Show by T d I 1 congressional SENATE 5 wasi washington 28 ahe rhe legislative business was suspended suspend edat at and the impeachment trial triai was resumed the pending question was on the MY motion submitted by the managers to hear bear tho the testimony in in regard to the jurisdiction of the senate before the arguments in regard thereto cal Cai carpenter penter benter of ot the counsel for the accused addressed the senate he argued that the managers were attempting to manage the case on both sides it was not the intention of the counsel for the accused to cause any unnecessary delay in the case but they had prior professional fess feA ional onal engagements and had not time to prepare themselves for arguing the question of jurisdiction he lle Aked that tha the matter be delayed for two weeks from today to day and they would then ask no further postponement their only object la is to present the question quest ion ibn of jurisdiction asias as its importance demand de lord lard on the part of the managers opposed the request of carpenter for postponement and asked the senate to hear the testimony an fin regard to jurisdiction he stated that they had the witnesses ready and asked that they be e heard beard to the further argument by counsel cola Coia conkling kling submitted an order that the senate proceed first to hear and determine the question whether belknap the respondent is amenable to trial triai by ky impeach acut for nor acts done as secretary of vi notwithstanding his resignation f said office the motion LU u 1 lili i iiii iri III ny ily be heard touching ithe exact bitne of such resignation and nuil und touching the motive and purpose rt f huch buch resignation was proved without prejudice the ques dt ion lon above related had been con eldered 4 further discussion between the counsel followed carpenter during his re remarks said they would contend that an officer of the govern mant ment had i a right to resign at any moment and that the motives which govern his resignation cant afflect all nil act the latter lord said eald the th as to jurisdiction was pr principally ethl of a documentary character and it would not takeover take over an jiunto hear it IL ell Eli edmunds munds submitted a motion to strike outtie out the last paragraph of th the order by conklin g gand and insert the folta following in ilea liea thereof rand and land that the managers and counsel in such buch argument discuss the question whether the issues of fact are ate material the senate then at retired to consider the order as submitted by conkling and the amendment or edmunds ther etoi washington 28 at asfour alc lo 10 k the senator r returned to the chamber and the presiding officer ferry announced that several orders had been agreed upon which were read by the clerk as follows ordered that the senate proceed first to hear bear and determine the question whether belknap the respondent spon dent is amenable to trial by impeachment for acts done as S secretary acre of war notwithstanding his bis resignation of the office und and that the che thu managers and counsel in such arguments discuss the question whether the issues of fact are material and whether the matters in support of jurisdiction alleged by ahe the house in its pleading subsequent to the tho articles of impeach anent abent car cap can be those alleged if the same answered in fn the said articles second ordered that the hearing proceed on the ath 0 of f ma may y j at 1230 oc locE aili at the opening and arid close of the arg argement ment be ilvento given to the respondent that three counsel and three thred e managers may be heard in such order as may be ber agreed on bet between I 1 on f themselves h emse ilves lives und and that thaC such duch time Uh hIfLe allowed for the alent 64 as said managers and counsel may washington VAS iri 1 Mitchell from the committee on railroads reported favorably on od the bill to ta extend tho the time for c completing 1 0 mple ting t the he survey and location of tha the Portland DalIes and salt lake railway placed on the calendar at 12 1235 1 35 the trial was resumed the was wat ozithe on the motion to rescind the orde order jh greed agreed upon in the confer ference on friday allowing the respondent to open and argument etc the discussion was continued at 01 i yome kome length by hoar carpenter and lord and at the senate letl leti consultation the senators returned to th the chamber at and the presiding officer directed to state th that at the motion to rescind the vote by which the order bider of argument was made was overruled also that t the aie inquest uett of the board ot of man adgers a gers gerb tal that at mana mann managers gets be allowed to address the senate uri the question of jurisdiction had been granted the senate sitting as the court of impeachment then en adjourned until thursday j baggent called up his resolution in regard to the chinese tio nand tion naud and addre addressed sed the senate in favor thereof sargent said the question of serious discontent ina lna in a community imposes upon the government the duty of inquiring into the causes which produce it this duty is not conditioned upon the soundness of the reasons for the discontent because the disorders which may follow in any case must be injurious and may be disastrous to the welfare