Year: 1868

WASHINGTON March IL 1895.
TIE Impeachment TrisI-Scramble for Tick.


cts to Witness the Proceedinss-visitors TO
the White House.


Tonight the absorbing topic In this city is i'm
parchment. Everybody is talking about 1t and
everybody Is looking forward with eager in
terest to the scene in the Senate tomorrow, when
the return of the President to the summons is
to be made before that august body sitting High
Court Of Impeachment. The efforts to tickets
to-day have been unremitting, and quite oppressive
for Senators, Representatives and all officials sup
posed to have something to do with the distribu-
tiOn. Old Ben Wade, who is supposed to be the
head and front OF the whole affair." was besieged from
early morn till near midnight by half thousand ap
picants, in most cases representing themselves as
reporters of the press. Old Ben, with his natural
shrewdness tripped up a good many bogus
representatives Of the republic of letters and sent
them sorrowing away without hope of being ad
mitted to the grand spectacle Your correspondent
was present last evening when a bearded
Bohemian entered Senator Wade's room with
q strap over his shoulder and q heavy
leather bag attached thereto, and inquired
Of the Senator IL he had not ticket to spare for
representative of the press. The Senator returned
. negative answer, and the Bohemian disappeared,
wheTeupon Mr. Wade remarked, 'That sort of fel-
lows have been botherng here for the last couple
of days, but from their multitudin0us number-a
couple OF hundred, / think-I conclude they
are d-n set Of bogus reporters and
scalawags.n All the tickets OF Senators, Represent
atives, Judges and others entitled to favor have
been gobbed up already and as consequence there
is much indignation and wrath among the disap-
pointed.


Grumbling at the exclusive arrangements made
by the Senate Is the order OF the night,
and the growing grows as the hours
speed ahead, promising no very pleasant
prospect for the parties who originated and worked
to the ticket system adopted by the Impeach
ment Court The style OF the tickets themselves is
being criticised with little acrimony. 'Why should
the Senate make big show OF this solemn trial and
cause tickets to be issued as to a theatre
or grand dramatic exhihitionw ask the grum-
blers; and why, indeed people in general
may well ask, for there Is no good reason why
anything Of the kind should be done, except for
the benefit of the press and the Corps Diplomatque
The galleries In general should be free to the
pubic-frst come, first served-and not re-
served for the special benefit OF Senatorial
pets and favorites Of members OF the lower House.
As the arrangements now stand the Senators
and less pretentious Representatives get the lions
share, while the press is cramped up in narrow quar-
ters and the great journals Of the country get no
more accommodation than the obscurest and least
influential OF this capital. have seen speci-
mems OF these different kinds OF tickets,
two OF which arc got up in highly sensa
Isonal style, with the words Impeachment
OF the President' in flowing letters, and displayed
much as the job printers get out their mammoth
spre9deagle posters for your metropolitan theatres
Here is copy Of the ticket provided for MEMBERS