The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-03
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| CoNsPIRACT-THE PRESIDENTS pan or
| IMPEACHMENT.
The Herald's special says: As interested
observers on the field of challenge there were
lex Governor Warmoth, Senator McAillep.
Pinchpack, with his counsel, Billings and
Carter, while in the distance were Bar
rett, who is said to be a hired. I'M
scrupulous Bohemian, in the pay Of
Duren. Mr.. Evarts, old Ben Wade
and General Sherman were also atten-
tive listeners to the clustering attacks on
| Morton and the exposition made OF the
shocking election frauds practiced by KEEL
| i0gg, DrreiI and packard. Carpenter made
plain case 20 the senate in glsSectipg the
| testimony as taken before the committee on
| privileges and elections, Being occasionally
prompted by Thurman and Egmunds
| Morton was attacked with keen severity.
and Carpenter, turning to the evil
| dence, said he contemplated the atti-
tude OF the Quilted States with mingled
emotions OF regret and shame. Review
ing the opinions of eight senators OF the
committee and the 794 pages OF testimony
taken at ne Investigation, he commended
| that there ws no legislature in Louisiana.
find that the case of Pinchback as a prima
e9cie one, so strongly urged by Morton at
first. was overturned. He spoke of the
ingenuity of the Indiana senator in
whitening sarcasm, and said that Pinch
eleetion by body authorized 10 elect. Il
cid not matter at which end Won COM
menced TO investigate the case. BE desired
once and for all to wash bis hands 81 IL and
20 snow lts hlueousneSs in All rs n-h s-tit sos
The Louisiana plotters were determined to
have government, even If it were 10 BE had
only by fraud. II Warmotb could not abol-
ish the board with the legislature in his pock-
and having full control of it, he thought he
should be immortal. He sketched the rascal
nf 7 !
amusing yet condemnatory fulness, and then
passed on to Durell's unheard OF order to take
possession of the state house and the hold
ing OF 1t for six weeks with United states
troops, and said he wished he could have it
read to every American citizen throughout
the country. For fulness of fact IS selected
in the testimony and directness of tie evil
dence adduced, Senator Carpenter mas not
been excelled in this arraignment
which he has made OF an outrageous
lican government, and as the actors are
brought up one by one from Jacques TO
Durell and from Bouvet to Plnchback, with
Warmoth and his minions in the setting,
one sees ip them the INSCRIPTIONS asssssins
and reckless adventurous who thought an
slightly Of destroying the integrity of
commonwealth as they did Of tossing of the
whisky which controlled them in their
foolhardy conspiracy and midnight orgies.
During the scalping process of Carpenters
dKkuIcHb w Osb lthlS DdCk smiles WlIh
satisfaction. Pinchbsck, seated with Nc
MILAN, his competitor. eyes Morton with
the glazing eagerness and steadfast look of q
tiger, while in. contrast to this the great
American lawyer (Evarts) calmly strokes
his chin as he attentiveIy notes the
points. Carter does not leave his
seat. but with his hand 10 to his deaf
ear is riveted by the unsparing words
of Carpenter. McEnery, on yonder side of
the hall, squirms convulsively and shoves up
his eyebrows with the regularity of a press
feeder. Norton, the assignee in bankruptcy
and the debauched right bower" of DnrelI,
passes boldly where honest men only should
stand. Warmoth, gloved and caned, sits
gloomily and goreboding in Boutwell's sect,
and Cain, the colored member of Congress,
who SO numerically scored Robbins in the
House, has come to listen to the criminal
prosecution, while Barrett, who is said to be
in the pay OF Durell, skulks close by, and
Ben Wade calmly views the scene; while
Sherman, who marched down to the sea, sits
by his brother and looks Mortified at the
whole affair.
THE PRESIDENTS vEx.
The real cause Of tbs suppression Of the
presidents message on the Louisiana mon
strosity was revealed to-day by very ordi-
nary circumstance. 1t appears that the
president, determined to carry into effect
his desire to unlosd, proposed 10
P P,v upon CONGRESS tb the rosPGnsi
matter right. When, however, It was
made TO appear that his message might en-
trap him and be used against the republican
party as good grounds for his impeachment,
he suddenly became converted, and realized
that he had been guided by LAWYERS who were
not statesmen and statesmen who were not
lawyers. Now, what Senator Carpenter
is to relieve the president of
the odium Of impeachment fame, and be
will claim, in the conclusion Of his
speech tomorrow, that the Louisiana case
never presented facts giving the president
Jurisdiction under constitutional law, so far
as political issue or the legal status of
the state of Louisiana. were concerned.
1t is well known that at one time the
president stated that he never designed
to recognize the Kellogg government, and
Mr.. Carpenter will maintain that wherein
the president has been unauthorized or
in his action, the loose and ex-
advice and superserviceable inter-
of Attorney General Williams has
been the occasion and the excuse of all ques-
tionable executive action. This is all that
Mr.. Carpenter can allege in defence OF the
president, and whether the case is decided
for or against by the committee on privileges
and elections, the president will ind himself
in an uncomfortable position, worthy
Of impeachment, through the assump-
lion of authority or its exer-
else at the suggestion OF such partisan ad-
visers. Two modes OF getting rid OF Judge
Durell are suggested by republicans, with
5he view of avoiding his impeachment and
.he damaging effect it might have upon the
One is that he shall resign,
and a tremendous pressure is being brought
20 bear uponzhim to that end. Another is
% abolish the present United States Judicial
District of louisiana, and to erect in its
stead two judicial districts, which would
egislate Durell out of Office, with no proba
oilisy of his being reappointed.
At Christmas the manager Of a Liverpool
heater advertised for good looking singing
aides. he received 800 replies. A country
lotel chambermsid swore she was full Of
talent and cut good figure. a
titled lady. with $1,000 per year. offered 10