Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-05

lite We never touched hands after the
episode. The talk that had with Johnson
before he moved into the White House was
Sufficient to prove he had sold out his prln-
cipleS and was a renegade
$50 set about preparing articles or I'M
parchment, as soon as an opportunity OF
fered to reach him. and which +laaied De-
cause Of the remissness OF 'hoss OF hansa a..
who defeated the project in the teeth OF
opposition from his own state. hansas was
against johnson and for impeachment TO
man. except in so far as her representation
In Congress was concerned, ana peiieVe
she tried her best TO control theIi'a' oul
couldn't.
Kansas voted against impeachment tnere
was lying on his desk telegram from
Kansas signed by D. r. Anthony, the vet
eran editor, and a thousand others, telllng
him to vote for impeachment or come nome
for political death. There was also on ms
desk a telegram ready to send IN reply
that he would vote his convictions regard
less of what the state instructed, and II
was signed In full with his name
A Scene Never to Be Forgotten.
""rhose who were in the Senate chamber
when the vote was taken that day Will
never forget it. Among the senators was
Grimes Of Iowa, who was at the time
stricken with death, but, in desire to do
what he thought justice to johnson, was
man, to cast his vote against impeachment
The House had adjourned to permit US
all to go over. There were present mem
bers Of the cabinet foreign ministers mem
bers OF the Supreme Court and otner dig
nitaries, as well as many women: Cnlei
Justice Chase presided, as he had all
through the proceedings. You could nave
heard the drop Of q pin.
cit was known positively that eighteen
senators would vote against the resolution
0f a
would defeat. For days we had iaDored TO
get an expression Of opinion from eacn
senator but many eyaded us, and Ross
said frankly that he would not tell a living
man how he would vote. He was true to
his word. ,,.
sure exactly how each senator would vote.
except Ross, and his vote either way Would
carry the day. We tried to build courage
on the sentiment OF Kansas. which was
squarely and avowedly for impeachment,
but all the time felt that Ross was going
to bolt. r~r
".When his name was called, deathlike
stiffness came oversthe Senate chamber.
and the faint whisper of his response was
not perceptible ten feet away. A senator
asked how he had voted and he repeated
in a clear, loud tones issy -
"'"Not guilty." T.yotns . "a =
There was not muchiuse to, go on with
the roll call, for there were only two more
votes that way and we knew them-Trum-
Dull ana van -WlhkteT All oenoiS WofS ioH
impeachment, and It only needed Ross re-
Spouse to decide the matter.
Little Satisfaction fla Ross Get.
isfaction except c aissaaa conscience, out of
it. He thought he was fight. but his idea
of right and mine ediff9f. Johnson was
whttewashed, but fhe acoat didn't last
WE'LL" nwof
Ashley was a noted sfgure In Congress.
He wrote and introduced in the Thirty
seventh Congress, In 1s84 the resolution to
free the slaves In the District OF Columbia.
1t was amended so asEto give slave owners
compensation for their slaves He intro
duced in Congress what afterward became
law, the fifteenth amendment, which pro-
vides the rights of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be denied or abrfdg-
ed by the United States or by any state on
account of race, color or previous condition
Of servitude.
Ross was native OF Ohio. He learned
the printers trade and was for q time
foreman of the Milwaukee Sentinel. At the
beginning of troubles In Kansas he became
the editor OF the Kansas Tribune, the only
free state paper In the territory at the
time, the others having been destroyed. He
was appointed to the United States Senate
to succeed Lane. This was In 1865.
Ross Is still living. setting type on
newspaper down In Arizona or New Mexico.
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