Little Rock Arkansas Gazette Extra (Newspaper) - April 7, 1868, Little Rock, Arkansas 2,57o, PER IN an more 00;) square (I Eich i 3 per of or 00 for six mouths ir 25- SI month for or one insertion J W KB or one insertion J W KB 5 12 20 35 10 20 35 56 il additional will be published In addition ot of il additional will be published In addition ot of per line for aie charged treble m bt be paid tor at by 2 must Handed in Adv and in transient ad time of for Daily must be handed p. of day previous to f 2 p. of marri will be tributes of respect certificate of or other legal fees are or money for considered first must be paid in ad must comp through our authorized terms will be deviated and no correspondence will receive attention which does not comoly with following are our only or not five islied notices ami charged as of any order of will tie ra de until t e by some responsible agents to receiv ai id Yi H. anid receipt for moneys for sub in the cities 10 3CT Park New Kine and Second St. Lock 599. New k 2-;2 Front every executed tho very best on short 1 ! who Tec enveloped in green wiU lake that their have Their papers will be discontinued unless ordered iu with our COURTS While the STYLE OF THE il at one enti of the shorn the supremo of its powers in o life and liberty the at the other are of their involving lb their to erect the citizen may for the of truth known and exposing ths villainy recognized We have information i reliable of the coolest transaction in way of a most assumption that has ever come in our of Pine jon the 2Gth Thursday the Pine Bluff indicator was and it contained some very grave charges of fraud against the some very severs strictures t and - The polls y previous and the election 1. Capt. J. indulged upon their were closed the da had been conclude the and Mr. W. A. the of the board summoned to appear f Having their appearance before the august of John they were tion and inciting Williams and B. of the peace Col. 0. A. his ser ties in attorney the paras euch desired to know authority they were held He was informed by the hish of registrars power given them as sheriffs or by military The demand made that the accused be turned over the civil or military self-important to surrender its and declared it would with About this lime the third a Mr. made liis made acquainted with the proceedings announced that he would part in The court being asked how it its judgments or hold its responded that it would direct the sheriff pf tjau execute its At this tDe counse he would conducting any proceedings informed the pris they propo from the said the court ond uers that they sod to submit to an arrest iams and Allis as private Tho took departure was followed the jud own as we not fall should be the sheriff to obey orders of failing to execute their ay said they would in on such strange times we over ihe brazen assurance of this extraordinary of we are now the matter is too for Both of these self-constituted have senso enough to understand what authority they were by bayonets they pro posed to their If all Ihe scoundrelly registrars in tho stato are lo courts to jand try individuals can be to a. The citizens of son county have acted promptly in this and in other localities should follow their example Go before u justice of the peace or county clerk and nave ihu affidavit mads out und seut io the chairman of the county to be forwarded tc Col. F. A. Terry of this Du not put off this matter for a single but it you care for the faie of your to it PROPER TRIBUTE AND A FRANK it tot been for the resolute indomitable aud unswerving loyalty ot ihe constitution bave been Ah it hundreds of these humble but courteous colored uien walked and rode miles to where they could vote is no more proper that the thanks tor the greater part of the votes the should be returned to the Wo much if there were exceeding three thousand men in ihe are from white that wire so lost io ali pi .de ni un ot as to vole and negro igno rant are the great bulk of the party of und if vile he work ot laie were upon thv these same negroes would have of iho has largely on a fair an into the conduct of many of the registrars will reveal most unblushing frauds ou their part which have ever baen any Vans have been ballots and bai lot boxes loaned out to radical overnight to be changed in their contents so as to the will of the citizens of the radical organ to credit for making an honest when it says that were gai bored in from a distan ce to Radical candidates ior coun ty brought them to this city in droves frem the various by means of threats and bribes prompting them to vote here one or more after they hud voted where they did vote tho returns off this city prove beyond They did voto and enough lo pile lip in this a majority than the result of first The triumph in polling a large vote unquestionably belongs to the and it remains to be seen if radicalism Willi acknowledge its indebtedness to ifs black by dividing among it what spoils they with the keen scent discover to their would never Were ibe people of Arkansas free citizens of the enjoying the rights and privileges sought to be guaranteed to nil under the national if civil iaw recognized and fundamental law trained by the people then we would be compelled to witness March 30. Secretary Stanton hus in the form ot a general order the act uf congress amendatory to the act passed March 21st, to the overthrow of our I lor the more efficient government ol the rebel aud the setting up of the of a low f is by a note by th