The New York herald., 1868-03-13
NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY MARCH 49, lsee-rRIPLE SHEET

he viii continue to be present day aer day a. the
trial proceeds until Its closes but y Is most likely
that he win be present when the curt begins to take
and at the concusion OF the trial be-
tween those periods he win appear circumstances
may render it necessary " desirable.
Of Witnesses by the Impeach.
mevt Managers.
Mr.. McEwen, formerly reporter for q New York
paper, produced tefore the Impeachment Managers
to-day transcr ipt from his notes OF President John
sons speech at Cleveland. Mr.. Stephen Hays,
another New York reporter, was examined on the
same subject and substantiated the truth Of q copy
OF the rport, which was known to him. W. w.
Wardeyl was also called before them with reference
to EVENTS on the tour.
Colonel W. G. Moore the acting Private Secretary
OF the President was examined in relation to his
Vision OF the speech for the press which the Presi
dent delivered In August, 1885, in reply to the Com
mttee Of the Philadelphia Conservative Convention,
and was subjected TO long cross-examination
about matters In connection with General Thomas
and General Hancock, &C. Major Mcdonald, Chief
Clerk Of the Senate, and Mr. JONES' also a clerk in
that body testified to the delivery to the President
OF copy of the resolution passed by the Senate de-
claring that the constitution and laws gave the
President no power to remove the Secretary OF War
and to appoint Secretary ad aerim during the ses-
sion of the Senate
Senator Wade's Reported Proposition to Pair
or with Patterson.
The despatch In Philadelphia paper to the efYect
that Senator Wade has made q serious proposition
to Senator Patterson, OF Tennessee, to pair
or during the impeachment trial has q very
slim foundation in fact. The truth Of the story,
as I got it from the blur Vice President
himself is simply this-During the discussion
of the objection raised by Senator Hendricks as to
the right Of Mr.. Wade to be sworn In member Of
the High Court Of impeachment Benjamin. Of Ohio,
went to David of Tennessee and remarked jocosely,
"You and l had better pair OF, Senator. They are
discussing US now and the best thing we do isto
run on together and stay away during the whole
trial." To which the Tennessee Senator responded
NO, srree intend to stay here, Wade, and vote for
you." This is the whole foundation for the story
circulated by the Philadelphia print which has
created no little comment. Benjamin will not re-
sign, pair OF nor decline to vote, unless the Senate
on vote shoud resolve that under the circumstances
he has no right to take part in the trial as member
Of the court. He win abide by whatever decision
may be arrived at by the Senate.
Ben Wade ~At HOme.o
Very diNerent indeed from the prevalent notion Of
Ben Wade is the actual representative OF this WELL
known name People who never met the prospective
occupant Of the White House know him only as q
morose ascible and relentless fanatic possessed Of
little humanity, bitter In his misanthropy wrapped
up in perverse radical idea of making all free
and equal socially well as politically and otherwise
given to Utopian and eccentric imaginings. And
then again he is represented as a brawny, coarse
profane ana illiterate character addicted to rude
and irreverent phraseology, rough In manner,
hlrsute in appearance, and in every essential
a booriso, uncultivated and disagreeable creature
Such Is Ben Wade as some people imagine but how
great the contrast is the original Simon Pure Your
correspondent this evening had THE pleasure Of con-
yersng with the President pro tempoe of the Senate
at his quiet, transformations lodgings In one of the
Washington hotels In an arm chair, before a clear
coal fire, attired In ample dressing gown with heavy
crimson silk padded and quilted appes, sat the in
dividua who is, according to all radical prognostica
ions about to assume executive power and preroga-
tive. A table stood at his right hand, upon which
papers and documents innumerable rested, and at
the other side his amtable spouse some fifty years
more, sat and appeared to read every OF large
basket OF newspapers. 1t was pretty con1hgal pic
ture, delightful scene Of the old political veteran
with scars innumcrable, leaning calmly back, and
with the most serene expression Of complacency Pc
rusng the fretted columns OF some newspaper, while
his better half with commendabe industry busted
herself with selecting from many various sources the
printed criticisms her lege lord. With courtesy
the captivating from its very naturalness your
correspondent invited to take seat and as all
hospitality resolves itself into the principle that n
guest should be made to feel himself perfectly at
home there was no objection in that respect to be
raised to the manner in which the President pro te
pore OF the Senate received his visitor.
Ben Wade may be fanatic-a hard-hearted and
unscrupuous man, but there is no extravaganza in
saying that few men are amiabe in social CONVEX
sation-few men so candid, desirous OF being
agreeable and utterly unconscious OF the necessity
of adopting a different line OF address toward
different classes Of visitors. He looks man Of over
fifty years, with sparse hair, clean shaven Counte-
nance, kindly expression, indicative Of o broad
humanitarianism, and with voice. though querulous
in its higher register yet In ordinary
benevolent and peculiarly interesting in tone it is
possible to hear.
Your correspondent inquired If the rumor had any
foundation that he intended to resign. lie replied,
laughingly, 'You are the first man heard IL from.
II may have been in the papers: but don't bother
myself reading many Of them. Whoever says I In
tend TO resign writes just TO make a sensation,
suppose, an hard up for anything else takes hold Of
Ben Wade to make something out OF llm.r
eBut It IL said the radical members of the Senate
are discussing the question Of making n formal re-
quest upon you 10 resign and allow them to select
whomsoever they please as Vice President ofs the
Senate.n
"well, they may be discussing such O subject, hut
they have kept 1t mighty secret have heard nothing
from them like asking me to resign, and II l did I
hardly think should. What have these fellows to
do with the voice OF the state OF Ohios That State
elected me, and when that State asks me to resign
III do it."
'eThen you don't intend to resign Senator, news
paper reports to the contrary notwithstandngT'
.Of course don't You might as well ask If the
State OF Ohio is going TO resign. That State sent
me to the United States Senate and In the interest
OF that state | intend to cast my vote on impeach.
ment.n
0How long will the trial last, senator's"
swell IL these fellows In the House confined them.
selves to the first articles they preferred suppose
the whole thing would he over In less than four
weeks but this spreading ont o the net may be the
means of prolonging the case"
at will All be over in FIVE weeks | suppose Sen.