The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-03
PROCEEDINGS OF THE MARYLAND LEGISLATURE.
ANNAPOLIS, March l, 1860.
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in the Senate:
A bill to incorporate the Baltimore and Libert,
turnpike Company. bill to create new election
districts in Alegany county. A bill to incorpo
rate the Liberty and Frederick Turnpike Company
A bill to establish uniform system of publit
schools IN Allegany county. An act to Incorporate
the Baltimore Union Works To incorporate th,
Towsontown Plank Road Company. To incorpo
rate the Sonora and Arizona Company, and otheI
acts OF no general Importance.
On motion Of Mr.. GoLDsBoROUGH of Talbot
ordered, That the Committee on Claims issue 4
certificate to Thomas A. Mitchell, Sergeant-at
Arms OF the Senate, for the sum of one hundred
dollars, for summOning witnesses at sundry times
in the matter of the memorial for the removal q
| Judge Stump
The following bills were reported:-By Mr.
Goidsborough of Talbot, bill to pay Eleanora B
Watkins widow of Gassaway Watkins a Royoln
tlonary officer, the halfpay of a captain from the
itar to4o to 1852 By Mr.. Lynch, act to regu-
a.e per dten of jurors and bailiffs of the BaIt
Itunoy Circuit Court. bill to incorporate
the baltimore and Little Gunpowder Falls Turnnike
Company. bill to extend tho ,o,ors - 81 IN
County Courts of Baltimore county. A hill to in,
! corporate the Baltimore Union Works. bill
entitled an Act authorize the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company to subscribe to the canitai
| stock OF the Baltimore and Potomac Ro;Irood e.
| pany. All the above bills We're read ~ ~ o, So :,
time. He also reported the folowing:-G Hi ~
incorporate the Collateral Bank of Baltimore Citv,
bill to regulate the collection of taxes in Rail-
more city. bill amendatory of an act to incor
porate the Baltimore Steam Packet Company bv
authorizing said company to purchase, and hold
stock in other companies. An act to authorize the
| Georges Creek Canal Iron Company to increase
its rates of transportation over its road He also
reported unfavorably on the followng:-A bill to
| incorporate the village of Ellicott's Mills and
| change its name to PatapscO-said village BEING
partly in the counties of Howard and Baltimore.
| A hill supplementary to the act n innarpnrato to q
| company to make turnpike road from the Dis.
trict of Columbia to the city of Baltimore permit
| tO -, ,C
| said road; which were severay read, and the
| report concurred in.
| Mr.. MCKAIG, from the Committee on Judicial
| Proceedings, reported unfavorabv on an act tC
| amend the lO6th section of the testamentary law
relating TO suits upon administration or testament
ary bonds of article 90 of the Code of Public Gen
| era Laws.
| FRIDAY, March "A bill entitled an act. autbo.
rizing the removal of causes from the several Courts
| OF Baltimore city, was reported favOrabv upon bv
| the Committee on Judicial proceedings This bill
| passed the House, was discussed and amended and
| passed the Senate by yeas and nays.
bill entitled an act to provide for disposinp Of
the State tobacco warehouses, and for building a
new tobacco warehouse or warehouses on deem
water, was reported from Select Committee and
read the second time.
Mr.. GoLDsBoRoUGH, chairman of the committee
TO whom the memorial for the removal of JUDGE
Stump of the Baltimore Criminal Court was re.
ferred made the following report:
The Select Committee the part the Senate of Ma
ryand to whom was referred the memorial of sundry
citizens OF Baltimore city, for the removal of Hon Henry
Stump, Judge ofhe Criminal Court of that CITY, having
lad the under consideration beg leave IN snhmiI
the following report
1t is provided in the Both article of the Declaration Of
Rights that Judges being to the impartial ad
mlnstraton OF Justice and great security to the rights
and liberties of the people, they should not removed
except for misbehavOr conviction court of law
by the Governor upon the address the General Assem-
of each House.
In the 9th section of the 4h article of the Constitution
the Judges of the several judicial circuits are removable
lor in the same mode prescribed in the 0h
article of the Declaration of Rights and in the 18th sec
ion OF this article the Judge of the Criminal Court for
the City of Baltimore placed in the condition. and
made subject to the provisions of the Constitution in
regard to his removal from office Judges of the
Circuit Courts
The committee do not regard the present proceedings
criminal prosecution being fully satisfied that the
trainers of the Constitution intended the present pro
ceedings summary mode of dsposing of an officer
who has been guilty of such misbehaVior as wouId
y the twOthrdS of each House to interpose for the
lection of the rights and liberties of the people Being
an additional remedy to the provided for by con,
victon in court of law, they see no reason why
they, as well as the two Houses should be compelled to
pursue all the formalites of legal investigation and
why they should be precluded from acting upon the testi
mony herewith submitted if in Judgment the i'm
partial administration of justice and the security of the
rights and liberties of the people required their interposi
ton in the submitted to them
Your committee of opinion that the testimony is of
such character as will justify the of said Judge
upon the concurrence in address the
General Assembly.
