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1 Impeachment of the President 1 (1867)

handle is hein.presidents/impresdnt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 40TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REEREENTATIVES. I RbtP. Co,l. 1st Session. ' No. 7. IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT. NOViEnER 25, 1867.-Ordered that the report, with the testimony, be printed, (the report of the ineoritv and the views f the minorities be printed together,) and the further consid- eration postponed until Wednesday, the 4th day of December next. Mr. BOUTWELL, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the follow- ing report, stated by him to have been prepared by Mr. Williams, of Pennsyl- vanis; with the exception of the specifications at the conclusion thereof: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the resolution of the 7th of March last, authorizing them to inquire into the offcial conduct qf Andrew Johnson, lice-Preiident of the United States, discharging the present duties of the office qf President qf the United Slates, and to report to this House whether, in their opinion, the said Andrew Johnson, while in said ofice, has been guilty of acts tchich were designed or calculated to overthrow or corrupt the government of the United.States, or any department or o fflcor thereof; and whether the said Andrew Johnson has been gully qf any act, or has conspired with others to do acts, which, in contemplation of the Constitution, are high crimes and misdemeanors, requiring the interposition of the constitutional powers of this House, respectfally report : That in the performance of the important task assigned to them, they have spared no pains to make their investigations as complete as possible, not only in the exploration of the public archives, but in following every indication that seemed to promise any additional light upon the great subjects of inquiry; and they submit herewith the result of that portion of their labors in the voluminous exhibit that accompanies this report. In order, however, to direct the attention of the House to such portions of the somewhat heterogeneous mass of testimony which they have btin com- pelled to present without the order or arrangement that might have facilitated its examination, as are regarded by them as most material to the issue, they will now proceed to state as briefly as possible the leading facts which they suppose the inquiry to have developed beyond dispute, along with their own conclusions therefrom, and the reasons by which they have been influenced in reaching them. In so doing they must be allowed the indulgence which a com- prehensive scrutiny, running over a two years' administration of the afiirs of a great government, through an unexampled crisis of the State, and involving the very highest matters that can engage the attention of a free people, would seem to necessitate, and must, at all events, excuse. .The charges made, and to which the investigations of the committee have been especially directed, are usurpation of power, and violation of law, in the corrupt abuse of the appointing, pardoning,.pd veto powers ; in the corrupt interference in elections, and generally in the commission of acts amounting to high crimes and misdemeanors under the Constitution; and upon this recital they were charged with the more general duty of inquiring into the 6 fficial conduct of the President of the United States, and of reporting whether he bad been guilty of any acts which were designed or calculated to overthrow, subvert, or corrupt the govern-

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