The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-04
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FURTHER PREPARATIONS FOB THE TRIAL OF TEL
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF OLD THAD
sTEyENs-coNTNUED OFFICIAL RELATIONS Be
TWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND THE SENATE
srcKLEs SENT TO NEW oRLEANs-sTANToN HAS
REsprrE-DoINas OF CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, March. S.-The rules Of pro-
.ceedlngs for impeachment were adopted after
an amendment taking from the Chief Justice
decision on preliminary and interlocutory
questions. All are referred to the court, and will
be decided without division, unless the yeas
and nays are demanded by one-6fth Of those
present. If senators desire to argue any ques-
tions, the court will be cleared.
The Republicans who voted against restrict
ing the Chief Justice were Messrs. Anthony,
Morrill, Of Vermont, Sherman, Sprague and
Williams.
Stevens, in alluding to his additional article,
which he claimed Was omitted by mistake, and
to the6 9Th article, which vas killed by the arri-
val of the hour, when amendments and
speeches cease !, said: s'1f there be as shrewd
LAWYERS as know there will be, and cavilling
Judges, and if, without that article they do rot
acquit the President, they are greener than
ever was when I commenced to practice at
the Court of Quarter Sessions"
Lewis Wolfey was nominated to-day as As
SCISSOR of Internal Revenue for the First Dis
trict Of Louisiana. His nomination was
to-day referred to the Finance Committee,
with strong probability of its confirmation.
This event is considered important as showing
the continued intercourse between the Senate
and the Executive. =,
Bingham has been selected as Chairman of
the Impeachment Committee, and Stevens re-
ceived the lowest vote on o. ballot for mana
gers. 49,.
Colonel Daniel E. Sickles has been ordered
to report to General Hancock to command the
fortieth infantry.
Stanton left the War Department for thefrst
time since February.2l.
Matt Carpenter, of Wisconsin, followed Black
in the argument in the McArdle case.
There was brief Cabinet session to-day.
The revenue receipts to-day were nearly one
million. It-is stated that the dobt state
ment will show several millions ofincrease.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. :.
In THE SENATE to-day the Finance Commit
tee were directed to inquire into the expedien-
cy of repeating the taxes on incomes and
manufactures.
The Clerk Of the House announced the pass
age Of the articles of impeachment and the
appointment. OF managers. The Secretary OF
the Senate was directed to inform the House
that the Senate was ready.
The consideration of the bill for funding the
national debt was resumed after which the
Senate went into executive session and ad-
journed.
In THE HOUSE, under. the regular call, the
following bills were introduced by MIR. Blaine:
For building the levees on the eastern bank OF
the Mississippi, and to reclaim overfowed
land A joint resolution for the protection OF
industrial interests; and resolution request
ing as speedy action in the impeachment ques-
tion as may bo compatible with justice; also,
q resolution increasing tho tariff twenty per
cent. on wines, spirits and manufactures Of cot
ton, wool, silk and iron. bill to construct
railroad from Cairo, Illinois, to the Rio Grande,
and to provide homesteads along the road.
A memorial of The Wisconsin Legislature,
to connect the waters of Lake Michigan and
the Mississippi River.
The Judiciary Committee were Instructed to
INQUIRE whether Congress has power to regu-
late freights on roads running from one State
to another. motion to suspend the rules to
admit protest against impeachment, was lost
by vote of forty-nine to seventy-two. The
impeachment managers introduced two addl-
tional articles, the seventh of the first series
being out These are anown as the tenth
and eleventh. They we're adopted by strict
party vote. The tenth is Butler's, charging
the President with misdemeanors in speeches
while swinging around the circle. Tho'elev-
enth is comprehensive, charging the Presl-
dent with saying in 1866, in Washington, that
Congress was illegal, and could only act so far
as he chose to recognize it, and the violation
of two or three laws in his efforts to keep STAN
ton out after the Senate had overruled his rea-
sons for suspension. This article includes
Stevens charges which failed yesterday. The
managers are authorized to send for persons
and papers, The House then adjourned.
The Reconstruction N Conventions.
VIRGINIA.
RICHMOND, March .9.-;The convention reso-
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