The Clerk read as follows: “It will be rememberedthat about a month ago Mr. AsHLEY offered a resolution in the HoRep directing the ComJudiciary to inquire if any officer of guilty the U.S. had been of high crimes or meaning, misdemeanors within the of the Constitution, or had conspired to subvert the Constitution of the U.S. This looked at the time. certainly to me, and I think to most others, rather like the evasion of a direct charge against the President than an attempt to make it more comprehensive, and to include others besides that unhappy gentleman. I know that mos tof those who referred to the subject in conversation at the time so regarded it. There was one gentleman however, on, the floor of the HoRep as if by inspiration, saw through it the instant To a personal matter? it was offered, and construed aright the poisonous cmoaaltiicnegit of cownocredasled The unpdreerasenntaaptpioanre of such harm resolution, whose coming had not been heralded by any previous announcement or intention, and was known put to half a dozen members, very naturally threw qthueite House into a temporary confusion, and created a stir on the Republican side. What the pub. pf acre adlready knows on the subject is only what trans in the way of regular business, but the by play, that did not come under that head, is the important part that shows the animus of the movement. jum“Apsed soon as the resolution was read, Mr. BINGHAM from his seat and went over to AshLEY, to whom he addressed some very strong language, asking him what he meant by such a proposition as that, daenndtwohy:heindstideandootffmraamkienigt ittoaadprapglynteot the Perleudsei every officer of the Government. Ashley hesitated a while, affected a knavish smile, and replied that he ‘guessed it wasall right.” “No, it isn t all right, ' said BuNGHAM. "It's a stab at GenlGrant, and no such malicious thing shall go through the House if I can help it.' 'Suppose it does include Grant, ’ said Ashley; ‘can’t we investigate his conduct too; and can t we impeach him if he has been guilty under the resolution? " BINGHAM looked at AshLEY a moment, and replied in nervous wrath: ‘AshLEY, you're a fool. Don t you know that you can t impeach any but a civil officer of the government under the Constitution?? By this time quite a group had collected where the colloquy was being held, and THAD. StevENs, scenting a breeze, had come over to avert a storm. Addressing him. BuNghA Masked what was the meaningof this damnable assault upon GenlGrant. ‘Oh, nothing, ” said StevENs, in his insidious way.“ only we want to investigate somec harges recently made against him. I don t seewhy Grant should be free from investigation any more than Johnson. He's just as bad as Johnson." BINGHAM again denouang caeindswt hat he termedvery, aptly a foul the chief officer of the Army of the Republic, ” and he gave the few friends of theres olution who were around him fair warning that if they passed it, he should expose the cowardly proceeding as it deserved. this time the resolution had "gone over, ’ as the parliamentary phrase is, from a refusal of the House to suspend therules. Quiet had been restored on the floor, and the businessof the day was quietly proceeding. BINGHAM addressed AshLEY, in Presence of several members, in language like this: ‘Tell the h.oWnehsyt, truth now, who instigated that resolution?. Inquired what shmleayk.es y“oBuecthaiunske, ”it wasn t my own?" said.BINGHAM, ‘I know there is too much cunning in it for you, and aInlldb Beetny.o But tney rtehitinhgeryworuotdeaitreotrhdaite TtaHtAepd.itSsTsEpVirEitN.”S qAushesLtiEoYn again protested against BINGHAM's right to the authorship; and BINGHAMagain repeated that there was too much craft and design about it for anybody but STEveNs or Butler. What from BINGHAM's earnestness sand AshLey's faintly iHnitsegrueissteindg equivocation, the dispute had become quite and a number of Radical members had colletectreindg around the disputants. After some further and badgering on BINGHAM's part, AshLEY confessed that ‘Stevens had a little to do with it, and Butler had a little to do with it, and that one of its principal objects was to give Butler an opportunity of making and proving certain charges against GenlGrant.’”