Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-05-30
Impeachment Trial Concluded

WASHINGTON, May 26.
The Senate met in opeh session at
noon.
The Republican senators had been in
consultation couple of hours before that
! time, on the question whether the vote
on impeachment should be taken to-day.
i The Chief Justice took his seat as pre-
siding officer, and the proclamation in
! the usual form was made by the sergeant
alarms:
Senator Morrill, (of Maine) then NOV
ed that the court adjourn until the 23d
! of June.
The Chief Justice reaffirmed bis opin-
ion that such motion was not in order,
and submitted the question to the Sen
| ate
! The motion was decided to be in order,
by vote of 35 to 18.
The question REQUIRED on Senator
Morrill's motion to adjourn to tie 23d
of June, but Senator Ross moved to
amend by substituting September lst.
The amendment was lost-l5 to 80.
| The vote on Senator Morrill's motion
resulted in a tie, and Chief Justice
Chase decided it lost
Senator Williams then moved to pro-
ceed to vote on the second article, which
was agreed to.
Guilty: Anthony, Cameron, Cattell,
Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Conness, Cor
bett, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Ferry,
FreliEghuysen, Harlan, Howard, Howe,
Morgan, Morrill, (of Maine) Morrill, (of
Vermont), Morton, Nye, Patterson (of
New Hampshire), Pomeroy, Ramsey,
Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner,
Thayer, Upton, Wade, Wiley, Williams
Wilson, and Yates
Nor GUILTY Bayard, Buckalew,
DAVIS, Dixon, Doolittle, FssSendeu,
FO,cler, Grimes, Henders on, Hendricks,
johnson, McCreery, Patterson, (of Ten
nessee), Ross, Salisbury, 7Iuna6uH, Van
Winkle, and Vickers-
A vote was then taken on the third
article of impeachment, with presicely
the same result.
AT ten minutes before two, the vote
on the third article having been announ-
ced, Senator Williams moved that the
Senate sitting as court of impeachment
do now adjourn sine die.
The vote having been taken by yeas
and nays, the Chief Justice said, that
before announcing the vote, he would
remind the Senators that the 22d rule
provided, that if impeachment should
not on any article presented be sustained
by the vote of twO-thirds of the mem
bers present, a Judgment of acquittal
should be entered. He added alter
some interruption by the senators that,
if there were no objections, the clerk
would enter the Judgment of acquittal
according to the rule.
Senator Conness, misunderstanding
the proposition of Chief Justice Chase.
suggested that the rule required vote
to be taken on each article before iudg-
ment could be entered
The Chief Justice asscnted, but said
he had reference simply to those articles
on which the vote had been taken.
There being no objections, iudg-
ment of acquittal was entered on the
second, third, and eleventh articles of
impeachment.
The vote of adjournment sine die was
then announced, yeas, "a nays, l6 as
follows:
YFAs: Messrs, Anthony, Cameron,
Cattell, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Cor.
bett, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Ferry.
Frelinghuysen, Harley, Howard, Nor
gan, Morrill,, (Me.O Morrill,, (Vt,) Nor
ton, Nye, Patterson, IN. H.) Pomeroy,
Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Steward,
Sumner, Thayer, Upton, Van Winkle
Wade Wiley Williams Wilson, Yates,
"a.
NAYS: Bayard, Buckalew, Davis,
Dixon, Doolittle Fowler, Henderson,
Hendricks, johnson, McCreary, Morton,
Patterson, (Tenn.) Ross, Salisbury,
Trumbull, Vickers.-16.
The Chief Justice then declar ed, at
ten minutes before two o'clock, that the
senate, sitting as court of impeach-
ment for the trial of Andrew johnson
on articles of impeachment, stood ad-
There were preceptible manifesto
tions OF feeling on the part of the, spec
tatOrs.
The members of the House then ra-
turned to their chamber, and the ooIIe-
ries IN few minutes were almost de-
serted. w
Mr.. Anthony rose to personal ex-
planatiOn, and stigmatized the reports
in regard to Chief Justice Chase endeay-
oring to influence him on the matter of
impeachment, as malignant falsehood.