Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-17

adjourn has been made, and that motion
takes precedence.
Mr.. Hendricks: The motion to ad;ourn
cannot be made pending vote, aad a vote
Is not complete until announced.
Mr.. COnkling: A motion cannot h,
made pending roll call. Several Senator,
will certainly not let the vote be announced
Senator johnson / ask that the vote bt
announced.
Chief Justice: The vote will be an
nounced. The Clerk will read the roll
The roll having been read by the Clerk
the Chief Justice rose and announced th,
result in these word: 'On this article ar,
thirty-iiYe Senator's who have voted guilty
and nineteen Senators who have voted MOI
guilty. The President is therefore acquit-
ted on this article"
No manifestation Of sentiment was made
on either side Of the question, whatever
were the feelings of Senators, members anC
spectators that were thoroughly repressed
Mr. Williams motion to adjourn until
Tuesday the 26th inst. was then taken up
MIR. Hendricks submitted as 4 question
an order that the Senate was now exc
cutting an order already, which was in ma.
TUE and had the effect Of the previous
question, therefore the motion to adjourn
otherwise than simply to adjourn, was not
in order Calls ofquestion.
Chief Justice The motion that when
the Senate adjourn to meet at a certain
date, it cannot now be entertained, because
the Senate is in process of executing an
order. A motion 10 adjourn to a certain
day, seems to the Chair, to come under the
same rule, and the Chair will therefore de-
eide the motion not in order.
Mr.. COnness From that decision / ap-
peal.
The Chief Justice put the question and
directed the Clerk to read the order adopted
to-day.
Mr.. Edmunds made the following mo-
ton: Ordered that the Senate do not
proceed to vote on the articles according 10
the rules of the Senate.
Mr.. Howard called for the yeas and NAYS
on the question whether the decision OF
the chair should be sustained The vote
was taken, and resulted yeas "a, nays 50,
as follows: Yeas-Messrs. Anthony, Bay
ard, Buckalew, Conkling, Davis, Dixon,
Doolittle, Ferry, Fessenden, Fowler,
Grimes, Henderson, Hendricks, Johnson,
McCreery, Morgan, Norton, Patterson, of
Tennessee, Salisbury, Sherman, Trumbull,
Van Wrinkle, Nicke-s and Wiley.
Nays-Messrs. Cameron, Cattell, Chand-
Ter, Cole, CONFESS, Corbett, Cragin, Drake,
Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Howard,
Howe, Morrill,, OF Maine, Morrill,, Of Yer
mont, Morton, Nye, Patterson, Of New
Hampshire, POmeroy, Ramsey, Ross,
Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Upton,
Wade, Williams, Wilson and Yates.
So the decision Of the Chief Justice was
reversed, and the motion to adjourn was
overruled in order
Mr.. Henderson moved to amend the or
der by striking ont the words the Goth
inst, presenting in lien thereof, the words
Wednesday, lst day Of Jnly next. The
amendment was rejected, Yeas 20; nays
81.
Mr.. McCreery moved to amend the order
10y making it read to adjourn without day.
The amendment was rejected. Yeas 3 {;
nays Al. Neas-Messrs. Bayard, Davis,
Dixon, Doolittle, McCreery and Vickers.
Mr.. Bnckalew moved to amend the or
der by providing for adjournment ill
Monday, 18th. Rejected without division.
The question required on order "a orig
inally offered by Senator Williams to adj
iourn the Court till Tuesday the 10Th. The
vote resulted yeas 81 nays 81.
Yeas-Messrs. Anthony, Cameron, Cat
tell, Chandler, Cole, CONFESS, Corbett, Cra-
gin, Drake, Eemunds, Frelinghuysen, Har-
Ian, Howard, Howe, Morrill,, of Maine,
Morrill,, of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Patter-
son, Of New Hampshire, POmeroy, Ram
sey, Ross, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner,
Thayer, Upton, Van Wrinkle, Wade, Will
liams, Wilson and Yeaiman.
Nays-Messrs.' Bayard, Buckalew, Cunk-
ling, Davis, Doolitile, Ferry, Fessenden,
Fowler, johnson, Henderson, Hendricks,
McCreery, Morgan, Norton, Patterson, Of
Tennessee, Salisbury, Sherman, Trumbull,
Vickers and Wiley.
The Chief Justice announced the result,
and said so the Senate, sitting as a count
of Impeachment, stands adjourned till
Tuesday, the 26lh inst.
At II o'clock, the Chief Justice left the
chair, and the members Of the House re-
tired TO their own chamber.
The spectators who filed every seat and
standing-place in the galleries, Immediately
began to pour in the halls and corridors,
and the curtain fell, for ten days, on the
national drama Of Impeachment.
The closing scene was not marked BY the
slightest breach of decorum or good order.
The Senate having resumed its session,
took up the concurrent resolution of the
House for recess until the 25th inst. This
gave rise to discussion. The resolution
was supported by Messrs. Morrill, Of Yer
mont, Hendricks and Sumner, and was
opposed by Messrs. Conkling, Morrill, Of
Maine, and Nye.
Mr.. Nye said he had had enough ex-
perience in this body to know that it
was useless TO oppose an adjournment
for a week, day or an hour. He thought
the President would be able TO take care
of himself with his new recruits. He
thought little embarrassment to the Presi-
dent would not be Improbable. Let Ar
kansas came into the Union to-day let MS
have birth rather than 4 death; let us
pass a concurrent resolution admitting the
State Of Arkansas and relieve him of his
embarrassment by not sending it to him at
all, TO have it sent back here at the end Of
ten days time with another defiant veto.
We have had enough of them. Let rs adj
nit Arkansas before the moon is down.
Let the President have another sweet
morsel TO roll under bis tongue.
Mr.. Sumner favored recess, on the
ground that il wOuld be beneath the dig
nifty of the Senate 10 continue 10 transact
business with the President of the United
States. lie had always felt it TO be unbe-
coming in the Senate TO transact Business
with him while he was on trial for high
,rimes and misdemeanors. The President
might 90 forth nomiually acquitted, but he
would 20 forth nevertheless a blasted pub |
ic functionary; that vas his inevitable |
lestiny but until acquittal was entered on
he record, the Senate would consult it, |
,wn character by abstaining from any fur |
her interchange Of messages between Con-
,ress and the President, and for this reason |
le favored a recess.
Mr. Morton thought it rather late ia the
lay to act on that idea, having gone 90 |
ransacling business with the President
Mr.. Yates was opposed to a recess, be-
ause he wanted more bills for the pFotec-
ion Of humanity and liberty 10 be pre- !
ented 10 the President for consideration
etWeen nov and action on the final arti-
IL Of impeachment.
Mr.. Wiison opposed a recess on the same
snprs! proubds a. Mr. Nve did