The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-05-19
THE REPORTED ACQUITTAL OF THE
PRESIDENT.

| PRESIDENT.
The following dispatch was received
here yesterday:
CHICAGO, May 16.-Nooo.-Senate voted
| on eleventh article. Vote stood 30 for con-
| viction, 10 for acquittal.
The following Senators voted with the
Democrats Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes,
Trumbull, Van Wrinkle, Ross and Hender-
son-(O.
WASHINGTON, May 1912 o'clock.-Sen-
| ate il now discussing a motion to adjourn.
The genuineness Of this dispatch is
doubted, although, if we were assured
of its truthfulness, it would merely con-
firm suspicious already entertained re-
gardiug the course OF the Republican
Senators named. Some suspicious
features Of the report are that it in
cludes the name of Grimes, who has
been said to be stricken with paralysis,
that the names are not arranged in
alphabetical order, as they should be, if
taken from the Senate Roll Call, and
that a motion to adjourn was being dis
c3tssed. The merest iyro in pariamen-
tary law knows that motions to adjourn
are not debatable, in the Senate, at any
rate, and, we suppose, reasoning from
analogy, they could not be discussed Tor
debated) in the court composed of Sem
ators. We are not disposed to doubt
the truth of the report because we de-
sire different result, but because, as ii
seems TO US, the chances are about even
that it is a canard, furnished forth for
whatever effect it may have upon the
true, we are left in the dark as to the
action had BY the court with regard to
the entire list of articles. 1t is mere
matter of guess work as to whether all
the articles were voted on, seriatim, an i
that the reported action with regard to
the eleventh article is the nearest ap-
proach to conviction that was arrived |
at, or whether the majority-the sure
friends of conviction-concluded to ties,
the matter by risking the fate of that
most immateriai Of the articles. The
latte7 conclusion would seem to be the |
most reasonable, inasmuch as the dis |
patches are dated at noon and know
ing that the court meets at eleven
o clock, there would seem to have been
hardly time enough for action upon the
entire numb Of articles.
Whatever the case may he, whether
these kilograms state the truth or not,
the probabilities are that final action
the more essential articles
has not been had; and our reasons for
so believing are, that the majority of
The Senate (as represented by the 50 who
voted for convictiou) are determined to
avail themselves Of the assistance of the
welve Senators from the newly recon
;tructed Southern States, if it be pos
'ible SO to DO. A bill admitting those
States has already passed the House by
l more than two-thirds vote; and there
5 no doubt of its passage through the
Senate and It's veto by the President.
rhe test will then come in the shape of
he question ia the Senate 'shall the
Jill become a law, Notwithstanding the
objections of the President" If the
: conscientious Senators are merely
influenced by their convictions Of law,
hey will 10, oppose the passage of the
ill over the veto but if, on the con-
rary, they occupy the position which
hey do in order to th wart impeachment,
t any rate, they will stultify themselves /
y voting to exclude the Southern Sem !
tors from their seats. IF, as we sus- a
ect, the action reported above was had :
Nth view to ascertaining to a certainty 5
rho of the Republicans had gone over c
0 Johnson's side, there is strong pos
Utility that our representations with
peard to the Southern Senators is cor
act :,