Your committee base these concessions upon the fol-
lowing state of facts which establish in their Judgment
such ntSbehortor IN office requires his immediate
removal
1st That the said Judge has acted while in the discharge
OF his official duties in gross, vulgar and undgnifed
manner especially to the members his bar and other
parties in his court.
ID That he has been in the habtual of Intoxicating
drinks to extent which disqualified him for the prompt
lhpartal OF Justice and has been on fire.
quent occasions entirely Indifferent interests of the
lives and liberties.
3D. That he has pursued voIave of his official
es IN and PSey By tne order of the Court of
sions his disposition to treat tho action
derison and contempt
4th That he has from time to time delegated to the
officers such discretionary power by dischargng indic
ments, and compromising fines, has fact rendered
ms court utterly inefficient for the protection of the pub
| lie morals, and public peace.
5th. That he has been guilty OF misdemeanor in Office
as Judge as contemplated by the 3Oth article of the De
claraOn of Rights and the 9th 18th sections of the
4th article of the Constitution
Your committee, for the above stated respec
lily ask the concurrence of the two Houses in the ac
omPanyng address to BE- sent to the Governor
ing him to remove Henry Stump from the office of Judge
of the Criminal Court of Baltimore
And your committee further ask that committee of
two be appointed on the part of the Senate with
such gentlemen may be named the part the House
of Delegates, to present said address the Governor
To has Ercelency, Thomas H. Hicks Governor of Mary
The two Houses of the General Assembly of the State Of
Maryland, twothirds of each House concurrng therein
respectfully request that your Excelency would be
pleased to Henry Stump from the office of Judge
of the Criminal Court of Baltimore
Signedl HENRY H. GoLDsBoRouGH
tSignedl THos. J. McKAIG.
Mr.. YELLorr, from the same committee. asked
that the report be printed and made the special
order OF the day for Tuesday next, he wished to
make Minority report, which he had not yet
| fully prepared Mr.. Yellott was making a state
ment, when the hour for electng an United States
Senator and Bank Directors arrived and business
was suspended for that purpose. The Hon. James
A. Pearce, the Democratic nominee, was
reelected; also the Bank Directors whose names
! furnished In my report of yesterday.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
! AFTERNOON SEssToN.-The following bills were
| passed.
bill to regulate the sale of oysters, by amend
| ing the Code of Local Laws, so that all oysters
| brought to the city of Baltimore shall be sold on
! board the boat bringing them up, and shall be
measured in sealed hafbushel measures A bill to
establish ferry over Pocomoke river, at Shell
! town, Somerset county.
message received from the Governor in the
| morning was read and referred to Committee on
South Carolina Resolutions. The message enclosed
certain resolutions upon federal relations passed by
the Legislature of Mississippi, as follows
lSt. ResOlred 6y the General ASSembIy of the Sfae OF
Mississippi That the Constitution of the United States
recognizes property in slaves the
by cannot can any tribunal acting under its
thority, whether it be executive legislative or judicial
within its appropriate sphere justly withhold from slave
owners that adequate protection for their slaves which
owners OF other property are entitled which from
nature they may further require to them in its
possession and enjoyment,
states by the votes of one section of the Union only
the ground that there exists irreconcilable conflict
between the two sections reference
systems of labor and with purpose of host
ty to the institution of slave v it prevails in the
Southern States, and recognized by the COMPACT OF
enon would so threaten destruction Of the Union
for which the Constitution formed Justify the
slaveholdng States in taking counsel together their
separate protection and safety
3D. That in order to be prepared contirency
Mississippi accepts the invitation of South Carolina to her
sister savehodng States to in convention and pro
poses the first Monday in June next and Ataanta Geor
gia as suitable time and place counsel to-
geher and recommend the action they should take in
such an event, which shall be reported to the Governor
who sail convene the Legislature if in his Judgment
1t may be required and that this Legislature pres
en session proceed elect delegates the Conven
tOn at Atalanta.
4th. That Commissioner be appointed by the Cover
to proceed to the capital of Virginia. and express
tive the Indignation that Mississippi feels outrage
committed in the recent invasion of her soil the
readiness and determination of Mississippi unite with
her or any other savehoding State in repelng
sailment of their people or rights.
5th That the Governor of this State be requested to
transmit copies of these resolutions to all slaveholdng
States. [Signed JOHN J. PETERS
Governor of Mississippi.
Mr.. kEENE called up bill to repeal the cunning
law of the new Code, art. 80, 67, which was read
and passed.
The following additional bills were passed:-A
bill to provide for the sale of free negroes who have
been sued and had judgment rendered against them
| in Dorchester County Circuit Court provided the
said Judgment remains uncalled for twelve months.
The bill also provides that the negro shall be sold
for the shortest time possible, in which the debt
could be made. The ma ority by which the bill
was passed was declared Unconstitutional. 1t was
motion reconsidered.