Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume VII, Number 12, 21 March 1868 — English Column. FOREIGN NEWS. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

FOREIGN NEWS.

' ■ ī Tne Bark Comet arriv«rd on the lSth irw«t. | 11 d4ya from San Fr4iici?co. Tne newa receired is of great iatercst and j importa r»ce. The President of tbe United Statet. Andrcvv Johnson, had been irnj>e«chcd by tbe Hou«e of RepresenUtires by a rote of 126, | 10 47. ' 1 s»re Sterens aod Binghtm. as theCcm-; uiiliee appointfd ihe Hoo&e of Representa-j tivt's, appeared before the Senate, and sa«d. \ " In obedience to the order of the Houae we J »ppear before you, and in the nnme of the : līoupe of Representatires and of all th«Loeo-1 ple of the United States, we do iinpeaWi j Andre\v Johnson, President of the CJnited | StateB, of high rrimes and misdemeanora in | office ; and we further inform the Senate tbat j the House of Representati%*es will, in due? time. cxhibit articies agaiost hiin and make' good the aame; and in their name deniand< that the Sennte tnke ordeHoribeappennince of Audn'\v Johnson to answer to impeachment." Tlie Presiding officer (Wade) the Senate would takeaction in ihe Premists. Son»e uf the articles of impeiielunem agrepd upon up to our Utest informntion are us fotlu\vs. Art. 1. That Andrew Johnson, President of the Uuited St«tes, i? guilty ofhighcrimcs and n)i«dcmeanors, in that he removed from i ofßce, ns War,' E. M. Stnnton, while the Senate \vas īn ses9ion, onel withnut its con?ent. Art. & That sa)d Andrc\v Johnson, eommitted n l\igh crime in this, thnt on the 21st duy of Febr«inry, 1665, he did in violation of the Act concerning the tenure of certnin eivil office, appoint Lorenzo Thoinns as Secretary of War, ad interim % the Senate then beirig in session, and without its consent to the same. I Art. 3. Thol said Andrew Johnson, President of the Umted States, was guilty of a high crime in this, thnt on the 21 day of Ffbruary, 1868, he conspired with Lorenzo Thomus, and others unknown by ihe House of Reprcsenlativt's, by force ond threats, and ii)llrnidntion to prevent E. M. Stanton, Secret.iry of VVar, from holding his snid office, iri violntion of ihe Act of July 31st, 18f)7, deftning conspiracies, and of the Act regula. ting tho tenure of cerfain civil otfices. Art. 4. Thnt said Andre\v Johnson. President of the United Stutes is guilty of high crimes in ofTice in this, that regardless of his on(h nnd in violation of the Constitution, he did, on the 2lst day of February, 1868, appoiut as Secretury of War adinterim, to wit, Lorenzo ThomtfS7Without the consent of tbe Senate, no vacartcy existing in said office ns secretary of the VVar Department. linmense Meetings had been held in difTerentParts of the country to sustain the action of Congress in tmpenching the President. The Urund Army uf the Repub!ic, a secret organizition, will not see Congress over thro\vn. lfviolence is used by the ejection of Stanton, 100 000 men nre ready to eome to \Vashington and put hun back till order is restored. The excirpment over the impeachment hns sensibly diu>inished. Gencral Thomns has sued Stanton f«r false imprisoninent, laymg his dumages at 5250 000. ln the House of Representntives, February 23, Allison ofllred a Resolutii»n declnring as the sense of !he House, that the right to regulate duties on imports belongs to the Legislative po\ver of Congress, and it is not \vithin the power of the President nnd Se- : nate, ns the Trenty mnking power, to pres-: cribe the duties upon importation of the productions of fort'ign countries, except at such i mtes ns the TariflT laws may prescribe.— The Resolution \vas adopted \vithout discus« sion. This Resolutjgn is understood tobeaimed particularty at the treaty with the Snndwieh lshinds. Knropcnn ?ic\vs. The det«ils of a Treaty bet\veen the North Gennan Bund and the United states have been fully nrranged and it is expected will be oflichilly signed, by whieh it is agreed to fully recognize and aeeonl all rights of exemption from inilitary duty enjoyed by native Americans to Germans naturatized as Amenean citizens, after being tive years »n the United States. s The lttdrpendcnt Beigc has on editorial on the prospects ot peaee in Europe. lt expresses a general feeling of appi\»hension; whieh prevaits, nnd says the v»st tions now going ott in Fmnce are of a char- j acter and scnte whieh tead to the eonviction th»t they are designed to n»eet other purpoaea than those of n.itionat defense. |