Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-03-05

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lumbia. In 1861 be retired from public life, and
has since resided in Lancaster, Ohio, and engaged
in the practice of the law. I,.a, " :, ,a.r.r
This appointment will come before the Senate
for confirmation, but until confirmed will not at
feet the position of General Lorenzo Thomas whose
appointment is that of Secretary OF War ad n'te-
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THE IMPEACHMENT MATTER. ..,'.
On the outside Of, the ENQUIRER, to-day, will
be found connected account Of the difficulties at
Washington, ,eolisted from various sources, up to
10 o'clock at night, on Tuesday the 18th ultimo.
On Wednesday morning. ,26th, Gen. Thomas
appeared in Court, before Judge Cartier, attended
by his counsel stanton being absent, Judge
Cartier issued subpoena for his attendance
Stanton's counsel askeda postponement OF the
case but Thomas counsel objected, as their client
was now present as a prisoner, having been sur.
rendered by his bail, and would demand o writ OF
habeas corpus. =. .-... ..u..-......a GO. .....
Judge Cartier threw the case out Of court by
telling Thomas to '.go hence" This closes the
matter unless the grand jury takes cognizance'
As the case has failed in getting to the Supreme
Court this way, the quo acarrato against Stanton,
it is now expected, will be again applied tor
The Richmond Dispatch remarking on the at
fair, says: -, 5sr: .. 3D., ~.
ssThe case of Gen. Thomas was waived out OF
court by Judge Cartier yesterday without hear,
ing-evidently the Judge being too good Radical
strategist to allow Mr. johnson to hang on to the
Thomas case an appeal to the Supreme Court on
which to test the constitutionaty of the tenureof
Office law Stanton did not appear This was
smart. $50 hence says the Judge; and the
General went but not to the War Department,
where Stanton is encamped, master OF the held
thus far.
The President must proceed de nouo if he in
tends to get decision on that law. -
Immediately. after the discharge Of General
Thomas, suit was commenced in the District
Court by him, against Stanton for false imprison-
ment and malicious prosecution. Damages, one
hundred thousand dollars Stanton, in answer to
the warrant for false imprisonment OF Thomas,
says he will attend to it by attorney.
A special dispatch to the Charleston Ne'os says
that the following are the principal counts in the
articles of impeachment: ..,.. t.... ....
First. That the President has violated the con-
stitution. oo
Second. That he violated the Tenure Of Office
act ,
Third. That he has attempted to induce Gen.
Grant to violate the said act; and
Fourth That he has been an obstruction to re-
construction by removing military commanders in
the South. - = -. ,.......
The best informed parties consider the action OF
the Senate upon these charges doubtful but the
Radicals are sanguine of obtaining conviction.
A special telegram to the Richmond Daspatch
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sTne specaaE-usannlu .aa1o-1f4.-..-.~-isa-
peachment was engagedto-day in taking testimony
which, from its character it is inferred that in pre-
pairing articles for submission to the House the
committee is considering more points than those
directly involved in the removal Of Stanton Colo
mel Moore, one Of the Presidents secretaries, was
before the committee and was interiogated to dis
cover whether any military orders had recently been
issued by the Executive that did not pass through
the headuuarters Of General Grant. The evidence
was to the effect that no orders relative to military
movements had been 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 be prepared to report articles
of fimpeacl1ment before Monday. By Tuesday at
ternoon. at the outside, it is expected that the
House will have adopted articles and the Senate
will take them under consideration on the following
day, if in the mean time the rules for conducting
the trialshal by that time have been adopted.
These rules were reported, this afternoon but
how much time may be expended in debate upon
them can only be conjectured. 1t is probable that
several DAYS may be consumed in discussion upon
some of these rules, as there is no limit to debate
until the rules themselves shall be adopted"
The procedure in the impeachment is to be as
follows: .... :,
s'The day after the articles are presented, the
Senate will resolve itself into court at o'clock.
A quorum of the Senate will constitute quorum
Senate will sit daily, and legislation will proceed
during the recesses of the court. The final argu-
ment will be made by two counsel on each side,
the House having the opening and closing speech
es All orders and decisions are to be made by
yeas and nays without debate. Judge Chase pre-
sides. The President need not appear in person.
The oath of senators is: ''That in all things ap:
pertaining to the impending impeachment will
do impartial Justice according to the Constitution
and laws of the United States, so help me God.
The Senate las COURT compels the ATTENDANCE OF
witnesses, and Furnishes contempt, and may call the
army and navy toits support 1t sits with open
doors"
"Wallace," the Washington correspondent ofthe
Richmond Dispatch, under date of the 2Sth ultimo,
There is decided determination on the part OF
those who favor impeachment to rush the whole
matter of the preliminaries and trial at sort of
previous question speed; but the belief among
those who rely upon majority Of the senators tor
temperate Justice and just action is that reasonable
time will be acceded for full debate and calm con-
sideration as well upon the prelmnaries as upon
the final trial The impeachment party say but
two or three days-sha be given to the President to
answer and prepare his defence, though there does
not appear to be any ground for this unfair pro-
ceeding other than the assertions of outside man.
ayers of the impeachment 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 impeach-
ment; but although, as has been asserted, there
may have been loose and iDudicious expressions of
opinion or feeling by few of the senators who are
actively managing the impeachment matter in the
Senate, yet your correspondent is warranted in
stating very large majority Of the Radical sena-
tors have observed becoming retlcence 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 mer.
its of the Impeachment act in its legal or political
aspects, is wholly unfounded."
On Saturday, the 29th ultimo, the Committee
agreed upon the following articles ofimpeachment
to be preferred against the President:
l. The removal of Stanton, with the intention
to violate the constitution and laws.
q The appointment to the Secretary.ship of
War, with the like intent, of one Lorenzo Thomas.
g. Conspiring with Thomas and Others, unknown,
to hinder Stanton, by intimidatons and threats,
from exercising his Office