of the community when the ilu liu question estfon estion is as to tile the introduction of large numbers of people into the country whose admission is not a matter ot of right but of policy we ought to consider whether they are the disturbing element elements and whether their exclusion is the surest and best beat preventive against the di disorders orders which are difficult to cure when once fastened upon us Is the prejudice against chinese based upon some reason I 1 intend to state some objections against them which account for the bitter opposition shown in california and elsewhere where they have havo already appeared I 1 I 1 HOUSE washington 27 the items for the post office department brought blought up the question of fast malls mails foster of ohio charging the committee going back io to the old stage coach system randall bandall declared that the recommendations lons ions of the committee were fully approved by the postmaster aster Pe genera general and that the mail service bervice was not V to be in the slightest degree diminished the amendment was adopted raising the salary of the commis of agriculture to and E fabre more closely denie denne defining luz lug his du duties ties washington 28 the speaker laid before the house the of chief 3 ustice carter discharging from custody hallett kilbourne referred to the Juill judiciary clary ciary on motion of lord izord permission was given to the managers of the belknap impeachment to 10 examine as witnesses on the trial any members of the committee on expenses in the war department or any members of the house whose testimony they may deem requisite the house then thell proceeded to vote on the various amend amendments men ts to the legislative appropriation bill the one offered by hurlbut increasing the compensation of territorial rit orial judges from 2500 to 3 was rejected yeas 59 39 nays seelye made mad a point of order on section four which transfers the indian bureau from the I 1 interior perlor department to the war department he argued that it contradicted the following rule adopted on the of january 1876 nor shall any provision in any such bill or amendment thereto changing the existing labbe in order except such as being germane to the subject matter of the bill shall retrench the expenses 11 Thi avas a change of the existing law lawi and while he did not raise the point of order that it would bel bei be a manifest extravagance and increase of expenditures tures although he believed that it would be he submitted that 1 it L was not manifestly for the retrenchment trench ment ef f expenditures and and was not gerni germane and to he tion bill i afler afier a long debate in which the republicans argued in favor faver of the point and the democrats except cox against it the speaker de decided cj against hi his own party friends and sustained the point of order and ruled out the section washington 29 randall 0 offered the following amendment to rule 5 say ing that he did so at the special request of the speaker provided that in case of the personal illness of the Speake eibe rUie rule may make the appointment of a speaker pro tem tam rem nr ir a at period not exceeding ten daye mh the approval of the house ai at tile the time the tue samp is made agreed to scales reported a bill appropriating for tho the subsistence of the apache indians in la arizona after discussion it passed AMERICAN NEW YORK 27 george knight stabbed james bennet bonnet fatally this evening in stanton st both were shoemakers the murderer was arrested john borden fatally stabbed arthur gibbons and lawrence larkin tonight to night in a pearl st liquor store borden was arrested the parties arc all sailors the sun has the following very marvelous tales have been told of the endurance of the native horses of california but their speed and bottom havo not often been b een put on record as sport mens phrase has it not long jong ago two well known sporting men of this city made a bet of 50 on time against on borses horses against their ability to maintain a speed of twenty five miles an hour and by thirty six relays to run over the country road from new york to buffalo and back say goo miles in thirty thiry six bix hours the thirty six horses selected arrived in this city a week ago having borne the fatigue of ten days in the cars care so well that their riders say they could have been put to the trial within two days they were sent to a pasture in new jersey and the grand trial to be made what is most remarkable in this match ia Is the circumstance thab that the animals are to carry a fifty pound saddle of the slope and jockeys who are not selected on account of their light weight in fact jt t is a temporary revival of the pony bony express e samuel hirsch a wealthy hebrew lawyer was drowned yesterday it is reported he commit ed suicide vanderbilt is much better yesterday he be smoked a cigar talked cheerful cheerfully lyl and slept well the night before and his bis pain is much alleviated his disease is complicated but be he J is out of immediate danger there help were high tides today to day at coney island and many bath bathing I 1 ng houses were washed away W special says an interesting incident which has hns never been printed has just transpired on the day when lincoln was inaugurated the second time in 1865 and