Show THE impeachment TN TRIAL 1 I the trial of the first american resident who has geer ever been impeached impre bom fenced yesterday the executive of the nation appeared by counsel benore before the senate sennie the chief justlee justice of iho ibo supreme u court presiding to answer the charges of impeachment the house the result of the trial triai tri thi aland and its effects for good or evil them the future will show it was stated in in various quarters I 1 when the impeachment measure wa was carried in the house that the trial would not extend over two or three weeks but subsequent 1 befit events go to sustain the view thrown out even evon by some be re publican pub litan papers that months may max elapse before itis it is concluded the washington star intimated when the excitement in washington was about at its hight that the trial might even be prolonged till president johnsons term of expired and the cleveland jgerald herald gays says I 1 As matters have shaped themselves by the composition of the prosecuting ting committee the country must be prepared to see the summer biane wane before the testimony in the case ean can be closed and the official bial term of the president come to its constitutional end before the court of impeachment shall render its verdict determined as tho majority in the senate and house are to bea have the matter pushed through it hardly beems teems pio probable bibie bible that the impeachment trial will be drawn out ouk for a year yet there appears no reason for belle belie believing ving that it will prolonged for at least some months during its progress the country try will be more or less excited and dita Kita agitated ted and mias painful forebodings will fill fillmann many minds as to the probabilities of a sanguinary conflict between powerful and c contending i on tending parties |