conspirators of bad character backed by a department of state saying the of instrument under which they claim to bo a has i been rejected by the people by a But even were this not I the it by the terms of the been presented to the president lor his approval and not having been returned here nithin time constitutionally prescribed that it had become a law without his Haucook has returned to this city and will to-morrow issue a general acts be lield to be the organic law of the I assuming hia new lie was with the state is approved of by and a president some time this other enumerated contingencies I The second committee ol on occurred So I agreeing to the amendments to the to ex is the cabal themselves to I certain manufactures duty have where they will be at liberty to the upon a report which it ia thought will it no more regards the adopted by the They alter the acts than did the piebald convention sections so as to inflict imprisonment it a franchise article which and ' fine upon all every white man in the state who j Cera and others with frauds and forfeit luins ior himself too much respect to a I their iu The other tost - The characters of I are stricken Ono of the individuals who head this | teo Bays the government contractors lor break any movement in a decent j have not been benefited by the But of feature we shall have I change in the Mr. of of more tu say the advocated an entire matter of the election upon the unmanufactured lumber be exempt from lax on of the is by I und Mr. Brooks urged in behali ot the reconstruction acts to the general consumers that fluur should also be thus A ll returns are made to anu it rests } tho report eo provided and these ari wish him alone to determine the legality of cies will therefore remain free as under election aud the has had an pass j this the right to OF the white population of the stale were anxious to hear the precise result of ihe it strange that the radical in this published any election know that the votes of many were accessible to that paper long they known to the yet it never published Two weeks after the commencement of the election had before any vote was published in that even those in the various pre in this then only a 3jst of majorities and many of them if not to suit tho f It has been the aim of this to all from the order majorities might be better to insure ol that most obnoxious instrument by which the control the state is to be turned over to unlettered Africans and bad IN On Eagle in this voio ihe election in the state have that several illegal votes Were polled in one case a negro boy nineteen years of who had on his registration in that hid lost his voted There were a large number of adjoining but as tji wero watched they were not 4 result of the voting sn the is hs Against 577 i Owen | i 1 18 1 Mineral V 2 Cypress V Eastman 193 Campbell i 4SO 1 i Big f-f Defiance | 828 St house 2^54 City hall i 693 82 33 71 5fi Co 14 33 50 14 19 25 41 53 and tho Jacobinical combination assumes announce the result and its Be legislature convenes It remains yet to bo seen if tho military commander wiil allow ' is functions to be thus boldly usurped and himself superseded by a miserable of If this pretended legislature is allowed to assemble and install itself as a branch of a legal it will be with the countenance and support of Ihe The commanding has the power to protect the people in the enjoyment of those privileges are them by the governments under which and if ho is not able to do the people will protect themselves if he will but authorize them to do it. To allow a political party to set up as ihe state not only complicates but lias a tendency to bring about anarchy and disturbances growing Qut of conflicts as to and the law-abiding people ot the state have a right to complain if the military commander does not protect them from usurpation and their government from 2d.' VARIETY OF inn which we receive from remote indicates thai tlie registrars in interest of the radical party have not themselves exclusively to any one plan of f but on the contrary have every In Johnson county it is claimed that the is unfair and we have heretofore published affidavits showing how the registrars allowed the to be opened and one kind of substituted for A letter received from Fulton furnishes us infirm ition how frauds were in a population of Fulion iu was 3,970 whiles and 88 Estimating one in seven of the white population to I be should the mortality and increase of population up to this time to be white voters in the The registration returns show only I 207 white and nine Thus appears by the arbitrary decisions ofj the board of registrars nearly fifty per ofj whites were Having the white in this the registrars proceed still further in their work | or from an improper Butler referred manner thus recounted by a citizen of impeachment of a i which went a great way towards of 500 and law-abiding con- the principle no minister could shelter servative seventy-eight were allowed behind the throne by pleading obedience to Many were not allowed to 1 orders of his they had in times long past been road Scores who did register were General Col. S. private secretary of the and other witnesses were at the capitol supreme to-day gave its opinion in a Massachusetts involving a question of state tax on deposit in Tho points ore similar to those in the Connecticut that the tux can on deposits in such institutions no matter in what form in introduced a io amend the act o March 1792, relative to vacancies in