Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-04-09
case the refusal is BY decisive vote,
President will resign.
wAsH1seros, April 4.


- WAsHIseroS, April 4.
The Managers closed their case be-
fore the Senate at 4 O'Clock to day. The
proceedings were interesting through
out. The examination Of L. L. Wal
bridge, of st. Louis, attracted close at
tention. He produced a copy of the
Missouri Democrat which contained
full report of President Johnson's Judas
Iscariot speech, with all the -inaccura-
cies of grammar and pronunciation,
and all Of the principal cries of the
crowd. Mr.. Walbridge swore that he
had taken every word the President
said; had three times compared his
notes with the speech as printed and
was ready. to swear that the printed
copy was accurate. There was no
evading such evidence and the defense
were obliged to admit the truth of the
most outrageous and indecent speech
of all charged upon the President.
Gen. Builder next proved that in all
forms of commissions issued by the
State Department it had recognized the
change demanded by the Civil Tenure
law and the phrase 'sto hold Office dur.
ing the pleasure of the President.
had given place to the words, ''to hold
Office subject to the conditions prescrib-
ed by law Official documents were
then introduced from the State De-
partment to show that the only case of
the head Of the Department since the
foundation of the Government was that
of Timothy Pickering. Secretary of
State, who declined to resign when re-
quested to do SO by President Adams.
Adams then removed him, but sent in
the nomination of successor at the
same time the removal was made.
Mr.. Butler asked that the Managers
have permission to use the Journal of
the Senate executive session which con-
tanned the action Of the Senate upon
the nomination of Picksring's success
sor. Ofcourse the Court had no con-
troll over the Senate document, but for
the moment this did not seem to be
thought of, and Senator Sherman
moved that the use of the Executive
Journal be granted. The Chief Justice
put the motion and it was carried unan-
imously, and the Senate sitting as q
Court of Impeachment, transacted bust
ness which can only be transacted by
the Senate proper.
Gen. Butler made strong point by
producing an original letter from Mr..
johnson to Secretary McCulloch, in
forming him that he had suspended
Mr. Stanton under the eighth section of
the Tenure of Office act, where, as in
his answer to the article, he claims
to have made the suspension under the
Constitution alone. This development
appeared to worry the counsel for the
defense considerably, and they acted
as if they had learned the fact set forth
in the Presidents letter for the first
time. The above were the chief points
made in the days proceedings.
Republicans generally regard the
case maze as Iuily sustaining tue drtl-
eles. Praise of Buffers management is
heard on all sides, as well as some
harsh criticisms from those who dislike
him.
The counsel for the defense were on
their own motion allowed till Thursday
to arrange their evidence. This was
granted by decided vote. and was not
considered as in any sense an attempt
to delay proceedings. but only what
was due to the counsel.
Taking into consideration all the yea
and nay votes which have been given,
which could be considered as in any
degree indicating the opinion of Sena-
tors, almost the only Republican who
has been found voting uniformly with
the Democrats is Fowler, of Tennessee,
and the circumstance is exciting very
general comment.
Counsel for defense gave notice that
they should introduce very little oral
testimony, and the opinion is quite
general to night that the trial will close
a week from Saturday next, or early in
the week after.