I agree with the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania, on the other side of the House (Mr.Woodward), who holds this to be a purely political proceeding.

It is needed as a remedy for malfeasance in office and to prevent the continuance thereof.
Beyond that it is not intended as a punishment for past offenses or for future example." He made one of his peculiarly pungent speeches, which for some unexplained reason was scarcely less bitter on General Grant than upon President Johnson.

The whole day's proceedings had been extraordinary.

Never before had so many members addressed the House on a single day.

The speeches actually delivered and the speeches for which leave to print was given, fill more than two hundred columns of the _Congressional Globe_.