the office ol president or vice-president of the United requiring a new election in case an interval of eighteen months double vacancy and the ordinary termination of presidential Referred to judiciary Haight presented a joint resolution as to withdrawing the of the sluto of New Jersey to the proposed amendment to the ol the The document was being read Mr. moved tbe adoption of the following resolution which was carried by 80(5)17: That the resolution ol the legisla ture ol New Jersey purporting io ihe assent ol said slate to the known as the fourteenth be returned by speaker ol the bouse io iho gentleman who for reason that the so roe is the The and its title shall he referred to in the journal and in the itself into a high of impeachment at 1^:25 Mr. Butler rose and made his opening lie at to the senate several propositions of tact and law upon which tho house of representatives would endeavor to sustain the cause of the people against the The speaker reviewed tbe impeachment trials of other in to ia the light of what really constituted an impeachable lie fined an impeachable high crime or misdemeanor to in its nature or subversive of some fundamental or essential principle of or highly prejudicial to ihe public and this might consist of a violation of the an official of duty by an act committed or without positive law by the abuse of discretionary powers from improper of I nut the of exaggeration but tbe woids of truth aud soberness n. saying thai the future political welfare and of all men hang on the ot die ot the rose and the on the part of tne are to proceed with testimony to make thv articles uf exhibited by the house ot representatives the president rf ihe United and my Mr. will present the testimony Wilson to in behalf of tho that notwithstanding the bearing oi tho which wo deem important to be presented in is set oui m the exhibits the and also in soma of tho WO arc still of ihe opinion it is proper lor us to introduce the originally by way of guarding against any mistakes might arise copies set out in tho Mr. Wilson then in the absence ol certified tho oath of office of President of the ot Secretary Stanton by Pres. aud oi of said nomination of President communication to the senate reasons for tbe suspension ti the secretary of alter the court adjourned till o'clock the chief justice vacate the The president pro called the senate to The report oi conference on a to relieve cerium manufactures from infernal was taken up after considerable agreed the senate March 81. a few petitions was the chair was taken by the chief the impeachment managers and members of question should be submitted to the aud appealed from the decision of the The chief juit ice said ii wus hia duty Mr. Drake said thero nothing iu to give ihe justice that called Mr. Drake to order on the ground that he could not debate the The justice and said that as justice of the United was delegated by the constitution to preside over the conn of impeachment when the president of the United Sutes to be presiding here be became president of iho senate skiing as a court ot and when a point of of or of law came before the court in the first the chief was tho proper person to decide and ihen the on its being submit ted to At the suggestion of a member Mr. Bailer proceeded to quote from various eases ol impeachment to show that the presiding officer ol ihe impeachment court has no to questions of law or Mr. Butler said the managers of the house would be bound hand and foot by this and would be unable to except by the courtesy of the of the The chief justice stated that the point raised was for tho decision of tho After much discussion the ayes and nays were taken on to retire for resulting in a tia when chief justice voted in the and tho senate retired at ten minutes to 3 p. twenty minutes six the senate Tbe chiel justice having called the body to senate has had under consideration the question discussed before it and lias me to report the 7. presiding officer of shall all necessary preparations in the senate and shall direct all forms of tho ns a committee ot tha and tho having taken their usual thei court of took their The president's when sitting for tho purpose trying and all forms during trial not otherwise specially provided known their table is arresting c tempting lo self-erected bourt laid on their naked From all accounts that Arkansas radi opinion of its powe fantastic figures hold it. Ai regist which was never decent in his or to the offence of is the outrage of at and for tbat this jas i merited scourges well hides from trenchant we are inclined to believe has a very exalted rs and is disposed to cut very it has bayonets to is a eard of before and is 3952. is a notorious tact that there arc not ne many negroes in o now when tho first registration of voters wis had At that time were 2,402 voters a total of 3.'835. Tho white voto is find admitting that there some who on issued in other yet it is savo on the hypothesis gross how the radical majority has made to exceed the entire of voters first improvement pn military commissions organized to Williams and the first judges of the high cou^t of Surely embalm their its 1 We are the proposed cd by a majority o information which rious parts of the plan was laid and HE ly satisfied on a fair constitution has been about fen The we received from reveals the that a toj carry tho constitution ed but in many to the of of is of the nature have been perpetrated view radicals all their villainies - The officiai suit oi