Show special to the tho beseril desersa mews news hi the republicans 1 s special gives the the tho following report of the proceedings in secret session when the se senate nate retired for deliberation the discussion as to the powers of the chief justice took a wide scope and was participated in by most of the senators present perry ferry held that the tile chief justice had the same bame right ight as vice president and could vote in in case of a tie but not to decide points of jaw conkling spoke in opposition to this position denying that the presiding officer had the right either to vote or to decide a point of law except on points of order sherma sherman offered the resolution that under the rules the chief justice had not the right to decide law points which right was vested exclusively in the senate this led to an interesting debate in which the majority of the senators took part by which it appeared that great diversity of opinion prevailed the chief justice made a very good tempered personal explanation of his views in regard to his position when presiding over the court of impeachment he thought he was entitled to certain powers as chief justice even when presiding over the senate when that body was sitting as a court williams bayard and some other senators maintained that the chief justice was entitled to this position by the Constitution in order that the senate may have the benefit of his suggestions as the highest law taw officer of the government ern ment but admitted that he hadano had bad jio judicial authority bu but t ol 01 only his advisory powers agrest A great difference of opinion devel developed ted ned hen henderson erson enson at length moved to lay shermana resolution on the table tabie which was done dona he then moved an amendment amen dent to the seventh rule to the effect that the presiding officer may rule on all preliminary questions and on a question to evidence unless some member of the senate shall ask that the question be submitted to the senate for decision which shall then be done sumner offered an amendment setting forth that the achl chief lef justice was not a senator and not in fact a member of the court and had not the right to vote on any question the ayes and nays were called on this which was 10 lost sti ayes 22 nays mays 26 the question then recurred on the motion of mr henderson which was carried by 24 to 19 no separate vote was had bad on t the hequet question as to whether the chief justice has a right to cast a vote but some of the senators intend to bring that matter up for discussion tomorrow to morrow there appears p ears to be considerable feeling in some q quarters uart ers as to the result some of the senators think that the action in giving the chief justice the powers he now has under the seventh rule will be reversed when the court returned to the senate chamber at and announced the result of its deliberations there was a shade of disappointment on the faces of all the radicals at the action which virtually sustained the chief justice in his views the court immediately adjourned until tomorrow to morrow there is great dissatisfaction among politicians tonight to night at the action of the senate and they assert that the presiding in g 0 officer ought to have been stripped of all power thus rendering him useless to do harm if he so desired the supporters of the president express satisfaction at the action of ot the senate it that there will be a large crowd at the senate tomorrow to morrow in anticipation tic pation that the counsel for theare the president will come prepared to object still further to the examination of the witness who was on the stand at the time St stanberry amberry objected to day chicago y 1 L the tribunes special says the counsel for the president t s summoned as witnesses generals steadman sherman and rousseau the indian commissioner left this city today to day for fort laramie reports from cheyenne say the and northern Arapahoe swill be fully represented at the council the sioux are expected to arrive by the ath several indian outrages are reported on the we santa fe route the twentieth anniversary of modern spiritualism was very generally celebrated throughout the country yesterday senate the managers and th eHouse entered soon after twelve the minutes of the last session were read until mention of the vote cast by the chief justice to decider the tie vote on the question of retiring for deliberation sumner moved to correct the journal by inserting ing the expression that in the senates opinion the tile said veto of the chief justice was unauthorized and of no effect he demanded the yeas and nays mays on the motion which resulted in yeas 21 nays naya 27 07 1 so the motion was lost the question iio ilo n as to the admissibility of burleighn Bur leighs testimony about the conversation between himself and gen thomas was submitted to the Senat Sena teby elby the chief justice argument ensued san francisco 2 late arizona ad vides vices confirm the reported abandonment of the la paz reservation by the apache and mohave indians indiana the savages have commenced active hostilities in eastern arizona and the inhabit ants anta call on gen halleck to station more troops in that section great numbers of stock are run off or killed by the indians washington 2 the attendance at the impeachment trial has