The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-04-16
WAShIN GT0N
THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.
Admission Of Documentary Evidence Pre-
scented by the Presidents Counsel.
Manager Butler Again Rebuked by
Mr.. EvartS.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
Seerets.ry Forneys Accounts With the Senate
to Be Investigated
Dedication of the Lincoln
Monument.
-iIr pnane A~iIAnrA-1r
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS
Secrets.ry Forney's Accounts With the Senate
TO Be Investigated.
D Dedication of the Lincoln
Monument.
THE IMPEACHMENT.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD.

WASHINGTON, April Is, 1865.
The impeachment trial to-day was confined to the
giving in Of documentary evidence, the principal
share Of which related to the practice Of the govern
ment In the matter Of making appointments and
issuing commissions regular and 1d interim. The
message Of the President in reply to the resolution
Of the Senate Of the god Of February, protesting
against the removal Of Secretary Stanton, was re-
Jected IS incompetent evidence by the Chief Justice.
All the other documentary testimony " as admitted.
AL over town this evening q change Of opinion
seems to have taken place, and the acquittal Of the
President appears to be the prevailing impression.
The way opinion changes on this question is quite
wonderful.
impeachment seems TO be like game OF seesaw-
IL Is constantly up and down and down and up with
the President and his radical opponents People,
even the few who generally have the opportunity for
being well posted, are in puzzle over the matter,
not knowing for twenty-four hours what to think,
and catching at every little straw that is blown
about in their eagerness to reach satisfactory
conclusion. There never before aquestion be-
fore the national legislature about which there ex-
listed so much uncertainty and mystery. One day the
Senate seems all way, and the next in direction
quite the opposite But In all this strange dubity
thing may safely be taken as guide. and that is
the plotting and planning for the Presidential sue
cesson. The result OF the trial seems to hang
upon this than upon any conviction that may be
rived at as to the guilt or innocence Of the accused
week ago 1t seemed to be all fixed that the Presi
dent should be removed as political necessity; but
since Monday hitch In the programme has occurred
and this hitch may be the saving Of the ofYending
anti-radical obstacle. General Butler, who has
thrown his managerial colleagues into the shade since
the hard work Of the trial commenced and who has
made Bingham, Boutwell,, Wilson, Williams, and Old
Thad himself SO many hobs to his high soaring
Kite seems to have become the occasion Of the hitch
Benjamin OF Lowell has his eye keenly after
fhe Treasury Department, and is known to be ambi-
uous to succeed Secretary McCulloch in case Mr..
johnson should be doomed to an early retirement to
the shades Of private life in Tennessee. Senator
Wade, in this event, will owe his elevation to the
Chief Magistracy principally to the audacity and in
genuy Of Butler, who fully understands his worth,
and will not scrupe to exact his full remuneration
70 the last penny. 1t is believed that Butler settled
this point with Wade few weeks ago, and that the
latter, in patting the back both Boutwell, Of Mas
sachusetts, and Senator Morgan, Of New York, has
only been playing smart little game of his own to
keep them quiet while there Is danger. Bout
well and Morgan both yearn for McCulloch's
boots quite much as Butler, be 1t known
but Butler, for his superior services, was
to carry of the prize. Such the writing in the
bond; but now 1t appears General Grants friends
are beginning to figure out how the patronage will
be arranged in case Wade gets in. II Wade lets But
Ter in, the latter will manipulate as to secure
powerful influence for himself and Grants friends
foresee trouble ahead through this arrangement
1t is being debated, therefore, whether it is worth
while to remove President Johnson, through General
Grants aid, only to promote Buffers interests at the
risk Of the chances OF the General.in-Chief This
feature Of the play behind the scenes Is decided
ly In favor Of acquittal, Notwithstanding the sound
and fury before the footlights The ealousies Of the
1val factions may result in breaking down the whole
radical plot and the policy OF the President is
now undoubtedly " dtptde ct inperd." BY following
this policy he smash up the deep laid plan for
military dictatorship and perpetuation OF radical rule
foreshadowed in yesterdays dispatches.