The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-29
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WAsHraaToS, Febrnsrysa2 IS I. T,relue
O'Clock r. 1.-THE special committee d
the House on impsachment was engaged
to-day in taking testimony which, from
its character, it is inferred ,that in pre-
pairing articlssfors submission to the House
the committee IS considering more points
than those directly involved in the
removal of Stanton. Colonel Moore, one
of the Presidents secretaries, was before
the committee, and was INTERCEPTED to
discover whether any military orders hsd
recently been, issued By the Executive that
did not pass through the headquarters Of
General Grant. The evidence was to the
effect that no orders relative to military
movements d5beenE issued except what
had been sent to General Grant. Other
Testimony is to be taken tomorrow, and it
is very probable that the committee will
not belpreparedto report articles of i'm
parchment, before Monday. BY Tuesday
afternoon, at the outside; it is expected
that the House will have adopted articles,
and the Senate will take them under con-
sideration on the following day, if in the
mean time the rules for conducting the
trial shall by that time have been adopted.
These rules were reported this after
noon, but how much time may be expended
in debate upon them can only be copjec.
tured. It is probable that several days
may, be consumed in discussion upon some
of these rules, as there is no limit to de-
bate until the rnles themselves shall be
adopted. ,1oi as.oa ~ s. ~ nv 81 ,2ra.s
!, There is decided determination on the
part ofthose who favor impeachment orush
the whole matter Of the preliminaries and
trial at a sort Of previous question speed !;
but the belief among those who rely upon
q majority of the senators for temperate
justice and just action is that reasonable
time will be acceded for full debate and
calm consideration as well upon the pre-
liminaries as upon the final trial. The i'm
parchment party say. but two or three
days shall be given to the President to an
swer and prepare his defence, though there
does not appear to be any ground for this
unfair proceeding other than the asser-.
tons of outside managers of the i'm
parchment project. There are many
stories told of what has been said
privately by this or that Radical senator,
and of what Chief Justice Chase has said
on the subject of impeachment; but al
though, as has been asserted, there may
have been loose and ipjudicious express
sions of opinion or feeling by few
of the senators who are actively
managing the impeachment matter in the
Senate. Yet your correspondent is war
ranted in stating that a very large ma
iority of the Radical senator's have OBJ
served becoming reticence since the
adoption of the impeachment resolution
in the House, and that the report that
Judge Chase has, during the same period,
.conversed upon the merits of the i'm
parchment act in its legal or political
aspects, is wholly unfounded.
General Hancock is reported to have
asked to be relieved from the command of
the Fifth Military District. As yet, the
President has not heard such request.
= Among nominations to-day was that of
Charles Van Wrinkle to be United States
Marshal for the District of Virginia.
The Senate this afternoon rejected the
nomination of Wisewell for Commissioner
of Internal Revenue. WALLACE.
SECOND DISPATCH. tr..t
IN WASHINGTON, February 28.-The Presi-
dents third State dinner took place to-
night, and was attended by the Judges