Show impeachment 1 i on saturday evening the telegraphic wire brought information that the senators had expressed themselves oil on the eleventh article of impeachment thirty five being heing for conviction and nineteen for acquittal As this was one of the articles on which conviction wai was looked for jor considerable inquiry has haa been made concerning it the following is the text of the article that said andrew Johnson Pres President dent of the united states unmindful of the high duties of his office and of his oath of office and in disregard of the constitution and laws of the united states did heretofore to wit on the day of august 1860 1866 at the city eity of washington and the district of columbia by public speech declare and affirm in substance that the thirty ninth congress Cob gress of the united states was not a congress of the united states authorized by the constitution to exercise legislative power under the same but on the contrary was a congress of only part of the states thereby denying denbin g and intending to deny that the legislation of said cong congress r ess was valid or obligatory upon him the said andrew johnson except in so far as he saw fit to approve the same and also thereby denying and intending to deny the power of the said thirty ninth congress to propose amendments to the constitution of the united State sand in pursuance of said declaration the said andrew johnson president ozithe of the united states afterward to wit day of february 1868 at the city of washington in the District of columbia did and in of the requirements of the constitution that be he should take care that the laws be faithfully executed attempt to prevent the execution of an act entitled an act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices passed march 2 1867 by unlawfully devising and contriving and attempting to devise and contrive means by which he should prevent edwin ar M stanton from forthwith resuming the functions of the office of secretary for the department of war nitwit notwithstanding the refusal of the senate to concur in the suspension therefore made by said andrew J johnson of said edwin lyl stanton from said office of secretary for the department of war and also by further unlawfully devising and contriving and attempting to devise and contrive means then and there to prevent the execution of an act entitled an act making appropriations eions for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending june 30 1868 and for other purposes approved march and also to prevent the execution of an act entitled I 1 an act to provide for the more efm eff efficient lelent government of the rebel states 11 passed march 1867 whereby the sall said said sald andrew john johnson son president of the united states did then to wit witt on the day of feb 1868 at the city of washington commit and was bilty guilty of a high misdemeanor in office 1 As will be seen by the dispatches today the decision on impeachment is postponed until the the breach between the two parties appears to be widened as the matter draws to an issue the charges made by the radicals on the one handoc bribery being resorted to for the purpose of procuring votes against conviction the feelings expressed by the democrats on the other hand at the undue influence used to coerce Sena bena senators fors into voting for conviction calling on them to resign or vote as re quiren ahas ehas a strong t tendency tomake to make the brench breach still wider with less probability of it being bridged over the length and interesting nature of the dispatches today to day forbid our d dwelling welling on the subject at great length |