The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-19


admitted to prove 1t. Later in the same
evening he marked himself down on
list Senators were making up as forthe
first, second, third and eleventh.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May IL, '6S.
IMPEACHMENT GOSSIP.
The chief questions to-day concern.
ing Impeachment, with both sides, TURF
upon the Investigation now in progress
on the part of the managers into the
alleged corrupt influences brought t.
bear upon some of the Republican,
who voted to acquit the President
There seems to be scarcely any doub
OF the fact that several Republican,
had agreed to vote, II possible, to pre-
vent conviction on any article, while
they each voted for conviction on some
The bringing forward of the eleventh
article after having secured pledges
from all these men 10 vote for 1t, plac
ed them where they were compelled Il
be exposed either by one party OIL
another.
Senator Van Wrinkle read his written
opinion in favor of conviction on the
eleventh article to Senator Catten las
Sunday evening. 1t was also read e
two other Senators and seen by anoth'
er as late as Tuesday morning. Ross
after having stated to several gentle
men the articles he should vote for
was shown a list in the hands OF Sena-
atOr PomerOy giving the articles Sena-
tors had agreed TO vote for, On this boss
was put down for the first, second,
third, eighth and eleventh. Ross said
that was right, except the eighth.
Pomeroy then drew a line around the
eighth, and Ross then said he would
stand. by the rest. This be repeated at
house at six o'clock in the
evening of Friday. At ten O'Clock,
Dan voorhees, offered to bet one thou
sand dollars that Ross would not vote
to convict on any article. Immediate
ly after the adjournment of the Senate,
Ross went to tine White House. He Is
reported 10 have said he knew he could
not remain in the Republican party
and that il was OF no consequence 10
him whether he returned 10 Kansas or
not.
that of Ross. He has gone as far as
any of the Tennessee members In de-
nouncinl, the President and urging i'm
and his record in the mat
Ter Inns been in part made up here to-
day, Nothing was known here OF Hen
suppressiDg his letter to the
Missouri delegation and substituting
another after the press OF the country
mad the first in type until the western
Jnpers arrived to-day. This has added
o the feeling against him on the part
IF the delegation.
THE OH Hcrs OF THE MASAGERs' ISvEs-
TIGATIoN.
The investigation of the Managers
has two objects. ii 1t is found that
the President has been party to the
use of corrupt means to secure his ac-
uuittul IL new article OF impeachment
charging the facts us found will proba-
bly, be brought in. On the other hand,
if any Senators are proved TO have
been thus influenced in their votes, a
will be ut once mRde Mt theba
of tho Senate for their expulsion. The
friends are greatly worried
over the institution OF this inquiry.
When It was at first proposed the Intel
IigcnceT. denounced IL in the following
terms:
mo witness is bound TO answer the
questions propounded by the Mama
gers. They are not charged with any
subject of investigation or authorized
TO ask any man any question, but All
the powers which could be given them
under the existing Constitution OF the
United States would fail TO authorize
them to require any person to insult
the Senate Court by answering a ques-
ton which recognized a doubt of the
purity or competence of its constitu-
TiOnal judges. But, moreover, 1t Is the
duty OF the high-minded citizen VINO
may be thus impertinently tnterroga.
ted to the discredit of the Senate Court
to refuse to take part in the contempt,
to despise the pretended authority of
these .guanO-scented Buffers, Btng-
hams and LogaDs, and to defy them
yea, TO defy the House itself IL it
should undertake to Outrage him by
cOmpulsiOn. The Senate
must in such case protect him or nb-
jectly lie down at the feet of the
House."
The Managers hold their first meet
ing tomorrow for the examination OF
witnesses, OF whom large number
will be summoned in the morning, and
the main facts TO which II is supposed
they will testify are already known to
the Managers. They are of n character
to almost exceed belief, and yet so cir
as TO give them much
weight with those 10 whom they have
been detailed.
BRIDGING THE OHIO.
Governor Morton expects to call up
or consideration in the Senate to.mor-
.ow, the subject of bridges over the
ohio river. He has been Investigating
he matter at considerable length, and
viii oppose legalizing the construction
If any briuge with II less span than five
hundred feet. Bills for bridges at New |
, prt and PaducRh are still pending in |
he Seuate, and will probably be so
amended ms TO require central span
IF mt least FIVE hundred feet.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE city has
been alive for several days with reports
the movement for the for
nation of a new party, with the Chief
NIessrs. Fessenden, TTumbull and Hen
ierson has been generally referred to
That moYement-in fact, controlled by
The shape they expected 1t to take. 1t
IAN be stated that some of those Repub-
ican papers which have taken the po-
sitlon that in the minds of several
prominent Senators, Senator Wade
stood directly in the way of impeach-
ment, have over estimated that diff
Guilty, and his prominence in connec-
ton with the future of the party has
united several Of those who do not like
him in the new party move. So far as
the first positive declaration OF
the Chief Justice in this matter was
made on Thursday OF last week TO a
from a Democratic organiZa-
ton in Philadelphia. The Committee
cratic candidate against Judge Kelley,
and Assessor Frazer, former Repub-
ilcan, who went into the Philadelphia
Convention, subsequently, "swung
round the circle" with Johnson, and
las since acted with the Democrats.
They arrived in the city ON wednes-
day, and the next day obtained an in.
teryiew with MIR. Chase, when Frazer
said: .TFl
"NIr. Chief Justice: We have called
upon you as members OF the Cttizens'
Conservative Association OF Pennsyl-
vania, OF which ES Governor Johnston
Is President, for the purpose of consult
ing you in reference to the use of your
namc as the Peoples Conservative can.
didate for the Presidency. We believe,
sir, that the mass of the American peo-