The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-05-01
WARRINGTON LITTER.
Impeachment Notes.-The Gregarious
Habits OF some Senators-Charac-
teris,ies Of COunsel-The Republt-
cans Determined 10 Have Every
thing Their Own Way.

cans Determined TO Have Every
thing Their Own Way.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, April 90.
Tagging legislation aud unlagging in
vestigation, pushed by forty Congress
sionsl committees, is now the established
order in Washington. We have occa
sional sensations like the Blaine and
Tucker personalities, and the tedium of
exis,ance is occasionally lightened by a
prosy five hours speech from a 500, 1000
Senator from petty Western State, or
by personal explanation and complete
yindication from popular Presidential
candidate. But to me the most in
teresting pastime is to observe the
half Il score of presidential and vice-pres'
idential candidates, who may be seen al
most any day in the Senate, in the House,
and in the Supreme Court. 1t is inter-
| estjpg to scrutinize men about whom
5000 newspapers more thsn half the
press of the world, are writing. They
have not been born great, few of them
have achieved greatness, but they have
had great deal of what Is called great
ness forced upon them. Forty millions
of people are talking about them, and
we'll they may. for not only this nation
and the present generation but the world
and posterity will be effected, in no re-
mote way, by the result of the election.
If our individual echoes, as the poet says,
.roll from soul to soul and live forever
and forever" who will calculate the In
fuencs of the echo Of million OF voters
each assuming q sovereignty that was
ba, Yesterday considered the perogative
of kings2
Yestsr day was, by far, the most event
full day we have yet had in the impeacn.
ment proceedings. 1t was expected that
there would be simply another move in
the pleadings, and the reporters gallery,
which is an indicator of the importance
all Congressional proceedings, was but
sparsely filed. Judge Black came in
halt an hour before the court convened,
and walked about on the Senate floor arm
in arm with Gen. Garfield. Montgomery
Blair. Jr, then appeared, in long black
Goa, which we afterwards learned was
his polemio uniform; and ex-senator
Mat: Carpenter surprised everybody by
making his appearance without his
cus,on ary swallow-tsil, but in closely
bu,tonei frock coat Gen. Belknap did
not this time enter through the front
door. but through a side door near the
table where he took his seat. By this
maneuvre he avoided passing down the
aisle. fsnked with Senators whom be has
so Zen met at the social and political
bo. rds, and when he has done the honors
ut the cabinet receptions,
A stranger and looker-on in this court
il asked to guess the presiding officer
would pass the Vice President, Senators
Conkling, Thurman, and even General
Burnside, all the Senators in fact, as we'll
as the clerks, who are quite rs distin-
guished, both physically and mentally, rs
many OF the Senators-and point lnfaiil-
bly 10 the sandy .whskered, fuli-chested,
perfectly -attired man, who sits e.ernaiiy
as if be was having his photograph tsken'
w. w. Belknap.
A number Of private bills and resolu-
tions were passed, but at 1880 the sen
ate resolved itself into high court OF
impeachment, the tedious minutes IN
cluding the pleadings were read, when
Mr. Lord on the part of the managers,
endeayored to assume tho initiative oy
filing motion, whercupon Mr.. CarPen-
ter surprised the q. s. Senate aud the
United States BY asking . continuance o.
the case until Decsnbsl, and upon os-