the Al the 1 defeat the will of the the 6tat but with bey have been as to the from tho hough it is probable tbat will show tho is - a duly wo owo to the friends of good and to record tho vile means which have been to in the vain hope of an expression of opinion by the Let no who knows or hears of himself rest until lias tho in tho caso put in the AGAINST THE which this city to-day the reconstructed state gathered consequence of a thai the proposed constitution has been ratified It meets in of a plan determined upon by the le to a new government in spite ihe hoping i congress will recognize it as tho legitimate government from thei fact nhat its officers antl are the of that As early as tho 11th of at Fort Smith stava it. had received a letter from the radical for the senate and house of representatives that it was necessary for thorn to be here on the 2nd of the tho radical organ in West in referring to tbe election in thia atato made to iho republican ticket for ritate and it is understood that those will if ihe constitution is not meet at Little and organize a provisional whito of revolutionary scarcely amount to four thousand hi the Nevertheless it proposes to do away with tho state government which is uphold by thousand white and erect their own the political power Trili bo to thousand negroes lately emerged from slavery the few whites enough forever social Of and no notice or intimation given that they went to and when the reason whs none would be given for more than one in nor did the books show more than one in fifty ' And when the registrars were pressed tor a for such wholesale and unlawful Congress was tho and lo against or any of iho laws of congress was and they had iho right erase all who spoke or they suspected of man's name was erased who last Men who been citizens five and six weie not allowed to register because ibey came Boys who came with thoir parents from Missouri five and six years and have attained the age of twenty-one years in this were not allowed to register because they came from Men who nave not been this state six months were allowed to register and vote because they were Old men who staid at home during the war and look no part in and consequently were not required to take the amnesty and were so by the hud und were because ihoy did not take the amnesty men were intimidated and coerced to by being told if did noi would be lorever and themselves banished or These are only a part of the infamous inflicted on was by this means that the vote in Fulion county was made to foot up 115 and 78 against plan seems to have been pursued in Carroll county had a white ion in 18G0. of 9.053 and should have to-day 1,292 white voters X reliable correspondent resides county gives the total registered voters at 960. thus showing that nearly thirty-three per of its citizens have been And that the registrars afterwards struck 252 names from the and after this vote stood 194 and 51-1 against Overseers of roads appointed by the county with out the application or pf the appointee and compelled by law to serve or pay a judges and clerks of township school trustees and nit who bad filled similar were in defiance of the express of the reconstruction act of July facts go to show that fraud in every conceivable manner has been employed to force upon tho people of a constitution which on a fair vote will Oc rejected by a majority of can never recognize the legality of any government estab in and although aa they may submit to it so long as it upheld by yet they will hold themselves in readiness to overthrow it one after a true republican form whenever the conservative people of the north ' shall bid them do so. ' God save an sialo of or of tor tho the the utility of all measures emanating from the crown as well as for their thus the administration was or ought to be subordinate in all great matters of policy to the superintendence or the of the two housed of The after stating tbe events of removal of and tho of and tho interview with General concluded his argument as follows not know that from tho hour began his usurpations of power he everywhere denounced the constitutionality of its and defied its legitimate for that announced his intention and carried out his rb far as he was of removing every true man from office who sustained the congress of tho United and it is to carry out this plan of action that he the unlimited power of for tho illegal exer cise of which ho stands before you this Who does not know in pursuance of the plan he used his veto power indiscriminately to prevent iho passage of wholesome for the pacification of of ihe coun fry and when the laws were passed by the constitutional over bis vetoes he made he det both open and under cover lo and for the purpose of making that opposition effectual ht endeavored io and did all the people lately n rebellion to set themselves congress nd against and loyal their so that assassination and mussa ores iwere rife all over the southern which ho encouraged by refusal to consent that ft single murderer be thousands of g od men have been slain and that he attempted by military order to prevent tho execution of of congress by who were charged and concurrent acts show conclusively that his attempt to get control of iho military of the government by the seizing of the department of was done in pursuance of his general if it were to overthrow the congress of the United and he now claims to control by his own for the execution of this very every officer of the army and and in