Year: 1868

WASHINGTON, March 20, 1885,
The Impeachment Managers Investigating


Committee-Private Telegrams Brought Be-


fore the Committee-Senator Henderson Re-


fuses 10 Appear-Examinati0n of Witnesses.


The eliminating point in the arbitrary and out
rageous action Of the Board Of Impeachment Mana
gers since they have resolved themselves into what
IL elegantly termed here "a smelling committee"
was probably reached to-day. In everything that


has been done since last Saturday evening the cloven
foot OF Butler crops out conspicuously. Who else
could suggest and carry out the unparalleled sug-
gestion of examining the private bank &C
count Of private citizen who accidentally
happened to draw large sum Of money
the evening before the vote was taken
and the President acquittedp And of course nobody
else but one who had played the irresponsible and
lawless despOt on some former occasion could have
Thought, and thinking could have dared, to perpe-
trate such hghhanded outrage on the rights of
American citizens as to seize upon all the private
telegraphic dispatches sent from here since last
Friday. When people learned this evening that this
act had been committed they expressed themselves
incredulous but ascertainng the truth of the mat
ter, they grew indignant in many instances beyond
expression and wondered If radical ingenuity could
devise anything else more offensive and more
nagrantly indefensble To-day subpgnas were served
upon the managers Of three telegraph companies in
this city to appear before the Board, and having
done so they were commanded by Butler to bring all
the private dispatches filed on Friday night, and
every night SINCE before the Committee of Investiga
ton. The meek and obliging telegraph men did as
ordered, and the extraordinary spectacle was exhi-
bted OF an investigation committee, composed
entirely of the extreme men Of an extreme party
issuing edicts as autocratc as any ever issued by
fhaN rnfD u loF<,x Ax,>
rights and feelings Of American citizens as ever the
Directory of Paris showed to the unhappy adherents
OF the Bourbons.


Among the witnesses summoned to appear before
the Star Chamber to-day were Senator Henderson,
Edmund Cooper Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury,
and Major r. W. Newton, Of New York. These three
witnesses were not examined, however. Major
Newton and Colonel Cooper were partially examined
or at least foundation was laid on which to erect
superstructure tomorrow, after which they were
eraciously permitted to depart until eleven O'Clock
tomorrow morning


Popular opinion here has been for long time
gradually drifting towards that point where forbear
ance with investigating committees is no longer
regarded as patriotic necessity In regular legs-
lative proceedings, where it becomes an imperative
duty to investigate what may seem to be corrupt
action the part Of any ocer or set Of officers the
public feel that some temporary inconvenience and
annoyance must be submitted for the general good
but when "smelling committees" spring up frUn
fruitful field OF twohrd majority with the profu-
sion of mushrooms, and more especially when
committee Of this kind Is formed Of the Board Of
Impeachment Managers, who are appointed for
the purpose Of using every means to secure the con-
vctlon Of the President and whose members are
exclusively radical for the purpose Of prying into
the private affairs Of citizens; seizing their private
a,A foyau m rfoiU uh thar fba
Judges of the highest judicial tribunal in the land
have come to their decisions through fair means,
thereby innicting upon the Senate of the United
States insult of the grossest kind public opinion
expresses its strong disapprobaton in terms louder
than a murmur, and will ere long insist on being
heard.


The Board of Managers held another meeting this
morning. II. v. N. Boynton, OF the Cincinnati
Gazette was examined concerning two conversa-
tons he had with Senator Ross, during which
the latter promised he would vote for conviction on
the eleventh article Mr.. Boynton detailed the con-
versations and circumstances connected with them.
From his evidence 1t appears on two separate occa-
sons Ross told him he had made up his mind to vote
for conviction, because he believed the President
guilty OF of the charges The last conversation
Boyni0n had with Ross was on the last Wednesday
before the vote was taken. Edmund Cooper, acting
Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury, also exam
ined this morning touching his supposed connection
with certain members Of the whiskey ring but
nothing Of Importance was elected


II seems that the statement that Dan voorhees, was
before the Impeachment Investigation Committee is
incorrect. Mr.. Voorhees, says he has not as yet been
summoned, but that when he Is, and when Butler
asks him IL he used any influence to change the con-
vicions Of any Senator he intends to tell the hero Of
New Orleansn that he would just as soon think Of
.ls, kA.xa aftn rAc
walking away with the spoons.


Mr.. wooley was before the Managers again to-day.
Yesterday he sworn by Butler, but this morning
Boutwell, proposed TO swear him. He asked Bout
well for his authority to put him under oath. The
Manager replied that he president pro tenn. Of
the committee and asked the witness whether not
he testified truly yesterday. He answered that he
had not testified at all, because he was not sworn
Butler asked him II he had not drawn twenty
thousand dollars out of bank on the sth
OF May and on the day the impeachment vote was
taken. witness answered that he had drawn no
money out OF bank for the purpose of using In the
impeachment trial. Butler asked wint he had done
with the money he did draw. witness replied that
he had used no money before nor since to control the
vote of any Senator on the impeachment question.
Thcreupon the witness was ordered into arrest.
While under arrest he wrote note to his
friends informing them Of his being in durance
vile and requesting writ of habcas corpus to be
sued out. The Managers were Informed OF this
movement by the Sergeant-at-Arms, who exhibited
the note wooey had written, and which was allowed
10 be sent to Its destination After an interval OF
half an hours detention the witness, feeling unwel
requested permission to return TO his hotel,
nnd announced his determination to go there
unless prevented by physical force. There.
upon the Managers ordered him back for i'm.
mediate examination. The examination which
ensued related to telegraphic dispatches OF his,
none of which had any pertnency except those
giving his views from time to time OF the probability
OF impeachment. He was asked when he had been
at the White House, and II he had not paid visit
there yesterday afternoon. He replied he
had not been there since three or four
days previous to the commencement Of the