Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-07-25
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
TUESDAY, July Is.

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vice. Referred.
te, reported bills in relation 70 partition of
real estate In the District OF Columbia. and
Ia n alton TO dowIy In the.District OF Column
oia-both northumberland they were
placed On the calendar.
On motion OF Mr.. Wright the House bill TO
provide means 10 pay the expenses OF the
which authorizes the negotiation OF a loan
not exceeding S4lS $685. at not exceeding
FER cent. was taken from the table and re-
teIItd to the District Committee.
On motion of Mr.. Hamlin the House bill
to amend certain sections of the postal code
was iaken from the table and passed.
The regular order was demanded, and
THE TRIAL SESSION
Mr. Carpenter then proceeded TO close the
argument for the respondent. He opened
occasion, not only 10 the accused, but TO
every man who ever held or who ever may
hold federal office. he appealed to the SEN
ators, worn out with long session, now
just drawing TO close, with pressing COM
mittee and other demands and personal
cases, TO give to him patient and indul-
gent hearing. He argued that a counsel
trammelled by the rules Of evidence, In pos
session of knowledge as counsel which could
not be brought before the court, owing
TO the peculiar circumstances OF the de-
fence, should be excused for any slight
manifestation Of impatience, or a hasty
remark made in the progress OF the trial. He
the decision OF the Senate, claiming It was
equivalent to q motion for q rehearing
which was admitted in every court The
Supreme Court of the United States had
overturned over hundred cases. Nor was q
petition for rehearing In Impeachment cases
anovelty. He cited case In the history OF
Edward Ill, in England, and said there was
another authority that he was authorizs ed 70
quote, as the learned manager had intro
duced 1t In his opening argument, the law
OF Levfucus, In manner which would have
hD0 10 fn -
circumcised Pharisees and Jewish doctors OF
the law. He then read from Exodus, 50,
9TH to 18th, when Moses appeared to
In commenting on this he said that Moses
used language there that night, had It been
used in court would have been considered
disIespectful, when he advised the Lord TO
take care Of bis own reputation, and not let
the Egyptians get the better of him. He
proceeded TO eulogiZe General Belknap, and
argued that after bis living fifty years al
him to fall TO such a depth and then rise up
again to the same life OF purity. BE assert
ed that q democratic committee OF the House
IN In, these campaign Cd days had thought they
without number could be found, but they
had gone through every possible source
Of information, his grace and his tai.
lor, and after many weeks and months
of weary labor and toll they had found moth
ing, So sure were they that they would find
other frauds that they reserved the right to
found none, and they had said so here. He
referred TO the French arms investigation,
and said there was an opportunity for the
Secretary to make money, but the Senate
Ger OF the army. Mr.. Carpenter next referred
to the charges against Mr.. Kerr, and said he
believed Mr.. Kerr TO be as pure as any man
here, yet the testimony was twice as strong
against him as the testimony against Gen.
Belknap. The man who swore against him
did not run away the next day, but, rascal
lz<.xr nra tor
made, Mr.. Kerr was exonerated. He was q
man who had Lot lived under bushel, and
his past character was his ample defence.
He said there was one thing that had much
to do with IL. Mr.. Kerr was a democrat.
Had be been q republican he would have
been turned out by q unanimous vote. The
democrats would nave voted for It for fun
and the republicans for principle"
Mr.. Carpenter referred 70 the case of the
arrest OF a judge by General Jackson, and
asked If the Senate would (and under the
present ruling they could but that he was
dead) impeach him for that patriotic act,
although in violation OF law.
Mr.. Carpenter argued that guilty intent
on the part OF Marsh, without alike guilty
intent on the part Of Belknap was not suffi-
cient TO warrant conviction. II must be es-
tablisked that when BelkDap took the money
he took IL with the intent To have his action
or decision Influenced thereby, these were
the words of the law, and Senators must be-
heve that when Belknap took the money he
a on es 70 H e Is a
receipt OF railroad passes and free telegraph
stamps by Senators, and read from the re-
port Of Mr. Orion, president OF the West
the issue OF stamps TO members OF
Congress had been Of far more value
to the company than the service rendered
and asked II any Senator took these stamps
with an intention to have bis action in
fiuenced thereby. Before entering on q re-
view Of the testimony, Mr.. Carpenter ap-
knap-not . jury OF beegafs and Hottentots,
but christian gentlemen, TO exercise that
highest Of christian virtues-charity-in con-
introduced the Marsh testimony with view
to show that Belknap had read it, and con-
fessed, and the Senate had admitted 1t for
that purpose: 1t had had gone all over the eoun-
But what did Mr.. Clymer testify? He said
that when 1t was read TO him Mr.. Belknap
said some parts were true, some were
all about. What q confession that was.
1t was true that he had appointed Evans; IL
was true that he had done so on the recon-
servation had been enlarged. but the testi-
mony was clear and explicit that Gen. Pope
had made the survey and sent the recon-
to the Adjutant General, SO that when 1t
came to the Secretary he suggested its refer
ence to the Interior department, as there
whisky transaction was made to appear
very suspicious, and they ask how could
Belknap answer the letter of the Solicitor OF
the Treasury, dated the %, on the Sth. This
was explained by the testimony OF Evans,
WHO was east, and was notified by telegraph,
and came and explained 1t TO the Secretary.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Hurlbut (Ill.), from the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs, reported back the bill offered
yesterday to prohibit the sale OF arms and
ammunition TO hostile Indians, aud the
same was passed.
On motion of Mr.. Bland (Mo) the House
resumed consideration of the bill reported
on Friday last from the Committee on
Mines and Mining, and entitled an act to
utilize the products Of gold and silver
mines.
Mr.. Kasson (Iowa) made the point of order
that the bill involved an appropriation of
money, and that IL must therefore be con-
eidered first In the Committee Of the Whole.
While the bill did not make . direct appro-
prfation, there were provisions upon itS lace |
which would require expenditure of money;
and II therefore comes within the rule which |
requires the nrst confederation In Commit |
the OF the Whole. |
Mr.. Banks (Mass.) argued that there was
no appropriation Of money In the bill. It |
was 0mply the declaration Of q purpose and
II any ol1cer Of the United States used one
dollar OF public money 70 carry out this bill |
without . specific appropriations In words |
and nguress he would be liable to be I'm