d been in good health, he
would have received my support and the support of General Butler and
General Logan. At that time his health was much impaired, but his
intellectual faculties were free from any cloud.

Another incident occurred which does not require explanation, and which
may not be open to any explanation. After the report of the Judiciary
Committee, and its rejection by the House of Representatives, I was
surprised to receive an invitation from the President to dine with him
at what is known as a State dinner. I assumed that arrangements had
been made for a series of such dinners, and that the invitation had
been sent out by a clerk upon a prearranged plan as to the order of
invitations. When the matter had passed out of my mind, but before
the day named for the dinner, I received a call on the floor of the
House from Mr. Cooper, son-in-law of the President and secretary in
the Executive Mansion. He asked me if I had received an invitation to
dine with the President. I said I had. Next he said, "Have you
answered it?" I said, "No, I have not." That was followed by the
further question, "Will you answer it?" I said, "No, I shall not."
That ended the conversation.

After the decision in the Senate had been made, the managers proceeded
under the order of the House to investigate the truthfulness of rumors
that were afloat, that money and other valuable considerations had been
used to secure the acquittal of the President. That investigation
established the fact that money had been in the possession of persons
who had been engaged in efforts to secure the acquittal of the
President. Those persons, with perhaps a single exception, were
persons who had no official connection with the Government, and none
of them were connected with the Government at Washington. As to most
of them, it appeared that they had no reasons, indeed no good cause,
why they should have taken part either for the conviction of the
President or in behalf of his acquittal. The sources from which funds
were obtained did not appear, nor was there evidence indicating the
amount that had been used, nor the objects to which the money had
been applied. It should be said as to Senators, that there was no
evidence implicating them in the receipt of money or other valuable
considerations. One very important fact not then known to the managers
appeared afterwards in the report of the Treasury Department, showing
a very large loss by th