The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-28
THE RECENT GERMAN TREATY
Downward Tendency Of Impeachment

WASHINGTON, April 27.-The impeachment ele.
ment appears less confident to-day than during
last week.
House-A bill was introduced to admit the
State OF Arkansas into the Union. Referred to
the reconstruction committee.
Adjourned.
Ser0te.-ln the court, after several PROPOSE
tons affecting final argument by senators had
been rejected by votes indicating that majority
desired to push the matter to a speedy conclusion,
the whole subject vas postponed until after the
argument was concluded Stevens then prOcsed-
ed with his speech. After reading twenty min
utes, he broke down. Butler read the balance of
Stevenss speech, which is very vindictive. He
narrated the position of senators on the tenure of
Office bill at length; senators could not excuse its
violation.
Manager Williams succeeded, and will occupy
part Of TO morrow.
After court the Senate received several execu-
tive messages. and adjourned.
Candy telegraphs Grant from North Carolina
that, far as heard from, there is 1910 majority
for the Constitution.
Internal revenue receipts to-day, SIS 900.
The presidents message, regarding the depart.
ment Of the Atlantic. simply states that he estab
lished 1t in accordance with the usage OF govern
ment.
A message from the president 10 the Senate
communicates n message from Bancroft relating
TO provisions of the recent treaty. continuous
residence Of five years and no more was all that
the treaty required, to date from the day the
emigrant crossed the American line. Continuity
Of residence to be interpreted in legal not cor
poral sense. The naturaZed citizen, on his
return 70 his original country, is liable only for
breaches Of law committed before emigration :;
ofenses connected with the act Of emigration
itself are excluded from the cases Of punishable
ofenses; therefore, the returning emigrsnt is not
punishable for withdrawal from military service.
This Interpretation accepted, Germans NATURAL
lied in America and returning TO Germany occupy
the same position as foreigner emigratng to
Germany, and is only liable to such military duty
as attaches 10 foreigners naturazed in Germany.
The bill admitting Arkansas provides similar to
that reported last March from the committee on
reconstruction. The preamble asserts that Ar
kansas has formed and adopted a State govern
ment republican In form, and therefore is entitled
90 representation as soon as the legislature rates
the fourteenth article, and on condition that the
Constitution shall never be changed TO deprive
any citizen or class OF citizens OF the United
States Of the right TO vote now entitled to do so
by the Constitution herein recognized; nor so
amended as TO allow any person to vote who Is
excluded from Office by the third section of the
proposed fourteenth article, until the disability
imposed is removed in tue manner therein pro-
Vided.
Stevens, alluding 10 Groesbeck, concluded
"The gentleman, on Saturday, ifnpl0red the SYM
patty of this Senate will all the elegance and
pathOs of Roman senator pleading for virtue,
and II is 10 be feared that his grace and elegance
turned the attention Of the Senate upon the ora
tor rather than upon the accused. Had he been
pleaclDg Tor innocence MS great power WOuld
have been well exercised. Had he been arguing
with equal eloquenoe before a Roman Senate,
and Cato, the censor, had been one of the judges,
his client would soon have found himself placed
in the middle Of the forum, instead OF receiving
the sympathy of vTtuous and patriotic
audience
The Evening Star says: Impeachment stock,
from some unfathomabe cause, seems 20 have q
slightly downward tendency to-day. There are
rumors of a break IN the line Of Republican sens-
tors, and four are named as certain TO 60 against
impeachment. On close inquiry, however, il can
not be ascertaned that any one Of the four has
made any declaration. or given any indication TO
warrant such a conclusion. Still, the belief that
the presidents chances are improving, is certainly
aiiOat in the air.