The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1876-08-04
Eastern STATES.

been acquitted, the vote standing s.
FIR conviction and % MT guil,y-les 3,
than the required two-ihird..
A. noon the Senate be.aI 10 vote
upon the articles # impeachment
agsinsc Wm. W. Belknap. late Score
tary of War. Upon the first article Of
impeac hment s. Senator's voted guilty,
and % not guilty, for want Of jurisdic-
ton.
Those who voted guilty 70: Bay
ard, Booth. Cameron of PennsylvAn a.
Cockerill, Cooper. Davis. Dawes,
Dennis, Edmunds, Gordon. Hamilton,
Harvey. Hitchcock. Kelley. Herman.
Key, McCreary, Mcdonald, Merriman,
Mitchell. Morrill,, Norwood, Ogleby,
Randolph. Ransom, Robertson, Sar-
gent, Salisbury, Sherman, Stephenson,
Thurman, wadleigh, Wallace. Whyte
and Withers.
Those voting in the negative were
Anthony, Allison, Boutwell, Bruce.
Cameron of Wisconsin. Christiancy,
Conkling. Conover, Cragin. Dorsey,
Eaton. Ferry. Frelinghuysen, Hamln,
Howe, Ingalls,. Jones of Nevada, Logan.
Mcmillan. Paddock, Patterson. Spen-
Ger. West, Window and Wright. Jones
of Florida, declined to vote. on the
| ground that the Senate had uo juris-
dic,ion.
The presiding officer announced that
two-thirds had not voted guilty, and
therefore the respondent was acquitted
Of the charge in the first article.
On the second article, So Senators
voted guilty and % not guilty. Maxey,
who did not answer on the first roll
call, voted guilty upon the second arti-
Gle. Those Senators who voted not
guilty repeated their reasons for doing
so for want of jurisdiction.
When Booths name was called on
the impeachment vote. he said if the
question Of jurisdiction was proposed
be would vote against it. He was
clearly of the opinion it was competent
for the Senate. by majority vote. to
assert jurisdiction, and such decision
having been made, it was the law of
the case until revised When Booth
/ made this announcement there was
some applause in the gallery. but it was
promptly checked.
Sargent gave notice that if the de-
monstration was repeated he would
move to have the galleries at once
cleared.
Jones, of Nevada. said he did not
mean to vote on the question Of the
guilt or innocence Of the accused, but
he voted not guilty on the ground tina.
the accused was u private citizen. and
not liable to impeachment. but like any
other citizen liable before any ordinary
court where he had been Indicted and
was now awaiting trial.
Upon the third and fourth articles the
vote stood as above-36 voting guilty,
% not guilty. Before the roll-call on
the fifth article WAS finished, Morton,
who had been detained on account Of a
severe fall this morning, came in and
voted guilty. the vote on the article be.
ing 81 guilty and % not guilty. Two
thirds of the Senate not having voted
in favor of the articles Of impeach
ment, it was ordered that a Judgment
of acquittal be enter j, and the Senate
sitting rs n court of impeachment adj
jourucd sine die.
| CHICAGO. Aug. Captain Pollard
of the sixth infantry, commanding sta
tion at Standing Rcck Agency. reports
to General Ruggles that seven Sioux
Indians. who were ia the battle of June
18th, have arrived at Standing Rock
and give the following account Of tho
battle: The hostiles were celebrating
the Sun dance when runners brought
news of the approach of the cavalry
the dance was suspended and genera
rush followed for the horses, equip
ments and arms Major Reno first at
tackled the village at the south and
across the Little Big Horn. Their mar
rative Of Reno's operations comedies
with the published account; how he
was quickly confronted aud surrounded
how he dismountei. RAN in the timber
remoun,cd aud cut his way back ovei
tho ford and up the bluff with cousid
cradle loss, and the time when runner,
arrived from the north end of the vii
lage or camp with the news that III,
cavalry had attacked the north end
some three or four miles distant. A
force large enough - prevent Rem,
from assuming the offensive was left
and the surplus available force followed
10 the other end Of the camp. where
finding lndisns successfully driving
Custer before them, instead Of uniting
with them. they separated into tw,
parties and moved around the i,anks q
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