Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-05
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EmpeaCh msnt Notes The trcgari-
GUS Habits of Some Senators
<haracterislics OF COunreI-Jhe
Iscpubsicans Determined to I'D ave

haracterislics OF COunheI-Uh he
Republicans DetermiH.d t" Id ave
Everything Eheir own Way.
IFrom Our Re gular Corr respondent ]
WASHING ron, April 20.
Tagging legi 1t on, aud unlagging
investigation, pushed by forty Con-
eressioual committees is now the es-
tabli he'd order in Washington. We
have occasional sensations like the
Blaine and Tucker personalities, and
tue tedium of eXiStance is occasionally
tighten, by prosy five hours speech
from $500 10. COG Senator from petty
Western State, or by apefsonal expla-
nation from popular Presidential
candidate. But to me the most inter
esting pastimc Is to observe the hall
score of Presidential aud Vice Presi-
dental candid ltes who may be seen
amosi any day in the Senate, in the
House and IN the Supreme Court. 1t
is interesting to scrutinZc men about
whom six thousand newspapers, more
than half the press Of the world, are
writing They have not been born
great, few of them have achieved
greatn SIS, but they have had a great
deal of what is called greatness forced
upon them. Forty millions of people
are talking about Thorn, and we'll they
may, for not only this nation and the
present generation but the world and
| posterity will be effected. in n1 remote
way, by the result of the election. If
our individual echoes. as the poet says,
'roil from soul to soul and live for
! ever ard forever" who will calculate
| the influence of the echoes of millions
of voters each assuming a sovereignty
that was but yesterday considered the
prerogative OF kings?
Yesterday was, by far, the most
eventful day We have yet had in the
| impeachment proceedings. It was ex-
| pected that there would-be simply an"
| other move in the pleadings, and the
reporters gallery, which is an indica-
! tor Of the importance of all Co gres
-'onaI proceedings, was but sparcely
/ li!ied. Judge Black came in half an
| boar before the court convened and
| walked about on the Senate floor arm
in arm with Gen. Garfield. Montgom-
| ely Blair, Jr., then appeared, III long
| black cloak, which we afterwards
| learned Was his pOenic uniform; and
! ex Senator Matt Carpenter surprised
every body by making his appearance
! without his custom Try swa!lOw-tall, but
In a closely buttoned frock coat. Gen.
| Beknap did not this time, enter
| through the front door, but through a
| side door Mar the table where he tooS
! his seat. By this manOuvre he avoided
p9ssiue, do Kn the aisle danked with
! oen>tOrs whom he has so often met al
the social and political boards, and
when IL has done the honors of his
CO. binet rect ptlOns.
4 stranger and loOker-On in this
court if asked to guess the presiding
officer would pass the Vice President
Senators Conkiing, Thurman and ever
! Gen. Burnside, ali tn : senators in fact
as well as the clerks, who are quite as
distinguished, both physically an6
mentally, as many OF the senator's
and point inf ,liibiy to the sandy wins
kered, full chested, perfectly atticet
man who sits eternally- as if he Were
having his photograph taken-'. w
| BeiknaD. \ number of private bill:
| and resolutions We're passed but 1913;
| the Sennte resolved its elf into higi
court of Impeachment, the tedlou:
minutes iucIpdlug the rIeadlngs wer,
read, when Mr.. Lord, On the p srt O
the managers, cndeavorai to assume
tue Initiative by fling motion, where
upon Mr.. Carpenter surprised the
| United States Senate and the United
st ,tes by asking continuance OF th'
case until Dee amber, and upon objec
ti0n. lie ng made by MIR. Lord, AR
! g trpeuier :lsed four hours to arg lie his
notion At this, Mr.. Thurman of Ohit
moved that the Senate retir" for de
lilo, ration There was debate anC
calling the ayes and nays GU this ques
ton and the motion Was los. 1t Is
| inter sting to observe United State;
! senator's voting; some of them are
more Ike sheep than is 5 opposed. A
pTufUuLd thinker has obser ed that IL
| Il elk of sheep when Que jumps Oyel
ii stick all the others will vault up into
tie air at the place where the sites
Was held although the stick has been
1t moved. There Is Il fat little sutlel
| senator who misrepresents Alabama
but he sits right behind Senator Cpnk'
ling and invariably vaults mp into the
air when he votes. The alphab 4tica
arrangement of the roll is announcement
f-r some of these senators.
Mr.. Conkiing's name does not come
until the fifteen on the roll, and
| some of the administration clippers,
Ike Bruce, Burnside, and Clayton,
don't know very we'll, how to vote
until they lave heard his horn. Mos
of the questions that come up for con
| sIdcEation are as eEIgmatIcai TO many
OF the Republican Senators as mathe
MATES TO Lord Dunlrcary, bat they
feel pretty safe ia voting n opposition
to Senator Bayard Of Delaware, whose
| name is fourth on the list.
But to return to the impeachment
The motion to allow four hours for the
| discussion of the question of coptiru
auce was granted by the Senate, and
Hon. Montgomery Blair, Judge Black
and Mr.. Carpenter advocated in turn,
the pOstpOnement OF the matter untll
December. The grounds upon which
they urged the pOstponement were
that the proximity Of the preside ntiaI
that had already been given to the
case, aud which would be given to the
i'm parchment, and to the senatorial
verdict, would make it very difficult
for even fair minded Senators, in their
dual political and judicial relations, TO
form an appropriated court. OF these
speeches that of Mr.. Blaine was the
most proIix; Judge Blacks was the
wittiest and weightiest, and Mr.. Car
penter's was the loudest and most
u6udSOSlCdl, H6 Udlhe(l dUOuU tIoaSO4
| bloc 1y handed. and land dotted with
| graves, and referred to the fact that at
$40 p. NJ, on the 7th of April just
| fourteen years, to an hour, prior to
the serving of articles of impeachment,
! the accused was in front of the last
line of Union troops that make a
stand at Shiloh.
The prosecution made 10 further
| opposition than a simple protest
against deferring impeachment, and
the Senate declined to grant the mo-
| ton of the defence. This ended the
! proceeding for Wednesday. Thursday
| Mr. Lord prayed the Senate to consid
er a motion that he had filed on the
previous day to the effect that the evi
| dence on the question pertaining TO the
plea of jurisdiction of this court, be
given first, and if such plea should be
overruled that the defendant be re-
quired to answer to articles of.im
parchment in two days; to this
Mr.. Carpenter objected, and there
was sharp discussion between the tW,