just at the east portico a man who waa recognized by several perso persona nii to be john joun willes booth pushed hurriedly through the passage leading from orom the senate chamber to the he in an anex excite cred cUed d and determined manner mander broke broue through the line of policemen which kept the crowd back from the procession aud made a desperate effort to reach the east of the capitol he was discovered cove reI rel by some of the bap police 01 ice who seized the excited stranger and lind after a severe struggle buc bue succeeded in forcing him back I 1 into n to the cr crowd booth had already been seen by at least lear t two persons who knew him to pass hurriedly from the direction of the senate chamber toward the rotunda and soine some idea of his hia determination to reach the inaugural may be a formed from th the e fact that he broke brake away from the man who first seized him and but for the closing of a side door he would probably have accomplished his purpose whatever it was those who stopped booth and anid in all p probability 1 ity preserved preserved the tho presidents life ilfe fe were not aware who the excited stranger was but the im of the action can hardly be overestimated the man who stopped booth is named westfall lie he waa was made a of public buildings and grounds and was recently discharged by py ohp house the contract with a certain gas company for lighting the tho streets expires may but the newcom pany piny with which the contract was made cannot get to work for two tivo months hence broadways 1 and aud othar other streets will possibly be dark daik during that time it ia Is thought however that jho old c company wa will 11 conti continue hile nile until th the e hiew new fiew contractors are ready among the pair bearers for barney williams at his funeral toda today to da day ya are john 0 brement Fr judge brady liester lester and john brougham the services will be celebrated at st stephens catholic church SANDUSKY 1 0 27 post postmaster master van tine af of this thys this city charged with embezzlement and robbing the mail maille W was ai cakl taken en to clevel cleveland A nd yesterday and examined before united states commissioner White who bound him over to the october term of the united states court in ift the tha sum of the ball bail was furnished by van tine and his brother BOSTON 27 governor rice bice lias has vetoed the bill to legalize the marriage of james parton on the ground that the act is not within the constitutional power of the legislature 1 ANSAS KANSAS CITY mo ifor 27 several bt indred hundred car care shave have bave been bent sent west by the new york central railroad to transport corn to new now york the lowest rates ever known have been given to shippers 10 cents to st louls louis 17 cents dents to chicago and 42 to new york washington 27 the character of the testimony now given before the committee ou on expenditures in the interior department relative to the government insane asylum is entirely diff merent different from frem that heretofore taken dr morrell first assistant surgeon of the asylum testified today to day that he never lifted his bis hand against a patient and never knew of an dt attendant who did so that was not discharged except it was clearly a case of self defense dr F al hamlin testified that he never struck an insane lasane woman or other person who was wag under his charge there are patients in the asyl asylum ulm and as a general rule the there e Js Is attendant ond to toy avei every 10 pat patients en ta itu a leading feature of mental maladies to toi complain of real or imaginary grievances he had encouraged patients to edmi edel complain of anything they dd d d not like and in a vast majority of cases of complaints he found that the grievances were entirely imaginary sick patients were visited according to their necessities and according to the gravity of their cases the bill introduced by sargent today to day to encourage and promote telegraphic communications between the united states and asia asli authorizes the american and east indian telegraphic company of new york to lay land and lind operate operatic cables on the pacific coast within the jurisdiction of the U B S for a period of twenty y years provided the company shall com commence mence menco active in two years and shall have at least one cable in operation from continent to an asiatic colony within abu bur r years fram from the enactment of this bill the government to have priority in th the e use of these cables the tp alter amend or rf repeal pea theace the act i Is reserved to congress and the rest of the bill authorizes the secretary of the navy to detail derail one br more moro abam vessels to assist in the purvey urve y arld gild soundings the laying of cable bubley transportation of materials and arid generally to lb afford assistance calculated to promote the tho success of the enterprise GREENOCK 27 the ship chatlen leng geron geton efron Pensacola arrived today to day and landed the e crew of the datch dutch ship aegidia and fautine Pau tine they were picked pig ked eed up T march g greatly exila exhausted yie VIE VIENNA nira NIfA 27 7 thirty four foun mem bers of the ilir attended it a conference 1 0 alven giyen gi v ti yesterday Y by 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