Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, was on the stand.

He was to be the first witness to substantiate the offer of proof which the President's counsel had made; to be corroborated, if need by, by other members of the Cabinet--possibly by Mr.Stanton himself.
The testimony on both sides having been concluded, on the 22d of April General John A.Logan, one of the Managers on the part of the House of Representatives, filed his argument in the case.

It was carefully prepared, well written, and throughout logical in its analysis.

It was uncompromisingly pungent in tone and severe in its method of dealing with President Johnson.

"The world," said General Logan, "in after times will read the history of the depth to which political and official perfidy can descend.