The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-03
CONGRESSIONAL.
The L. =. Senate Votes Mr. Beik.
nap "NOt Guilty"
35 Senator's Vote for and %
Against Impeachment.
Congress will Adjourn at Noon on
Monday Next.
SENATE.

W "eAy
Immediately after the reading of the Jour
nal, Mr.. BAIARD said: am sure the
Senate and country will be deeply affected
by the announcement Of the melancholy
event Of yesierday-the death OF our late
friend and brother, Allen +. Caperton,
Senator from West Virginia. move as a
mark Of respect, so justly due to the mem.
Ory Of this excellent and honorable man,
that The S-nste stand adjourned until to-
morrow at ii O'CLOCK.
Mr.. STEVENSON said he eoncurred in
what had been said by the SENATOR from
Delaware. He moved that committee OF
four Senators be appointed to accompany
the remains OF the deceased to his late res.
idence in West Virginia AGREED To, and
tte Chair appointed Messrs. Davis, Cooper,
Booth and Hitchcock such committee.
The motion of Mr.. Bayard was then
agreed to and the Senate adjourned.
WASHINGTON, ID. C., July 81.
Resolutions prohibiting any supply oi
special metallic cartridges 10 hostile Indian,
were parsed.
Mr. INGALLS, said that the man who
would sell ammunition to Indians nov
should be hanged TO the nearest telegraph
pole, or shot by drum. head court mar
iiai
The CHAIR laid before the Senate .
Communication frem the Secretary Of Wal
transmitting a diapatch from Lieut. Gen
Sheridan recommending an increase in
cavalry, and recommending an sppropria
tion To defray the additional expense o
such increase.
The dispatch was accompanied by bill
authorizing the increase, and making an
appropriation OF 81 ,63i, 200.
The bill passed. 1t provides that no
more than =, 800 men be enlisted under IN,
| act.
BY vote of 2i yeas to 32 nays, the Sen
ate refused to consider the amendment Il
the rules for the government of irppeach
ment trials 40 a. TO have the delibera ation
in open session, and the doors were CLOSED
for the discussion of the final question il
the Belknap Impeachment.
During the secret session, Mr.. CONk
LING submitted the following:
Ordered, that when Senators are called to
vote whether the articles of Impeachment, ,o
either of them, are sustained, any Senate
who votes in the negative, shall be at lib
erty to state, If he chooses, that he Tesi
his vote on the absence of guilt proved, o.
in want Of Jurisdiction, as the case may be
and his vote shall be entered in the journa
accordingly.
Amended 20 as to permit each Senator il
giving his vote, TO state his reasons there
Tor, occupying not more than one minute
which reasons shall then be entered on tn,
Journal in connection with his vote, and i'm
mediately follow ing his name and vote.
| Tho orIar op,apJ~d ~aa oIopfo1
Mr. EDMUNDS offered an order 80 "a L
allow any Senator to give his reasons, if any
in accordance with tn. order already adop
ted. Agreed to.
The Senate sitting as a court of Impe ach
ment, adjourned until tomorrow.
NJ. ALLISON, from the committee OIL
appropriations, reported back the river an,
harbor appropriation bill, with amend
meats, and it was placed on the calendar.
The House bill to continue the publi
printing in advance of the regular appro
pristion, House bill to continue until tn
10th Of August the act to provide tempcra
riIy for expenses Of the q .vsrnment, N,
House bill 10 further authorize the Com
missioner of Indian Affair. to purchas
supplies for the Indian bureau in opel
market, were taken up and passed wi,hou
amendment
Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, d. c., August l.
At noon, the Senate began to vote upo
the articles Of impeachment againt Mr. Be-
knap, late Secretary of War. UpOn tn
first article of impeachment, So Senator
voted guilty, and % not guilty, for want O
Jurisdiction those who voted guilt
were Messrs Bayard, Booth, Cameron, O
Pa, Cockrell, Cooper, Davis, Dawes, Den
nis, Edmurds, Gordon, Hamilton, Harvey
Hitchcock, Kelley, Herman, Kew, McCreery
Mcdonald, Merriman, Mitchell, Morril
Norwood, OgIesby, Randolph, Ransom
Robertson, Sargent, Salisbury, Sherma an
Stevenson, Thurman, Wadleigh, Wallacs
White an WIthers
Voting in the negative were Mes.r.
Anthony, Boutwell,, Bruce, Cameron, .
Wisconsin, Allison, Chri-tiancy, ConkIine
Conover, Cragin, Dorsey, Eaton, Ferry
Jones. Of Nevada, Logan, Mcmillan, Pad
dock, Patterson, Spencer, West, Window
and Wright. Jones, Of Florida, decii, e,
TO vote on the ground that the Senate ha,
no jurisdiction.
Those Senators who voted mot guilty,
repeated that their reason for doing so va
the want Of jurisdiction.
The presiding officer announced that two
thirds had not voted guilty" and there
fore the respondent was acquitted OF tn
charge in the first article. Ga the secont
article, thirty six Senators voted "guilty,
and twenty five, ''rot guilty"
| Mr.. MARCY, who did not answer on the
first roll-call, voted guilty" upon the sec
ond article.
Upon third and fourth articles the vot,
stood as above, 50 voting guilty and % no
guilty. Before roll call ON the 9th articl.
was finished, Mr.. Morton, who had beer
detained on account Of severe fall thu
morning, came in and voted guilty., max
ing the vote on that article 81 guilty anc
% not guilty. Two-thirds OF the Senate
not having voted for sustaining the articles
of impeachment, it was ordered that a
Judgment of scguittal be entered and the
Senate sitting as a court adjourned sins
die
The Chair laid before the Senate a mes
sage from the President in answer to a res.
olntion passed July 10Th, transmitting cop
| les Of the correspondence between himself
and Gov Chamberlain, and other reports ir
| regard to the recent trouble at Hamburg, )
G. The President in concluding his mes
sage, alludes to the disturbance in South
Carolina, and says he awaits the forthcom.
ing report of the committee which recently
invest gated Mississippi affairs, feeling con-
ident that 1t will sustain all he has said
aboutfraud and violence in that State.
Ordered printed, and laid on the table.
The Chair announced a. the new confer
ence committee on consular and diplomatic
appropriation bills, Messrs. Sargent, Bout
we'll and Norwood.
The joint resolution providing for the
restoration of the writing of the original
Declaration of independence, was passed.
Mr.. ALLISON called up the conference
report on the military academy appropria-
ton bill, and in explanation thereof stated
that the bill as agreed upon in the confer
ence appropriated $74,675 les than the
bill Of last year. As the bill came to the
Senate from the House, it appropriated
S239, S3l, to which amount the Senate add
ed S49,610. The conference committee had
reduced the bill to the extent of SlS,77
The report was agreed to.
Mr. INGALLS,, from the committee on
Indian affairs, reported back the Senate
bill TO authorize the Secretary of the Int
rior to deposit certain Indian trust funds in
the United States treasury, in
lieu of investment, and moved
that the Senate nonconcur in the anne d.
ment Of the Hou-e to said bill, and asked
for . committee on conference. So ordered.
Mr.. PADDOCK called up the House
bill to establish new land distribution in
the Territory Of Wyoming, to be known as
Evanston District Psa-ed.
The CHAIR announced Messrs. West and
COckreii "a members of the commi.sioc IN