The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-02-29

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that was called . order and debate upon The re-
POr, Of the Reconstruction COMMITTEES, impsach.
Ing President Johnson, was commenesd. Speech.
ss were made by Messrs. Ashley, Cook, Kelley,
Cake, Stevens, Beaman, Blair, briggs, Wash.
burne, Kelsey, Wilson. Woodbridge, Poland,
Stokes, Judd, Harding, Pike, BFOOmaL Benton,
Bingham aud Boutwell, 10 favor Of The resolution,
andby Mrssrs. Woodward, Phelps, Wood, Pruyn,
Siigreaves, Eldridge, Carey, IIaighi Niblack,
Kerr and Barnes against II, aud at Eve O'Clock
The vote was taken, resulting ne follows
Yeas--ilessrs. Allison, Ames, Anderson, Ar.
nell, Ashley Of Nevada, Ashley, Of Ohio, Bailey.
Baker, baldwin, Banks, Beaman, Beatty, Benton.
bingham, Blaine, Blair, Boutwell,, Broomall'
Buckland, Butler, Cake, Churchill, Clarke 81
Ohio, Clarke Of Kansas, Cobb, Coburn, Cook.
Cornell, Covode, Cullom, Dawes, Dodge, briggs
Eckiey, Eggleston, Elliot, Farnswotih, Ferriss'
Ferry, Fields, Gravelley, 0riswold, IIaIsey, Har-
ding, Highly, Hlll, Hooper, Hopkins, Hubbard Of
Iowa, Hubbard Of West Virginia, Hubbard,
Hunter, lngersoll, Jenekes, Judd Julian, Kelley,
Kelsey, keicham, kiichin, Latin, Lawrence Of
Pennsylvania, Lawrence Of Ohio, Lincoln, Loan,
Logon, Loughbridge, Lynch, Mallory, Marine,
Mccarthy, McClurg, Mercur, Miller, Moore, Moor
head, Morrill,, Mullins, Myers, Newcomb, Mum,
O'Neil, 0nh, Paine, Perham, Peters, Pike, Pile,
Poland, Polsley, Price, Ranm, Robertson, Saw.
yer, Schenck, Schoaeld, Selye, Shanks, Smith.
Spalding, Starkweather, Stevens Of New EIamp.
shire, Stevens Of Pennsylvania, Stokes, Taae,
Taylor, Trowbridge, Twllchell, Upson. Van
Aernam Van Horn OF New York, Van Wick,
Ward, Washburn of Wisconsin, washburn ol
Illinois, Washburn Of Massachusetts,, welker
Williams Of Pennsylvania, Wilson, OF Iowa, vii.
sou, Of Ohio, Wilson Of Pennsylvania, Window
and Woodward-l25.
Nays-Messrs. Adams, Archer, AxteiI, Barnes
Barnum, Beck, Boyer, Brooks, Burr, Carey
Chanler Eldridge, fox, 0eiE, 0lossbrenner
Golladay, Grover, ilaight, Holman, Hotchkiss
Hubbard Of Connecticut, Humphrey Johnson
Jones. Kerr, Knott, Marshall, Mccormick, McCul
Tough, Morgan, Morrissey, Mungen, Niblack
Nicholson, Phelps, Pruyn, Randall. Ross, Sit
greaves. Stewart, Stone. Taber, Trimble Of Ken.
lucky, Van Anken, Van Trump, Wood and
woodward-I5
Abseniees-Messrs. benjamin, Dixon, Donnel
ly, Ely, Finny, Garfield, Hawkins. Koontz, Mar.
nard, Plantz, Pomeroy, Robinson, ShellabarRer
Thomas, Trimble OF Tennessee, Van Horn, o
Missouri, Washburn Of Indiana, and William,
Of Indiana.
