, and
would be Obliged if they would adjourn
until Monday at ten o'clock, whereupon,
on motion Of Mr.. Yates, the hour Of meet
ing was fixed at ten o'clock Monday. The
court adjourned.
The President pro tenn. assumed the
chair and the Senate adjourned till ten
o'clock Monday.
House Of Representatives.
Mr.. Washburne, of Illinois, presented
estimates from the War Department in
reference to the deficiency Of $S5,000 for
the administration of the reconstruction
acts in the third military district. Ordered
to be printed and referred TO the Com
mittee on Appropriations.
A resolution was passed requesting the
President to send a sufficient number of
war vessels to the fishing grounds in the
Gulf of st. Lawrence, adjacent 10 the Brit
ish Provinces, for the purpose of protect
ing American vessels exercising their
rights as indicated in the existing treaties.
The resolution grew from the fact that the
Canadian government proposes to tax
American fishing vessels $4 per ton, and
send war vessels to enforce the tax.
Mr. Robinson, MS question Of privilege,
offered a resolution that the resolution inn
| peaching President johnson be expunged
from the House Journal, because its passage
was strictly a party measure of evil ex-
ample, etc.
The Speaker decided the question as not
one of privilege.
Mr.. Robinson said he would bring it up
again, and it would eventually be adopted.
Mr.. Stevens, from the Committee on Re
construction, repored the following bill
Whereas, The people of Arkansas have
adopted Constitution of State govern
ment, republican in form, and duly ratified
the 14th amendment Of the Constitution,
it is'hereby enacted that the State of Ar
| kansas is entitled and invited to Iepresen-
tation to Congress as State of the Union,
upon the following fundamental conditions:
that tie Constitution of Arkansas shall not
be so amended or changed as to deprive any
citizen or class of citizens of the United
States right to vote, who are entitled to
vote by the Constitution herein recog-
nized, except as punishment for snch
crimes as are now felOnies at the common
law, whereof he shall have been duly con-
victed.
Ordered printed and recommitted.
The House then proceeded to the con-
sideration of bill to prevent further sales
of lands of the United States, except as
provided for in the premption and home
stead laws for disposing of town sites and
mineral lands.
Messrs. Riggs and Blair spoke in oppo-
sition thereto, and Mr.. DOnnelly i'll its
favor.
Mr.. Lawrence, of Ohio, offered an amend
ment to the bill.
The House then adjourned.