The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-05-12

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.IFRoM THE ASSOCIATED PREss.1
WasHmeroM May II a ?. The Presi'
dents friends seemed apprehensive this morn
ing, but are in better spirits now. brother
in-law OF Senator Fowler is reported to have
said, that conviction is certain. Senator VII.
sons wife is reported to have expressed doubts
to her gossips, ofsetting Fowler's statement.
Hrs. Wade is rerorted as bearing herself
haughtiy. Several newspaper men Of known
impeachment proclfvities report conversations
pointing to scquittal, but they are suspected
to be decoys to .,bets, IN which they have q
commission.
The Senate went into secret session at ten
and a half o'clock, but previously on motion Of
Sherman, made arrangements to prevent de
monstrations tomorrow.
LIZ rHE HOUSE the regular calls for bills and
resolutions, are progressing. -
The Reconstrnction Committee has prepared
an omnibus bin, admitting all States on the
basisot the Arkansas bill. It Is their intention
to introduce It this afternoon, and push it
through at once. =. 3. = z = .sst.s<
LArER.-The following is the form proposed
by Judge Chase and adopted by the Senate:
Mr.. Senator, how say you, is the respondent,
Andrew Johnson, President of the United
States, guilty ofa high misdemeanor OF crime,
as charged in this article2 The senator shall
respond guilty or not guilty only.
At ten O'clock the Senate proceeded to con-
slider the articles, each senator having fifteen
minutes, and viii continue the session to q late
Eour.
The following has been gathered from seve-
raj sources, and may be regarded as reliable.
Grimes and Fessenden went through the list Of
charges, arguing against conviction. Trum-
bull and Henderson were partly through when
!. thesexpiratiou Of fifteen minutes stopped them.
They argued in favor Of acquittal Howe and
Sherman argued for acquittal on the first, but
conviction ON the second -
The Radicals acknowledge that the vote viii
be very close, abntp insist defantly that they
have thirty y-eight votes. Only the six mention
ed above or the fourteen doubtful senators
have yet spoken:
liz Tm HousE, the Joint tresoluti ffom the
Chic Legislature, protesting against the Be-
construction acts and instructing the senators
and requesting representatives to vote against
such laws, was referred to- the Reconstruction
Committee. A resolution directing the COM
mitteee on treatment Of Union soldiers to in
.quire into propositions from the confederates
for their relief, was tabled by a vote of seven
ty-6ve to forty one.
A resolution to adjourn from the 18th to the
25th was passed bya vote Of sixty-eight to Six
ty-seven. This recess is for the Chicago Con-
vention.
The bill extending the charter Of the City Of
Washington was passed. Stevens introduced
the following: Whereas, the people of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama
have, in pursuance of the provisions of an act
entitled an act for the more efficient govern
ment Of the rebel States, passed March Q, 1867,
and the acts supplementary thereto, framed
constitutions of State government, which are
republicanin form, and have adopted said con-
stitutions By large majorities Of the votes cast
at the elections held, for the ratification or re,
lection Of the same; therefore, be it enacted,
that the States Of North Carolina, South Carroll.
Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama shall be en-
titled and admitted to representation Tin Con;
gress as Statesof the Union when the Legisla-
tures of said States respectively shall have duly
ratified the amendment to the Constitution Of
the United States, proposed by the thirty ninth
Congress, and known as article the fourteenth,
upon the following fundamental conditions:
that the constitutions of said States shall new
er be 30 amended or changed as to deprive any
citizen or class 0; citizens Of the United
to vote by said constitutions respective
~, except for such crimes as are now felonies
at common lay, whereof they shall have been
duly conyicteds and no person shall ever be
held to service or labor, as punishment for
crime in said States, except by public officers
charged with the custody Of convicts, by the
laws thereof. Second, that if the day fixed for
the meeting OF the Legislatures of said States
by the constitutions thereof shall have passed
before the passage of this act, such Legisla-
tures may be convened within thirty days after
the passage Of this act by the presidents Of the
conventions which formed the constitutions o Z
such States. Third, that the first section Of
this act shall take effect when the President Of
the United States shall officially proclaim the
due ratification by the legislatures. Of the said
States respectively Of article fourteenth of the
amendment to the Constitution Of the United
States proposed BY the Thirty ninth Congress.
This bill was made the special order for We'd
nesday, and to be continued from day to day
until disposed of.
A bill was reported from the same commit
tee removing disabilities from some two hun
dred citizens of North Carolina, and passed by
eighty-nine to twenty-three, being over the
two-thirds required for such legislation.
Stevens, with some disgust at the remarks
of the Speaker that fhey would probably be
called to the bar OF the Senate tomorrow,
moved that The House, adjourn to Wednesday.
Under the remonstrances Of those near him,