European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Continued from Page 13 Tor Hud to Call police to disperse the crowd around his Home seeking tickets. After a morning legislative session each Day the Senate would adjourn and reconvene Between 12 40 and 1 . Both teams sat at Plain Oak table sin the Well of the chamber. Witnesses testified from the lower level of the became known to the press As Buzz fuzz for his blustering habit of shouting at witnesses. There were 41 of them 25 for the prosecution 16 for the most controversial moment came when the Senate overruled Chase an barred testimony by a Cabinet member Navy Secretary Gideon Welles on John son s behalf. The defense called several newspaper men to the stand to testify that Johnson was t a souse or Drinker of Conse trial testimony ended on april 18 of How say you. Guilty or not guilty. As charged. With Johnson exclaiming in the Whitehouse impeach me for violating the Constitution Damn them formal closing arguments lasted until May 6. Stevens because of illness was unable to deliver his entire speech against Johnson had to turn it Over to Butler to finish. Five Days later the Senate met enclosed session with each member allowed to give his views and the crucial vote was set for saturday May 16. With a two thirds majority needed to find John son guilty the i peachers needed 36 votes. Johnson had three administration republicans and nine democrats on his Side. He needed seven More votes to was the moment of truth for the seven tall men the seven Radical republicans who wound up voting for Johnson despite Home state pressures. These included threats that any who voted against impeachment would never get Home alive and that they would be Strung up at the Republican Conven Tion in were William Pitt Fessenden of Maine James Wilson Grimes of Iowa Lyman Trumbull of Illinois. John b. Henderson of Missouri Joseph o. Fowler of Tennessee Peter g. Van Winkle of. West Virginia and Edmund g. Ross of Kansas. On a soft Spring saturday May 16, 1868the Senate convened briefly As legislative body while the radicals Cau used. At noon the voting session was called to order with an overflow of 1,500 spectators swarming into the Cham Ber. ". Iowa s Grimes who collapsed with a stroke Only weeks earlier was assisted into the chamber dramatically just be fore the Roll Call vote each senator the question went Forth How say you is the respondent Andrew Johnson president of the unite states guilty or not guilty of a High mis Demeanour As charged in this article of impeachment the vote on article i an omnibus charge went on party lines until Fessen Den broke ranks with the radicals and declared not the name of each of the tall seven was reached an utter stillness Hung Over the scene and when the not guilty was heard a Sharp gasp went of Kansas a newcomer to the Senate was alphabetically the seventh of the the Roll Call neared his name he sat nervously tearing a piece of paper into strips dropping them into his Lap. He clerk called his name and read the question. Ross stood and his words came not his was Only the 14th no vote but Johnson supporters cast five More and the president of the United states was found not guilty 35 to 19. Overruling Chase the radicals forced 10-Day adjournment so that further pressures could be brought to Bear before voting on the other articles of impeach ment. Once again the same Senate lineup voted 35 to 19 in favor of Johnson on two further charges. There was a motion from the floor move that the Senate sitting As a court of impeachment do now adjourn it was adopted 34 to 16, and the crisis was served out his term until March 1869, a bitterly resentful Man. He went Back to Tennessee determined to make a political comeback and in 1875won election to the Senate. But he at tended Only one Short session and die suddenly of a stroke on july 31 that year. He was 66. To the editor 1. Astounded and distressed i am astounded and deeply distressed at the one sided ret Tage you printed in the May 2 feature article on Israel by j Oso new. Grigg up staff writer. It is full of distortion falsifications of facts. To begin with it is a common misconception that in the Tine War of 1948 the arabs had the upper hand Over them the vastly outnumbered outgunned jews. Dear Ann Landers i just finished the column in which you staunchly defend the medical profession. The Reader cites a number of instances involving members of her own family where doctors goofed and you politely Tell her that no human it infallible and that unfortunately when a physician makes a mistake somebody become terribly ill or Dies. This is and vice1 i am enclosing m my letter us a clipping from the London sunday times. It re ports one of the most interest ing errors of All time. A surgeon in Birmingham England am Tecl the wrong leg. 1 agree with you Ann that no human is infallible and 1 can under stand certain kinds of mis takes but this is you the courage and decency to print my letter 1 shall watch h the Naper with great in Terest. San Iose Rfade r i Jose thank you Lor your inter and for the mistake in ques to Nab so. But the comments of the 75year-old widow who pc Cje 1 is now legless were far More deserving of notice than the doctor s mistake. She said whoever it was who made the operating error probably save hundreds of lives before be got to me. I happened to be the unlucky one. But As i told them at the time we All make mistakes and i am not going to have one word said what a Sterling example of True Charity that this woman was Able not Only to forgive but to defend the Man Demon Strates mercy in us Best sense. Thank you for sending the clipping. It contained something of value for All of us. Deai Ann Landers do you have anything to your files on blasted Horn blasters i refer to addle brained mothers who have the car Pool for the weekend Rush around picking up the of s in the Start to toot the Horn the minute they turn the Corn Ereven though the kid lives at the end of the Block am i Grouchy old bag because 1 re sent being honked out of bed at 7 30 a.m.? what about the peo ple that Are ill or work night shifts and Don t need to get up until noon Aren t they entitled to their rest the whole thing boils Down to decent manners. How can parents expect their children to be polite when they go around behaving in such a rude inconsiderate fashion and please Don t say these folks should be arrested for disturbing the peace. Why should it be up to the Law to teach manners feel that you Ann Landers Are the Gal who can do try honk weary dear honk you vastly aver rate he Power of this woman. But Here s your letter and my added plea give the later risers a break girls. Somo ,
