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Show GENERAL. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. SENATE. Washington, 1G. Legislative business busi-ness wus suspended at VZ.'lK), and the consideration of the articles of impeachment im-peachment against Belknap were resumed, re-sumed, thia being tho day fixed to hear any further answer to the articles oi impeachment the respondent respond-ent might deem proper to make. Black, of tho counsel for tho ac-, ac-, cused, read a lengthy paper, declining . to plead further, on the ground that the respondent bad already been sub-1 sub-1 atantially acquitted, as the order of f Hie senate asserting jurisdiction waa . not passed by a two-thirds vote. . Counsel for defense asked that the paper bo filed, but an objection was made by Edmunds apd also by tbe f managers on tbe part of the house-, i Pending discussion, Mr. Elmunda , said it had been suggested that no quorum was present, and upon a count of the senate only twenty-nine senators responded not a quorum, i The senate then adjourned until j to-morrow. |