The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-03-16

oom mittee and having given no indica-
t;on of contempt of the House, II was
hev nd The power of the committee OF Oh
~ Uouse 70 have ordered him into Gus
tody, or to have restrained MN IN any
manner of his liberty, without havins ss
been guilty of almost as great auVan19so W.
az that charged on the Secretary OF war
Marsh. however, might have been TAKEN
in custody in pursuance of law by an
other department of the government ne
GKnott( did not insinuate that the olsc
tinguished head of the Department Oh
Jnstice. or that the District Attorney was
NOT aware of the proper mode and man
ner of securing Marsh's detention, There
wos hnt one method now by when
Marsh could be brought back, ana IhaV
method was an infallible one. u was IN
the mower of one man to have Marsh III
Washington city in forty-eight hours
Twas a simple plan, one known 10 the
legal profession from the earliest dawn Oh
;nrisnrndence. If the President OF the
United States really, honestly ana SIN
cerely desired the impeachment OF tlle
late Secretary of War, whose enormous
crimes had disgraced his own admins
tration. and had caused every American
cheek to mantle with shame, all tilaV ne
bad to do was to give assurance 10 tne
witness, Marsh, that if he would come
before the tribunals and tell the truIh,
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth. he should have free PARDON ana
Marsh would be in Washington in forty
ai@ht bonrs Marsh was not coming
without such assurance, and no sane man
in his situation would come without sucn
assurance, after what had been bIazoned
all over the country. The question there-
fore presented itself to the commlVtee,
what was most advisable for the house
70 do, and the committee had concluded
that to present articles of impeachment,
with the moral certainty that there woulu
he no sufficient evidence to sustain them,
would put the House in an attltude
which would render it ridiculous In tne
ewes of the world and contemplate IN
ia own estimation. He did not believe
that there was more than one man IN the
House who would feel disposed to place
the House in that attitude, particularly
when abundent evidence might, with o,p'
portunity, be procured to sustain the
charge. cn T.,
Mr., Lynd, another member of the Ju,
dietary Committee, sustained the report
of the committee, and submitted lhaI
even if Marsh were present 1t Woulu hoV
be prudent to present articles on his tes-
timony alone, particularly when 1t was
apparent that other important testimony
could be procured. He regretted the
manifestation of any partisan feeling on
the subject, and intimated that no mem
her of the House could ride into the
Presidency on the manner in which thls
investigation should be conducted.
At the conclusion of Lynd's remarks,
Mr.. Lawrence. also member OF the Ju'
dietary Committee, tried to get the toor
but Mr.. Knott moved the previous ques-
ton and resisted appeals OF Republican
members to withdraw the motion. g,
The previous question was seconded
and the resolution adopted.
Mr.. Knott then moved the previous
question on the bill to protect witnesses
Who shall be required to testify IN cases.
Mr.. Kasson appealed to the Mr., Knott
not to insist upon the previous question,
lint to allow some little discussion.
Mr., Blaine-There have been two
speeches made on the opposite side of
the House (shouts of order, order, from
the Democratic side). Every man here
is in favor of the bill, but we want one
short speech on the question from mem
ber of the Judiciary Committee (contlnu'
ous shouts of order, order).
Mr.. Davis, the gentleman from Name
is out of order, and he knows 1t; lie
ought to obey the rules OF the House.
Laughter --,
A vote by tellers was taken on second
ing the previous question, but the Kepuo-
licans generally refrained from voting, SO
that there did not appear to be quorum
There being nothing in orderin that con-
dition except motion to adjourn, or for
a call of the House, Mr.. Blaine again APP
pealed to Mr.. Knott as saving of time
to allow Il short debate. He himself did
not want to speak more than fifteen min
utes
Mr.. Hoar said that there were some
apparent defects in the bill, and that the
previous question would prevent the
offering of amendments. He thought the
bill would easily pass.
Mr.. Blaine-Ihe vote would be unani-
nous.
MIR. Knott declined to make any com
promise, and so there was nothing for 1t
but a call of the House.
After call, which showed the pres
ence of quorum, Mr.. Blaine made an
other effort to secure chance of discus
sion on the Republican side, discIaiming
anything that had the appearance OF fill
clustering, but his voice was drowned in
shouts of order from the Democrats.
Another vote by tellers had the same
result, and there was another call of the
House. After two hours consumed in
this way, an arrangement was made
which Mr.. Knott said he had proposed
from the beginning, that half of the hour
left to the Committee after seconding the
previous question should be given to Mr..
Lawrence. Lawrence yielded part OF
that time to KassOn, who expressed his
regret that statements which had been
made Yesterday in the heat of debate had
to-day been repeated by the cool gentle
man from Kentucky (Knott.) Kasson
undertook to show that Marsh could lot
have been frightened away by any Cabi-
net proceeding, as Marsh had left Wash
ington at u o'clock on Thursday, three
hours before the report was presented in
the House, and could not have learned
anything abouta mythical meeting OF the
Cabinet till he read it in Montreal on
Saturday morning.
Mr.. Lawrence also yielded few min
utes to Blaine, who declared he was au-
thorized to say that there never had been
any instructions in the Cabinet to prose
cute Marsh. Marsh's case had never
been considered in the Cabinet, but
simply the question of prosecuting Bel,
knap. Ifany body stated that Marsh had
been frightened out of the country by
anything the Cabinet had done, he stated
what had no foundation in fact The
simple failure of the Committee on Ex-
penditures in the War Department tC
discharge Marsh would have retained
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