The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-03-07
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Congressional.

WASHINGTON, March g. Senate. "A
communication was received from the
President relative to the consular interfer.
snces in Italy. Referred to the Committee
N Foreign Relations. Several other
communications were received and re-
terred.
The Secretary of the Treasury was
asked the relative disposition Of $500, 0oO
in the hands of Colonel Holbird, chief
quartermaster of the Department of the
! Gulf, accruing from captured and aban-
loned property.
At / O'Clock Justice Chase entered, and
called the Senate to order. The journal
of yesterdays proceedings in court were
| read.
Judge Chase announced that the bust
| ness was motion to postpone the swear
| ing in of Wade until the other senators
mad been sworn in.
Mr.. Dixon commenced speaking, when
Mr.. Drake called him to order under the
procedure rules.
Judge Chase decided that the procedure
rules could only apply after the court was
| organized.
Mr.. Drake appealed, and Chase's deci-
sion was sustained by the following vote :
Yeas. = Messrs. Anthony, Buckalew,
Corbett, Davis, Dixon, FessendeD, Fowler,
Frelinghuysen, Grimes, Henderson, Hen
bricks, Johnson, Met rery, Morrill, of Maine,
Norton, Patterson of Tennessee, Pomeroy,
| Ross, Salisbury, Sherman, Sprague, Van
Wrinkle, Wiley, and Williams-24.
Nays.-Messrs. Cameron, Cattell, Chan
dler, Cole, Conkling, CONFESS, Drake, Ferry,
Harlan, Howard, Morgan, Morrill, of Yer
mont, Morton, Nye, Stewart, Sumner,
Thayer, Upton, Wilson, and Yates-2O.
Applause from the galleries followed this
vote, which was promptly suppressed.
The debate proceeded, when Hendricks
| withdrew his objections, Wade was sworn
in, and the organization completed.
Mr.. Howard moved to inform the man.
ayers of that fact.
Judge Chase said: Before putting that
question to the Senate, the Chief Justice
| thinks it his duty to submit to the Senate
| the rules Of procedure. In the judgment
! Of the Chief Justice, the Senate is now
organized as distinct body from the
Senate sitting in its legislative capacity.
1t performs distinct function. It's men,
bers are under different oath, aud the pre-
siding officer is not the president pro tent
pore, but the Chief Justice Of the United
States. Under these circumstances the
| Chair conceives that the rules adopted
| by the Senate in its legislative capacity
| are not rules for the government Of the
Senate sitting for the trial of an impeach.
ment, unless they be also adopted by that
| body. In this Judgment Of the Chair, if i,
be erroneous, he desires to be corrected
by the judgment of the court. Therefore
| if it be permitted, he will take the sense OF
the House on this question: whether the
rules adopted on the I'd of March shall be
considered as the rules for the proceeding:
in this body.
The Senate responded aye.
The Judge: Then those rules will be
considered the rules of this body.
The managers then entered, and at their
instance summons was issued to the Pre-
sident, returnable, on Friday the 18th
| instant.
The court then adjourned, and Mr.. Wade
took the chair. After short Legislative
session the Senate went into executive
session, and adjourned till Monday.
HouSe.-The impeachment managers
were allowed to sit during the sessions
send for persons and papers, and examine
witnesses under oath.
| The Tennessee election case was re.
sumed, and bill relieving Butler from
political disabilities was passed-ayes, 8s
nays, %.
a bill relieving John Young Brown, o
Kentucky, from political disabilities wa
introduced, and referred to the COMMITTEES
| on Elections.