tho civil and diplomatic service of the Ho asks you by erim adjudication to confirm him in that to invest him with that power to be used with tho intents and for the purposes which he already The responsibility tho safeguards of the constitution against are in your tho interests and hopes of free institutions wo it upon your The houso of representatives has dono its have presented tho tacts in a constitutional manner we have brought tho criminal to your bar and mand taent at your hands for his great nnd never if Andrew ba to go quit and this can tho of this or any other by checks stay the also and took their The galleries were only half Mr. Wilson offered some documentary evidence senate resolution of January 13th, and an extract from the senate's showing its action Also a of Mr. Stanton's commission from Mr. Lincoln which only Mr. Wilson Mr. Stanton claimed to hold. Mr. J. McDonnald was culled and attested to tho notification of the president of the action of and also attested to the service of a resolution of a non concurrence in tho removal Mr. Stauton by tbe Mr. J. W. the deputy marshal ot the supreme court was sworn testified that he had known Thomas for six years and had served upon him ihe summons of the District supreme court on the 21st of 11 o'clock at night and had made a return which was The resolution of the senate hat the bad no power to remove Mr. Stanton was then Mr. E. E. an m clerk in the was and to the ot the appointment in tho department prior to March 1867. ut senators here complained of nut nnd Mr. Butler offered to repeat what he hnd Evarts said Le preferred to hear tbe witness inquired what was object of the Mr. Builer replied that it was to show thai after the passage of the tenure of office net the president had signed a different form of commission in accordance with said thereby recognizing hinding force and Tho witness testified to the change indicated which was read by Secretary words out the pleasure of president for the time The form of commission for treasury appointments was also produced and the witness testified out the same words above quoted and the substitution in thoir place of the this commission bo sooner revoked by the president of tho United States for the time Tho commission issued to Mr. Cooper as assistant secretary of the treasury from 1857, was Mr. Butler continuing to examine asked if the senate was then in The witness said ho bought and in to another question said he did qualify under that Another commission was then Mr. Butler heb for the rending of the letter of authority given to Mr. Cooper by the December 2nd, 1867. The witness testified that Mr. Chandler resigned as he thought the before the letter was On boing examined by Mr. Curtis he stated that the dale when the change in the form of the commissions was made was on the 6th of March 1867. Van a member of tho stated that he was present at the war department on the 22nd day of 1868, at two minutes past 11 a. when Lorenzo Thomas demanded of Mr. Stanton the possession of the office the secretary of He testified that General Thomas after exchanging salutations said to Mr. am secreta ry of war ad interim appointed and authorized by the president to lake possession of this and Mr. Stanton ordered him to repair to his room and perform his duties as assistant adjutant which he refused to saying that he intended to tho functions of secretary of war would tho mail of tho Mr. Stanton told bim that he would do so at his and General as left the and the witness last saw him in tho room of General On a the witness said he went there to pay a visit to Mr Stanton and not on public He was accompanied by Messrs. and Clark He did not know what thoir business and they did not state what they went Ho was not in the habit of taking memoranda of convey nations but was by having a largo envelope in hiB no one requested to do so. It was a minute after General Thomas the that Mr. Stanton followed tbe room he heard a conversation between Stanton and but did not understand what was said nnd did not know where the envelope was on which he tosk the It was probably Ho said he went with Mr. to General Shriver's room and was requested by Mr. Stanton take notice of the questions he was about to ask General which whether ho intended to obey his orders as secretary General Thomas replied ho did not and also said he intended to receive the He afterwards acknowledged io the witness that ho had said so had beon at the war department a half an hour before General Thomas He was not nor was be so far as witness could Thought there bad been 6'ome talking between and Stanton in Mr. room before ho Thought it of d good -natured character nnd that thero had been some joking between A. o delegate from Dako then Mr. Stanberry wanted to know tho object of tho whether it was as to n conversation between witness and Gen. Mr. Butler replied tbat it was to show that the intent and purpose of Thomas was to tako possession of in may rule on ail questions ot evidence and on which decision will stand as the judgment of the senate for or he at bis in the first instance submit any such question io a vote the members of the then the house resolutions wore instructing the ways and means committee to inquire into the expediency of amending tho revenue laws so as to permit the transfer ot special A resolution was also directing the banking committee to inquire into the expediency ol the tax imposed on private Tho ot conference on the tax was made and explained by Mr. and agreed Tho