Every Republican present voted for impeach
meni, aud every Democrat against II. We hav,
printed the name Of the only Democrat absen
In Italics committee Of two members wa
then appointed 10 20 before the Senate Of th,
United States, and, at the bar thereof, In ia,
name Of the House Of Representatives and Of al
the people Of the United States, TO impeach th
President Of the United States Of high crimes ant
Inisdemeanors in Office, and TO inform the Senat
that the House will present. articles Of impeach
rnent and will prove the same. The speaker ap
pointed ~ this committee Messrs. Stevens an,
Bingham. Messrs. Boutwell, OF Massachusetts,
Stevens Of Pennsylvania, Bingham OF Ohio, VIII
son OF Iowa, Logan Of illinois, Julian Of Indians
and Ward OF New York, were appointed a com
mi,iee to prepare articles Of impeachment agains
the President The following Is the report O
the reconstruction committee adopted by th
House
That Ia addition 10 the papers referred to th
committee the committee find that the President
on the 2lst day OF February, 1868, signed and or
deTed a commission OF letter Of authority TO on
Lorenzo Thomas, directing aud AUTHORIZING
said Thomas 10 act as Secretary OF War ad int
rim, and take possession OF the books, records
papers aud other public property In the War DE
partmeni.
Upon the evidence collected by the committee
which Is hereafter presented, and in virtue Of th
powers with which they have been invested b,
the House, they are Of opinion that Andrew
johnson, President Of the United States, be i'm
peachcd Ofhigh crimes and misdemeanors. The,
therefore recommend to the House the adoption
Of the accompanying resolution:
Rssoirsd, That Andrew johnson, President O
the United States, be impeached Of high crime
and msdemeannrs
THAppEus STEVENS,
GEoRaE.S Boutwell,
JoHx A. BixGHAN,
e. T. lirRLRrHT,
JONI ?. FANsswoHTH,
&c. BEAvAS,
u. z. PAixE.
The President to-day sent for Gen. Emory, o
this State, who has now command Of the troop
around Washington, and sounded him IS TO hi
views. Gen. Emory, very empha,ically answered
him as follows 1.-THE law says, Mr.. President
" that shall obey only such orders a. may re
"eeve through the proper military channels
"and will obey such orders and no others. -
Col Wallace, the second officer in command
was still more emphatic, in conversation with tn
President in announcing his determination Il
stand by Mr.. Stanton and Congress Gen. Em
DRY, in conversation with Gen Grant, told tn
latter that the army was a unit on this question
and TIA, Congress might have no fears Of any or
der being executed that did not have the sane
ton of the commanding General. II IL now as
serted that the Presiden, will sue out n writ o
raandamrs, directing Mr.. Stanton to show b,
wha, authority ne retains possession Of the Wa
Department, and that the matter will be trie,
before the courts
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY Is.
Mr.. Stanton still remains In possession Of th
War Office, not having left !, since the ,roubl
commenced. lie will couri-mariial General 10
renzo Thomas for disobedience OF orders TIL
President Is about to remove Gen. Emory frou
command Of the Department Of Washington. =
The War Office mails have been regularly deliv
cred TO Mr. S,antons messenger The exciiemen
Is greatly abated.
At one O'Clock, Messrs. Stevens aud Bingham
the House Committee charged with the duty o
impeaching President johnson al the bar Of tn
Senate, performed tina, duty. When the CON
mi,,ee was admitted To the Senate Chamber, Mr.
Stevens addressed the presiding officer as follows
''In obedience 10 the order Of the House o
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name Of the House Of Representatives aud all th
people Of the United States, do impeaeh Andres
johnson President Of the United States, q high
crimes and misdemeanors In Office. and We furlh
er Inform the Senate that the House OF Represen
iaiives will, IN due time exhibit particular arti
cles OF Impeachment against him, and make COOS
the aalne and In their name we demand that III,
senate take due order for the appearances Of said
Andrew johnson toauswer 10 said impeachment
The President Of the Senate responded 9Th,
Senate will take order In accoFda, &c with ID,
reques, Of the House"
The articles OF Impeachment, will be prrsenie.
to the Senate 10 a day or too.
MeSsrs. Thomas. Of Maryland, aud Koonlz, o
Pennsy lvHnia, who were absent from the Hous
when the vote was taken on Monday, asked and
obtained leave to have their votes recorded as "a
favor Of The impeachmen; Of President johnson
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20.
The excitement has great, subsided Nothing
was done 10 Congrrss on the subjec, Of impeach