greatly diminished mini shed the galleries were not half full at the opening of the trial though many came in during the afternoon drake offered an amendment to the seventh rule providing that the vote shall shah be without divisi divis lonon konon onon questions of law and evidence unless the yeas asand and nays mays are demanded by one fifth of the senators or by the chief justice the amendment was laid over for one day congressman terry of michigan corroborated ro the evidence given yesterday in regard to the interview between thomas and secretary stanton gen emory commander of the district testified in regard to his interview with the president an account of which was published at the time wilson offered additional documentary evidence including a correspondence between gen grant and the president relative to disobeying the orders of secretary stanton S stant auberry terry mad made e th the 0 point that the P presidents j eil egl denly denty 8 lette letter k w was as not evidence in the case unless all the correspondence referred to therein was produced after some argument on this point the senate t refused to sustain the objection 20 00 yeas 29 nays mays col wallace commander a of the garrison at washington testified relative to the interview he had with the president on feb but nothing important was elicited court toju took a recess after reassembling W E chandler late assistant secretary of the treasury testified in regard to the manner in which money was drawn out of the treasury he knew of HO no means by which money could be drawn out for the war department except on an order fro from n the secretary of war signed by t the he president resident resl resi dent evarts desired to know the object of this testimony butler replied that he wanted to show that the president put edmund cooper the present acting As distant secretary of the treasury into that position for unlawful purposes evarts made the point that the testimony was irrelevant to the case after arguments on both sides the senate refused to admit the evidence 23 to 26 washington samuel strong was brought before chief justice carter of the district court charged with being a fugitive from j justice ustice in virginia somo some days since he was brought before judge fisher who discharged him on the ground ground that virginia was not a state in the union therefore governor pier rier ponts requisition could not be recognized subsequently a requisition was received from gen schofield asking that strong be delivered to an authorized agent and handed over to the first military district for trial the point was whether strong should be surrendered on the requisitions justice carter said that a very important question was involved yand taud and he desired further time for consideration berlin 2 1 the naturalization treaty just concluded with the united states has been bein fl nally finally ratified by the federal parliament bismarck stated the compact clearly at all points and hereafter no native of germany naturalized in the united states will be molested on I 1 account of his obligations to the parent country lisbon the mail mall steamer brings rio eio janiero dates to the lith of january the allies stormed humania after arl arr a sperate desperate resistance capturing fifteen large guns and a large quantity of stores and ammunition while the land forces engaged the brazilian fleet and forced a passage to the river and reached the city of assumption which had beben evac bated however by the paraguayan troops and deserted by the citizens senate 3 the amendment to the seventh rule offered ered by drake yesterday was taken up and adopted after being slightly amended several phonographic re reporters portent and other witnesses were examined regard to the presidents speech at the white house august 1866 also the speech at cleveland on september ath of the same year butler put the presidents denta denti st louis speech the phonographic reporters testified to the accuracy with which the speech was reported washington glon after the examination of several of the persons who reported the presidents speeches the managers submitted certain executive documents to show that the president had recognized tho the tenure 8 of coffle office a act butler said that the examination on the part of the prosecution had substantially closed cutis curtis of the counsel for the president proposed that the court should adjourn to thursday to allow time to prepare the proof and to have some understanding in regard to the manner for prosecuting the trial the court then adjourned to thursday by a vote of 37 to 11 chicago 4 A little rock dispatch says the republican state ticket has hag been elected by over thirty thousand majority the legislature organized today to day and the constitutional amendment will be adopted today to day omaha dispatches yesterday say that the indian peace commissioners left for the north platte washington in the presidents communication muni cation relative to the north german treaty he intimates the probability that the same question will soon be settled ged ped with england either by treaty or by mutual legislation as england englund evinces a willingness to adopt the american view of the matter the british admiralty in anticipation of trouble arising out of the alabama claims have been calling home seamen from the colonies |