_Speaker of the House of Representatives_.
EDW'D McPHERSON,
_Clerk of the House of Representatives_.
The motion of the counsel for the respondent, submitted on March 23,
"that a period of not less than thirty days should be allowed to the
President of the United States and his counsel for such preparation and
before the said trial should proceed," was denied, and it was
_Ordered_. That the Senate will commence the trial of the President
upon the articles of impeachment exhibited against him on Monday, the
30th of March instant, and proceed therein with all convenient dispatch
under the rules of the Senate sitting upon the trial of an impeachment.