Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-07-08
..,,.a,..-,,,r,- INVESTIGATION.

Representatives by the Impeachment man
ayers iu regard to the Investigations tina
have been made since the vote on lmpeach
r ment was taken is very nitrate and length.
The testimony Of the several part'f'
who were summoned before the Commit
tee is given in full. and the character o
thT testimony. and the revelations made
during the investigation. satisfy the Com
mittee that improper means we're used tt
influence the votes of Senators in favor o.
the President. The substance OF much o.
the matter embraced in the report has al
ready been given. and VIC 6ud but tcw
points whose freshness and Importance
require special mention. The committed
thus allude to the difficulties which bese'
their investigation:
THE NATURE AND DIFFICULTIES OF TnK IN
CURRY ORDERED.
AS most of the facts and Circumstances
to be investigated by order of the House
must Of necessity lie in the possession
! solely of those who are bound by every mo
tive, personal and political. to withheld
them. your Committee were rot unaware
of the difficulties opposing themselves to
the elucidation Of the truth The very
supposition of corruption upon which the
inquiry was tased necessarily presupposed
sucn wickedness in the parties involved,
either as actors or recipients, as substan-
tally to take away all efficacy in an ap.
peal to their conscicnces through the SAN
City of an oath. Indeed, a glance at the
testimony will show so great reckless
ness Of statement. prevarioation and eva
sion. and attempts on the part of many
witnesses most nearly concerned in the
transactions under examination, and such
an evident desire in answer to the qucs-
tions put to thcm--to disclose such facts
only as the fear of being involved in a
criminal prosecution for perjury forced
upon thcm--as to render the taking of
evidence necessarily close aud often,imcs
tedious cross examination. In spite of all
these hindranccs to the discharge Of their
duties, your coRmittco believe that they
have been able to elicit facts and circum-
stances which, carefully Czaniucd and
maturely considered. will develop the fact
that there was substantial ground for the
inquiry ordered by the House. 1t is only
by carefully collecting such isolated facts
and acts as could not be covered or con-
cealed, that satisfactory conclusion can
he reached.
Learning that many Geographic messages
relating to impeachment ID been scpt and
received by the parties supposed to be in-
piicatcd in fraudulent practices. your
committee issued subpeaa dsces tecum in
the usual form. to the managers of the
several telegraphic companies in this city
Baltimore to produce telegraph, dis
patches during certain period and
and then directed the witnesses, officers
of the telegraph companies. to select such
kilograms as we're supposed would throw
light upon the investig ltjUn This excr
else of an ordinary power. con6ded to ev
ry justice of the peace in the country who
has cause pending before him, was the
only seizure of kilograms made by your
committee which has been the subject Of
much scnseless and useless vituperatiou.
RAISING MONEY PoR IMPEACHMENT pURposes
II will be recollected that when the
July session of 1867, adjourned to the
2lst Of November, it was understood that
among the first topics to be presented on
the Resembling of Congress was the re-
port of the Committee Of the Judiciary in
relation to impeachment. TO meet that
report. it seems to have occurred to the
friends OF the President that funds would
be necessary. Thereupon we find, from
the testimony of George A. Hammond Of
Brooklyn. N Y, at that time chief clerk 81
the warehouse superintendent, that on
the day after the November election a
subscription was taken among the en-
ployecs of the custom house, upon the
following paper.
We. the undersigned gratuitously ap
propria'e the sum set opposite our
name, for the cause Of the county, and
opposed to the impeachment Of President
johnson.
1t was understood among the employ
ees that each must paY sum in proper
ton to his salary; and SO thorough was
that belief, although the subscri stion pa.
per read "gratuitously," that, though
MIR. Hammond declined personally to pay.
yet the messenger paid for him the amount
assessed lest Re should lose his Office
Mr. Hammond testiEes that most Of the
persons in his department refused to sign
it. but afterwards pressure was brought
to bear upon them. and all but two or
three signed II. John j. Herrick seco,d