Show QUESTIONS OF THE DAY THE PRESIDENT A AND LTD CONGRESS the present attitude of the chief executive and congress to towards wards each other is the cause of much anxiety adoll among 0 the lovers of peace throughout the nation if the impeachment resolution proposed in the house huse of representatives and referred to the tile judiciary committee is acted feted upon and aud the president is placed upon hla hia trial atwill it will be tile the first time mille in the history of the united states that such an extreme measure has been reported to other presidents have been he verely beverely upon by those icalla opposed to them ad and 6 zealously defended by their friends but at no previous period since ethe the republic aa a me amo into existence has the chief magistrate been brought before the bar of the tile senate to answer for the alleged abuse cf of ae the power entrusted to him so grame grave and abd nd important ia is the question deemed and ao so serious tire are the results thit that are arp likely to be ve the consequence ge of lauch tsuch a step that many nad rad radical ical jour loure who arc are ylo yio violently opposed to the prel Frel president dent decide ft against adust impeachment while maintain that it should only oily be r resorted to on the plainest and most irrefragable evidence of gross abuse abuse of odthe the executive power still the eastern arlu dispa telles contain mysterious hints startling is about to be J dielo disclosed sed and the impeachment of a president lo johnson linson will follow the report of the committee to whom there the re 1 eol hoi q L ion zon w was x s referred refereed what the immediate mediate and ai finai final results of or such a step sep would be it 13 is difficult it to foretell but there is certainly a strong amstrong probability that it will b be taken during tho ilia sittia of the Forti fortieth Portia eth ath Ui gou Gon congress gress the tile subject is one causing ble discussion not only in III the papers throughout th uie ule e united states but in the tho european press and all agree that it is of nature rio however wever much maeh they may other points in in regard to it that the house of oppre lias tue right 0 to impeach the pr president meat went and tho the s sennate seriate tile the power to i try himm him lion ilon evidence being forthcoming lio elo no one doubts but bd a knot knots 1 ty question pre presents bents itself at the finst first step in actual impeachment which is is the ao subject j act of much muth controversy I 1 and that is the status of the president during his trial and from the moment lie he ii is formally formali y impeached those most strongly in favor of the measure declare that jib must roust bo ito hus suspended from office and a president pro ean fan be appointed 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 j while uhlie othora is strenuously urge that he be cannot be removed ap npr cpr r suspended from I 1 I 1 i osce office until convicted the former declare that he Is like every other person charged with an oense onn ense enso or oi Tenses ini bolvin evolving a breach breah of law and that though presumed innocent until proven guilty still ho lie must be beheld held heid in custody or sr suspended frolia from exer exercising elsing lils his functions t until tiia tila tha gu guilt lit af or in innocence e is laade loade malli marii manifest fest the latter build their arguments gu ments on the language e of tile the constitution buit bult ution which says saya that tile tiie president 11 rhall bhail be e ren removed loyed loyod from onice oil on im ini peach ment for and conviction of treason bribery or other high crimea es and misdemeanors now there is no question but if the person of the Pre president were in the power of congress and appointed to temporarily tem pora rily fill the office their course would be plain and comparatively easy supposing them able to sustain the charges preferred the governmental machine would move on much as usual excepting the excitement consequent upon the tho trial of a chief magistrate for abuse of power but president johnson may not be inclined to permit himself to be suspended or taken into custody for ho he is dec dee declared la redy lj a strong adherent to the letter of the constitution and that instrument say says the president shall be removed on trial and conviction he maintains that the present confess congress is an unconstitutional body i because becaas eit elt it represents only a portion of the united states he is the caroman der in chief bliley of the army and navy of the tile nation and lie he may deem he has the richt right hight 0 to use the power now in ili his hands to maintain by force df arms arma that which he 10 deems to be constitution ally right I 1 I 1 boid Bold soldiers lers and sailors ai lors are ire lre iro net not apt to i trouble political questions lue lre a or who w b 0 has b as th the tho a ri right h t in t the i e abstract to nil nyi rule ruie e they are accustom accustomed ed to obey orders emanatian emanating from exil emli existing ting a authority fi whether bether that authority bo be held rightfully or JOT wrongfully and there M little doubt but that if president johnson were vere to command theli their services A m they would buld through the force of discipline Is aud and habit idue obey his dide orders rs so long as the president remains at large bb will be by the forces of the nation recognized as the tomm commanding andin g officer until his ilia term of office bip expires ires and congress m I 1 lit declare him suspended sil sli spent led and nd appoint 0 another in his place there asvery livelihood d that if ho he chose to exercise hs hi present authority ver those forces they would oby obey him ahlm ili in such a contingency there is alao but littly doubt but congress would arm its supporters to enforce its decisions and cereas hero is where th extreme graveness g of the proposed sed impeachment 1 mc ut begins gur fur it thus imperils im perils the peace of tle tike nation and th a civil war much more terribly dreadful deadly and ensanguined a than tha the late one between north and south the ad advocates of congress congles Con gres greb throughout 1 I the nation have spoken plainly as to the course course 1 they desire shall be pursued suei sued th They edurge urge the removal of president lohn john johnon loh non such is believed to be I 1 the th preval prevailing ling feeling in congress the president has been comparatively silent a as to the course lie will pursue but bt his friends have pointed out that which they tb ey deem he has the hight right ri lit to do as he certainly seems seem to have the power now how I 1 tile the matter will shape as it progresses the future must de determine tennin but today to todar dx day there is no question but the entire people have serious cause emige e for dread that m may ay be again disturbed an and d the nation have to pabs pass through another terrible and bloody ordeal of internecine strife |