house went into a committee of tho whole and proceeded to the senate McCardle case goes over to next term in consequence of the counsel not being Hancock issued an order assuming command of the new of tho April 1. Washington says a plot is ou luot io add an to making successor and to the through under a previous April 1. the witnesses summoned tar ihe pies are Gen W. bi B. of and L. D. late minister io N. April 1. is alt over District called to order by the end the j minutes ot yesterday's trial read up to the j 21st. 01 tho vote cast by Chief to decide a tie vote on the question of retiring tor when Mr. Sumner made a motion to correct tho journal by as expression of the senate's that said vote of tho chief was unauthorized and ot no Ho demanded the ayes and which were resulting aa Yeas nays 27. So tbe was not agreed question us to admissibility of Bur in regard to a conversation between him auu was submitted to we senate by the chief but a voro was taken Mr. it the managers intended to connect the testimony of tno witnesses wuh the Butler answered rose tho senate at saying it had at length tho dominion oi aw on question requiring careful consideration anu the mam made being whether tho president's letter to made him a general agent ot the He argued it. uid aud the senate could not hold tho president responsible for words uttered by Thomas when it was not that ho had any authority the president to say and that they might as hold tho president responsible for all acta and words of ail appointed by considerable discussion between the managers and tho yeas and nays wore Yeas 39, nays 11. was called aud testifies iu regard to tho with in Thomas said ho would use force to obtain possession of the war and he had also attempted to corrupt tho clerks of the war broadsides wero exchanged during the between Evaris aud Butler in which Butler came out Wilkinson ana George newspaper testified to that ho would uso The court at 10 minutes past 5. Nothing done in the 11. 1. The stata election occurred Returns received from overy town in the state except Block Governor Burnside has a majority of 4,309, which the returns from the will This ia a gam oi one or two hundred lor tho republicans over last The following is the vote 9,707; Pierce 5,(68. Providence gives Burnside 2,709, und Pierce 1.13U. The legislature C. w. P. Mallury and O. P. H. j 22d of and j W. of 27 republicans and 5 In two districts no 62 republicans and 8 and two districts no Tho assembly will bo largely in lavur ot tho re-election of Senator N. April 1. Sergeant the here this He was received by the mayor una tendered tho hospitalities of ihe He was repeatedly and uu delivered a short address of FOLLOWS ITS AND STEALa INTO TUE AND a notice was Both candidates for also Ex- j the r organ in this city by the triumvirate Governors Vanco aud other leading I appointed oy the late menagerie as commissi canvassing the Not less 0 f the to the effect that the than twenty speeches per day are being constitution having been April 1. j full force and effect from and after A A the negro is I April 1st. This being the named by the ing in this and the adjoining the I schedule to that instrument for the meeting following which causes great tho a number of the body all bad men in the city of who inow threaten the lives of leaders and of the republican and of the presi lents and members of the union leagues in If you should strike a the or will be and tho who stylo themselves such were present in the city in obedience to the orders of the triumvirate aforesaid and the radic il in obedience to tie as he of the the secretary of R J. T. demanded of. Col. John superintendent of public th which he or they take shelter will be burned I keys of the senate chamber and house of to the Take heed Work J for the purpose of having them put bers of the Bally | repair for tho sitting of tbe informed tho secretary that he had no official information of tho of life and liberty April 1. A report from Fort Laramie says the Chey lannes and northern will bo fully at tho The and he would decline to surrender the use of the to any such pretended unless ho was compelled to do not in yet but aro soon at Fort I military and he would await the the district Passengers by the Santa Fe which I upon the on the 24th I On Wednesday the halls wero locked that on the Wednesday a band I and every bolt made secure and fast as usual of Indians robbed a train camped on the Ar- I On Thursday Col. Campbell twenty-five miles Fort 1 awoke find the doors opened by the of and tho next day 1 arts the and a number of another train of six mules and all I groes engaged in arranging both halls for the They wero said to be J meeting self-styled It will April 1. j that the first legislature of In tho report of. tho tho would-be revolutionists in sneak committee was adopted on its third into their seats by aid of key surreptitiously Immigration committee submitted a obtained or locks burglariously of immigration which provides for forming j kansas will over the result stock whose object will be to and felicitate itself upon the sharp practice by lease and improve and have power I it obtained into tlie It Icr borrow on made up of the material which prides April 1. upon its dirty shrewdness instead In to-day were called J inquiring into the conduct of Judge He made a denying having offered any bribe to tho executive April 2. sonata chamber was not prepared for bo paid by Mr. if they favored sitting of any the desks being removed Mr. Chase for The