The New York herald., 1868-03-25
THE TRIAL OF THE PRESIDENT.
The Replication Of the I'M
pcachment Managers.
Refusal Of the Court to Grant the President
Thirty Days to Prepare His Defence.
The Trial to Proceed on Mon
day Next.
WASHINGTON, March "A, 1893.
The Impeachment Trial.

WASHINGTON March "a 1893.
The Impeachment Trial.
The impeachment entertainment was well attended
to-day; the audience was select and fashionable,
yet gay and festive in appearance. There was
smaller show Of beautiful faces than on yesterday;
staid and matronly looking females were at a dis
count and the bright ribbons &c, interspersed
with a good deal OF the sombre and
serious. No rush for seats occurred, though
every seat was occupied The ticket business
was tame affair, tame in fact that Senator Sher-
man proposed to suspend it altogether and let the
pebian crowd come in without let or hindrance An
audience Of crowded faces seemed to be desired and
the ticket arrangement, II persevered in, might have
the effect Of leaving empty benches for the Grand
High Jury to look upon. or course Sherman's propo
sition was laid over because next Monday, when
the trial really commences, the interesting
female relatives Of Congressional members will de-
sire to be present and the crowd OF humanity
especially OF the Ethiopian shade must be shut out
The latter can select any other day after everything
worth seeing and hearing is disposed OF, and the
Senate will kindly allow ordinary mortals admission
without the necessity Of tickets.
T. the Presidents Counsel. ~.-~'S
am authorized to state that it s not true that
Judge Black advised the President to resgn nor is
,iusssa 81 the defence. He has, and has always had
the fullest confidence that the President would be ac
quilted If he got fair hearing and decision ac-
eording Is ths law and the effects. Nor is it
true that Judge Black ever differed in opinion
from the other counsel Of the President
'Or had any controversy with them. The
despatch in Baltimore newspaper Of this morning
is as Judge Black asserts totally untrue in regard
to the Alta Veta case. The Domincans never pre-
tended to have any claim to that island. The Amer-
can owners, he says, were there under title clear,
unquestioned and undlsputed. The outrage Of
driving them of when their force happened to be
weak and there was no American vessel in those
waters to protect them was naked wrong which the
perpetrators tried to by alleging title
in themselves. But Mr.. Seward set up title for
them and for several years, by one device and an
other, he prevented the truth from appearing in a
tangible shape. The delay caused the Dominicans to
suppose that the United States would never vindi-
cate their honor or the rights of their citizens, and
recently, under the encouragement of Mr.. Seward,
they began to sell the gnano Mr.. Stewards defence
of them is one which they never would have set up
for themselves, and which they did not even adopt
when he made it. When the President, seeing the
case, but acting under the influence Of Mr.. Seward
refused to do the justice which the owners had q
right to expect, Judge Black, finding his friends,
clients and partners determined to proceed and take
other to their rights and expose Mr..
Stewards conduct, told the President that he found
himself situated that he could only relieve
himself from uncomfortable embarrassments by
ceasng to be one OF his counsel; and he claimed to
be released from his obligations such assuring the
President at the time that lie much grieved
at not being able to serve him longer in that
capacity l further understand that Messrs.
Thaddeus Stevens Bingham, Butler, Logan,
Garfield, Blaine and other prominent republicans
having expressed very decided opinions
of the Presidents duty in regard to the Alta vela
case it seemed probable that Congress might take
some measures which would bring the interests Of
Judge Blacks clients and those OF the President into
conflict. To avoid such contingency the Judge
asked be relieved from further service counsel
in the impeachment case.
General Morgan, of Ohio, to be Ousted from
His Sents
= A report was in circulation to-day and teegraphed
abroad that the Committee on Elections had voted
to retain General Morgan Of the Thirteenth Ohio dis
trict, in his seat. This was an error The commit
tee, by q strict party vote-six republicans (Mr.
Shellabarger being absent against two democrats
have resolved to report in favor Of giving the seat to
columbus Delano, the contestant. They say he was
elected by eighty-two majority. It Ia not probable
shat the report will be made until next week.
Combinations and Reflections by the Senate.
The Senate, in Executive Session to-day, con-
1nrmed the following nominations:
John II. Drabel, Assessor OF Internal Revenue,
Second district OF West Virginia.; Lemuel d. Evans,
Collector Of Internal Revenue, Fourth district of
Texas; Charles Robinson, OF Vermont, Consul at
Quebec.
. The Senate also confirmed about one hundred on
GERS Of the Navy for promotion.
1 rho Cauo ofa TOD Am Acro nf
nlernal Revenue for the Second district OF Indiana;
David M. Mills, Assessor of Internal Revenue for
Dakota, and James W. Snyder, Assessor of Twenty
fourth district of New York.
Treatise Sent to the senate.
II is understood that two treaties with Italy have
recently been sent to the Senate
4 Reorganization Of United Circuit Courts.
The bill introduced In the Senate yesterday by Mr..
Cole to reorganize the Circuit Courts OF the United
States provides that hereafter each Circuit Court
shall consist OF Judge. who shall reside In the
circuit and be called Clrcnt Judge and who shall
be appointed In the same manner, hold office by the
same tenure ana receive the same compensation as
District Judges. All acts authorizing the Distrc.
Court Judges Supreme Court Justices to hold the
Circuit Court are repealed
Reorganization OF the state Department.
The bill to reorpar.ize the state Department and
10 reduce the expenses tnercoI, introduced In the
Senate by Mr.. Wilson. provides that the department
shall consist OF a secretary with salary OF SIS, 00O
an assistant secretary with salary of ss5oo chief
clerk at 81 200; three heads OF divisions, at $4,000
each thirty clerks of various classes, and fourteen
other employees, all OF whose duties are mnutely pre-
scribed. The Passport Clerk ia required to admin
lister gratutously oaths in proof of citizenship. The
fee for certified copies OF passports and amnesty
oahs Is fixed at s5 The secret service fund Is abo
ished in time Of peace, and during its continuance
The Presidents approval shall not be sufficient
voucher for any money expended from the funds OF
the department II is also provided that II shall not
be lawful for the Secretary OF State to Ill the Office
OF Chief Clerk to replace the heads Of divisions by
new appointments, but only by promotion.
Prevention OF Frauds In the Treasury Depart
mcnf.
The Secretary OF the Treasury, in reply to o reso-
luton OF the House to the regulations for prevent