Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-03-04
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the sasate yesterday Il was ordered
that the Secretary Of the Senate be d.
reo,ed 10 inform the House that the SEN
ale IA ready TO receive the managers APP
nointed by the House 10 carry 10 the
Senate the articles OF impeachment
against Andrew johnson, President oil
the United Statea iffa
I The bill 10 fund the national debt, aud
for the conversion OF United States notes,
was postponed until to morrow.
A reply was received from Stanton
10 the resolution whether any, and II so,
what military districts had been estab-
lished in the District Of Columbia Ne.
ferred TO the Military Committee.
The standing rules were laid over for
further consideration, several messages
having been received from the President
and the Senate going into Executive SEES
sion. la ltlh..
In the House, bills were introduced to
expedite impeachment, furnish ofienses
against property oftelegraph companies,
modify the warehouse system. increase
the duties on wines, liquors, home manu-
features, cotton, wool aud silk, aid the
Pacific Railroad from Cairo to the Rio
Grande, provide for consolidation oil GER
tain railroads and homesteads for labor
ers on the same, resolutions OF the Wis
consin legislature as to connecting the
Mississippi river with Lake Michigan,
through Fox and Wisconsin rivers, to
dissolve the Indian Peace Commissioner,
amend the act for security Of passen-
gers by steam vessels, and to regulate
the public debt aa ~ ~
A resolution was adopted to inquire
whet Congress has power to regulate
the rates of freight by railroads, and
another laid over, to inquire as to the
political status of Texas. a fiilo.
The House thenresumed the consider
alton of the motion of Eldridge, pending
ut the adjournment yesterday, to sus'
pend the rules so that he might have
read and placed on the journal the pro-
test of the Democratic members. The
protest was rejected by 46 to "a, the
Speaker voting among the yeas. Thus
contrary to long established and fair
usage the minority voice is crushed out
from the record, which was denied ex-
pressionin debate.) w.
The Postoihce Dill tnen came up 10
Committee OF the whole, wnicn Is 80
amended as to call tor $oo0'0oV aoai'
iional appropriation to supply the esu-
mated deficit 9a ln lrt
Eldridge made q point of order that
the managers had no right to report ar
ticles of impeachment, as theEHouse had
annointed n committee for that purpose,
which the Speaker overruled'
The article reported oy butle,' ana
published yesterday, was adop'ed' yeas
81, noes Al.
Bingham then offered the following as
an additional article, saying IL nad inc
unanimous vote OF the managers ana also
moved the previous question on adophon
Of article "a: enc p
ID" That Andrew johnson, fresident,
did on the 18th OF August, 1856, by puoiic
speech, declare and affirm In substance
that the Thirty ninth Congress was not
Congress of the United States, author
lied by the Constitution to exercise legls-
lative powers under the same, put on
the contrary was Congress OF only
part of the States, thereby designing
and intending to deny that the leglsia-
ton of said Congress was valid or OBJ
ligatory on him, the said A. Johnson,
except so far as he saw tit to approve OF
same. And also, whereby, by aenying
and intending to deny the power OF the
said Thirty-ninth Congress to propose
amendments to the Constitution OF the
United States, and In pursuance OF SAID
declaration, the said A. johnson, Presi-
dent Of the United States, afterwards, to-
wit: On the 2lst Of February, 1868, did
unlawfully, and in disregard OF the re-
quirements of the Constitution, that he
should take care that the laws be faith
fully executed, attempt to prevent the
execution Of an act regulating the ten
ure OF certain civil oihces' oy uniawluhy
devising and oontriving and attempting
to devise and contrive means by which
he shall prevent Edwin M. Stanton from
forthwith resuming the functions OF the
Office of Secretary of War, notwlthstand'
ing the refusal of the Senate to concur IN
the suspension before made BY the said
Andrew johnson ., INC as,u o'an.
ton from said office OF Secretary
lawfully devising, contrivng and attempt
Iav,oa tnaana than and thara IN