The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-03-19
THE PREsIDENT INDIGNANT NJ
CAUSE RETUsED DELAY.
WASHINGTON, March let


CAUSE REFUsED DELAY. 80
wAsH1xa1ox. March 18th.
The decision Of the Court Of I'm.
parchment declining, to allow the time
asked for BY tho President to prepare
his case surprises that individual and
his friends. They were very confident
and had been led to believe that from
twenty-five to thirty days would Is
granted, and are terribly toh.erineda and
anxious At being brought up vi.h tho
short time Of a week. ~.
The action on the part Of: the court
making the trial commence on next
Monday s.tis6e. the President and his
counsel that but little favor e.a bo ex-
pested from that BODY. and that there
will be no delay in tie tsi.l: -.
Tho decided vote, against postpone
ment has caused tho Presidents friends
in both Houses to give it up. They
now say that his occupancy Of, the
White House is only question Of time,
and that time they consider short.
Mr.. Stanberry reflects the the scnti-
ments of the President closer than any
other Of his counsel, and he is terribly
indignant. He is very bold in bis
declarations and states that if time is
not allowed he will abandon the case.
The course that the other members
Of tho counsel will pursue has not been
indicated, but the course Of stanberry
gives rise to the rumor that all will
abandon the case, and that the Presi-
dent will resign.
1t appears that under the Constitu.
ton there is no provision for filing the
Office Of Chief Justide in case Of sick
ne.s or death Of that officer, who is the
only person. that can preside At the
trial OF the PRECEDENT.
Mr.. Elliot has prepared . bill to sup
ply the deficiency, making the next
senior Justice, Chief Justice until
another can be provided. This measure
will be pressed and passed in day 0,
two.
The impeachment court will meet on
the 23d, and the trial will proceed
without delay. -
WASHINGTON, March 18th.
The Presidents friends, since the &C.
ton Of the court Of Impeachment, on
Friday, are by no means as sanguine Of
his acquittal As they were last week
The impeachen intend to press the
trial to aspeedy issue, and look upon il
as certain that Senator Wade will be
installed in the White Honse by Nay
LIST. The policy Of the House mana.
gers, Is foreshadowed in Mr.. Butler.
speech Of Friday, is to cut the defence
short by admitting ne.rly al that they
proposed to prove in the President'a
behalf.
The President, if convicted, will e
on speaking tour through the country,
commencing At New-York, and extend
ing to the far west, during which he
will attempt his own vindication. The
pressure for Office under Mr.. Wade ha,
already commenced That gentleman
is constantly in receipt Of lsts.rs from
oficeholders in the west, who have been
classcd as conservatives hitherto, a.sur.
ing him that they are the 6eroest kind
Of radicals, and in favor Of him for
either President or Vice President.
The PRECEDENT has telsgnphed Gen
Hancock to come to Washington forth.
with. As yet it has not been detsrmin.
cd that no shall be- relieved. It il
believed he is to get command of the
new military district, with headquartcr.
IN this city. 1t is rumored that Mr..
johnson has some Interior object in
view, but what it Is il not exactly
known. Some Of his friends assert that
something is to be done, but they do not
exactly state its nature or purport.
Yesterday, as Thaddcus Stevens va.
borne into the Senate, to attend tho i'm.
parchment trial, he thanked God that
he had lived to see this day, wh,vh he
pronounced the grandest occasion Of
hi, life. Rumors have been ahoat Re.
peatedly during the day., that he had
breathed his last; and, judgissfrom hi,
terribly racking cough and evidently
feeble condition, be will hardly survive
the trial he has 70 earnestly promoted
Mrs. Elizabeth Donough is ap-
pointed inspeclress of tobacuo. snud