resolution from their places and the floor bare of a were then indefinitely 80, The senate assembled at 11 a. bays 17. Mr. chairman of the and proceeded to a rose and } which resulted in the appointment of Mr. published A negro was in of temporary and to-day for tho first time since tha I Mr. of session A permanent organization was is understood that Gen. wiil resulting in tho election of John N. shortly issue an order removing Governor j of Johnson pru Joseph and T. N. tho qualification of tbe lieutenant city j of New April 1* j of assistant and of Washington special cays the difficulty be- enrolling After all this tween Butler and Grant has been hsd been effected with much promptness and cably Another special says iho unprecedented it was suddenly di tion assumed by Associate Justice of covered that credentials had not been United States supreme when j the members had not been sworn and that caso was called lip on gives riso lo was uncertain whether or was After Judge Black had j really his Judge Grier To euro this little in the records a tho following was was taken until two p. parto W. H. Thia wts fully in tho beginning of this a cose which not only involves tho liberties and rights of tho in this but millions of our fellow and tho country hed a right to expect that it would tho immediate and attention oi iho ana by the postponement of this caso tho court had subjected whether justly to tho imputation that wo had evaded the performance of tho duty imposed upon ua by and waited for to supersede our action end os from our I havo only to opprobrium literally aa department by Mr. Stanberry thai such bo cast upon to tho testimony and tho objection was | and that it cannot bo sustained by tho ehm Mr. esiti sour minutes following is a list of this with the districts they respectively Those names marked with a star not boing at the opening of the session M H. 3d L. 4th D. - 6th 6th Oth of 0. A of and A. H. of H. 13th P. Bel Hot 11 25'-h'Dictriet" ; Gco. S. Little t 3 o'clock the assemblage in tbo hall of representatives was cadieu to order by of who nominated Gen. temporary presiding oad of temporary and were of then moved that John of bo declared tho of tho house committee was appointed and speaker elect to Ho begged permitted to his sincere favor conferred in being caLed to so honorable a Ho hod but or parliamentary tho aid of tho members ho hoped to be preside satisfactorily and congratulate the members upon their sua as a party but this was not tbo timo He would now assume tho duties upon him and tho trust reposed ia hia i of then proceeded to from a memorandum the following names and they wero unanimously F. E. of W. A. of Thomas L. of of S. A. of 03- W. of of of and of of that Miles L. of be of moved to until He had small vote iu aud therefore the be He would movo by insisted that aa tho been agreed upon in iho conic off at All had agreed to by tho decision of that of said that the election of might have been deferred same If tho had a majority of would boa proceeding that account to sot it of raised the point of order that the amendment had not been speaker declared the point well taken the debate was declared out of L. was then chaplain of thought tho ought to be qualified and move that Judge Yonley bo requested to ad- C minister the speaker said the motion was not and inviting Judge on the speaker's stand he took the following was administered to ihe whole body do solemnly swear that I am nat disfranchised by the or laws of United or t-e constitution of tho stute of Ar tnat I will and support and defend the constitution and laws of the United and the constitution and laws uf iue uf and thai I will honestly and discharge the duties ot ue office ou which I am about to to Ocst of my ability So help me of of tho speaker w is allowed to appoint the uf moved tho appointment of a committee to notify the senate of tho organization of the and and of were of of and Pearo were named a to notify the governor that the houso was in session and ready to receive any message from of of and of were appointed a similar committee to wait upon the On suggestion of the committees wero considered as parts of joint than obtained the and proceeded to argue that it was not necessary in legislative that a motion should ts Nobody ever heard of such a thing in was interrupted by tbo announcement of a committee from tho and Vance and that appeared and gave notice that tbe senate was gave notice that on to-morrow he would introduce a joint resolution to ratify thu fourteenth amendment to tho constitution of the United motion of of a committee of five on rules were of presented a petition from A. M. contesting tho seat of F. A. who was ineligible under four and eleven of article five of tho The speaker presented communication from tho board of commissioners referring the cane to the moved a committee of nine bo appointed as a special on this caso should be of moved to table tho subject until the regular committees wero wanted the matter disposed of at and tho matter referred to the regular Tobias obtained tho floor again when he was cut short by a motion to table was Gray's then put and further motion of the body adjourned until 10 o'clock following list comprises the names of thoso persons claiming to represent tbo people of Arkansas in the lower house of ts general The names members present are designated with an asterisk Tsars and 2d 3d 4th 5th Oth 7<b-DistrictBard, - Whitson 12tli Ay District incero 15th llantina 17th 19th 201 h District av ia + 22d -
