The attitude of the
Senate toward the
dismissal of Stanton.
The excitement in the other House was still more intense and irrational. The Senate resolution had hardly passed when the radical
The movements in the
House of Representatives.
Encouraged and strengthened by these movements in the legislature, and hearing that Thomas had threatened to force his way into the office,
The arrest of
General Thomas.
Finally, the General went over to the rooms of the Secretary of War. There he found some six or eight members of Congress with Mr. Stanton,
Thomas's second
attempt to take
possession of
the War Office.