Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-05-20
F0RTIETH CONGRESS,
This Afternoons Proceedings
WEDNESDAY, May 20.
THI SKEATK was not i'm session to-day

THH SREATE was not i'm session to-day.
HopsH OF RKPRRsRNrArIvks-M Eliot
mass introduced q bill in relation to the msr-
camille marine Of the United States Referred
10 Committee on Commerce.
Mr.. Egglesten l0.l from Committee on Com.
merce, reported back the bill in relation TO the
removal OF the bar at the mouth of the Missis-
mitted ~-'N wv ''''-
Mr.. Ineersoll, (Ill) introduced bill to incor-
porate the National Capitol Publication Com.
pany. Referred 10 Committee on District of
Columbia.
The Speaker stated that he was in formed b,
the officers Of the House that they had every
thing in readiness 10 put the hall in its summer
garb as soon as the House gave them opportu-
nifty. He doubted If quorum of members was
Mr.. Chanler IN. W moved that the House
adjourn until Saturday.
Mr.. Kelsey IN. Y, hoped not as the Mana.
gers might have business Of an important nature
to bring before the House.
Mr.. Ineersoll (Ill.) suggested that the Mana.
gers be notified then that the House was wait.
ing for them. He did not why the Hsuse
should be kept in session to accommodate the
The motion to adjourn until Saturday was
rejected by yeas "A, nays AZ, no quorum having
voted, snd quorum being reg uired to adjourn
over more than one day.
Mr.. Washburne (Ili.) then moved TO adjourn,
and the motion was disagreed to.
The Speaker laid before the House a commu-
nicatton from the Navy Department transmit
of the steamers Vesta and Calhoun Referred TO
Committee Naval Affairs.
Mr.. Washburne (Ill) said he had ascertafned
from the Managers that they would not prob
ably have any business tor the House. and he
therefore asked that unanimous consent be
gwen for an adjournment until Saturday, and
that upon thai day no business should be done
except the feaGing of the journal By that
time the Hall would be put IN order for the
summer season.
There being no objection, it was so ordered.
a Esld a nd naf lima Lac "a
to make a personal explanation. He SAID II the
feeling OF the country upon the SUBJECT of I'M
peachmen was OF any ordinary character, he
would not ask leave TO ma Ike at explanation of
anything that might be said about him in pu b.
lie prints, but in justice 10 himself and his con-
stituents he could not permit to pass without
notice The unfounded and scandaious, and pro-
bably malicious assault that had been made
upon him in the Chicago Republican. The as
sault was calculated 10 do him injury, and he
could not therefore permit il to pass. In an
article OF Monday last. the Chicago Republican
refers to and comments upon an editorial in
the Chicago Tribune of the previous day, says
II is not surprising that the Tribune should
have early news OF how the vote upon impeach-
ment was TO result. because it had means OF
information denied to other journals. 1t then
charges that he Ingersoll) had acted as a CO.
between-an Infamous GO between, the paper
says-between Senators Grimes and Trumbull
and the Chicago Tribune, and had made a sue
cessful night trip between Washington aud
Chicago TO inform the Tribune how the vote
Noulu ne paper also cnargeS a plot TO
cure the acquittal of the President, and that he
1ngersolD was in the plot. He desired to say
that there was not the least foundation m this
tory, and it was altogether unqnaliiedly false
On the Sd of May he went to Illinois TO
attend the Congressional and State Con-
vention, but he did not then meet any,
one connected with the Tribune, nor did
be have a conversation upon the subject of I'M
parchment with any one that was connect
ed with the Tribune, nor did he have any per-
sonal knowledge how the vote would be. As
to the plot, he would say that he had not con-
yersed with a Senator upon the SUBJECT Of i'm
pr achment since the trial commenced, for il al
ways seemed TO him that none had a fight 10
interfere, but that the whole subject shouie b.,
left to the judgment of the Senator's Themselves
All who know him knew that he was in "a yor
OF the removal Of the President from Office but
he had not thought II consistent with his duty
TO advocate either acqu initial yiction in the
presence of Senator'S, who We're TO pass iudg-
ment upon the case.
numper Of Senate bills were taken from
tie Speakers table and referred, including the
Senate amendments to the bill to exempt prop
erty in the District of Columbia, used for school
purposes, from local taxation; which was re-
ferred TO the Committee on District OF Colum-
bia
The House then, at 1:C5 p. m, adjourned un-
til Saturday.