The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-25
THE 0RESOENT'S DISPATCHES.
FROM WASN'T INGT TON.
THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.
Gen. schofield Nominated Secretary
Of War.
QUARANTINE ORDER FROM GENERAL GRANT.
JUDGE NELSON'S SPEECH

WASHINGTON, April A.--The cour. meets here
after al noon.
Edmunds moved that senatorial speeches on
the fiosl vote be published By the official repor-
The motion goes over. Nelson resumed his
argument.
The House did no business
Just before the Senate adj djOurned the presi-
dents secretary arrived with a number of mes
cages. Immediately after adjournment an excited
crowd gathered around the messages, which were
opened amid much apparent anxiety, shO wing
that the presidents actions are siil regarded OF
some moment. The president withdrew the nom
II alton of Ewing, and nominated j. n. Schoield
secretary Of war, vice Stanton, to be removed.
Gen. Grant has ssued an order instructing com.
maudng generals OF the military districts com
Irising the States Of Virginia, North Carons,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis-
sssippi Louisiana and Texas, tharall vessels ar
rving at ports within their commands. from ports
Infected with yellow fever, cholera or other epi
demic disease, bat having had no case during the
passage, be quaran,ined for fifteen days and tho
roughly fumigated.
short cabinet session was held to-day, at
which all were present.
Custcm sreceipis for the week ending tle 18th,
SO l4l 900.
Nelson spoke all day, and kept the senators
aud galleries well seated and interested through
out, attention becoming closer as the effort drew
to close. Points were well made, aud IN some
Instances startling. Groesbeck speaks TO morrow.
The end will not be reached under two weeks.
A pointed part of Judge Nelson's speech impli-
Gates four Of the msDsgers in the Alta Vela
sflsIT, which interrupted the relations between
the president and Judge Black.
Nelson continued, quoting BOutwell-that the
advice of cabinet officers that of serfs to
their lord. Nelson reminded the managers that
they had put in evidence message which shO we'd
hat their friend Stanton had protfered the advice
thus characterized.
Nelson proceeded 10 consider the charges seOa.
rstely. He maintained three propOsitions-that
the tenure OF Office bill was VOID, that anton
was not covered by II, aud that, even if valid and
covers SGsnton's case, the president was not
guilty Of crime, because he acted from laudable
u Olives.
Nelson sustained the presidents power to make
removals BY great number Of quotations from
laws, debates and opinions of judg IS. and acts Of
JObnsOns predecessors. Nelson discussed the
peculiar relations between the president and the
attorney general established by the Constitution
and elsbora,ed by the laws. The legal opinion OF
tue altorney-geLersl must have the weight OF a
judicial decision ia guiding the president. who is
often unskilled in the law and without leisure to
eAsmine the bearings of acts OF Congress. Mel.
son quoted Jefferson and Jaskson, both of whom
went beyond johnson 10 claiming the right to DIS
/ regard laws which they deemed unconstitutional.
Nelson's defense Of the presidents freedom OF
/ speech is regsrdec as very happy. The speech
| occupied seven hours.
The Arkansas congressional delegation has ar
! rived. Nothing has transpred indicating how
BY maii from Kingston, Jamaica, it is learned
that small l-pox prevailed at MOnego bay and Fall
mouth. No clear bills were given to vessels from
| either port. There had been few fatal cases at
/ Kingston, and = great many cases Of typhoid
| fever.
! Special kilograms from st. Domingo and West
| St. Thomas report that Gen. B1ez was expected
| IN St. Thomas on the 26th. A Jew banker had
| agreed to loan the Baez government $500 900
| according TO the report, providing the payment
| could be guaranteed by the United States. An
anti Paez revolution had already broken out.
The american ship Alice Ball had sailed fo
st. Thomas for Peru, pursued by Spanish maa
| OF war.
Mexican special to the Herald via Havana
has sdvices from Sisal to the 10th. Gov. AncOn5
mad arrived at that port in the steamer TabascO
Elections had commenced. As his first OH ia
| act he suspended the dictat0rial clauses of am
nesty as inconsistent with free election. Nint
foreigners had been imprisoned for completely il
the late disturb Dances. Another revolution wa
imminent. AlatorTe was to leave the peninsula