D. 1868, at the city of Washington, commit and was guilty
of a high misdemeanor in office.
SCHUYLER COLFAX,
_Speaker of the House of Representatives_.
Attest:
EDWARD McPHERSON,
_Clerk of the House of Representatives_.
IN THE SENATE, _March 4, 1868_.
The President _pro tempore_ laid before the Senate the following letter
from the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States:
WASHINGTON, _March 4, 1868_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
Inasmuch as the sole power to try impeachments is vested by the
Constitution in the Senate, and it is made the duty of the Chief Justice
to preside when the President is on trial, I take the liberty of
submitting, very respectfully, some observations in respect to the
proper mode of proceeding upon the impeachment which has been preferred
by the House of Representatives against the President now in office.
That when the Senate sits for the trial of an impeachment it sits as a
court seems unquestionable.
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