The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-03-12

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galleries, few swiftly to the Senate,
aud delay seemed almost certain.
CHIEF JUSTICE cUAsEs CoNNUSIoA-
TIoN.
Meantime, the communication OF
Chief Justice Chase was read in tho |
Senste. 1t seemed as if everybody |
heard Il at once, for in three minutes
itwss the theme Of general converse.
tion, and a half doIeu telegraph |
operators were announcing it to all |
parts Of the country, almost before
Senators had recovered from the sur.
prise it caused them. In ten minutes
the building was ringing with all
sorts of versions of tho document.
But as soon as il was discovered that
itwould not stop proceedings, il was
soon lost sight Of for the time being,
as the central act for which all were
waiting, began to unfold itself.
PROGRESS IN the HOUSE.
The managers came into the House
just as Mr. Jenckos closed, when Mr.
Bingham at once moved to refer the
article presented TO the Committee of
Managers, which passed quickly, the
call for the yeas aud nays being
refused, Mr.. Bingham then moved
that tho House, as a Committee Of
the Whole, attend the managers to
the bar Of tho Senate, whittier they
were going to present articles Of inn
pcachmcnt,
AN IMPOSING PROCESSION.
This being agreed upon, the movc.
mont toward the Senate began. The
galleries Of tho House we're emptied
in a moment, aud projected toward
the Senate. Crowds in tho corri-
dors aud in the rotunda who could
not gain admission to tho Senate
galleries, formed to see the long pro-
cessiou pass. Slowly, aud with due
form, it iled through the halls Mr.
Dawes, Chairman Of the Committee
of the Whole, with Mr.. Mcpherson,
Clerk Of the House, on his right, aud
Gen. Lippiucott, the doorkeepor, on
his left, led tho column. Behind
them came Speaker ColfaK, with
Gems. Schonck aud Walker, and next
the managers, walking two by two,
and arm iu arm. Messrs. Bingham
and Boutwell, walked first, the former
on the right; then Williams and
Butler, next Logan and Wilson, ard
last came Thad. Stevens, unable to
walk, and carried in chair Behind
them followed tho Republican mem
bers, with three or four Democrats.
Most Of the latter class remained in
the hall Of the House. Tue crowd
in the building formed from Que end
to the other on each sido of the
body thus made up. There was al
air of deep earnestness upon all faces,
and all seemed to feel tho influence
Of the occasion. No funeral curtege
moving through these corridors ever
excited graver thoughts, 1t was a
column moving on in the name Of all
the people. aud to the great thoughts
thus embodied all seemed to bow as
to tho supreme power of the land
The people moving on to Rccusa-
ton, and to bid their Senate sit in
judgment upon the highest officer in
the land. Such thoughts throbbed
) in all hearts to the measure Of that
march.
SCENE ~ THE sENATk CHAMBER,
The crowd reached the Senate long
before the procession, aud quick ly
, the entrances into galleries caused
general stir at the knowledge OBJ
tanned, that managers we're on their
way, members Of the House, and
those privileged to the floor, began
to drop in. The reporters gallery
was full of those whose fingers were
! on keys that ere an hour would
cause every community in the land
to vibrato in response to their pic
lures Of the scene, and with them
were those who would spread it all
to millions Of eyes, not in words,
but through the illustrated papers Of
the land. While ell the galleries
were thus expeetant, the Senate was
dragging on with business as unin--
teresting to the general reader as
tue inscriptions upon the burial cases
of Egyptian mummies.
ENTRANCE OF THE MANAGERS.
Suddenly it ceased, aud what was
felt to be the most important scene in
the history Of the Rebellion, stood
: out on the floor of the Senate. Those
at the President's desk could see the
officers Of the House of Representa-
tiyes and the managers, aud behind
them the members in a long line
reaching back beyond the rotunda,
: and hundreds Of faces pressing close
upon the line, forming a wall of heads
! on each side. The hum on the foor
! Of the Senate ceased, aud as its doors
swung open to the column sounded
through the Hall, aud then came n
. stiffness over il as il death had en-
; tered AS the proper officer of the
Senate announced the Committee CI
Managers, the stiffness seemed to
3 deepen. - l.
! Upon their recognition BY Mr.,
! Wade, Mr.. Bingham as the Chairntau
announced that the House Of Repre-.
sentatiyes, through its managers aad
BY its own presence, appeared At thS
, bar OF tho Senate to present articles
OF impeaehmsnt against Andrew
johnson, President. Of the United
States. --a---------..-----A--
; President Wade, IN response, invit.
ed them to seats already prepared
During these preliminary proceed
ings, the entire Board Of MaNagers,
: arranged as already stated, stoed al
u the hay with tha ofhcara Of tho Houss