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These closed on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 6th of May, when the case was submitted to the judgment of the Senate.
Its decision was given on the 26th of the same month.
Every member of the Senate was present, and voted.
Thirty-five pronounced the President guilty, and nineteen declared him not guilty.
He escaped legal conviction by one vote.
The vote of the Senate was as follows:--
For Conviction--Messrs. Anthony, Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Conness, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Ferry, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Howard, Howe, Morgan, Morrill of Vermont, Morrill of Maine, Morton, Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Wade, Willey, Williams, Wilson and Yates.
These were all Republicans.
For Acquittal--Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes, Henderson, Hendricks, Johnson, McCreery, Norton, Patterson of Tennessee, Ross, Saulsbury, Trumbull, Van Winkle an